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Part of bustling Ballarat St in Yarraville, Australia (a suburb of Melbourne)has been transformed into a “pop‐up” park for a short term project which is introducing more open space into the Yarraville Village. The pop‐up park is one of a few installed in Australia on a public street and is inspired by similar parks installed overseas in New York, San Francisco and London.
The proposed Colorado Avenue Esplanade Project will integrate the Expo Light Rail into the Downtown, streamlining the existing intersection functions and guiding passengers to their business, shopping, cultural and entertainment destinations. The project accomplishes this with a combination of major urban design improvements at the Downtown Expo Station Plaza and along Colorado Avenue between 4th Street and Ocean Avenue. The improvements organize and simplify the flow of pedestrians, vehicles and bicycles, and provide more detailed directional cues such as new signage and green street improvements that clarify pathways, improve wayfinding, enhance landscaping, and provide public art. Continue reading Colorado Esplanade | Santa Monica | Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture This weeks round-up of landscape news and views from around the web  Marriott Green Roof | Victoria Canada | Flickr User: pnwra Ecosystems and Economics – How green roofs can improve our cities | Charlotte Sankey | The Big City How Do You Wean People Off Cars? By Rebranding Bikes And Buses | Skibsted Ideation | Co.Design An Early Eco-City Faces the Future | Michael Tortorello | post gazette Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies | LAGI A Book that aims to bring the farm to the city | Carolyn Ireland | Globe & Mail For more news during the week become a World Landscape Architecture fan on Facebook, Join our LinkedIN group, Follow us on Twitter @wlandscapearch or Weibo and then Circle us on Google+ Send your links to [email protected] IMAGE CREDIT: Flickr User pnwra
BDP’s public realm scheme for Carlos Place and Mount Street in Mayfair, London was completed back in July. The project for Grosvenor is one of a number of schemes that seek to enhance the public realm of its central London estate. BDP has upgraded the streetscape in terms of composition, surfacing materials and furniture elements. The grandeur of this area has been revived through improvements to the pedestrian experience, the removal of clutter and the putting in place of high quality surfacing materials, by strengthening the street’s relationship to its buildings and by making Carlos Place and Mount Street Gardens better places for people.
Gustafson Porter recently received a commendation in the category Big Urban Projects at the MIPIM AR Future Projects Awards 2011 for the project Bay East, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Director Mary Bowman will attend the MIPIM Award ceremony on 9 March 2011 in Cannes. |
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