Category: Exhibitions
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Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape
Next month, the Van Alen Institute is launching Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, a new, multi-year inquiry of competitions, public programs, and research to explore the experience of escape in the urban environment. Elsewhere will guide the Institute’s upcoming competitions, public programs, and research to investigate key questions of the contemporary urban experience: How and why do we
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Elevating the Public Realm – New Landscape Competition
ENYA 2014, Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm, is focused on re-imagining the linear landscape of the Queensway. Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm will support Friends of the Queensway and Trust for Public Land in their efforts to transform an abandoned rail right-of-way into a greenway that serves diverse neighborhoods in central and southern Queens. This
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A Grimm City? Check it out at the Design Museum
2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. As a group of young architects and designers they planned and built the ‘Grimm City’
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Landscapes from the Darenth Valley
Landscapes from the Darenth Valley Cristiana Angelini’s exhibition at Blackheath Halls This small exhibition in the café of the Blackheath halls was quite surprising. Cristiana’s paintings have an original point of view about the landscape. As we usually see pictures or paintings of beautiful and wide-open landscapes Cristiana has another perception of the landscape. The
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What is on at Ecobuild in 2014?
From exhibits on the latest sustainable construction products to expert practical advice on how to create a rich biodiverse environment even in the grittiest urban environment, whatever your focus you’re bound to learn something new! Ecobuild, the UK’s largest exhibition of sustainable products, runs from Tuesday 4th until Thursday 6th March at London’s Exel. This article has been
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Water by Edward Burtynsky
The latest work of photographer Edward Burtynsky is on show in New York this month. The Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery both have shows of Burtynsky’s stunning landscape photographs. Continuing the theme of water, the latest feature documentary Watermark, co-directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, was released in Canada by Mongrel Media in September.
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London as it could be now
On Sunday five multidisciplinary teams of landscape architects, engineers, ecologists and architects presented their visions for London As It Could Be Now at the Royal Academy. The was part of a design workshop organised in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The multidisciplinary teams presented new ideas for sites along the length
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Exhibition of Airport Landscape at GSD
Airport Landscape claims the airport as a site of and for landscape. Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, landscape architects have recently reasserted their historic claims on the airfield as a site of design through a range of practices. Airport Landscape presents
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