Into the Wild | Leiden The Netherlands | dmau and Openfabric


Into the Wild is a playground design by dmau and Openfabric which recently won the Dutch sustainable playground design competition organised by the Richard Krajicek Foundation and Architectuur Lokaal. The design is located in a modernist post-war neighbourhood in Leiden. The competition asked for ideas of how to incorporate sustainable thinking into the design of sports playgrounds.
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Pista Viva | Caracas Venezuela | Enlace Arquitectura


In a city of the importance and scale of Caracas, offering ample and accessible recreational spaces for the enjoyment of its citizens becomes a social necessity. Protecting green areas for the ecological benefit of the city is also fundamental. The transformation of “La Carlota” airport into an urban park offers a unique and critical opportunity to value, protect and ensure a better social and ecological future for the people of the city.
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Balmori Associates shortlisted for Lausanne Jardins 2014

In December, the ‘Jardin Urbain’ Association together with the Town Council of Lausanne announced that Balmori Associates is on the shortlist to create one of twenty-five mobile gardens in Central Lausanne, Switzerland. Selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, Balmori enters the second phase of the competition with the task to re-use an existing rooftop under the program’s broader concept ‘Landing’.
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VIDEO | H+N+S landscape architects profile

Another landscape architect firm profile from DutchDFa. As former Governmental Advisor on Landscape and one of the directors of H+N+S Landscape Architects, Dirk Sijmons explains, the Netherlands is a mostly man-made body of land.

Dutch Profiles: H+N+S landscape architects from Dutch Profiles on Vimeo.

2012 In Review | December

West 8 won the Fort Mason Center Design Competiton in December and we published Rios Clementi Hale Studios realised design for Grand Park in Los Angeles and Dan Pearson Studio project in Japan.

West 8 wins Fort Mason Center design competition

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