urban park

For more than fif­teen years Maike van Sti­phout and her of­fice DS land­sch­aps­ar­chi­tec­ten have been working on a wide range of land­scape com­mis­si­ons. Her port­fo­lio com­pri­ses all sca­les in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on s…

The win­ners, with full quo­tes from the jury-report: see also dis­cus­sion about the re­sults and the jud­ge­ment (for now only in Dutch, trans­la­tion will fol­low soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM  - Laura Al­va­rez, laura al­va…

Family con­nec­tions have brought me to China every year since the mill­en­nium and enab­led me to ob­serve de­ve­lop­ments from near at hand and far away and see the coun­try change with great leaps. Eight years ago there wasn’t a sin­gle car in the…

The first ver­si­ons of the six pro­po­sals are cur­rently on show, and the de­fi­ni­tive de­signs will go on show from Ja­nu­ary 24, 2009, on. In the run-up to the pre­sen­ta­tion of the de­fi­ni­tive plans, the people of Al­mere have been in­vi­ted…

At the end of Sep­tem­ber the Chi­cago Athen­aeum Mu­seum of Ar­chi­tec­ture and De­sign, Me­tro­po­li­tan Arts Press Ltd. and The Eu­ro­pean Cen­ter for Ar­chi­tec­ture Art De­sign and Urban Stu­dies an­noun­ced the win­ners of this year’s In­ter­na…

Tirana Lake is one of the highly va­luable green areas of the city. The project fo­re­sees the re­ge­ne­ra­tion of a 20ha site on the north shore of the lake by crea­ting a dense urban neigh­borhood li­be­ra­ting space for a park, re­crea­tio­nal fa­…

So don’t ex­pect any ar­chi­tec­tu­ral ex­pe­ri­ments in Ber­lin, ex­cept for the Dutch Em­bassy by OMA and the Je­wish Mu­seum by Da­niel Li­bes­kind. What you will find is tidy, strai­ght­for­ward de­ve­lop­ment that re­spects the buil­ding lines. …

Leafing through the ye­ar­book, which bo­asts an ent­i­rely new lay­out, you im­me­dia­tely no­tice the large num­ber of land­scape plans. In­clu­ded are not only large-scale projects such as the Drentse Aa and the Zuid-Limburg Heu­vel­land hill land…

The jury of the 2008 UIA Gold medal de­ci­ded in April 2008 to award the medal to the Me­xi­can ar­chi­tect Teo­doro Gon­za­lez de Leon. He will re­ceive the medal at a ce­re­mony, on 2 July 2008, du­ring the twenty third UIA Con­gress in Turin. Thro…

The Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, AIA named its 10 re­ci­pi­ents of the 2008 Young Ar­chi­tects Award. The list of names, along with short bio­gra­phies were an­noun­ced at the end of Ja­nu­ary 2008. The bes­to­wal will take place at the AI…

Brazil its­elf is present ever­yw­here at the Bi­en­nale with a posse of ar­chi­tects around the Pritz­ker Prize win­ners Nie­meyer and da Rocha. Eu­rope is po­orly re­pre­sen­ted. Other parts of the world are lar­gely ab­sent, apart from South Af­ri…

Cincinnati Art Mu­seum An­noun­ces Short List of Ar­chi­tects­The Board of the Cin­cin­nati Art Mu­seum an­noun­ced the short list of ar­chi­tec­ture firms selec­ted as can­di­da­tes to work with the Mu­seum on the de­ve­lop­ment of a new de­sign and…

When the smelly and un­he­althy mi­ning in­dus­try disap­peared from the Ruhr­ge­biet in the 1980s, the re­gion was left to deal with hea­vily pol­lu­ted land and high un­em­ploy­ment. The In­ter­na­tio­nale Bau­au­stel­ling (IBA) Em­scher Park, whic…

‘Located right in the in­ter­na­tio­nal busi­ness centre of Daqing,’ I re­mem­ber as my taxi races away from the only city district that could even re­mo­tely be con­side­red a city centre and speeds towards the Daqing Pe­tro­leum Hotel…

The Ber­lage In­sti­tute de­scri­bes this lec­ture se­ries, which ex­ami­nes the ef­fects of glo­bal forces and local rea­li­ties on the con­tem­porary city, as ‘part of cru­cial research’. In rea­lity, howe­ver, every lec­ture turns ou…