Landscape

Call for Submissions: Six Sites Another Landscape, Design Workshop on Contemporary Landscape 2018

18:00 - 19 June, 2018

The Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, in collaboration with the municipality of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Italy, is offering to a limited number of architecture and landscape architecture students the opportunity to take part in a seven-day design workshop in Maccagno, organized by the Landscape architecture department, College of Environmental Design, the Chinese Culture University as part of the CCU summer 2018 workshops program. This workshop is the third and last installment of the collaboration between CCU and the municipality of Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, that began with the August 2016 workshop and repeated with the August 2017 workshop, involving more than 50 students.

Bee Breeders Announce Winners of the Iceland Northern Lights Rooms Competition

08:00 - 10 June, 2018

Bee Breeders have announced the winners of the Iceland Northern Lights Rooms competition, where entrants were tasked with designing a series of guest houses that framed the beauty of the surrounding context. In response to the delicate landscape, Mývatn Lake in Iceland, the brief outlined a number of restrictions. These included no permanent construction within 200m from the lake, and that all guest houses were to be movable. Shared themes throughout all the successful proposals were specific material experimentation, “distinct interaction with the site and sky,” scalable design, irand cost-conscious solutions.

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Fushengyu Hotspring Resort / AIM Architecture

22:00 - 29 May, 2018

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Architects

AIM Architecture
Location

Mianyang, Sichuan, China
Design Team

Wendy Saunders, Vincent de Graaf, German Roig, Leonardo Colluci, Allan Yin, Claudia Juhre, Zoe Zhu, June Deng, Andrew Irwin, Shelley Mock, Dongker, Liat Goldman, Toni Pavic, Ted Zhang, Jiaoyan
Area

24000.0 m2
Project Year

2015
Photographs

Dirk Weiblen

Bamboo Theatre / DnA

02:00 - 25 May, 2018

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Architects

DnA
Location

Hengkengcun, Songyang, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
Lead Architects

Tiantian Xu
Client

Songyang Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
Project Year

2015
Photographs

Ziling Wang, Dan Han

Shanghai Jiabei Country Park West - Visitor Center / ECADI of Arcplus Group

20:00 - 21 May, 2018

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Architects

East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
Location

Shanghai, China
Project Director

Ming Yang
Architectural Design Team

Tianjun Zhang, Peng Gu, Hongjie Guan, Chen Su
Area

1537.9 m2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

Wenyi Liu, Hongjie Guan, Ming Yang, Tianjun Zhang

Pine Park Pavilion / DnA

00:00 - 21 May, 2018

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Architects

DnA
Location

Huangweicun, Songyang, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
Lead Architect

Tiantian Xu
Client

Songyang Department of River Control and Reservoir Management
Area

197.0 m2
Project Year

2017
Photographs

Ziling Wang, Dan Han

MAU Architecture Plans an Urban and Landscape Regeneration of Fier's City Center in Albania

06:00 - 18 May, 2018

In the nineteenth century, hundreds of artisans and shoppers would crowd around the Gjanica River in Fier, Albania on market day. Today, the river is nearly invisible, covered in some parts by overgrown greenery and at others obscured by tall buildings illegally constructed too close to the riverbank. A plan from Italian firm MAU Architecture termed “RI-GJANICA” reimagines Fier’s waterfront as the central element of their scheme for a new city center. Their project involves reopening connections between the urban core and the river through bike paths, pedestrian bridges, amphitheaters, and integrated mixed-use buildings.

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Architecture For Landscape: The Natural Environment as the Stage for Design

AD Classics: Suzhou Museum / I.M. Pei + Pei Partnership Architects

08:00 - 11 May, 2018

As one of the latest built works of acclaimed Pritzker architect I.M. Pei, Suzhou Museum was built in the heart of his hometown, Suzhou, China. As one of the last surviving modernists, the architect strove to bring together both his modernist sensibilities as well as the Suzhou vernacular. Sited on the northeast section of the historic quarter of Suzhou, the museum is adjacent to the landmarked Zhong Wang Fu, a complex of 19th-century historical residences, and the Garden of the Humble Administrator, a 16th-century garden listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. [1]

Images in this article were captured in 2016 by Rome-based photographer, Chenxing Mi. Read the full article after the break.

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Damushan Valley Teahouse / DnA

02:00 - 8 May, 2018

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Architects

DnA
Location

Songyang Damushan Tea Valley, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
Lead Architect

Tiantian Xu
Client

Songyang Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
Lighting Design

Zhang Xin Studio, Architecture Department of Tsinghua University
Area

478.0 m2
Project Year

2015
Photographs

Hao Chen, Ziling Wang, Yang Zhou

Sky Farm / VRAP

19:00 - 1 May, 2018

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Architects

VRAP
Location

Nantou Village, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Lead Architects

Minjie Si, Lei Yang, Jiang Wang
Design Team

Weixiong Jiang, Jingyi Du, Yunlu Hong, Huan Zhang, Jun Ma, Xinfei Guo, Chi Ma
Area

400.0 m2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

Jiang Wang, Minjie Si, Lei Yang, Peng Deng

3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS Reveal Competition Design for Undulating Aquarium in Vienna

12:00 - 23 April, 2018

3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS have released details of their competition entry for the design of a new aquarium in Schönbrunn Zoo, Vienna. Developed in collaboration with aquarium specialists ATT, “Poseidon’s Realm” was designed to be “elegant, simple and mysterious, lying across the landscape like a great veil.” The scheme was awarded second place in an international competition for the aquarium’s design, with the winner yet to be announced.

The “Poseidon’s Realm” scheme is defined by a spacious green roof landscape embedded in the zoo’s path network. The aquarium covers a total area of 65,000 square feet (6,000 square meters), divided across four levels, with a large, glazed, wave-shaped entrance enticing visitors to transition between outdoor greenery and a “softly undulating waterworld.”

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Hefei Wantou & Vanke Paradise Art Wonderland - Phase1 / ASPECT Studios

22:00 - 20 April, 2018

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Architects

ASPECT Studios
Location

Heifei, Anhui, China
Area

15100.0 m2
Project Year

2017

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RCR 2018: XI International Workshop of Architecture and Landscape

19:30 - 19 April, 2018

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

- Competition Format: Closed exercises that condense a complex process within a specific time frame
- Transversality: An integrative interdisciplinary approach
- Sharing: Shared creativity fostering the capacity for dialogue
- Experience: Understanding derived from observation, participation and experience

The workshop focuses on the living of a direct experience of the participants, showing the territory where the

IBIZA ARTIST HOUSE

12:00 - 17 April, 2018

We are very happy to announce that for the 3rd time, MArch Valencia has relied on reTHINKING competitions to organize a competition where, in addition to the prizes, a scholarship is awarded for one of its Architecture programs. Thanks to that we have just launched the new contest# 016 Ibiza Artist House.
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BIG Unveils Images of Zig-Zag Ski Hotel in Switzerland

14:00 - 11 April, 2018

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled images of their proposed Audemars Piguet Hotel des Horlogers, a ski hotel set in the scenic Vallée de Joux, Switzerland. The compact scheme, designed in collaboration with Cche Architecture, is defined by a zig-zag form seamlessly integrated into the smooth topography of the surrounding valley, forming a connection with the nearly Musée Atelier.

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