Plasmastudio has recently won the competition to develop the building and landscape design for Horticultural Expo in Xi'an, China. The project comprises 15,000 exhibition hall building, a series of conservatories, a 37Ha park around an artificial lake as well as ancilliary buildings. The next stages of development will take place during the next months with the collaboration of Plasmastudio (bui..
Our friends from L.E.FT (previously featured on AD Futures) just shared with us an interesting vertical landscape project, a joint work with norwegian architects STUDIO hp AS. The project is located in Holmestrand, Norway, and consists on a public elevator that connects the old lower part of the town across and 85m high cliff to the newer part of it. The infrastructure acts as an articulator of ..
In a city covered by over 4,000 square miles of asphalt and cinder block, the green roof movement may have just won a serious coup with SYNTHe, an urban rooftop garden prototype designed by SCI-arc professor and architect Alexis Rochas. Located atop the Flat, a downtown Los Angeles residential mid-rise building, SYNTHe is a fertile oasis in the sky that will ultimately grow a variety of edible p..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Project Managment: Elena Varillas, Javier Duran, Ingenieros de Caminos Project Architects: Cesar Azcarate, Ana Moron, Xabier Aparicio, Carlos Guimaraes Structure: Javier Duran Electrical Engineer: Alvaro Gutierrez Lighting: Anton Aman (ALS Lighting) Photographer: Aitor Ortiz PREVIOUS SITUATION The districts of Txurdinaga and Otxarcoaga are located in Bilb..
Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement Location: Quebec, Canada Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Mag..
Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Tarragona, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Arteks Collaborators: Elena Berri, Laia Esteban,Gemma Roca, Carlos Cobreros, Fermin Sánchez, Alex Miralles, Ricard Blanco, Miquel Mercè, Manuel González Constructed Area: 28,000 sqm Project Year: 2008 Pergola Engineering: Amatria Engineering - J.M velasco Facilities Engi..
Carving a two-mile-long canyon through the heart of Southern California might seem like apostasy in this age of low-impact land use. But the Orange County Great Park is no ordinary place. To build this winding canyon, excavating machines will move over five million cubic yards of earth to create a sluice of space up to 60 feet deep, with selective cuts framing views of the Santa Ana Mountains, a..
Architects: Bjørbekk & Lindheim Location: Oslo, Norway Client: Statsbygg and the city of Oslo Water artist and consultant: Atelier Dreiseitl Technical consultant: Norconsult Constructed Area: 200,000 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Bjørbekk & Lindheim An old cultivated landscape with much variation and beauty was levelled into Oslo’s international airport in the 1940 - 60’s. In 1998, the air..
London-based Studio Weave, in collaboration with MESH Partnership landscape architects, have recently won the competition for a public space in Blackburn town center as part of the International Landscape Competition, Pennine Lancashire Squared. Studio Weave’s entry was for a Secret Landscape Garden that the nearby buildings gather round as if around a picnic blanket. Plan of Blackburn’s Secret ..
Project: Turistroute in Eggum Location: Eggum, Norway Typology: Turistroute/landscape Scope: Concurrent design Size: 5500 m2 Client: Norwegian Public Roads Administration Schedule: 2007 In winter 2004 Snøhetta won the concurrent design at Eggum, which is part of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s E10 tourist route project through the dramatic and beautiful landscape of Lofoten. The task..
