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Where Americans Want To Live: New ULI Report, America In 2013, Explores Housing, Transportation, Community Preferences Survey Suggests Strong Demand for Compact Development - Urban Land Institute
For more information, contact Trish Riggs, 202-624-7086; priggs@uli.orgIt's Time For City Planners To Adapt A New Model
City planners' vision of Shanghai in 2020 at the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center museum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Changing The Land: Integrating Ecological Science With Design
Looking out over any city today, imagine that in two or three hundred years, only a very few – if any – of the built structures you see today will still be standing. Most buildings aren’t designed to last a hundred years.
Warren Byrd: How to Be a Landscape Architect
Throughout March, the University of Virginia School of Architecture has celebrated the work of local landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBWLA) and its recently published book Garden Park Community Farm .Feyssine Park by Ilex Paysage Urbanisme
April 18, 2013 / Filed under: France / Parks / See all projects by: Ilex landscape architecture / 1,679 views /
Graphisoft Park by Garten Studio
April 17, 2013 / Filed under: Hungary / Parks / Water features / See all projects by: Garten Studio / 2,205 views / Location: Záhony Street, Budapest, District III – HUNGARY Landscape Architecture: Garten Studio Ltd. György Szloszjár Eszter Dandé Zoltán Stéhli Commissioned by: Graphisoft Park Ltd.
Even before Spring fever has set in completely, the Atlanta Beltline ’s Eastside Trail is mobbed with people walking, jogging, and biking.
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LOLA Landscape Architects win Maaskant Prize 2013: Topos
The Rotterdam based landscape architecture practice LOLA have recently been awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2013.
Steeling Beauty
New plan seeks to revitalize Pittsburgh riverfront. A long stretch along the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, once home to steel mills, suffered, like so many cities along the Rust Belt, from the decline of local industry. The Allegheny Riverfront Green Boulevard (ARGB) Study, led by Sasaki Associates with the help of Hacin + Associates, seeks to transform this 6.5-mile-long strip from an industrial corridor, filled with vacant tracts of land, into a mixed-use area that provides a robust connection between the existing neighborhood and riverfront.
In honor of the opening of a new garden in Paris, Reuters has pulled together a list of some of their favorite green spaces.
6 Hyper Exotic Urban Gardens - Amanda Erickson
Arkadien Winnenden by Atelier Dreiseitl
Atelier Dreiseitl – Winnenden from Alexander Bergmann on Vimeo . Landscape Architecture: Atelier Dreiseitl Partner in Charge: Dieter Grau Project Landscape Architect: Rudolf Mager Project Engineer: Stefan Brückmann Project Team: Angela Soler, Dietmar Schellinger, Gustavo Glaeser Location: Winnenden, Germany Client: Strenger Bauen und Wohnen GmbH Architects: Eble Architekten Area: 3.4 ha Completion: 2011TUMO Park
The 6000-sqm TUMO Park is an outdoor extension to the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia. The project connects the TUMO building to an existing public municipal park through a plaza that currently surrounds a fountain built during the soviet era. The concentric setting of the fountain dictates the radial shape of the lower...The town of Magreid, embedded between the wineyards and orchards and leaning on the slopes of the Mendel mountain chain, is located on the Southern Tyrol Wine Route (magreid an der südtiroler Weinstrasse / magré sulla strada ddel vino). Not only is the location attractive, but the unique urban structure is enchating.
In the Rock - Fire Brigade Magreid
March 18, 2013 / Filed under: Bridges / France / Parks / Riverbanks / Waterfronts / See all projects by: Atelier Cite Architecture / 5,627 views /