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Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Outdoors" Pinterest Board

2013-03-22T13:53:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Outdoors.

↑ Brooks Residence in Venice, CA by Duvivier Architects

↑ Warren Street Townhouse in Brooklyn, NY by Resolution: 4 Architecture

↑ Amagansett House in New York, NY by Kevin O'Sullivan + Associates; Photo: Paul Raeside

↑ Unite/Unire (winner of the MAXXI Young Architects Program 2012) in Rome, Italy by Urban Movement Design New York (team member: Michael Caton); Photo by Cecilia Fiorenza

↑ DNA Model Management in New York, NY by Calvert Wright Architecture | Spatial Discipline; Photo: Bjorg Magnea

↑ Dakhleh Excavation House in Dakhleh, Egypt by Utopus Studio

↑ Private Residence in Paradise Valley, AZ by cmda design bureau inc

↑ LOW3 in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain, a design and resear...

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Outdoors" Pinterest Board

2013-01-11T14:53:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Outdoors.

↑ Beach Walk House in Fire Island, NY by SPG Architects

↑ Rome Residence in Los Angeles, CA by Fung + Blatt Architects

↑ Canterburry in Mexico City, Mexico by sobrado ugalde (Photo: German Cuellar)

↑ Shore Vista Boat Dock in Austin, TX by Calvin Chen, Thomas Bercy, Dan Loe

↑ House Ber in Midrand, South Africa by Nico van der Meulen Architects (Photo: David Ross/Barend Roberts/Victoria Pilcher)

↑ Jacaranda Park in Glenmore Ridge, Western Sydney, Australia by JMD Design

↑ Beton Schwimmbad in Darmstadt, Germany by Ian Shaw Architekten (Photo: Felix Krumbholz)

↑ Residence in Santa Monica, CA by JENDRETZKI LLC

↑ Mountain Retreat in Kerhonkson, NY by Resolution: 4 Architecture (Phot...

Winner of Austin’s Waller Creek Design Competition

2012-11-30T18:39:00-05:00

The multidisciplinary design team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Thomas Phifer & Associates was recently named winner of Design Waller Creek: A Competition. Organized by the Austin, TX-based Waller Creek Conservancy, this international design competition called for ideas to revitalize a 7-mile stretch of Waller Creek, a neglected Austin urban ecosystem, and thus turning a "currently fragmented and undervalued section of the city into a vibrant, livable, and workable district."

Prince Arthur’s Landing by Brook McIlroy

2012-11-28T17:14:00-05:00

Canadian architecture, landscape and urban planning firm Brook McIlroy has shared with us Prince Arthur's Landing, an expansive downtown waterfront revitalization project for Thunder Bay, Ontario. The award-winning development opened in December 2011 and was designed by Brook McIlroy as lead consultant.

Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Outdoors" Pinterest Board

2012-11-16T14:08:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Outdoors.

↑ MU:91 in Los Angeles, CA by VOID (Photo: Marc Angeles)

↑ Hotel Básico in Playa del Carmen, Mexico by Central de Arquitectura

↑ Cabbagetown Garden in Toronto, Canada by PLANT Architect Inc.

↑ Blaxland Common Playground - Regional Playspace in Homebush, Australia by JMD Design

↑ Bay View Boathouse in Bellport, NY by Martin Architects PC

↑ Santa Monica Canyon Residence in Los Angeles, CA by Griffin Enright Architects

↑ Star House in Kuwait City, Kuwait by AGi architects

↑ G HOUSE | Contemporary Mediterranean Villa in Ramat HaSharon, Israel by PazGersh Architecture Design (Photo: Amit Giron)

↑ Taller in San Pedro, Mexico by Covachita

(Cover pic: 930 Poydras Residential Tower i...

“Brick Garden” by PBC+L

2012-11-01T15:35:00-04:00

North Carolina architects Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee (PBC+L) recently received a 2012 Certificate of Recognition from the NC chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for their project, "Brick Garden," designed for the Triangle Brick Headquarters in Durham, NC.

PLANT ARCHITECT’S EXHIBIT OPENS AT HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

2012-10-04T11:00:00-04:00

On 29 September 2012, the Architecture Exhibition Fall 2012 opened at Harboufront Centre in Toronto. Curated by Patrick Macaulay, BREATHTAKING: Constructed Landscapes features PLANT Architect Inc.’s installation Lenticular Curtain alongside the works of architects Baird Sampson Neuert, Idea Tank Design Collective, and visual artist Vid Ingelevics.

BREATHTAKING: Constructed Landscapes explores the use of architecture in defining and directing how people view and understand nature and landscape. In response to the curatorial question “How can architecture create an awe-inspiring experience through the placement of built form within the landscape?”, PLANT Architect Inc. designed an immersive architecture meant to overwhelm, infuse, inhabit, and amplify the landscape. Lenticular Curtain is a larger-than-life, interactive lantern—a sculptural intervention that, when entered, disturbs and distorts multiple landscapes in order to form new ones. The central role of the visitor, whether ...

MVRDV’s Almere Plan Wins Floriade 2022 Competition

2012-09-25T14:32:00-04:00

The Dutch city of Almere has won the bid for the Floriade 2022 and will host the prestigious world horticultural expo in the year 2022. The exposition takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands and is currently ending in Venlo. The MVRDV-designed plan for Almere seeks to be not a temporary expo site but a lasting green Cité Idéale as an extension to the existing city center.

The Almere/MVRDV concept beat out fierce competition from Boskoop with OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Groningen with West 8, and Amsterdam Bijlmer with MTD Landscape Architect.

GENK C-m!ne Urban Square

2012-07-23T17:46:00-04:00

Dutch firm HOSPER landscape architecture & urbanism has sent us images of its latest project, GENK C-M!NE, an urban square design for the revitalized mining area C-Mine in Genk, Belgium. C-Mine houses various creative industries as well as cultural functions and is currently hosting Manifesta, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. The design of the square was a collaborative effort of HOSPER with Carmela Bogman Art In The Public Space and ARA Dries Beys.

Bruce Munro Announces Largest Solar-Powered Field of Light for Ayers Rock, Australia in 2013!

2012-06-29T14:12:00-04:00

After a series of acclaimed installations around the world, Munro will be bringing his Fields of Light back to the project’s birthplace at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in the heart of the Australian red desert in 2013. The installation will be his largest to date, and it will be powered entirely by solar energy.

ABF Proposal ‘In-Closure’ Wins Seattle’s Urban Intervention Design Ideas Competition

2012-05-17T18:09:00-04:00

A jury of internationally recognized design professionals and Seattle civic leaders have declared a winner among three semi-finalists in Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space. The winner is ABF, of Paris, France, for its design, In-Closure, which envisions an interactive wall around a forested landscape that is both flexible and dynamic, embracing social life in the city at multiple scales.

Al.Mualla Cemetery Mural / A Matter of Life and Death

2012-05-10T13:41:00-04:00

Germany-based Egyptian architect Ahmed Al.Badawy has shared with us images of the fascinating project "Al.Mualla Cemetery Mural / A Matter of Life and Death" which won the First Prize at the First Islamic Competition for Ornamenting Makkah Al.Mukarramah (Mecca, Saudi Arabia). Next to Al.Badawy, the design team also included Ahmed Enab and Yasser Mehanna.

Yongsan Park Master Plan by West 8 & IROJE

2012-05-08T21:35:00-04:00

Rotterdam-based landscape architects West 8, together with local practice IROJE architects & partners, have recently won the international competition for the master plan of Yongsan Park, Korea. The park will be the first national park inside a South Korean city. More importantly, it will give ultra-dense Seoul some badly-needed green space and will be similar in size to New York’s Central Park.

National Mall Design Competition Selects the Three Winning Teams

2012-05-03T19:28:00-04:00

Today the Trust for the National Mall announced the three winning teams of the National Mall Design Competition. [...] The competition winners are: Union Square: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol + Davis Brody Bond; Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument Grounds: OLIN + Weiss/Manfredi; Constitution Gardens: Rogers Marvel Architects + Peter Walker and Partners

Lantern Inaugural Issue Released

2012-04-18T12:21:00-04:00

Creating anything new, particularly a creative collaboration, is an act of pathological hope. It has been said the difference between construction and creation is this: a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. It was with this sense of hope that this project began—an idea borne not only of the notion that we had something to say, but that we could express it in an engaging, thought provoking, and intellectually rigorous way.

The first issue of Lantern, an online publication preceding the print versions, celebrates 'Illumination.' In the inaugural issue of Lantern, an online and print publication, we reflect on the nature of illumination, exploring both the lit circumference within the lantern’s glow and the darkness just beyond and finding both spaces of value.

It is our hope that you will step into the dark with us, Lantern in hand, and explore this new topography with the wonder and yearning with which all journeys begin. Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with the release of Volume I, Issue 1, Spring 2012, the inaugural issue of a new journal. Lantern includes a dynamic set of ARTicles that explore, consider, question, and suggest in a way that is both disparate and unified.

Letter from the Editors, Spring 2012

James Corner Field Operations’ Winning Design for Navy Pier Redesign

2012-03-20T14:14:00-04:00

The team led by James Corner Field Operations has been selected as the winner in the international Navy Pier Redesign Competition. The Pierscape concept is part of the larger vision for Chicago's famous Navy Pier called The Centennial Vision, which seeks to make the "People’s Pier a truly iconic and world-class destination as it approaches its 100th anniversary in 2016."

The JCFO Team also included Terry Guen Design Associates, nArchitects, Leo Villareal, L’Observatoire International, Ed Marszewski, Fluidity, Patrick Blanc, John Greenlee & Associates, Chris Wangro, Billings Jackson, Buro Happold, Primera, HR&A Advisors, ETM Associates, Bruce Mau Design, and d’Escoto, Inc.

The winning proposal beat out stiff competition from the other four finalist teams, AECOM/Bjarke Ingels Group, Aedas Architects/Davis Brody Bond/Martha Schwartz Partners, !melk/HOK/Urban Lab, and Xavier Vendrell Studio/Grimshaw Architects.

THE BLUE LINE - Winner of Kiev Islands Master Plan Competition

2012-02-21T14:16:00-05:00

A few days ago, we published BudCud's finalist entry to the Kiev Islands Master Plan Competition. Here is now also the winner of the First Prize, the concept THE BLUE LINE by Romanian team Wolf House Productions and Gabriel Pascariu.

Kiev Islands Master Plan by BudCud

2012-02-17T15:11:00-05:00

Krakow-based architects BudCud have shared with us their finalist entry for the international Kiev Islands Master Plan Competition. The proposal suggests the development of a network of existing islands and artificial mirco islands along the Dnieper river, right outside of Kiev, Ukraine, for recreation and nature exploration.

Sasaki Associates, with RDG and AES, Wins Water Works Parkitecture Competition

2012-01-31T13:50:00-05:00

Des Moines Water Works, working in partnership with Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture, recently announced that Sasaki Associates, with RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services (AES), is the winning team of the Water Works Parkitecture Competition.

LOLA, Deltavormgroep and Piet Oudolf to Design Star Maze Park Groot Vijversburg

2012-01-27T14:10:00-05:00

Dutch firms LOLA landscape architects, Deltavormgroep, and Piet Oudolf have won the commission for the extension of the historical park Groot Vijversburg in the north of The Netherlands with their submission “Star Maze”. The team has won the commission through a national tender, for which five teams were selected.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Beat Out Strong Competition at Aberdeen City Garden Project

2012-01-18T15:17:00-05:00

Diller Scofidio + Renfro have won the Aberdeen City Garden Project design competition which seeks to transform the center of Aberdeen, Scotland. New York City-based DS+R collaborated with local Scottish architects, Keppie Design and landscape architects OLIN, on this project and emerged as winners from a head-to-head race with another finalist team led by Foster + Partners.

Check the Bustler article to also see the projects of the five shortlisted teams led by Foster + Partners, Gustafson Porter, Mecanoo, Snøhetta & Hoskins, and West 8.

Results of Montreal’s YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes Ideas Competition

2011-12-23T18:38:48-05:00

The YUL-MTL : Moving landscapes international ideas competition on the Autoroute 20 gateway corridor linking the Montreal-Trudeau Airport to downtown Montreal recently announced three equal winners. The competition [...] aimed to develop strategic visions for the development of the 17 km corridor mainly composed of transport infrastructures, residential and industrials areas and brownfields in dire need of revitalization.

Landscape Is Our Sex

2011-12-01T07:52:32-05:00

It is not uncommon today for an architect to give a public lecture about a building and gloss over the parameters of its program or the specific needs of its users, speaking instead mostly about the building's site — its measure, tendencies, desires, structure, mythologies, meaning — as if the problem of architectural design was primarily one of site response.

Is there such thing as a building that is "sensitive" to landscape, or are they all various forms of aggression?

West 8 Wins Freiham Nord Urban & Landscape Planning Competition in Munich

2011-10-11T14:31:00-04:00

Munich's Department of Urban Planning and Construction recently announced that Rotterdam-based practice West 8 has won Part B (Housing and Neighborhood Center) of the urban and landscape planning competition for the first phase of Freiham North. Part A (Community Center, School and Sports Center) was won by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst Gesellschaft von Architekten, Berlin.

“SAIVU” Wins Sjunkhatten National Park Competition in Norway

2011-10-11T13:26:29-04:00

Oslo-based Eriksen Skajaa Architects recently won the competition for new gateways to the Sjunkhatten National Park in the northern part of Norway with their proposal called SAIVU. The proposal was a collaboration with Pushak and Bjørbekk & Lindheim Landscape Architects.

Mexico City to Build the World's Largest Urban Park

2011-08-16T14:35:10-04:00

Leading Mexican architect and landscape urbanist Iñaki Echeverria just unveiled his newest project which when completed, will be the largest urban park in the world. Dubbed El Parque Ecologico Lago de Texcoco (Texcoco Lake Ecological Park), the wide, open development will encompass more than 35,000 acres of space – which is 41 times larger than New York’s Central Park.

STREET 2020, Tallinn Vision Competition Winners

2011-08-08T15:14:08-04:00

The winning entries have been announced in the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Vision Competition STREET 2020. Organized by the Estonian Architecture Centre and the City of Tallinn, this open international competition invited students, architects, landscape architects and planners to focus on the hybrid issue of 'Landscape Urbanism' applied to Estonia's capitol city: battling heavy traffic congestion while improving the quality of urban life for pedestrians and cyclists.

Work Increasing for Landscape Architecture Firms, Survey Shows

2011-07-28T18:56:04-04:00

Three in four landscape architecture firm leaders reported steady or improving billable hours and inquiries in the Q2 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Business Quarterly survey. The national survey findings reflect continuing optimism for recovery in a key sector of the design and construction industry.

Renzo Piano Unveils Green-Roofed Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center for Athens

2011-07-06T14:52:00-04:00

Renzo Piano recently unveiled plans for a new waterfront cultural center and urban park in Athens that includes a massive opera house and a library that is directly connected to the park by a sloping green roof. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center will also incorporate several sustainable technologies with the hope of attaining LEED Platinum certification.

A First Look at Section 2 of New York's High Line Park

2011-06-07T16:11:28-04:00

The High Line, New York City’s most exciting and innovative linear park, just opened its second section to the public – and Inhabitat was on the scene to bring you exclusive photos of the new extension! We finally experienced the Falcone Flyover, Viewing Spur, Chelsea Thicket and other exciting new features, and we descended from the experienced with our heads still in the clouds – read on for our exclusive first look at The High Line, Section 2.

Inhabitat has exclusive photos of the opening day of New York's high line park - hit the jump to see the new park in its entirety - from the Chelsea Thicket to the Falcone Flyover and beyond.