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Homebush West Public School

Working collaboratively with TKD Architects, the school community, and NSW Department of Education, a strong focus was placed on the potential of the landscape to create an environment where students...

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Little Forest Garden

Little Forest Garden was created as the first model house garden for the sale of apartments, as interest in the gardens of people living in apartments increased. Reminiscent of a small house in the...

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Bryga – Public Rooftop Park

Bryga is a public rooftop park located on the roof of the shopping centre Redi in Kalasatama Helsinki. Kalasatama is a new, rapidly growing residential area built on a former industrial harbour on the...

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China Fortune Tian Di Phase 1

China Fortune Tian Di is a new office campus located in the Xuhui District of Shanghai and is known for attracting tenants focused on innovation. Through interplay of folds and cuts, the sites...

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UC School of Public Health / Marty and Joyce Griffin Terrace

UC Berkeley School of Public Health commissioned Groundworks Office to design their new garden terrace. Despite the site’s technical challenges with building on a 5th floor structure and a tight...

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Empire Stores

The 1869 coffee warehouse fronting along the wildly successful Brooklyn Bridge Park – is now home to retail stores, office space, restaurants, a beer garden, and an outpost of the Brooklyn Historical...

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Brooklyn Children’s Museum – Rooftop Terrace

Our Design Approach for one of the world’s first Children’s Museums was simple – a natural landscape that rewards the curiosity of a child’s eyes and hands. In coordination with an innovative rooftop...

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345 Meatpacking

Future Green’s Design for this dramatic residential building in Manhattan’s gritty-to-glamorous Meatpacking District inserts a colorful landscape into a highly-visible urban site, embracing future...

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Stadtgarten auf dem Bunker Hamburg St. Pauli

The role model of the planting on the bunker is the natural vegetation. Every level and height is planted with different kind of vegetation which is most suitable to the meteorological conditions such...

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BSU Hamburg

With the construction of the department of urban development and environment located on the Elbisland of Wilhelmsburg the city of Hamburg has received a new prestigious building. Six different exterior...

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Rooftop Garden With Sauna And Wild Nature

When 14 new row-houses are built on top of an existing 1960’s building, the project also included a shared rooftop garden for the residents. From the rooftop garden – the view stretches for miles. The...

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Etaget

“Etaget” is a housing infill project situated in the western part of Kungsholmen which adds a lot of character to the neighborhood. The architecture is based on blocks piled on top of each other. The...

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Brise Soleil

The new Sky-Frame window company headquarters building is located the middle of the Thur plain, on the outskirts of the city of Frauenfeld, capital of the swiss canton of Thurgau. A brise soleil...

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Parliament of Victoria Member Annex Landscapes by TCL

The magnificent gardens surrounding Victoria’s Parliament House were established in 1856, the same year that the Parliament of the fledgling state of Victoria opened. Within this garden, Peter Elliott...

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RMIT New Academic Street by TCL

The significant redevelopment of RMIT’s main academic buildings and library along Swanston Street addresses key issues of the precinct.  A diverse consortium was engaged to Reactivate the Swanston...

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Dune Roof by Buro Harro

Buro Harro envisioned an entirely artificial little piece of landscape with subtle humour and incredible craftsmanship. The landscape of the dutch dunes, with its vegetation, essentially acts as a...

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JR Yokohama Tower by STGK

“Finding your place at Yokohama station” JR Yokohama Tower is part of a reconstruction project and the landmark structure for the west exit area of Yokohama Station. It is also a lead project of...

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Marmormolen (The Marble Pier) by 1:1 Landskab

Front row to the water Nordhavn is known for its exceptional waterside location and its smart, semi-industrial urban spaces that attract hipsters of all ages. But one residential area stands out from...

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Eyes on Place by Nanjing Forestry University College of Landscape...

The project is a good example of an appropriate and well balanced intervention, not needing to resort to the glamor of images to convince around its ability to build a bond between users and built...

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Terrace Tower by DELVA

Green is the new marble. On the eastern side of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district is Terrace Tower: an iconic building designed with the ambition of radically greening the typical stone office district and...

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The Enchanting Secrecy and Liberating Uselessness of Roofs

In this essay, Zaš Brezar writes about the role of urban roofs in our collective memory. Illustrating the meaning of roofs through a selection of cultural references from films and music. The article...

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The Roof by ASPECT Studios

Representing qualities of the backstreets (Li ‘long) of Shanghai, The Roof carefully weaves its surrounding culture into its distinctive design, creating a model for future city spaces where people and...

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Roof Garden NINA by agraff arkitektur

Between Lerkendal Stadium and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology campus Gløshaugen, NINA, the Norwegian Institute for Natural Research, has had a new office and laboratory building...

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Commercial Courtyards and Roof Terrace Prinzessinnenstrasse by hochC

In the heart of the district of Berlin-Kreuzberg, the commercial facilities in Prinzessinnenstraße were redeveloped and supplemented with a new building. In the middle of the popular neighbourhood and...

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Prahran Square by ASPECT Studios

Prahran Square is one of Australia’s largest urban public realm projects, marking a symbolic transformation for the community. The pre-existing car park was transformed into a diverse public realm of...

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Macherei District by Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur

“Die Macherei” negotiates open space qualities in a new urban density. Diversity, vividness and precise identities are the answer to the high pressure of limited space. High functional constraints,...

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Atmos by Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur

Zurich West has developed rapidly in recent years, and with it the pressure to find new public spaces has increased. The predominantly industrial area is being parceled up into smaller and therefore...

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Sergelhusen by Karavan landskapsarkitekter

Sergelhusen building complex has a unique location in the middle of Stockholm city, right next to the public square Sergels torg (i.e. square). Karavan designed the rooftops and lower external terraces...

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Carpenters Wharf by Studio Egret West

Carpenters Wharf sits within Fish Island, on the edge of Hackney Wick. It occupies a strategic position between established communities in Tower Hamlets and the exciting new developments of the Olympic...

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Oriental One by Gillespies

Oriental One is a new luxury development in the Baoshan Road district of Shanghai, a neighbourhood renowned for the quality of its public realm and built form. The scheme comprises a combination of...

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The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience by Gillespies

The Macallan has a reputation as one of the most famous whiskey makers in the world. As part of a programme to expand production and attract international visitors the brand sought to commission a new...

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Republic Offices Nieuwegein by Burobol

The new owner of the 45,000m2 office complex, spread over seven towers on the Merwede canal, was seeking a designteam to transform the complex into a working environment which meets today’s...

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Rotterdam Rooftop Walk by LOLA

What if the city would have a second on ground level at rooftop height? What if all urban roofs were part of a public Skyforest interconnected by sky bridges? The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk aims to...

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Depot Boijmans van Beuningen by MTD

In the middle of the Museum Park, MTD landscape architects, in close collaboration with MVRDV, have designed a special public meeting place around and on top of the new Boijmans van Beuningen Depot in...

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The Apollo by MKSK

The Apollo is an 8-story, 435-unit apartment and retail building in Washington, DC’s H Street Corridor, a vibrant neighbourhood near Union Station. The building’s relatively large footprint presented...

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Pridham Hall by JPE Design Studio

JPE Design Studio, in collaboration with Snøhetta and JamFactory, designed and delivered Pridham Hall, a transformative strategic project for the University of South Australia. Pridham Hall creates a...

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The Urban Environment House by Loci

The Urban Environment House is a new office building in Helsinki, Finland. The office collects all the Helsinki City Urban Environment Division’s services in one place and around 1500 people work in...

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Funan Mall by Grant Associates

Funan Mall: ‘A new model for live, work and play in Singapore’s city centre’ Funan is an integrated development combining retail, entertainment, leisure, wellness, office, co-working and co-living....

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Public Spaces for the Dance House Helsinki by Nomaji

Dance House Helsinki, a building dedicated to the art of dance, opened at the beginning of 2022. Dance House Helsinki is a major cultural project in the city that amplifies the already diverse range of...

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Nightingale Primary School by B|D landscape architects

The project delivers a new primary school and nursery, providing much needed school spaces for the Borough of Hackney and is funded through the sale of 89 high quality private sale residential...

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SILT Middelkerke by Delva

Both captivating and sincere, the event venue SILT is an asset to the Flemish coast in many ways. With great love for the sea and dunes, the new landmark combines coastal reinforcement, landscape,...

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The Opera Park by Cobe

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a time of intense construction activity throughout Copenhagen, green recreational spaces have become more and more scarce. Yet, in the heart of the dense and historic city center, one of the inner...

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Jonas Amsterdam by Felixx

Urban developments often suffer from a disconnect with nature, resulting in ecological degradation and a lack of community engagement. They often prioritize infrastructure over environmental...

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Fenchurch Avenue Roof Garden by LUC

The Garden at 120 is free to enter and fully accessible to the public, sitting 65m above street level and offering 360o views across London’s skyline. Recently The Garden received it’s One millionth...

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Korys Rooftop Garden by Denis Dujardin

Roof gardens are becoming an increasingly important issue in urban developments worldwide. This is due to the densification of cities and the complexity of intertwined infrastructure and different...

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Meelfabriek, Leiden by LOLA

For the landscape design of the public square and garden of De Meelfabriek, LOLA Landscape Architects worked closely with garden designer Piet Oudolf. Together they created a green oasis at the heart...

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IKEA Copenhagen by 1:1 Landskab

City life, biodiversity, and the best view in town await on the rooftop of IKEA in Copenhagen. Here, at 20 meters high, 1:1 Landscape has created a green sky park with wild-growing urban nature, a...

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Ny Østergade Rooftop Garden by 1:1 Landskab

Even though the sun is high in the sky the air around you feels cool as you sit it in the shade of a small tree. Everything around you explodes in color: green, purple, light blue, red, yellow, orange....

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Skovbrynet BaseCamp by Kragh & Berglund Landscape Architecture and Urban Design

Skovbrynet BaseCamp is an innovative housing concept covered by a 34.000 m2 park. This ambitious project consists of 640 new apartments for a combination of students, researchers, and seniors, and has...

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Plant Basingstoke by Grant Associates

A team of leading architects and landscape designers has completed the heritage-led redevelopment of the former Mountbatten House in Basingstoke, one of Britain’s 15 most important listed modern...

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