Poland-based architects WXCA have modernized one of the largest urban parks in Warsaw, Pole Mokotowskie Park, also known as Warsaw's Central Park. Paying attention to evolved pathways and existing water systems, WXCA describes their approach as 'design acupuncture,' focusing on small, thoughtful interventions to support and safeguard the park's existing network.
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Natural History Museum’s transformed gardens
From 18 July 2024 | South Kensington, LONDON
The five-acre green space around London's Natural History Museum has been transformed by Architects Feilden Fowles in collaboration with landscape architects J & L Gibbons, into two gardens for visitors and research: the Nature Discovery Garden and the Evolution Garden.
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21-25 May 2024 | Chelsea, LONDON
The Royal Horticultural Society holds the Chelsea Flower Show annually in May on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. The event features garden designs and planting ideas by leading horticulturalists, with trends this year including edible food forests, naturalistic planting, flood-resilient design and drought-tolerant planting schemes.
(more…)MORE‘Garden Futures’ Designing with Nature at the Vitra Design Museum, Germany
25 March - 3 October 2023, WEIL AM RHEIN, GERMANY.
The Garden Futures exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum explores the history and future of modern gardens. The exhibition explores various gardens including vertical urban farms, contemporary community gardens and gardens by designers and artists. After the show closes at the Vitra Design Museum it is expected to move to other European venues. Photo of Oudolf Garten on the Vitra Campus by Piet Oudolf, Weil am Rhein, 2020 © Vitra, photo by Dejan Jovanovic. Vitra Design Museum
MOREThe Depth of the Landscape by Pranlas-Descours
Berlin-based JOVIS Verlag has published 'The Depth of the Landscape' by French architect and urban planner Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours. At a time when generic architecture increasingly homogenises the appearance of different territories, the book explores how Pranlas-Descours articulates the relationship between landscape and architecture through 16 site-specific projects. Cover photo of the Pré-Nouvel dwellings in the Alps by Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon. JOVIS
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