Tag: architecture
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Slant Open International Landscape Design Competition 2013/2014
In the fifth SLANT competition you are invited to submit a design for a public space/park which will be designed to incorporate, either in part or in whole, the concept of “Transition”. Transition effect us all most days of our lives and it can be found in many different areas of our interests and activities.…
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Bespoke :: Richard Wilson lecture :: Tonight
Tonight Richard Wilson will talk about his architectural works from the past 20 years. Richard Wilson is one of UK’s most renowned sculptors. He is celebrated for his interventions in architectural space, which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction.
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Call for entries for the European Prize for Public Space
The 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space has opened a call for entries. For more…
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“99% of urbanists don’t see it” :: Edward W. Soja
Last night Edward W. Soja gave a lecture at the University of Greenwich on The End of the Metropolis Era. Speaking to over a hundred students, staff, guests, friends and alumni from Greenwich, Soja set out an argument for new forms of regional urbanism. In the two hour lecture Soja discussed the “urbanization of suburbia” and claimed that we should recognise that we…
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New Pier for Brooklyn Bridge Park
Following a trend for new piers and sloping triangular landscape structures (see among others Diller Scofidio + Renfro at Lincoln Center) proposals by BIG for pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park have been released. Read about it on Denzeen.
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Landscape Architect awarded Design Innovator of 2013
Landscape Architect Thomas Woltz is awarded Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Design Innovator of the Year. Read all about it.
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Royal Docks Ideas competition
The Landscape Institute and Ecobuild, with support from the Mayor of London and London Borough of Newham, have launched ‘The Royal Docks Ideas Competition’ to find innovative design proposals that would transform the Royal Docks into a multi-functional ‘liveable’ space. Comprising three docks in East London – Royal Albert Dock, Royal Victoria Dock and King…
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New Masters programme in Advanced Landscape and Urbanism
The University of Greenwich have launched a new Masters programme in Advanced Landscape and Urbanism. The programme encourages students to develop advanced and speculative approaches to the design of cities, landscape and territories. It promotes high design values and the integration of new and innovative technologies to address the challenges facing contemporary cities, such as: urban…
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Imaginary Cartographies
ELN 52.1 Spring/Summer 2014 “Imaginary Cartographies” Call for Papers: ELN Special Issue, “Imaginary Cartographies.” In recent decades the map has emerged as a key site of cultural and imaginative reworking, and yet the history of such symbolic mediations between humans and their spatial environment is also ancient and complex. Volume 52.1 of ELN (Spring/Summer 2014)…
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Design Your Future – Landscape and Architecture
The team from University of Greenwich will be presenting Future Cities / Future Landscapes at the UCAS Design Your Future event next week. Come join us at London’s Olympia on 14th and 15th November: https://www.ucasevents.com/UCAS/media/uploaded/EVUCAS/event_1117/DYF_2013_Visitor_Guide_WEB.pdf
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