Landscape Design
Landscape architecture and design
Architecture as the Bridge to Nature: A Thermal Bath in Iceland You Can Walk Over
A ring of green roof, a crossing bridge and sunken pools turn an Icelandic bathhouse into a landscape trekkers walk across before they ever step inside.
Sky Dome: 3D-Printed Mud Domes Hover Over Rubble Stone Rooms in a Syrian Courtyard
Clustered mud shells float above rubble stone rooms, while a raised red route stitches the courtyard back into the blocks that surround it.
Earth Made: A Rammed Earth Courtyard Housing Scheme Built Around a Stepped Water Kund
Three earthen bars frame a sunken, terraced pool in Gwalior, proposing that the oldest building material can still organise shared urban life.
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.
Terraces Park: A T-Shaped Bridge Building Strung Across the Stepped Walls of an Open-Pit Mine
A shortlisted proposal that bridges a toxic mining pit with a solar-skinned deck, an inner garden and a rooftop park, and asks what repair should weigh
A-Maze!: An Anganwadi Courtyard Where Play Panels Draw the Routes and the Lesson Plan
Angled play panels, looping team routes and a shuffled kit of tunnels and beams turn an Anganwadi courtyard into a game children learn by moving through.
Spa in Town: A Rotated Square and Four Arcs Turn an Icelandic Hot Spring Into a Civic Plaza
Cheryl Han's Editor's Choice entry for Thermal Blue cuts curved pools into a square frame, giving a compact site the presence of a town landmark.
The market as a place to gather: a fish market that leaves its lot to meet the water
A shortlisted Street City Vietnam proposal spreads a folded solar roof over an open single-level grid and lets the market spill onto a stepped waterfront.
Beneath the Surface: An Amsterdam Hillside That Hides a Graffiti Sky Underneath
A grassy, bike-laced terrace on top, a mural-covered plaza below: Adam Vadas splits one building into Amsterdam's calm postcard and its loud metropolis.
The Infinity Park: A Figure-Eight Park That Tries to Breathe for Its Neighbourhood
A sculptural lung and visitor-triggered oxygen bollards make people the park's breath, and show how narrow a carbon-only idea of clean air can be.
Breathing-scape: A Moss-Canopied Park in China That Treats Clean Air as a Shared Public Room
Winding trails, moon gates and arch bridges thread a park where tree-like moss canopies are proposed as filters for some of the world's most polluted air.
Mono in Mist: A Castle Wall Rebuilt in Water Hides Three Sunken Meditation Gardens in Fukuoka
Below a public park of pools and mist, a waterfall-ringed basin turns meditation, hotel rooms and a castle-wall metaphor into one descending journey.
