landscaping

Brazil teems with jungles, fo­rests and all sorts of exo­tic plants, flowers and trees. But until the Bra­zi­lian land­scape ar­chi­tect Ro­berto Burle Marx came along to tame and shape his country’s exu­berant flora, his coun­try­men had mostly dis­…

Foster + Part­ners has laun­ched a mas­ter­plan for a carbon-neutral re­sort on the Black Sea coast in its first project in Bul­ga­ria. A se­ries of car free hill towns in an un­spoilt set­ting of oak fo­rests, mea­dows and river gor­ges, the de­ve­l…

In 1996, two years after the first post-apartheid elec­tions were held in South Af­rica, the Aca­demy of Ar­chi­tec­ture in Rot­ter­dam in­itia­ted the Hou­sing Ge­ne­ra­tor Com­pe­ti­tion for South Af­ri­can Ci­ties, a project that in­vol­ved va­rio…

The as­si­gn­ment set last June for five of­fices (Ar­chi­tec­tu­ur­stu­dio Her­man Hertz­ber­ger, Claus en Kaan, Di­ede­ren Dir­rix Van Wylick, Hen­ket & part­ners, Ben­them Crou­wel) con­tai­ned not only a pro­gramme of re­qui­re­ments but also…

The Ci­BoGa site to­tals 14 hec­ta­res in size. On com­ple­tion in 2008, it will con­tain around 900 hou­sing units, 1200 par­king spaces, 10,000 m2 re­tail space, and 40,000 m2 of­fice space. A num­ber of ar­chi­tects will de­sign dif­fe­rent zones …