Transforming with Water is the theme of the 2008 World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects. This 45th IFLA World Congress will be held in the Netherlands from June 30 to July 3, in conjunction with the Apeldoorn | Read More
Climate Change and Urban Design: Science, Policy, Education and Best Practice The Third International C.E.U. Congress 14 – 16 September 2008 – Oslo, Norway This conference will examine the latest implications in science, policy, education and best practice. What is | Read More
Landscape architect James Corner unveiled plans yesterday for creating America’s largest urban park in Memphis: a 4,500-acre site, five-times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park. Corner’s firm, Field Operations, beat out Hargreaves Associates and Tom Leader Studio, the other finalists | Read More
Patricia O’Donnell, principal of Heritage Landscapes, spoke about preserving and sustaining the issues in cultural landscapes during the final lecture of the University of Rhode Island Landscape Architecture Lecture Series last night at the Coastal Institute on the URI Narragansett | Read More
The Sustainable Urbanization in conference addresses the global challenges posed by rapid urbanization and its impact on global warming and the natural environment – from poverty and inequality to natural and manmade disasters – by calling for better sustainable planning | Read More
A urban agriculture program underway in Panama City’s old quarter is sponsoring a design competition for the perfect balcony-sized composter. Designs must be compact, simple to build out of local materials, cost less than $25 to construct and fit within | Read More
LANscapes: Celebrating Collaborative Networks in Space Design 2008 Conference, Trade Show & AGM May 2-3, 2008, Vancouver, BC
Sometime in 2011, three twisting towers are set to shoot up along a man-made creek in the desert sheikhdom of Dubai. Bent at the waist, the Signature Towers will be the work of the Pritzker prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, who, | Read More
Building on Foster + Partners’ pioneering work in the region and consolidating the practice’s long-term commitment to further development, HRH The Duke of York is to open a new Foster + Partners office in Abu Dhabi on April 3rd. The | Read More
Barren landscapes of concrete and broken glass first inspired landscape architecture professor Carl Smith’s interest in sustainable residential design. “Pit houses” – cheap housing marooned in a sea of cement, built in the late 19th century for coalmine workers – | Read More
©2007-2017 WORLD LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.
Projects published on this blog are the copyright of the person or firm credited.