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Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture 22 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Photomontages, collages of cut paper, photographs, acrylic and pastels and paper: these are a few among the many mixed media featured in the small, but ambitious, first landscape exhibit in the new Ho...
Call for entries: memorial competition in Norway 21 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
In commemoration of the terror attacks of July 22, 2011, the Norwegian Government is to establish two national public art memorial sites – one in Hole and one in Oslo. As a first step in planning the ...
Exhibition and book: Torre David – Informal Vertical Communities 14 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra...
How can one manage the enormous tasks appearing in cities? 8 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
Slogans like climate change, shifting centres of power, sustenance and protection of natural resources, quality of life and social welfare are just phrases suitable only for use in politics. But how c...
The Abstracted Life of Geelhandplaats, Antwerp 4 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
Social housing in Belgium is often perceived as a burden for those living in the residential neighborhoods where housing projects are constructed. Its presence can even initiate the economic decline o...
Battle for the Philippi Horticultural Area lost 1 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
The Philippi Horticultural Area on the Cape Flats in South Africa is an effective agricultural area which feeds the city. It is also known to grow about 80 percent of Cape Town’s vegetables. In issue ...
Rijksmuseum Garden 27 Jul 2013 | 02:28 pm
An exhibition of important monumental works by Henry Moore has opened at the Rijksmuseum’s new garden. Copijn Tuin en Landschapsarchitecten took architect Pierre Cuypers’ original plan for the garden ...
A miniature of the Texan landscape 25 Jul 2013 | 07:39 pm
The landscape architecture at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is a conceptual cross-section of Texas ecology – 773 miles of terrain and plant life transformed into an abstract express...
Learning from Duisburg-Nord – Topos Award 17 Jul 2013 | 12:38 pm
German landscape architect Peter Latz has been awarded the Topos Landscape Award 2013. The award ceremony will take place on 10 September in Munich as part of the Topos conference Strategic Urbanism. ...
Redevelopment Vision for the Noordelijk Havenhoofd, The Hague 14 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
KCAP Architects&Planners have released their vision for the redevelopment of the Noordelijk Havenhoofd in Scheveningen. This district of The Hague is located directly at the North Sea and is well know...
