© FG+SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Architecture: Comoco, Luís Miguel Correia, Nelson Mota, Susana Constantino
Location: Pombal, Portugal
Promoter: Pombal Municipality
Completion: 2011
Site Area: 48,650 sqm
Cost: 3,000,000€
Structural Engineering, Hydraulic devices and Acoustics: ABL – Gabinete de Projectos Lda
Electric and electronic devices: Luís Ribeiro
Mechanical devices: João Gonçalves Madeira da Silva
Landscape Architecture: Luís Guedes de Carvalho, Luís Miguel Correia, Nelson Mota e Susana Constantino.
Contractors: JRSF Joaquim Rodrigues e Silva Lda, Ibersilva, Argoconstrutora, Construção Civil Lda
Photography: FG+SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura 

   
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© Nelson Garrido

Architects: Guedes + DeCampos – Francisco Vieira de Campos
Location: Vilarinho dos Freires, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Nelson Garrido

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© Stefan Tuchila

Architects: ARCHAEUS
Locations: Timisoara, Romania
Architecture Team: Marius Miclăuş, Bogdan Raţ, Zsolt Varday, Brindusa Havasi, Cristian Blidariu, Vasile Oprisan, Beatrice Lucaci, Nicolae Olteanu
Client: Consiliul Judetean Timis si Primaria Municipiului Timisoara
Cost: 9,7 M €
Total Surface: 13,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Stefan Tuchila

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Courtesy of Levisky Arquitetos Associados, Davis Brody Bond

Architects: Levisky Arquitetos Associados, Adriana Blay Levisky, Davis Brody Bond, Anna Dietzsch
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Clients: City of São Paulo and GrupoAbril
Coordination: Levisky Arquitetos Associados
Architecture Team: Renata Gomes Architect – Coordinator, Casey Mahon Architect, Tatiana Antonelli Architect, Lílian Braga Architect, Luciana Magalhães Architect, Renata Helena de Paula Architect, Cátia Portughesi Zoning, Gabriela Kuntz Admin, Fernando Lima 3D Renderings, Marcelo Ignatios 3D Renderings, Luiz André Lanzuolo Model.
Photographs: Courtesy of Arquitetos Associados, Davis Brody Bond

   
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Courtesy of Sasaki Associates

Sasaki Associates, with RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services (AES), were recently announced as the winning team of the Water Works Parkitecture Competition. The international design competition entailed the creation of a conceptual plan for Water Works Park to form dynamic relationships between the river, the watershed, and the community. Education and the connection between the river and the community were highly stressed in Sasaki’s winning proposal. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Marco Introini

Architects: Lorenzo Noé Studio Di Architettura
Location: Brienno, Italy
Client: Town of Brienno
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 230 sqm
Photographs: Marco Introini

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© Paul Ott Photografiert

Architect: Heri & Salli 
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project Team: Lukas Allner, Monir Karimi
Structural Engineering: Bollinger-Grohmann-Schneider; Wien
Metallbau: Metallbau Fischer; Klagenfurt
Surface: SFK Tischler GmbH; Kirchham
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Paul Ott Photografiert, Heri & Salli

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Courtesy of CUAC Arquitectura, Serrano + Baquero Arquitectos, Luis Miguel Ruiz Aviles

The Europan 11 winning proposal by CUAC Arquitectura, Serrano + Baquero Arquitectos, and Luis Miguel Ruiz Aviles arises Niwu Water Garden by the ensounter of three main materials: water, city and farmland. In a scenic enclave of particular importance to the city of Leeuwarden an appropriate balance between these materials allows to think about a hybrid landscape which establishs a transition between rural and urban. The result is a new environment in which elements of the city (the traditional and the present) establish a proper dialogue with the existing agricultural plot and its associated infrastructure. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Architect Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio.NL

As a response to urban density, Waterstudio.NL has created a floating Sea Tree that would restore environmental value in crowded metropolises.  The Sea Tree, a multilayered tower-esque structure, would inhabit the harbors and rivers surrounding major cities, such as New York, as a way to provide an opportunity for flora and fauna even when land is sparse.

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© AWP - HHF, Sbda

The series of a pavilions with different public functions and programs by AWP + HHF Architects are part of a future 113 hectare large public green space along the Seine river, in Carrière-Sous-Poissy, at the end station of the RER line A and close the renown Villa Savoye from Le Corbusier. The Park designed by the Paris based landscape architects Agence TER will be a public park and ecological showcase for local residents and a leisure destination for people living in and around Paris. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Miguel de Guzmán

Architects: Manuel Fonseca Gallego
Location: Albacete, Spain
Execution Project team: Jorge Muñoz Ibáñez Architect, Manuel Ruiz Machuca Quantitysurveyor
Construction: Empresa de Transformación Agraria, S. A. (TRAGSA)
Completion work date: March 2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán

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Courtesy of SOM Architects + PWP Landscape Architecture

 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and PWP Landscape Architecture shared with us their proposal for the 8 Washington development in downtown San Francisco. The plans will continue the revitalization and support enjoyment of the historically under-utilized northeast waterfront by reconnecting the City with the Bay and providing housing and community amenities which include: dynamic pedestrian corridors linking Pacific Avenue and Jackson Street with The Embarcadero; a children’s play area featuring interactive sculptural gardens; an expanded health and aquatics center; cafés, restaurants and retail; and centralized underground public parking for the Ferry Building Waterfront Area. More images and project description after the break. read more »

© anthimeria - http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthimeria/

The quaint and picturesque suburbs have insulated themselves against the urban environment with miles of highways, strip malls and the traffic between endless sprawl. To get to the artificial nature of surburban streets and parks you must first make an exodus out of the city, arriving in an area that is usually unwalkable: no sidewalks, large streets impossible to cross and large distances between destinations. Kaid Benfield looks at Montgomery County, Maryland’s streetscape initiative to address some of these issues in his article “Fixing Suburbs with Green Streets that Accommodate Everyone”.

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© Luís Prieto Sáenz de Tejada

Architects: Manuel Fonseca Gallego
Location: Logroño, Spain
Construction: Empresa de Transformación Agraria, S. A. (Delegación de La Rioja)
Promoter: Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, y Medio Rural y Marino)
Completion: 2009
Administration budget: 117,822.20 €
Photographs: Luís Prieto Sáenz de Tejada

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© Jordi Bernadó

Architects: Domingo Ferré
Location: Lleida
Completion: 2010
Area: 8,403 sqm
Photographs: Domingo Ferré, Jordi Bernadó

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Courtesy of Boeri Studio

Bosco Verticale, by Boeri Studio (now recognized as Barreca & La Varra and Stefano Boeri Architetti), is a high-density tower block that experiments with the integration of a lush landscape within the facade of the architecture.  The Vertical Forest, currently in construction in Milan, Italy, deal with the concept of regenerating the lost forests on the ground within the inhabitable space of buildings.  The towers are 80 metres and 112 metres tall.  Together they will have the capacity to hold 480 big and medium sized trees, 250 small size trees, 11,000 groundcover plants and 5,000 shrubs – the equivalent of a hectare of forest. For more on this project, follow us after the break.

Architects: Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra)
Location: Milan, Italy
Design Phase: 2006 – 2008
Construction Phase: 2008 – 2013

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Courtesy of Karres en Brands Landschapsarchitecten + Polyform Arkitekter

Karres en Brands Landschapsarchitecten + Polyform Arkitekter recently won the international competition for redesigning the Museum Garden of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, with their entry ‘SMK tilbage i Parken’ (‘SMK back in the park’). The project will be realized in collaboration with Svava Riesto, Oluf Jørgensen Ingeniører and Via Trafik. The design is based on the concept of connecting the museum garden with the neighbouring park Østre Anlæg, where, in the current situation, it turns its back on. By doing so, the SMK will be embedded into the park and the Museum Garden becomes the new entrance area for both the SMK and Østre Anlæg. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Edmund Sumner

Architects: De Matos Ryan
Location: Glouchestershire, England
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Main Contractor: GL50 Properties
Concrete Contractor: Stallard Construction
Photographs: Edmund Sumner

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© Statens Vegvesen

Architect: L J B
Location: Aurlandsfjellet, Norway
Design Team: L. J. Berge, C. Herperger, T. Pfeffer, Z. Jelnikar
Client: Statens Vegvesen –Turistvegprosjektet
Project manager: Bjørn Andresen
Main contractor: Christie AS; B. I. Homlong, Subcontractor wood; Djupevåg Båtbyggeri AS Subcontractor glass; Ove Straumsheim AS/ Schüco Norge AS
Completion: 2011
Area: 20 sqm toilet building, 1200 sqm parking and rest area
Photographs: L J B AS, E. Marchesi, Statens Vegvesen

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Courtesy of Active City Transformation

A garden is not just a beautiful place; it is a place for enjoyment, a place of admiration and a place where we come in contact with and learn about nature, especially food. A garden is also a workplace, where one’s hard efforts are rewarded with a bountiful harvest. In recognition of the intense relationship between growing and eating a garden, Taste the Slope, the winning proposal in the International Garden Festival by Active City Transformation, strives to create a more meaningful public connection to the foods we grow and where they are eaten; a local, hands-on garden café of sorts. More images and architects description after the break. read more »