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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'!

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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

The Metro-Forest Project

Along the length of the landmarked Fifth Avenue façade, OLIN’s design for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s four-block-long plaza enhances one of New York City’s most significant public gathering spaces. OLIN led the design to prioritize the pedestrian experience and create a welcoming urban destination ...

David H. Koch Plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The works concerning the layout of the Western seafront of Balestrate were carried out in an area that, although not highly anthropized, becomes very densely populated in the summertime for the strong tourist attraction due to the presence of numerous seaside resorts ... The plan, with small but significant changes to the state of the place, intended to preserve and enhance the landscape and the natural features of the site, mitigating the environmental impact of the road on the coast line.

Balestrate Seafront

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Sulzerareal, Winterthur, by vetschpartner Landscape Architecture

by vetschpartner

Pathway Through the Pinewood of La Algaida by ACTA

by ACTA Javier Lopez & Ramon Pico

Un hommage à Lady Day by Strootman Landscape Architects

by Strootman Landscape Architects

Tussols by RCR

by RCR Arquitectes

Eathouse by Marijke Bruinsma & Marjan van Capelle

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Vondeltuin Towers by Carve Landscape Architecture

by Carve Landscape Architecture

Wernigerode Horticultural Show 2006 by Hutterreimann + Cejka Landscape Architecture

by hutterreimann + cejka Landscape Architecture

Park Camillo Tarello by Global & Studio Pellegrini

by Global Arquitectura Paisagista

Pedra Tosca Park by RCR

by RCR Arquitectes

Cala Calafato Foot-Paths by Manuel Ruisanchez

by Manuel Ruisanchez Landscape Architecture

BGU University Entrance Square by Chyutin Architects

by Chyutin Architects

Parc G5 by J. Carlos Carnicer Asenjo Landscape Architecture

by Carlos Carnicer Asenjo

Torrent d’en Farre by M. Isabel Bennasar Felix Landscape Architecture

by Isabel Bennasar Felix

Public Spaces in Banyoles by Mias Arquitectes

by Mias Arquitectes

Cap Roig by Michèle & Miquel Landscape Architecture

by Michèle Oliac + Miquel Batlle

Horticultural Garden by Claudi Aguilo Riu + DataAE

by Claudi Aguilo Riu + DataAE

Urbanization of the North Campus of Polytechnic University of Catalonia

by Taller 9s Arquitectes

Fontsanta Park by Manuel Ruisanchez

by Manuel Ruisanchez Landscape Architecture

Can Framis by BAAS Architecture/ Jordi Badia + EMF Landscape Architecure/ Marti Franch

by BAAS (Jordi Badia) + EMF Landscape Architecture

Landmark Lusatian by Stefan Giers

by Stefan Giers

Puerto Malpica by Creus e Carrasco Architects

by Creus e Carrasco

Garden Box by Landscape Niwatan

by Landscape Niwatan

Neighborhood Park by Cino Zucchi Architects

by Cino Zucchi Architects

Ballast Point Park by McGregor+Coxall Landscape Architecture

by McGregor Coxall

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