landscape garden

According to the web­site the ex­hi­bi­tion was to open at 1 o’clock. I ar­ri­ved 20 mi­nu­tes early and wan­de­red around the buil­ding. Sud­denly I no­ti­ced an open door that led to the inner gar­den of the art cam­pus. I loo­ked around, saw no-on…

Each year since 1927, the New Ze­a­land In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects of­fers an Awards pro­gramme to show­case and ce­le­brate top qua­lity ar­chi­tec­ture in New Ze­a­land. Sco­o­ping up the 2008 NZIA Su­preme awards on sa­tur­day night 24 may 2008 w…

In this ar­ti­cle, I try to take se­riously Jencks’s re­mark that cul­ture should find an ico­no­gra­phic lan­guage to con­nect us to the uni­verse. Jencks’s lec­tu­res, an­s­wers and gar­dens seem to re­sem­ble the cosmos when it comes to be­gin­nin…

Steven Holl is cur­rently es­ta­blis­hing a major pre­sence in China, con­side­ring four grand projects that are plan­ned to open bet­ween 2008-2010. “Linked Hybrid” is a mixed used buil­ding in Bei­jing, as well as “Chengdu Project” and “Vanke Cente…

Kyu Sung Woo Ar­chi­tects has de­si­gned the new Ner­man Mu­seum of Con­tem­porary Art at John­son County Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Over­land Park, Kan­sas. The mu­seum ser­ves as the star­ting point of a campus-wide art in­stal­la­tion pro­gram, in­cl…

How can you be en­ga­ged in a po­le­mic about so­me­thing that doesn’t even exist? That de­pres­sing thought hit me du­ring the ‘Projective Landscape’ de­bate sta­ged by Sty­los. The aim was to pin­point the la­test de­ve­lop­men…

These are re­le­vant ques­ti­ons that even the cu­ra­tors of the ex­hi­bi­tion Newer Or­leans - A Shared Space asked them­sel­ves when Reed Kro­loff, dean of the ar­chi­tec­ture fa­culty at Tu­lane Uni­ver­sity in New Or­leans, asked the NAi to help …

Spijk is a small vil­lage on the River Linge with a po­pu­la­tion of 800. As the exis­ting ce­me­tery was run­ning out of space, the mu­ni­ci­pa­lity de­ci­ded to de­sign a new one con­tai­ning 360 adult gra­ves, 21 children's gra­ves, 44 gra­ves for…

After the com­ple­tion of Mu­se­ump­lein in Oud-Zuid, Wes­ter­park is the se­cond Ams­ter­dam district since the de­cen­tra­li­sa­tion of the city ad­mi­nis­tra­tion to bring a large and com­plex project for pu­blic green space to a suc­cess­ful con­…

Westland is an area of 14,000 hec­ta­res south of The Hague known mainly for its area of glass­house hor­ti­cul­ture, which ac­counts for 5,000 hec­ta­res. Pres­sure on the area is im­mense. Vil­la­ges and towns in and around West­land are all see­ki…

All five City-Scrapers had half an hour to present their vi­sion for the plan area, which was fol­lo­wed by a tough third de­gree in­ter­ro­ga­tion by the In­spec­tor Co­lumbo of buil­ding, Ger­rit Mid­del­koop. The aim: to rea­lise so­me­thing akin …

Thanks to scho­lar­ships from the Ja­pa­nese go­vern­ment, both de­si­gners spent a year and a half as re­se­arch stu­dents at Tokyo In­sti­tute of Tech­no­logy. They leave be­hind a grace­ful yet em­pha­tic mark of their so­journ with the gar­den, w…

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 …

The 123 sub­mit­ted sche­mes, 27 of them from ab­road, were dis­tri­bu­ted fairly evenly among three ca­te­go­ries.Bulb & Bre­ak­fast­The ca­te­gory Bulb & Bre­ak­fast cal­led for the de­sign of tem­porary lod­gings in a tra­di­tio­nal bulb-s…

The pro­gramme has been put to­ge­ther after ta­king stock of the wis­hes, am­bi­ti­ons and needs of Rot­ter­dam­mers and in­sti­tu­ti­ons and or­ga­ni­sa­ti­ons in Rot­ter­dam. This re­sul­ted in ten sub­jects that form the basis for the Rot­ter­dam…