As one of the busiest and most popular coastal trails in Australia, and due to significant erosion from a storm surge that slammed Sydney in June 2016, the Bondi to Bronte Coastal Walk was closed over concerns for the safety of its users. This granted an opportunity to rethink, redevelop and restore the famous track, […]

You are invited for a tour of one of Rotterdam’s most hidden green oases; the estates Tempel and Nieuw Rhodenrijs. The two publicly accessible estates have a rich history dating back to the fifteenth century. From the beheaded statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, to the Russian KGB has taken refuge on the estates. The estates are […]

The project is a good example of an appropriate and well balanced intervention, not needing to resort to the glamor of images to convince around its ability to build a bond between users and built space. The jury appreciated low-cost interventions and formal simplicity that offer a high-quality environment for educational processes on limited roof space.

The project well addresses the dialogue between different scales – the well articulated and complex general layout of the park and the ‘touch and feel’ scale, sensitive and rich in detail. It establishes simple and unpretentious spaces with care and sincerity to its visitors.

It presents a courageous and intelligent use of color and proposes an ambience that, managing to constitute an excellent playground for children, escapes the banality of the usual catalogue-based playgrounds It also succeeds in involving a great diversity of uses to all ages of visitors, demonstrating the significant advantages of less determined spaces.

The 129 km long, 900 hectare restoration of Erhai Lake greatly improves the quality of the “iconic yet filthy water” while connecting it to the surrounding towns. The lake has spiritual value for many communities, such as the Shuanglang and Xizhou, and serves as a place of worship for the Bai people, an ethnic minority of over 50% of Dali. The beautiful aquatic, blooming Ottelia acuminata is an indicator species and its significant return demonstrates the new sustainability of the lake.

The developed masterplan uses dynamic measures and methods in diverse scales to limit poor development practices and respond to social challenges, achieving maximal ecological benefit with minimal human intervention. With a multitude of government and local players, the project reinvigorates and monitors the entire watershed with waterscape management. The included slow traffic ways and facilities have created a boom in daily usage of the lake.

The urban area in the Rotterdam agglomeration has grown rapidly over recent decades. In order to improve water quality in the Barendrecht urban area, as well as the recreational and ecological value of the water systems, we worked with the municipality to redesign the Zuidpolder. Around 110 hectares of agricultural land between Barendrecht and the […]

Front row to the water Nordhavn is known for its exceptional waterside location and its smart, semi-industrial urban spaces that attract hipsters of all ages. But one residential area stands out from the crowd. That’s Marmormolen. Here, 1:1 Landskab has designed a landscape between the buildings that bring cosiness and a west coast vibe to […]

The Corniche des Forts Park is set within a network of parks that stretches over a 3 km long hillside of the French plain, in the towns of Lilas, Romainville, Pantin and Noisy-le-Sec, in the East of Paris. For safety reasons due to the presence of many underground galleries, this former gypsium quarry was closed […]

History For many years, het Zomerhuis was an important meeting venue for many Stekenaars. It was established in 1936 by a brewer’s family and originally consisted of an outdoor swimming pool and a brasserie. For a long time, Het Zomerhuis was a popular attraction for Stekene and the surrounding area, but in 1990, the activities […]

“A place of gathering where the spirit of the market lives on” Branch Yokohama Nanbu Market opened in September 2019, at the location where it used to be Yokohama City Nanbu central wholesale market (Kanazawa ward) until March 2003. With the concept of a “living market for food – a hub for the interaction of […]

“Human interaction born from the colorful benches” Jissen Women’s University Hino Campus offers a range of learning opportunities under the Faculty of Human Life Sciences, and the students learn various kinds of knowledge about living a better life. This project, the landscape design and delivery of a new plaza, is a part of the reconstruction […]

From the jury statement: “With its lush vegetation, Forest Garden approaches the site as hybridization between the ecosystem of plants, animals and humans. It is a delicate way of setting up clearings in the forest to take advantage of resources (productive gardens, natural pools, tree regeneration) without disturbing it. Studio Ome effectively used all topographical facts, existing plants, sunlight, and other natural forces to empower a variety of programmes, needs, and, above all, experiential richness. They obviously appreciate randomness and a more relaxed approach to planting. The decision to leave the paths in the garden as informal compacted earth paths, shows a humble approach to landscaping work, which the members of the jury felt demonstrated a truly sensitive understanding of providing ‘just enough’ to meet the brief. In essence, the project emphasizes how we can leave space for nature, which is an important message going forward. Forest Garden offers a wonderfully dense atmosphere and infinite possibilities for exploration and observation.”

Pedregal’s Lava Garden gets its inspiration from the ground it sits on. The modern-ist suburban neighbourhood planned by the Mexican architect Luis Barragán in the mid-1940s is located in the volcanic stone landscape. Today, most of the gardens have forgotten their relationship to the ancient ground, by removing the lava layer or covering it with […]

Buro Harro envisioned an entirely artificial little piece of landscape with subtle humour and incredible craftsmanship. The landscape of the dutch dunes, with its vegetation, essentially acts as a small biodiversity generator. Water retention is hidden under the sand on the roof, and all the necessary technicalities are nicely put out of sight. The wooden hut gives it a relaxed, ‘holiday-ish’ mood. It is a ‘fragment’, a pocket landscape that offers more than enough clues that will transport you to a beach. The wind comes as the magic dust that makes this sandy roof garden come to life as one can be drawn into the feeling of being in the dunes … while taking a swim! Witty and smart!

The Small Campus is an example of the ‘new working life’. Initiators Kathlijn de Booij and Floris Schoonderbeek turned this former gymnasium in the Spijkerkwartier of Arnhem into the ideal live-and-work-place. Crowded with creative businesses, architects, a yoga-school, designers, a Kleine Campus Café, and inhabited by the designer-couple themselves, this is Arnhem’s newest creative hotspot. […]

This small shady garden is an unexpectedly piece of nature. Here, plant species of the so-called Red List of endangered or extinct forest-species grow abundantly. Surprisingly, most of these species are simply for sale. From this natural garden the endangered plants can spread all over the city. With its extreme, man-made, varied circumstances of artificial […]

”Airport” garden has landed on asphalt road, next to meadow and slag heap hill, in Callone Ricouart – small mining town in north of France. Asphalt road is dig and planted with umbelliferous plants species that create wonderful land field for insects. Umbelliferous flower, fleeting on different heights (from 50cm to 2m50), offer many landing […]

Dewatering and fertilization by in situ artificial soils recycling : this is the Asphalt jungle concept key aim. Thanks to FAIRE project accelerator, garden takes place in Elogie-Siemp (social landlord) mineral courtyard, on 11th Paris district. The easy tech way of doing may be resume in cutting asphalt, de-compacting sub-layers, putting organic materials and planting […]

Nowadays, a discussion is unfolding between landscape architects, ecologists and urban planners about plants strategies to be favoured in the global change context and the sudden failure of biodiversity. In other words, polemic does exist between endemic supporters and ornamental or “vagabond plant” fanatics. In this garden, regional and Mediterranean plants assume planetary mixing of […]

Varda Landing is both a remnant and emergent ad hoc creative waterfront community in Sausalito, California, adjacent to our sister site Marinship Studios. Historically, this area was known as the Gate 5 commune which saw some of the most seminal artists, creatives and thinkers of the 20th century pass through including Agnes Varda, Jack Kerouac, […]

This project is located in Nicasio in Northern California – a pastoral area near Point Reyes known for its wine and cheese, with miles upon miles of sheep and cows grazing along rolling hills. The climate there has a phenomenological quality – the kind of place where you would see what looks like rain moving […]

Elysian park is both Los Angeles’ oldest park (originally set up in 1886) as well as one of it’s largest, covering 600 acres of meandering trails across an unruly and unfinished landscape just north of Downtown Los Angeles. But this beloved public space – in the Echo Park neighborhood that many of Terremoto’s designers call […]

The ISOS-protected townscape around St. Hilarius Church in Näfels is characterised by its baroque manor houses with their gardens, the alleyways and the cemetery with its high spatial qualities. Directly next to the church and the Letzhof dating from 1674 is the Sendlen meadowland, an impressive inner open space within the medieval Letzi wall and […]

What is the contemporary shape of a riverside park situated between former and future industrial sites, between nature conservation and recreational pressure, and between infrastructure and ecological connections? Based on the clever pragmatism of the existing industrial buildings, an intervention strategy responding to the high costs and utilisation pressure: The required bicycle connections, stream openings […]

What does the transformation from a purely industrial to a residential area mean for the open space structures of the urban fragment between Leutschenbachstrasse and Hagenholzstrasse? In the project, an urban forest fragment is staged as a strong identity-creating open space. The design is characterised by the complexity of the interplay between space, time, image […]

The Silhouette Garden is located in the French concession in Shanghai. The layout of the garden is highly influenced by hybrid of European gated garden, and Chinese “lilong ” ( the shared garden). The result of the cultural mixture creates a unique layout between the garden and the building. This typology gives a sense of […]

The Edge Garden is located in the Yangpu District in Shanghai. The site is previously an industrial harbor for coal shipping. The structure of the harbor consists of a concrete loading deck, a 100 meter flooding wall, and a tidal zone between the deck and the interior land. After being used as an industrial facility […]

Little C is a high density mixed use urban development near the center of Rotterdam. The plot developed is small and surrounded by infrastructure. On the Westside lies the Coolhaven, an old little harbor and important route for inland waterway transport. The idea is to create a new urban neighborhood with an atmosphere that fits […]

The town centre of Heeren-Werve, a district of the city of Kamen, is strengthened in its function through a clear reorganisation of the open space and traffic facilities. A quiet square area with a wooden deck and a small, shady green area were created. The wooden deck has the shape of a unicorn – the […]

“The Coolest Place in Town” A new kind of urban nature park has seen the light of day in Abu Dhabi. Gone are the water-consuming and soulless ‘Las Vegas landscapes’ of the past. Enter Al Fay Park – a new 27,500 m2 public park in downtown Abu Dhabi that signals a new kind of Middle […]

Musikhuset Esbjerg and Esbjerg Kunstmuseum have a new lively forecourt that encourages community and gathering around a cymatic pool. The new Henning G. Kruses Plads square is designed by BIG Landscape to celebrate the city’s relationship with the sea, characterized by both Esbjerg’s maritime history and Henning G. Kruse’s life. Esbjerg’s location near the sea […]

Östra Drottninggatan is one of Gävle’s most visited pedestrian streets. It was completed and inaugurated to the public in 2020 after a restoration. The design is developed by Karavan landskapsarkitekter with the main purpose of strengthening the street’s role in the city centre, making it an obvious point of destination for both visitors and residents. […]

The Smith Plaza & Union Square Renovation transforms 3.3 acres at the heart of UNM’s main campus into UNM’s signature social gathering space. Intensely occupied by students, faculty, staff and local community members, the central plaza redesign acts as a social space of equity, diversity and inclusion. Addressing the historic Zimmerman Library, Student Union Building, […]

Located on the vegetative gradient between the oak savannah of the Santa Cara Valley and the redwood forests of the of the Santa Cruz mountains, the Uliveto residence seamlessly nestles into its three-acre site. From its conception, the design aimed to blend into its natural surroundings and borrow the vistas of the adjacent mountains. Thus, […]

This sculptural garden overlooking the San Francisco Bay reflects the vision of passionate art collectors whose personal artistic vision includes the idea of the landscape being experienced and enhanced through play and exploration. As a result, the garden incorporates distinct spaces that weave together architecture and landscape, providing places for reflection, play, and discovery. 

Context Barrocal is a 40ha of transitional landscape between the city and countryside. With elements of geological, archaeological, and natural value Barrocal is integrated in UNESCO’s Naturtejo Geopark and in the Tejo / Tajo International Biosphere Reserve. It is located on the outskirts of the city of Castelo Branco, two-hour drive away from Lisbon. The […]

Located at the Eastern fringes of Bangkok in the suburban district of Prawet, approximately 6 kilometers from the Suvarnabhumi International Airport, lies the The Metro-Forest Project. An ecological regeneration project designed as an outdoor exhibition space to cultivate environmental awareness and educate visitors about local forest ecology. The project, on an abandoned site, aimed to […]

The Monash Forum Landscape is the heart of the original Clayton Campus Masterplan developed in 1960s. The Forum was established as a formal landscape framed by key University buildings and was a place of celebration and ceremony, reverence of education and learning, a place for student engagement, socialisation, and a place of protest. Over time, […]

The significant redevelopment of RMIT’s main academic buildings and library along Swanston Street addresses key issues of the precinct.  A diverse consortium was engaged to Reactivate the Swanston Street frontage, providing new links from this spine through the heart of the buildings to Bowen Lane as well as new library services, and delivering new informal […]

Loenen Memorial Cemetery is the final resting place of nearly 4,000 Dutch soldiers and civilians. They lost their lives during World War II and in other violent conflicts that followed, such as the Dutch East Indies campaign, and in international peacekeeping missions. Loenen Cemetery is located in a nature reserve on the Veluwe, consisting of […]

As a part of a larger strategy to turn inner Moscow pedestrian, Karres en Brands was asked to transform Birzhevaya Square, in collaboration with Strelka KB. The square is located in the historic center of Moscow, a few hundred meters from the historical Red Square, and new Zaryadye Park. What at the end of the […]

MNLA collaborated with Heatherwick Studio to design Little Island (formerly Pier 55), a dramatic 2.4-acre public park in the Hudson River that brings together art and nature in an immersive experience. Conceived as a leaf floating in the water, the pier is a topographic marvel that celebrates views, defines landscaped spaces, and provides resilience against […]

The area surrounding the bio-towers on the former coking-plant was converted to an event location. Today, the bio-towers are no longer integrated into an industrial environment, but function as detached monuments of a post-industrial landscape. On site, two open spaces are set in a creative, complementary relation to one another:  the green section, consisting of […]

At the edge of a small village, 40 km away from the capital, lies a country family house that stands to make a statement amidst its neighbors. With an oak forest as its backyard, a natural wood facade, a vegetated roof and edgy architecture the house echoes vibes reminiscent of Nordic living principles. Simplicity and […]

Heerenschürli serves as a hybrid sports complex and public park, giving the neighborhood facilities for organized sports as well as general leisure activities. A public square with seating and a restaurant are integrated into the complex; the lawns themselves are also public – openly accessible during the off-hours of the local athletic clubs.

The power of this project is based on an intelligent answer to describe something which is not there. The monastery didn’t survive to the present day, so Topotek 1 had to figure out how to translate its invisible characteristics to the language of landscape. A modest and beautifully measured height difference suggests a volume had been there. Furthermore, the consequent contrast between scenic panorama and minimalistic shaping add to the aesthetic tension. As if this contrast would reflect the one between Arcadian representation of nature and modesty of the life in a monastery. Perhaps. It definitely activates the imagination of the visitor, boosting the experience of the site hence making it more memorable and interesting.

For the children, the school grounds are a place to move, a meeting place, and a stage. Here the children engage in free play, following their interests, and get to know themselves and others.  The close-to-natural design makes reference to typical landscape elements in and around the small city of Uster: damp marshes; gravelly, dry […]

The Steinwies/Irisstrasse residential development is located in a historic park. The protected, magnificent tree population has been integrated into the design and its exotic, historical composition served as inspiration for the new layout, in which magnolias, hydrangeas and ferns create an atmospherically colourful picture. The sculptural building with its organic floor plan is bordered by […]