SUO Style-A   Japan   This project aimed to revitalize Setonaikai National Park's Yashima area, a tourist destination that was popular in the 1970s but had since seen a decline in visitor numbers, owing to which many of the existing constructions were demolished and stric

COBE Architects   Denmark   Imitating each one of the strata of an opera stage, the park is a composed landscape with a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. The plants and trees are placed so their natural heights create the scenic setting facing the harbor. Urban par

Bas Smets    France   The team headed by Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets – and including GRAU, Neufville Gayet architectes, Ingérop, and Franck Boutté Consultants – has won the competition to transform the public spaces around Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, ravaged

MAD Architects   China   The idea of nature in the east – connected to the cultivation of the spirit – gives rise to the concept of city committed to the emotional well-being of its dwellers. True to this premise, the Beijing-based studio of Ma Yansong proposes a sports park

Fernando Menis   Spain   Fernando Menis won the 2019 competition to restore a neo-Gothic building and fit it out for exhibitions in flexible spaces that can be easily adapted to use changes within the cultural typology. Named in honor of the botanist José Viera y Clavijo,

Zaha Hadid Architects   Cyprus   Adjacent to the Venetian Walls of the Cypriot capital and taking up part of the dry moat surrounding the city’s old sector is Eleftheria Square, a public park that transforms the zone with tree-lined promenades, green spaces, fountains, and paved are

Tomas Ghisellini Architects   Italy   The heterogeneous stage proposed rests with systematic discipline on an orthogonal matrix of 2x2 meters, to establish rules and a ‘do it yourself’ philosophy that creates endless options for altering and extending the original plan...  

SLAS architects   Poland   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

waa / we architech anonymous   China   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   Within the Masterplan for the Manzanares River developed by the municipality of Santa Marta – capital of the Magdalena department –, the Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park is one of the seven prototypes designed with the objective of improving the current co

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   The Marinilla Educational Park offers the community a space where its cultural identities can be expressed, acknowledged, promoted, and preserved. The building was conceived as a place where the typical activities of the Paisa culture – planting, pla

LOLA Landscape Architects Taller architects L+CC   China   Faced with the unrelenting growth of Shenzhen – half a century ago a simple fishing village but now a cutting-edge megalopolis – a rigorous environmental policy was implemented, unprecedented in the country, to regulate the proliferating industrial a

estudioHerreros   Panama   Two interventions shape new urban spaces in two Panamanian cities. Firstly, the ‘Corredor Urbano’ (urban highway) threatened to isolate the more modest districts of the city of Colón, so the project occupies the leftover sites around the intersection

Crossboundaries   China   The new urban space, pervaded by the spirit of the artistic community of Songzhuang, is articulated by a zigzagging linear wall that alternates brick and steel to conceal the parking lot, and that unfolds to house the different playground areas.

Heatherwick Studio   United States   The location was the original Pier 54, on Manhattan’s southwest riverside, where the survivors of the Titanic disaster docked. Together with his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller had been a key supporter of the celebrated High Line Park in New

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Spain   The proposal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and Gustafson Porter + Bowman is the winner in the invited competition to revamp the AZCA area in Madrid, a private initiative promoted by Renazca, an association formed by com

Burgos & Garrido TYPSA   Spain   With a project titled ‘El jardín en movimiento’ (‘The Garden in Motion’), the practice of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido (BGA) – in collaboration with Typsa Ingenieros Consultores y Arquitectos, GEA 21 and Laura Jeschke – has placed first in the

Sou Fujimoto   Hungary   Inspired in the worlds of nature and of music, the Japanese studio won in 2014 the competition to build the House of Hungarian Music, to be built in Budapest’s largest park. An undulated disc, pierced by random openings, is elevated on slender suppor

West 8 Porras Guadiana Arquitectos   Spain   The new water features, the removal of existing elements built over the years in the area, and the construction of a central meeting point – an ‘air vault’ – will help revitalize the area, creating a clearer access and a continuous, free-flowing surf

GRAS Reynés Arquitectos MVRDV   Spain   The metallic structure that is also a vertical forest flanks a floodable central plaza – the Green Hall – surrounded by other programs. The circulations and accesses lead to this plaza, fit out with porous pavements and new urban furniture, lighting

Heatherwick Studio CLK Architects    Spain   Two concepts define the park: a ‘ring’ for a variety of uses that is partially covered by pergolas to bring shade and delimit areas; and ‘the star,’ the green lung of the ensemble, a lake stretching from the center to the accesses... 

Batlleiroig OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture NEXO arquitectura   Spain   A series of stairs, escalators, and ramps leads to ‘The Valley,’ where a tower with a cascade and a climbing wall at the rear becomes a landmark in the park, surrounded by a concrete ‘ring’ where different activities and events can be held...

Carlos Rubio   Spain   The urban fabric and the features of the terrain make it possible to define three areas of intervention to recover a pasture land, create an agroecological park, and create a landscape factory: a referent for ecological transition in Madrid...

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

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