Landscape Architecture: HASSELL Project name: The Peninsula at Burswood Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Completion date: 2007 Area: 17 ha Budget: A$700m Client: Mirvac Image credits: Photography by Acorn Photo Agency (Adrian Lambert) The Peninsula at Burswood development was part of Mirvac’s vision to create a series of high quality, environmentally responsive, urban […]
Landscape Architecture: HASSELL Project name: The Peninsula at Burswood Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Completion date: 2007 Area: 17 ha Budget: A$700m Client: Mirvac Image credits: Photography by Acorn Photo Agency (Adrian Lambert) The Peninsula at Burswood development was part of Mirvac’s vision to create a series of high quality, environmentally responsive, urban […]
Design team: LANDLAB studio voor landschapsarchitectuur (Arnhem) in collaboration with O.S.L.O (Berlicum) Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Assignment: park design for a high density (150 dwelling per hectare) housing area Urban Design: Frits van Dongen Design: 1999-2010 Construction: 2011 Area: 4ha Budget: €2.300.000 Commissioned by: City of Amsterdam, Heijmans property developers Image credits: Anne ten Ham […]
Architect & Landscape Architect: Shma Company Limited Project Team: Director – Yossapon Boonsom, Associate – Kantaya Kiatfuengfoo Client& Developer: Sansiri PCL. Location: Bangkok, Thailand Use: Condominium Garden Site Area: 5,244 sq. m Building Scale: 28 Storey Building. Design Year: 2008 Period of Construction: 2010-2011 Like many other condominium projects, this project is intended […]
Sensitive urban designing with rainwater as a vibrant feature underlies the total success of the development. As a result, the location has become desirable. The amazing neighborhood feeling is complimented by the practicality of the site being 5 minutes walk to both the train station ...
Designed with the participation of local residents, the park has an open form and is located on the dividing line between neighborhoods. It provides them with smooth connections and strengthens the link between uses and the landscape ...
The HASSELL design proposal for Lakeway had a strong sustainability agenda. It included setting aside a third of the site for bush regeneration, the creation of sensitive parkland interfaces with the adjoining school and residential area, as well as nature reserve.
The Kromhout Barracks is a public/private development which accommodates the Headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Army (CLAS), the Support Command (CDC) and several parts of the Defense Equipment Organisation (DMO) with more than 3,000 employees. Karres en Brands drew up the urban development plan ...
The constructed topography of the settlement shapes the garden and landscape characteristics of the common spaces. Flat areas serve as private gardens and the areas in between host the social facilities.
The new housing for Katzenbach is part of a general transformation process on the edge of Zurich replacing older “Garden Developments” with high-density housing.
Starting with a nautical nostalgia theme, Sanitas envisaged the land as an abstract form of the ocean. It would contain different elements of islands and seascape such as jungle, villages and a floating house.
To mark the 54th birthday of the twinning of the cities of 'Asnières-sur-Seine' and 'Berlin- Spandau', the city of Asnières is creating a mail leading up to a future kindergarten – a mail is a large pedestrian path lined with trees and plantations in an urban environment. The mail 'Berlin- Spandau' is innovative in terms of landscape design being inspired by German principles which include maintenance, materials, and living spaces.
Located a few hundred meters from the cliffs of Paluel and not far from its nuclear power plant, "Le Clos des Fées" is the extension of the hamlet of Conteville. Master plan was carried out with a focus on providing large open spaces whilst avoiding urban sprawl.
The main idea of the project is to create an undulating green plinth stretching from facade to facade through the garden. The central concrete plateau takes the formal language of the general topography. The plateau and the accidental horizon generate various situations. Through the apertures one can sense the organic surface, giving the impression that the concrete plateau is suspended over the ground.
The Blaricummermeent is a plan for about 750 houses and 18,5 hectares businesspark. The plan distinguishes itself by the blaricum-way of organization with curvy roads and a green atmosphere. An important part of the urban plan is the construction of a new river called the Meentstroom.
The site is situated where the old Kockums Crane once stood, a 138-metre high gantry crane built in 1973 and a landmark for the inhabitants of Malmö ... The main feature on Kranplatsen is a large, elevated wooden deck framed with smooth concrete walls. A steel pergola adds an industrial touch to the site ...
In 2004 a competition was launched by the nonprofit housing company GAG to achieve concepts for an urban area in the eastern part of Cologne. The winning entry to the competition by ASTOC architects and planners in team with urbane gestalt combines contemporary urban conditions with the 1950s spatial inventory.
Today, the neighborhood of Val Fourré, in Mantes-la-Jolie (France) faces the biggest urban change of its story. Bordered by the forest of Mantes, it was built in the sixties- near the Seine, in front of Vexin’s hillside. A town planning scheme made it possible to link the city of Mantes la jolie with the ones around, converting major roads into urban boulevards. 80 % of parkings initially private were moved to public area which gives more space.
Teleki Square is located in Budapest's centre's socially most diverse and colorful areas, in one of the city's most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Following a successful EU tender for funding the renovation of the square, an inclusive community-based planning process was initiated ...
The concept for the outdoor space surrounding the housing complex in Schwerzenbach draws its inspiration from the neighbouring Lake “Greifensee” and its wetland vegetation (grass, willow and poplar species), with the specific conditions of the site's soil. Groups of grasses and perennials of diverse heights divide and organize the space as architectural walls or volumes.
300 Ivy is a LEED Platinum mixed-use development situated in an area that that remains from the demolished San Francisco Central Freeway. The Landscape Architectural scope of work included an innovative Streetscape, on-structure patios, courtyards, and a large Protea garden with an outdoor kitchen. The project also included the design of custom furniture, stone paving, fencing and metal work, and site amenities. The main concept for the spatial design was one of " Mountain Climbing" ...