Trahan Architects   United States   Luther George Park – in the heart of Springdale, beside Spring Creek – is a new public space created by the New Orleans architecture office of Trey Trahan, in collaboration with Landscape Architects Spackman Mossop Michaels. Along the park’s central

h3o architects   Spain   Barcelona-based h3o architects – headed by Adrià Orriols, Joan Gener, and Miquel Ruiz – has transformed an abandoned parking lot in Castell d’Aro, in Girona province, into a public plaza. Covering 1,700 square meters, the intervention sought to revit

3ME Arquitectura   Mexico   Located on the outskirts of the city, on the banks of the Lerma River, this project revitalizes a natural recreational space in Salvatierra, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, and brings out the 17th-century Batanes Bridge in all its glory. This bri

Emac Arquitectura   Spain   Located in the heart of San Javier, the 31,949-square-meter Almansa Park is the result of an idea competition organized with the Murcia Institute of Architects (COAMU). The project carried out by Emac Arquitectura – Miguel Martínez Castillejo and Pau

archigrest Toposcape   Poland   The Warsaw we know today looks like, but is not, the one that Bernardo Bellotto portrayed almost three centuries ago. That city which the vedute painter immortalized is heaped up on the outskirts, where the debris to which the Polish capital’s histor

Turenscape Arsomsilp   Thailand   The environs of a dismantled tobacco factory have been reconditioned as a green expanse of land that serves as much to accumulate rainwater during the typhoon season as to curb flooding. The pattern of paths and resting spots is based on traditional

Topia landskapsarkitekter   Sweden   A composition of six concatenated swamps form a recreational space that also functions as a natural cleanser of the waters of an urban stream before they flow into a large lake. In what until recently was a field of single crop farming, the water cur

Entorno y Contexto   Mexico   A comprehensive plan has cut short the city’s alienation from its river course, formerly a polluted and unsafe environment where other attempts to fix it had failed for lack of an all-round view. At a comfortable distance from the river’s course, a s

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Form, color, and movement are the most obvious of many outstanding aspects in the art of Alexander Calder, maxims that are most visible in his kinetic sculptures. But when beginning to conceive an architecture for the presentation of his work, the pr

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Though it is a pleasant green space, Parco XXII Aprile is in Crocetta, one of the most conflictive neighborhoods in Modena. This intervention aims to redefine small new spaces for leisure and for reunion that can gradually reactivate social life in t

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Despite being one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city, Commenda Est only has one plaza. The project exploits the potential of several empty spaces to join them and create a quality plaza at the service of the area’s multiple realities...

BeAr Architects   Spain   Located on the left bank of the Zubitegi stream, in the south zone of the Basque municipality of Mallabia, this sports park is the result of transforming an area damaged by the operations of an old water-treatment plant. The outdoor facilities optimi

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   The basic idea is to create an urban park integrated with the naturalness of the beaches and the sea, with the purpose of promoting culture, well-being, and sport, through various functions and activities that aspire to extend the use of the park thr

JSa   Mexico   The firm JSa – Aisha Ballesteros, Benedikt Fahlbusch, Javier Sánchez – has turned a deteriorated forest into an urban park that features an ecotechnologies center for Xalapa-Enríquez, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Under the auspices o

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   The rough vicinity of a frontier checkpoint has been transformed, for the first time offering crossers a safe waiting place shielded from the harsh sun and equipped with lavatories. In unprecedented proximity to the security line, the modest facility

PRÁCTICA   Romania   The Spanish firm Práctica – Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral, José Ramón Sierra – was commissioned to regenerate 15 kilometers of the banks of the Sommer River that lie within the Rumanian municipality of Cluj-Napoca. An outcome of a 2017 competition, the

JJ+ estudio Ángela Sueiro Rubén Hernández   Spain   The ‘Carve, Reuse, Break’ project for San Juan Park in Brunete is based on the sharawadgi concept, which avoids rigid lines and symmetry in favor of irregularity in garden design. It involves actions in a new natural scheme that courses the edge of t

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The Mexican firm Colectivo C733 – Carlos Facio, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín, Gabriela Carrillo, José Amozurrutia – were commissioned to design the Bacalar Eco-Park, which covers 1,900 square meters in an area of 70,000. The main objective was to minimi

SOA architekti Ateliér Koncept   Czech Republic   The Czech city of Aš – close to the bank of the Ohře, a tributary of the Elbe River, and to the German border – has a Park of Memories that harnesses the area’s geographical and symbolic potential. The objective of the project was to honor the past a

Kauh arquitectos   Spain   This landscape intervention by the Granada-based firm KAUH – Vincent Morales Garoffolo and Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz – reclaims the unique heritage site of La Hoya for the city of Almería. La Hoya is a gorge located on the edge of the historic quart

COBE Architects   Denmark   In the heart of the densely urbanized historic center of the Danish capital is this island with vegetation distributed in six gardens and a greenhouse representing different parts of the world. Located next to The Royal Danish Opera, in what used to

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The itinerary proposed crosses the park, and the new range of community spaces complement its current activity. In the center of the composition, the main building of La Brea, which is elevated off the ground, concentrates the cultural programs…

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Hungary   A sinuous roof that merges with the lush vegetation of the historic Városliget crowns an exhibition center devoted to the rich musical tradition – cultivated and popular – of the Magyar country. The undulating disk of the roof, perforated in an irreg

Iñaki Alday   The relationship between cities and their rivers has been tense and conflictive since time inmemorial. Rivers – access to fresh water to drink or to irrigate the fields with – are the primary raison d’être of human settlements. But while an essential

Often referred to as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) —alongside Calvert Vaux (1824-1895)— designed Central Park in the 1850s to be a democratic greenspace in a growing metropolis. That “sense of enlarged free

The New York Times   Mihir Zaveri   Daniel E. Slotnik   Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 1,200-foot elevated pathway that will lead to the new Penn Station development, to be financed by public and private funds. For more than a decade, the High Line, an elevated park that stretches for nearly a mile and

Ayuntamiento de Madrid   Madrid is undertaking an ambitious transformation of its urban perimeter with a forest crown connecting all the natural zones existing in the city. This involves a re-landscaping of 14,200 hectares, with native plant species sure to be instrumental i

The cloud of uncertainty that Madrid urbanism has in recent years gotten itself trapped in – with cases like Operation Chamartín, the redevelopment of the area around Vicente Calderón Stadium, the intervention in Canalejas, or the revamping of Edific

En Nørrebro, uno de los barrios con mayor densidad étnica de Copenhague (en él conviven hasta sesenta nacionalidades), el equipo formado por BIG, Topotek1 y el colectivo de artistas Superflex acaba de terminar una dotación llamada a ser un vehículo d

El centro de la histórica Aberdeen, la tercera ciudad de Escocia, será transformado en los próximos años según el plan director de un equipo formado por los neoyorquinos Diller Scofidio + Renfro junto a los locales Keppie Design y OLIN, que ha result

En una gran parcela que, debido a su difícil topografía, quedó excluida del crecimiento urbanístico de Torrevieja, el equipo barcelonés de Carme Pinós ha llevado a cabo un proyecto de regeneración paisajística y medioambiental. Compuesto de diferente

Barcelona tendrá una nueva diagonal, perpendicular a la anterior... y verde. El concurso para el nuevo Parque Lineal de la Sagrera, también denominado Parc del Camí Comtal, ha sido adjudicado (ver AV Proyectos 45) al equipo formado por los holandeses

El equipo liderado por Felipe Uribe de Bedout es el responsable del diseño del complejo Comfama Parque Arví, situado en una inmensa área natural al noreste de Medellín, abarcando varios municipios del departamento de Antioquia. Concebida como una pro

Integrado en el verde y abrupto paisaje del concejo asturiano de Teverga, en un área anteriormente ocupada por instalaciones mineras, el Parque de la Prehistoria está dedicado al arte rupestre, y reúne representaciones de las principales cuevas europ

El concurso para la reordenación del suelo liberado por el traslado de la infraestructura ferroviaria en el centro de Benicàssim, Castellón, se ha fallado a favor de la propuesta de Enrique Fernández-Vivancos, Luis de Andrés Mir y Álvaro Gómez-Ferrer

Yolanda Fernández   Un año más, el anuario del Instituto Holandés de Arquitectura muestra las tendencias de la moda nacional en la temporada 1999-2000, y avanza lo que veremos la próxima. Frente a colecciones pasadas llenas de pliegues y alabeos, sinónimos de la hipermo

Azra Aksamija   Building Pluralism

1999-2000