9-November-2015 The Latest News in Landscape Architecture 2015 is sponsored by ZinCo – Life on Green Roofs – Ecological and Economical Green Roofs, worldwide. In this week’s Latest News in Landscape Architecture we showcase a free-flowing landscape pavilion for China’s Garden Expo, announce New York’s accomplishment of planting one million trees ahead of schedule, and discover some amazing concepts that were discussed at SXSW Eco including a distinctive approach to high-speed transportation. Did you know that traveling from Washington, DC to New York City via Hyperloop would take only 30 minutes! 5 Stories In The News This Week:
- World Landscape of the Year 2015 prize goes to Chinese wetlands park by Turenscape
- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander wins $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize
- Ethical Design Practices May Help Slow Gentrification
- New (and old) visualization tools change the face of landscape architecture
- Outdoor living classroom constantly evolves to bring children closer to nature
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A stunning 26 hectare wetland park by Turenscape situated at the mouth of ‘three rivers’ in China’s Zhejiang Province has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for 2015 at the World Architecture Festival this week. The Festival was held in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The judges said it “uses bridges playfully to knit together communities on both sides of the river”. They also praised they way it “made friends with floods in a highly sustainable manner”. Related article: Turenscape Design Outstanding River Park
- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander wins $50,000 Margolese National Design for Living Prize – The National Review of Design and Practice
The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia has announced landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander the winner of the 2015 Margolese National Design for Living Prize. The $50,000 (CAD) annual prize recognizes a Canadian who has made and continues to make outstanding contributions to the development or improvement of living environments for Canadians of all economic classes. The prize was created by a generous estate gift to the University by Leonard Herbert Margolese.
- New (and old) visualization tools change the face of landscape architecture – The Architects’ Newspaper
Perhaps even more so than our colleagues in architecture, visualization technology plays a vital role in landscape architecture. Josh Stephens takes a look at visualization software, new and old, and examines the use of representation in landscape architecture. Related Article: Computer Aided Software for Landscape Architects: The Essential Guide
AP+E Architecture Studio has designed an outdoor learning environment called ‘Hedge School’ at a primary school in Carlow, Ireland. The classroom, which takes the form of an amphitheater, has been designed at a child’s scale, and includes several planters to bring the natural environment right into the space. Related Article: How Yi Zhong De Sheng Secondary School Mixes Play With Learning
Professor Winifred Curran of DePaul University in Chicago Illinois, recently addressed the ASLA General Meeting and Expo, giving her thoughts on the role of landscape architects in slowing the gentrification process. Professor Curran believes the key to maintaining heterogeneity in a population as long as possible (and thereby slowing the process of gentrification), is for landscape architects and others to design the public realm to be ‘just green enough’, rather than implementing brand new ‘shiny’ parks. She believes this will give neighborhoods just long enough to adapt to the coming changes, and hopefully avoid lower income communities from becoming disenfranchised from the democratic process of change. WATCH: What is Gentrification?
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