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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

Bureau B+B has been around for more than 40 years. In The Netherlands it is righteously considered a cradle of successful landscape architects. Despite the vast portfolio and the inseparable heritage of B+B, the editors of Landezine were convinced and impressed by the latest projects that were designed by a team of young designers.

We recognize the work of Bureau B+B, mainly for their ability of combining innovative engineering approaches with context based design. They master a diverse span of attitudes; from being subtle and quiet, to making radical changes, or being playful. B+B’s recent designs reflect all the needed skills for handling complex tasks; from a busy urban train station to residential landscapes fit for the future, to wetlands.

But it is the work that tackles heritage sites that really separates B+B from an already remarkable crowd of Dutch landscape architects. The precision that is found in Tempel and Nieuw Rhodenrijs Estates or the conceptual clarity of the LILA 2019 winning project Objets Trouvés reflects the ability to untangle time-related complexities, to curate and to offer new, meaningful experiences.

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.

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Editor's Picks

A bit surprised that Schønherr calls its beautiful design an 'artistic decoration'. It boldly uses the space, puts the visitors directly in the centre and offers dynamic composition featuring interesting play of bright concrete surfaces and grass, pinned with trees. The design would appear even stronger if the pavement 'frame' by the building had been left out, so the grass would come closer to the facade. The facade would already act as the frame and the grass as a passe-partout. Probably this was not possible due to safety issues and emergency intervention access. By using simple tools, Schønherr designed an interesting space that offers a number of different possible experiences (hard / soft surfaces, edges, sun / shade ...).

Grønnegården – Herning High School

Courtyard in Classensgade

Landscapes around busy transit hubs in general are usually designed as paved areas for the passengers buzzing through these noisy, dirty and smelly areas. In this sense, the introduction of an urban meadow is to be celebrated since it offers quite a complementary experience. Also to animals but above all to humans.

Orlyplein, Amsterdam

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602 Taylor

by HDLA

Tennessee State Museum

by HDLA

Centennial Park

by HDLA + Nelson Byrd Woltz

One Nashville Place Renovation

by HDLA

NIKE EHQ Campus

by Bureau B+B

Tel Dor National Park

by BO Landscape Architecture

Neta’im School

by BO Landscape Architecture

Hashomrim Park

by BO Landscape Architecture

Tavor Park, Kiryat Yam

by BO Landscape Architecture

Jókai Square

by Lépték-Terv

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz

by Förder Landschaftsarchitekten

Stadt-Natur-Park Flingern

by Förder Landschaftsarchitekten

Heinrich-Hertz-Community College

by Förder Landschaftsarchitekten

Buckler’s Forest, Crowthorne

by Macgregor Smith

Teesside Park

by Macgregor Smith

Fosse Park, Leicester

by Macgregor Smith

Garden Square, Rushden Lakes

by Macgregor Smith

Königwiesen Parks in Schleswig

by TGP Landschaftsarchitekten

Pirate Playground

by TGP Landschaftsarchitekten

The Drehbrückenplatz

by TGP Landschaftsarchitekten

The Alder Centre

by BBUK

North London Hospice

by BBUK

Great Kneighton

by BBUK

Zuidpolder Landscape Park, Rotterdam Region, Barendrecht, Amsterdamse Poort

by Arcadis Landscape architecture & Urbanism

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