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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

Tagkronen is a green and vibrant community placed on the roof of the shopping centre Kronen in Vanløse, Copenhagen.The landscape project at Tagkronen creates lush and recreative spaces in conjunction with Tagkronen’s 158 homes that are placed on top of a new shopping...

Roaming Forest

by Project Studio and Yael Bar-Maor Landscape Architects

The Roaming Forest is a project selected and developed for the Biennale of Landscape Urbanism: Timing 2010. It is an urban intervention that explores the making and remaking of public spaces through the hands of individuals, groups of people, and the city government....

Carmen Carpintero Park

by Tamborí Arquitectes

Carmen Carpintero park stands next to the “Salt de l’Aigua” ravine, to the west of the municipal district of Manises, in the El Carmen neighbourhood. The scarce or inadequate use of the park led Manises Council to propose refurbishment with new equipment to favour...

Theory and research

COVID-19, Sustainable Urban Regeneration and Trees

by Francesco Ferrini

Challenges of the Future It has often been said that cities face major challenges in terms of the quality of life and the range of opportunities that urban environments can offer their residents, and there is no doubt that cities and metropolitan areas are, and will...

Designing with nature – 25 projects to battle climate change

by Landscape First

UPenn's School of Design is putting together a project studying 25 projects around the world that, in their design, help battle climate change (as well as a conference, a book and two additional exhibitions). It has been 50 years since landscape architect Ian McHarg...

Südlich Auf’m Tetelberg

by POLA

Scope and initial situation. Düsseldorf is the seventh largest city in Germany. The city has been growing continuously for years and currently has over 630,000 inhabitants. Many areas are abandoned, bequests from the city’s industrial past, with new neighborhoods...