It suddenly appears, set between the stones of an old drystone wall, a white bone that comes out of the earth and...
Le Ray
Nice is a city that has been carrying out a series of important transformations of its urban territory in recent...
Akropolis Challenge
What is a trail? Apparently, this question may seem trivial, yet by digging deeply, it is possible to find obvious but...
The Gardens of the Château de La Napoule
This is the story of a mysterious place, a place that must be found and explored to discover its secrets, set in an...
The Perfume Garden
Within the five senses of human being, smell is certainly the one that has the most fundamental importance in the...
The Library of Trees
There are parks that over the course of history have become symbolic places of cities, frequented sites and favorite...
Dead End
A path winds its way through a bush in the heart of the astonishing art park of Château La Coste. It is not a path...
Intermediate Time
Manuel Cicchetti's photographic collection (or rather photographic selection, imagining the careful choice of every...
The Sculpture Garden of Palazzo Sertoli
There is a place in the city of Sondrio, Valtellina, set back from others places, a small space enclosed by walls that...
Sisyphus
A life well lived has nothing to do with success, fame, wealth. Is it perhaps a question of leaving a mark in the...
LUMA Arles – Parc des Ateliers
It was 2004, in Zürich, when the LUMA Foundation was created by Maja Hoffmann, collector and patron of the arts. An...
Kongjian Yu, man of the earth
I have had the opportunity to meet Kongjian Yu on three occasions. The first two, after a short period, on his arrival...
Park of the Château of Mouans-Sartoux
In 2004, landscape gardener Gilles Clément was commissioned by the Municipality of Mouans-Sartoux to propose a...
Agricultural sanctuary
Sometimes it is possible, after centuries of strange paths, that art and history intertwine firmly, offering new...
Botanica Temporanea
What does it mean to regain possession of a place? How can we ensure that the identity of a space is enhanced in such...
The Colas Suspended Garden and the Buisson Optique
Bernard Lassus has reached unprecedented heights of creativity with two major projects, fighting against an...
250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know (+1)
There are two ways of reading a book, which vary according to the volume chosen. The first, the classic one, is to...
The incredible history of the Square du Vert-Galant
March 18 (or perhaps 11 according to some sources), 1314. A dense acrid smoke rises from an island of Paris, l’île aux...
Green gems in a red casket – strolling through gardens in Ferrara
Giving a definition of “garden” can be a very simple or extremely complex matter; it all depends on the approaching...
Staging Urban Landscapes – Contemporary approaches to the design of public spaces
The definition of public space, consulting a dictionary, is the following: “The space above or below public areas and...
Guevrekian, cubist gardener
The march of artistic transformation appears to be undaunted, and if the paintings of Saint-Lazare station in 1877...
The Functional Garden of Jean Canneel-Claes
When designing the garden of his home in Auderghem, Belgium, in 1931, Jean Canneel-Claes decided to stick to the...
The (possibly) Impressionist Garden of Claude Monet
For four centuries the art of gardens in France was dominated by the classical trend, and then, for about a century,...
Greening Ciompi Square – Memory of a landscaping action
Several years have passed, but I can’t use the once upon a time yet. But this narrative has the taste of a fairy tale,...
Il progetto urbano sostenibile
The city is the place where we live. A simple statement, but that contains an immeasurable reality of facts. True for...
Art and Garden – Parallel Divergences
The relationship between art and garden is one of the most topical issues of general interest today, but it has its...
The Hangar’s Garden
To stand in front of a sculpture by Melotti is in itself a remarkable estrangement. Space is cut off, not brutally,...