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12/06/2024

Winners announced for the 2024 WLA Professional Awards
The 2024 World Landscape Architecture Professional Awards celebrate the pinnacle of design excellence, innovation, and sustainability in landscape architecture. The global jury of this year’s awards was impressed by the quality and diverse range of entries, with over 250 entries from over 40 different countries. From urban parks and green spaces to restorative ecological projects, the entries reflect a broad spectrum of visionary solutions addressing global challenges.

10/06/2024

The 23rd Pavilion Archipelagic Void, designed by Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies will opened on Friday 7 June 2024. Comprised of five ‘islands’, each structure of Archipelagic Void is unique in size, form, name and purpose, providing a dedicated platform for Serpentine’s live programme from June onwards.

Structure
Archipelagic Void is composed of a unique void in the centre surrounded by a series of smaller, adaptable structures located at its periphery. The layout references the madang, or an open courtyard found in traditional Korean houses.

07/06/2024

Design selected for Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge, Toronto
Equinox Bridge designed by WilkinsonEyre, was recently revealed as the selected design for the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge. The Equinox Bridge is designed by team consists of local and international firms, including WilkinsonEyre (design architect), Zeidler Architecture Inc. (local architect), Arup (engineer), Two Row Architect (Indigenous consultant), and PLANT Architect Inc. (landscape architect). The announcement was made by Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto, in collaboration with Host Nation and Treaty Holder, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

05/06/2024

Profile | Philip Dugdale, Associate Principal at Sasaki
Philip is a Co-Director of Sasaki’s office in New York. He is responsible for the realization of a wide range of projects from pop-up parklets and urban plazas to large-scale landscape planning as well as public parks and waterfront developments. Philip brings proven experience in realizing complex urban sites across a range of scales, often collaborating with large multidisciplinary teams.

WLA: Why did you become a landscape architect?
I stumbled upon landscape architecture completely by accident. I had always wanted to be an architect growing up (except during my v early years where I wanted to be a postman?!) I had never fully conceived of the idea that there are designers of the public realm. At 18, I declined an offer to go to university for architecture and was later browsing a university prospectus, eyeing up product or industrial design as I liked the tactile, human-scaled aspect of the design process during my design classes in high school. It felt aligned with my own thinking process, so when I came across landscape architecture it peaked my interest.

The more I researched landscape architecture the more I realized this was what I had been looking for all along, the ability to design across multiple scales from large systems thinking down to the detailed design and then the technical rigor that goes into our built environment, it all fascinated me. On the very first day of class, I remember my lecturer saying ‘the way you look at the world around you will forever change from this point on’ – I’m glad she was not wrong.

05/06/2024

Stanton Yards: A community waterfront for Little Village, Detroit
Reflective of OSD’s multidisciplinary and ‘outside-in’ design ethos, the master plan for the 13-acre site includes mixed-use programming for both inside and outside, including plazas, parks, waterfront promenades, and a new ground-up building called Dune House, hosting offices and a waterfront restaurant, public plazas, an art yard, an operating marina, and renovated industrial buildings.

02/06/2024

Heatherwick Studio has been chosen as the the winner of a global competition to transform Nodeul Island, an artificial island on the Han River in the centre of Seoul into a new public park.

02/06/2024

Lordelo do Ouro | Porto, Portugal
Lordelo do Ouro is focused on a profound rehabilitation of the urban environment of this territory, enhancing its identity and urban image, guaranteeing that the design solution is able to encourage people to be outside and break the chain of fear and outdoor anxiety.

01/06/2024

The International Garden Festival Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
The Reford Gardens International Garden Festival will present its 25th edition from June 22 to October 6, 2024, on the theme The Ecology of Possibility. For this milestone year, the Festival has several surprises in store for visitors on the opening weekend on June 22 and 23.

01/06/2024

Promenade Samuel-de Champlain, a project converting 2.5-kilometers of a previously desolate expanse of highways and rail corridors along the St. Lawrence River into an ideal canvas for a significant recreational and cultural project.

01/06/2024

Profile | Lohita Gupta | Landscape Architect, Cracknell
Lohita began her journey into landscape architecture in India, and after completing a Masters in Delhi and she grew experience working on large public realm projects that had a real impact on the communities. Lohita’s early career started at a multi-disciplinary company, giving her an understanding and a broad grounding in the complexities of the industry, but also confirming her beliefs in the value of landscape architecture as a profession that unites other disciplines and adds so much benefit to projects and communities.

After moving to the Middle East, Lohita had the opportunity to work on some of the most ambitious projects in the region from large scale Vision Masterplans to human scale spaces. No matter the size or complexity of the project her design approach remains deeply rooted in expressing the context and culture of the place to achieve an authentic outcome for the end users. Lohita currently works at Cracknell in Dubai as a landscape architect.

29/05/2024

2024 WLA Awards shortlist announced. With over 250 entries from over 40 different countries, we are excited about the quality and diversity of this year’s entries in the WLA Awards. World Landscape Architecture is happy to announce that the jury has completed the first round of judging and determined the shortlist for the 2024 WLA Professional Awards. We will announce the winners on June 11.

23/04/2024

The City of London Corporation has revealed new images showing how Finsbury Circus Gardens will look in the future. The project team includes the City of London Corporation, Realm, Studio Weave, Architecture 00, and maylim.

It comes as a project to transform the Grade II listed site, which is London’s oldest public park, gets underway.

The City of London Corporation wants to improve biodiversity within the Gardens. As a result, we will be introducing three new planting character areas, all with distinct plant palettes that reflect their different microclimates and provide new habitats.

Image Credit: Courtesy of City of London Corporation

20/04/2024

ASLA has announced Pamela Conrad, founder of Climate Positive Design, as the inaugural Biodiversity and Climate Action Fellow. Conrad will research landscape architecture strategies that are most effective in addressing the climate and biodiversity crisis, with a specific focus on underserved communities in the U.S.A. and worldwide.

Image Credit: Kotchakorn Voraakhom, International ASLA

19/04/2024

Profile | Michelle Zhu | Principal at Hassell
Michelle is a Shanghai-based landscape architect who has over 15 years of landscape architecture experiences on many significant public realm and city-shaping projects across China. She brings deep market insights and combines Eastern and Western culture on a wide range of projects, from gardens and private courtyards to large-scale urban public spaces, waterfronts, parks and urban scale developments.

19/04/2024

National Chinese Music Center | Jiangyin, China | TOPOS
Architects and landscape architects joined forces to conceive and craft the 13-hectare China National Music Center campus, solidifying Jiangyin’s status as the revered birthplace of traditional Chinese music. Nestled in the core of Jiangyin, the campus transcends mere musical boundaries, seamlessly integrating history, culture, science, art, and contemporary public spaces. Once an industrial hub for textiles, the island has undergone a remarkable transformation into a “park island” landscape, purposefully knitting the center into the fabric of its urban surroundings. At its core lies a fundamental design ethos that mirrors the very essence of traditional Chinese music—fluid, rhythmic, and profoundly connected to nature.

16/04/2024

Event | 30 April | Soak it Up: Designing with and for Flooding
Free, virtual event Tuesday, April 30, 10:00-11:15AM ET, “Soak it Up: Designing with and for Flooding”.

Learn from 2023 Oberlander Prize laureate Kongjian Yu and Pieter Schengenga how climate-change-accelerated urban flooding can be transformed into an opportunity to serve social and ecological needs; moderated by Elizabeth K. Meyer.

Image: Benjakitti Forest Park, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022.
Photo ©Turenscape courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

16/04/2024

Sit Together @ FuoriSalone 2024 by Topotek1
The prototype “SIT TOGETHER” is currently exhibited at Interni Cross Vision during FuoriSalone 2024 (15 – 21 April) in Milan, Italy. The design upholds the social significance and enhances the quality of our public spaces, encouraging people to come together in the face of changing weather conditions.

Image: Courtesy of Topotek1

16/04/2024

As part of World Landscape Architecture Month, we are profiling various landscape architects from around the world. WLA is happy to profile Paolo Damone, Senior Landscape Architect for Arup in London, UK.

Paolo is a creative landscape architect and skilled communicator with an international background and outlook. He has extensive experience leading large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects across various sectors. Paolo joined Arup in 2016, having previously worked as an architect and landscape architect in Italy, France, and the UK. He is a chartered architect and landscape architect in Italy and joined the Architects Registration Board (ARB) upon moving to London.

Read more at worldla.com

15/04/2024

Nature Based City of Almere – Development Plan 2040
By 2040, the center of Almere will transform into a more vibrant, urban, and green heart. On behalf of the municipality, a vision has been brought to life by Felixx + PosadMaxwan that focuses on densification to enhance nature. Utilizing a nature-based solutions approach, the development integrates programmatic goals with Almere’s ecological framework. The strategic positioning around expansive open water, complemented by a network of canals and parks, contributes to creating a distinctive urban environment conducive to living, working, learning, and leisure activities. Having received approval from the Board, the Development Plan is poised for submission to the City Council.

14/04/2024

National Gallery of Australia - Sculpture Garden Design Competition

This is an exceptional opportunity for Australian and international designers to contribute to the Sculpture Garden and create a reinvigorated and unique landscape setting for the National Gallery of Australia within the heart of Australia’s national capital, Kamberri/Canberra.

The competition scope recognises the foundational importance of Australia’s First Nations peoples and culture with gardens and contexts of heritage value. The landscape of the Sculpture Garden puts art and public access and appreciation of art first. It also explores the potential of the wider national setting of Kamberri/Canberra.

The competition seeks to reposition the Sculpture Garden as an innovative outdoor art gallery that comprehensively embraces the biodiversity of the Australian landscape and the National Gallery’s purpose to make ‘art accessible, meaningful and vital to diverse audiences, locally, nationally and internationally’.

Image Credit: Flickr Malcolm Tredinnick

06/04/2024

Designing for Seasons
As a landscape architect, it is crucial to understand the seasonal changes that occur on the land where we design. These changes affect multiple design aspects, such as visual appeal, practicality, ecological equilibrium, emotional connections, learning opportunities, and adaptation to the climate.

04/04/2024

Profile | Daniel Woodroffe, Founder of dwg. We talk to Daniel about landscape architecture and the future.

03/04/2024

Fleurs-de-Macadam Plaza | Montreal, Canada | NIPPAYSAGE
Fleurs-de-Macadam Plaza is a new public square in the heart of the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood, which converts the site of a former gas station into a green space. This project marks the beginning of a new way of developing public space by exploiting its potential of “in situ” rainwater management of its urban sector to become one of the first water squares or resilient public spaces in downtown Montreal.

Photo : SteveMontpetit, NIPPAYSAGE, Castor et pollux

02/04/2024

Unique Allotment Living Development in Swindon Designed to Passivhaus Standards.
The design for a 38-home ‘allotment living’ development at Tadpole Lane in Swindon, United Kingdom, designed by Studio Egret West, has been revealed.

The architecture is unique and inspired by the pitched roof character of the surrounding area, while promoting health, wellbeing, and energy efficiency. The community will benefit from generous allotments, public open spaces, natural play areas, orchards, and wildlife zones, with a focus on preserving existing trees and introducing complementary new tree species.

01/04/2024

Celebrating World Landscape Architecture Month
April is World Landscape Architecture Month (started by ASLA). Celebrating landscape architecture for a month allows everyone to advocate for and showcase the diverse range of work (design, management, policy, education, research, etc.) that landscape architects undertake daily.
Top (Left to Right)
1. Pier 26 at Hudson River Park – OLIN – Image Credit: Kristian Alveo for Kebony
2. Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood – Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners – Image Credit: Felixx
3. Palm Springs Downtown Park – RIOS – Image Credit: RIOS and Millicent Harvey
4. Little Island – MNLA and Heatherwick Studio – Image Credit: Angela Weiss Getty Images
5. Guangzhou Shipyard Park Phase One – Guangzhou, China – SWA – Image Credit: SWA

Bottom (Left to Right)
1. Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design – Image Credit: Neil Speakman / LDA Design
2. From Gutter to Valley: Activating a Neglected Canal as a Community Hub – Lab D+H Shanghai | Photo Credit: Bing Lu
3. A Waterfront Homestead Reborn Restorative Design in the Yangtze Delta Polders – Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design and Research Institute Co.，LTD. (SLADI) – Image Credit: SLADI
4. Renovation Plan for Second Grinding Wheel Factory – Lab D+H Shanghai | Image Credit: Bing Lu
5. Geestwater Lisse – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism | Image Credit: Vivid Vision

01/04/2024

Qingjian Lake | Suzhou, China | AECOM
Qingjian Lake represents a new thinking in the design of lakefront parks, one that re-imagines the existing park based on new ecological and social priorities. Our conceptual design is informed by a new approach to urbanism where water and community are integral to contemporary urban life. It is envisioned as a new, vibrant public open space to revitalize an urban community in the north district of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).

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