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Reservoir Landscape

The Industrial Companies of Mendrisio have built a reservoir for drinking water in the woods, in Arzo, above the building of the...

Ercole Silva, pioneer of the English garden in Italy

At the end of the eighteenth century the fashion of the grand tour was rampant: a cultural and educational journey that led the...

A tribute to Jacques Wirtz

At the end of July 2018, one of the greatest contemporary landscape architects, Jacques Wirtz, left us forever at the age of 93....

The Yard

The project, which they branded “The Yard”, is a counter proposal for a current planned development by local scandinavian...

Two for tea

When Thomas and Leen informed Campo & Jacoby that they had bought the piece of arable land next to their residential plot,...

Promenade in Les Coves de Vinromà

Located on the edge of a small town by the river valley, the promenade is a landscape intervention on the side of a road, a...

Making landscape

Located in Blevio, in the heart of Lake Como, the “Mandarin Oriental” Resort covers a total area of about 23.000 square meters and represents a jewel of historical and landscape importance, today characterized by a harmonious blend of Italian style, oriental charm and...

Tremulini Square

by APlab

This is an urban regeneration project. The new square stands on an area of about 2000 square meters previously occupied by a series of houses demolished in the mid-90s, from there the lack of redevelopment of the building grounds has generated neglect and degradation...

Notturno

by Landscape First

Notturno is a lush garden in which plants, with their ornamental value and primary role in the biological cycle of the terrestrial ecosystem, are the main protagonists. In a space defined by four perimeter walls, mostly continuous, a dense sciaphilous vegetation is...

Theory and research

Traveling with Hemingway

by Enrico Falqui

Following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway's "Travelogue" in Spain, on St Anne's Day we found ourselves in Tudela, a historic town in Navarre, full of bell towers, on whose summit storks nest.Every year in this town, 24 July marks the beginning of seven days of...

Greening Ciompi Square – Memory of a landscaping action

by Gaël Glaudel

It’s been six years, so I can’t use the once upon a time yet. But this narrative has the taste of a fairy tale, at least in memory, as it’s born from the simplicity of an idea, a proposal, carried out in a reality that often tends to counter the possibility of a...

What if… we could save the Planet: Plastic

by Marta Buoro

Every year, more than 8 million tonnes of plastic reach the oceans. It is as if every minute the load of a rubbish truck full of plastic was dumped in the sea. About 90% of all rubbish floating in the oceans is plastic, and by 2050 99% of seabirds will have ingested...