Landscape Architecture
The design and planning of outdoor spaces that integrate natural and built environments.
slóð: A Thermal Spa That Hands Its Roof Back to the Trail
A low concrete spa carries a walking path across its roof, tucking baths, saunas and stepped seats beneath it in a storm-filled valley.
Lines of the Land: A Fish Market Sheltered Beneath an Arching Greenway Bridge
An arching vegetated bridge spans an urban fish market in Vietnam, folding terraced field geometry into stalls, seating and lantern-lit lawns.
SAOTA Folds a Planted, Branching Roof over a Hillside House in the Los Angeles Bird Streets
Above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Helix Residence lets a sculpted, planted roof act as facade, landscape and privacy screen over a hillside site.
3XN, B+H and ZHUBO Design Shape the Shenzhen Natural History Museum as a Walkable Geological Landscape
Beside Yanzi Lake in Shenzhen's Pingshan District, a 105,300 m² museum folds its galleries under a public roof that behaves like a river-carved hillside.
Vari Architects Turns an Abandoned Show-Villa Island in Chengdu into a Lakeside Retail Village
On Luxe Lakes in Chengdu, a field of abandoned show villas becomes a loose cluster of shops, terraces and gray spaces that soften into the landscape.
OUT Architecture Turns a Coffee Cup Stain into a Broken Ring of Benches on a London Market Corner
A broken ring of steel and cork benches outside an Aldgate café reclaims an overlooked Petticoat Lane corner for the London Festival of Architecture 2026.
CAW Arquitectos Stabilizes an Antofagasta Hillside with Planted Terraces and Slatted Timber Shade
In Antofagasta's Las Brisas sector, a 13,500 m² park uses vegetation, stone terraces and timber canopies as living infrastructure on unstable ground.
Openfabric, caarpa and FM Ingegneria Recast the Grounds of the Reggia di Rivalta as a 25-Hectare Public Park
At the Reggia di Rivalta in Italy, a radiating plan of lawns, basins and steel pergolas turns historic palace grounds into an ecological commons.
A Parallel Architecture Cantilevers a Glass Pavilion off a Limestone Bluff in West Lake Hills
In West Lake Hills, a stone base, a suspended entry bridge and a timber-soffited glass volume let the slope beneath stay shaded and untouched.
Kelpscape: An Underwater Habitat That Becomes Part of the Kelp Forest
A submersible research vessel designed to be colonized by the very marine ecosystem it studies, blurring the line between architecture and organism.
Väike Linn: An Opera House That Grows from the Waterfront
Kristin Urbatzka's radial opera complex dissolves the boundary between cultural building and coastal landscape through curved volumes and public terrain.
SCENTLAND: An Animal Shelter Designed Through the Nose of a Dog
Winner of Strays 2020, this proposal uses scent mapping to generate circulation, form, and program for a sensory-driven shelter.
