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Streetlife Design Competition

Streetlife and Landezine are calling students and young professionals from the field of landscape architecture and related fields to submit ideas for 'Lost Sites'!

LILA Recognitions

From the jury statement: "With its lush vegetation, Forest Garden approaches the site as hybridization between the ecosystem of plants, animals and humans. It is a delicate way of setting up clearings in the forest to take advantage of resources (productive gardens, natural pools, tree regeneration) without disturbing it. Studio Ome effectively used all topographical facts, existing plants, sunlight, and other natural forces to empower a variety of programmes, needs, and, above all, experiential richness. They obviously appreciate randomness and a more relaxed approach to planting. The decision to leave the paths in the garden as informal compacted earth paths, shows a humble approach to landscaping work, which the members of the jury felt demonstrated a truly sensitive understanding of providing ‘just enough’ to meet the brief. In essence, the project emphasizes how we can leave space for nature, which is an important message going forward. Forest Garden offers a wonderfully dense atmosphere and infinite possibilities for exploration and observation."

The jury recognized the tension and the atmospheric density that was achieved by well-known tools of garden design. The use of historic structures successfully establishes different ambiences and opens views that change the perception of the space, orientation and the scale of this relatively small plot. The garden was designed to catch changing seasons and light and synthesize them into a dramatic display of change. Ellipse garden is also a gardener’s laboratory, and reflects the joy in cultivating, playing and experimenting with plants and their characteristics.

The jury recognized the approach of embracing time to make a comfortable living space. The project successfully combines soil reactivation, food production, water management and recycling of the material found on site. This simplistic, smart and visually interesting landscape reaches beyond what is expected of a residential area.

The jury recognized a very different approach to the typology of residential landscape, where one would usually find very determined structures, designed to the very last square meter. Instead, Juul Frost Architects explored how a surrounding landscape can be brought into the residential area and how the buildings fit into the surrounding landscape. In the ‘inner’ area, small patches of what looks like local vegetation are placed in a very relaxed design language, emphasizing the qualities of the surrounding landscape and translating it excellently to a smaller scale.

From the jury statement: The project text humbly tells of the team’s aim to return the site to its rural integrity and local traditional building ways, away from the usual domination of design techniques. Yet the contemporary intervention succeeds in creating a strong independent design expression which successfully augments and strengthens the beauty of the site itself. The structures and plantings merge in creating densely atmospheric spaces.

Using simple and graceful design language, the project succeeds in creating a new interpretation of local traditional craftsmanship and history. It is in the combination of strong spatial and material uses and detailing with fulfilling sustainable goals that sets the project apart.

From the jury statement: As a part of a larger planning scheme for reducing traffic, Ballerup Boulevard provides a pilot project for transforming our car-oriented, oversized streets into multi-functional transit ways with human scale and character. The charming yet straight-forward design language of path geometries and planting beds allows the user to move through a coherent whole and at the same time differentiates sequence of spaces. Over time the plantings will create a lush, dense green corridor.

From the jury statement: This on-going project was self-initiated by landscape architecture office EMF – Estudi Marti Franch – in the midst of the global financial crisis. The goal was to make it “big and cheap”, so that the model can be repeated and adapted to many sites. It began by using vegetation maintenance to design public spaces in Girona. In this case, the landscape architect is not just the designer, but also a social catalyst who enables positive change. The jury recognized not only the process, but especially the result, which is a system of low-cost, modest, poetic and above all useful spaces that greatly enrich the quality of life for the people of Girona.

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Editor's Picks

2 Piers

The purpose of this strange landscape is to reduce ground vibrations from the highway for the needs of synchrotron radiation laboratory MAX IV in Lund, Sweden. Roughly - the more chaotic the surface in terms of topography, the more vibrations will be absorbed into these tumulus kind of landforms. Further ecological measures were undertaken to provide for sustainable maintenance, like the use of sheep, effective storm-water management etc. It's interesting how pure engineering sometimes gives birth to new typologies that also offer an interesting experience.

MAX IV Laboratory Landscape

Temporary use of the Palace Precincts

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Carl Alexander Park, Baesweiler by DTP

by DTP

Rather Korso by DTP

by DTP

German Lock and Fittings Museum in Velbert by DTP

by DTP

Youth Leisure Centre, Oberhausen by TDP

by DTP

Platz Am Offers, Velbert, by DTP

by DTP

New Waldorf School Campus in Berlin by Gruppe F

by gruppe F | Freiraum für alle GmbH

Wuhlepark by Gruppe F: Lots of Landscape – Minimal Maintenance

by gruppe F | Freiraum für alle GmbH

Participatory School Yard Design at Herbert Hoover Secondary School by Gruppe F

by gruppe F | Freiraum für alle GmbH

A Dune in the Forest by Gruppe F

by gruppe F | Freiraum für alle GmbH

Kleine Wildnis Park in Osdorf by Gruppe F

by gruppe F | Freiraum für alle GmbH

Lovedon Fields by BD Landscape Architects

by B|D landscape architects

Fidelity Heart Zone by BD landscape architects

by B|D landscape architects

Living Wetland Theatre by B|D landscape architects

by B|D landscape architects

Marmormolen (The Marble Pier) by 1:1 Landskab

by 1:1 Landskab

Smedetoften by 1:1 Landskab

by 1:1 Landskab

Gadehaveskolen by 1:1 Landskab

by 1:1 Landskab

Scandiagade by 1:1 Landskab

by 1:1 Landskab

Grønttorvet by 1:1 Landskab

by 1:1 Landskab

Artipelag by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

Svandammsparken by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

Kärrtorps Centrum by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

by Nyréns Arkitektkontor

Corniche des Forts Park by Ilex Paysages

by Ilex landscape architecture

Park Zomerhuis in Stekene (BELGIUM) by Omgeving

by OMGEVING Landscape Architecture

Gare Maritime by OMGEVING

by OMGEVING Landscape Architecture

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