Image 7 of 23 from gallery of Paradis Waterfront / Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter AS. Photograph by Jonas Adolfsen
By redeveloping its waterfront, the Shire of Esperance aimed to balance a family-oriented destination with improved infrastructure, tourist attractions and opportunities for private investment.
Prince Arthur’s Landing transforms the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and animated waterfront park reconnecting the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior. The waterfront opened to the public December 2011, and has seen record attendance, the opening of several new businesses and over ten design excellence awards.
Image 24 of 34 from gallery of Waterfront Kopaszi Dam / T2.a Architects. Photograph by Attila Polgár
That image of a small cabin with a lovely garden, a patio and a lake just a few meters away is so well imprinted in our brains we can practically see it
Hornsbergs Strandpark is the winner of the Swedish landscape award: Sienapriset 2012. Hornsbergs strandpark is where water and land meet in a curvy shoreline and contemporary design, round organic shape and clean lines. Hornsbergs Strandpark faces west to Ulvsundasjön and the evening sun. The waterfront and the three long floating piers give the visitor a […]
The Tikkurila River Park is developing into an outdoor living room that is a green pair for the urban Tikkurila centre – the major district of Vantaa that is Finland’s third busiest railway station and is in constant renewal. The first phase of the Tikkurila River Park was opened to the public in June 2020. […]
Filter Island
Gillespies was commissioned to transform the centre of Telford by developing the public realm for the new Southwater One district, a vibrant and identifiable community, leisure and retail destination. Gillespies responded to the brief to create an extension of Telford’s existing town centre and create a distinctive, captivating new landscape that linked the town with the park beyond.
Bostanlı Footbridge and Bostanlı Sunset Lounge have been designed by Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects as part of the ‘Karşıkıyı’ concept created for ‘İzmirSea’ coastal regeneration project. These two architectural interventions that are positioned in close proximity and in reference to each other, have generated a new, integrated coastal attraction together, where Bostanlı Creek flows into […]
Image 19 of 23 from gallery of Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park Phase II / SWA/BALSLEY + WEISS/MANFREDI. Photograph by David Lloyd/SWA
Agence Ter Landscape Architects: The spa towns of Bad Oeynhausen and Löhne lanched an international competition in September 1997, for the design and staging of the Landesgartenschau (regional garden show) 2000. Our plan, which was chosen as the winner, integrates the event dimension (a 6-month-long exhibition) and the dimension of durability (the creation of public […]
The Infinite Bridge is a sculpture by danish architect studio Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter built and exhibited in connection with the international biennale, Sculpture by the Sea 2015, that takes place in the scenic coastal landscape surrounding the city of Aarhus.
Smedsvig Landskap: Odd Frantzens square: from shadowed courtyard to radiating urban space and main entrance for Media City Bergen This was the central challenge of the project: how to transform a dark courtyard into a luminous, desirable, urban space, worthy of the new media hub in Bergen? By applying a bright cobblestone floor, but in […]
in norway, danish practice AART architects has completed the first stage of one of europe’s largest wooden residential developments.
RS+ Robert Skitek: Paprocany lake is the place where inhabitants of Tychy often spend their free time. In the neighborhoods of the promenade there is recreation center with many recreation and sports attractions. Remodeling of the recreational area at the Paprocany lake is another project focused on exposing values of the landscape and expanding recreational […]
As a gateway for the city’s westward expansion, Lotus Lake Park had to define and demonstrate the character of the future public realm in the west.
Topia landskapsarkitekter: The Arninge-Ullna Riparian Forest Park project is part of a new urban district in the municipality of Täby. It envisions a new form of neighbourhood park which combines biological conservation with the functions of an urban park, engaging with the city and nature as one intertwined entity. The park opens the riparian alder […]
Urban Agency: With the opening of the Kalvebod Waves at the harbor-font of Copenhagen, a central part of the inner harbor has finally become accessible and attractive to the public. This new public space on the water gives the harbor a new dimension as re-creational space in the center of the city. Historically this part […]
Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture: Campbell Section 5 occupies a pivotal site at the junction of two major Griffin axes between Capital Hill and Mount Ainslie, and Civic and Russell. Few sites, by location, are awarded the opportunity to reinforce this dominant Canberra Legacy. Hassett Park is a new urban park in the public domain framework […]
Image 18 of 25 from gallery of Canal Corridor, King’s Cross / Townshend Landscape Architects. Photograph by John Sturrock
The final phase of public realm landscape design for Bristol’s award-winning Harbourside development has been completed by UK landscape architects Grant Associates for developer Crest Nicholson. The completion of the 15 year regeneration project comes as Bristol celebrates its status as European Green Capital in 2015 – awarded for the City’s outstanding commitment to sustainability, creativity, culture and innovation.
The Francois Mitterrand Strip is a major historic site for the city of Rennes. Constructed in 1682, it came to being at the foot of ramparts and dominated the swampy confluence of the Ille and Vilaine Rivers. First flanked by canals and four rows of trees, it went from a place for strolling and being […]
Prince Arthur’s Landing transforms the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and animated waterfront park reconnecting the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior. The waterfront opened to the public December 2011, and has seen record attendance, the opening of several new businesses and over ten design excellence awards.
The Tagus Linear Park combines two different typologies of spaces: A single multifunctional area named ‘PRAIA DOS PESCADORES’ (FISHERMEN’S BEACH), set by the riverside within a former sand deposit, and 6 km of PEDESTRIAN TRAILS associated with dirt roads, waterlines banks (streams and drainage ditches), which converge to Praia dos Pescadores, coming from urban and natural areas.
The winning entry from Jonas Dahlberg shows part of a nearby promontory cleaved in two.
Completed in 2019 in Louisville, United States. Images by James Steinkamp Photography. The Waterfront Botanical Gardens and Graeser Family Education Center sit on a former landfill site, which had been unusable and closed off to the...
