Landscape Design
Landscape architecture and design
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.
The Hands of Faith: A Boarding School That Opens Two Wings Around Children Who Grew Up Working
Two concrete wings, a sheltered courtyard and a ladder of terraces chart a gradual route back into community for children who grew up on the streets.
the house for living: A Courtyard Complex That Treats Shelter, Learning and Belonging as One Plan
Three principles of living, growth and interaction shape a white, courtyard-laced complex where homeless teenagers find a home, skills and each other.
Tengbom Builds a Red-Clad Archive with a Timber Atrium for the National Archives of Sweden in Härnösand
In Härnösand, Tengbom pairs vast column-gridded archive halls with a warm glulam atrium, giving a 35,000 m² state repository a human-scaled public face.
Paraa Raises a Perforated Brick Platform for Shared Community Life on an Open Ground in Dhaka's Korail Settlement
A 332 m² brick lattice building at Ershad Maidan, shaped through more than 60 workshops, turns an open ground in Korail, Dhaka, into a shared stage.
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
