Tag: Urbanism
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Landscape architects invited to design a new garden city
The organiser of the second Wolfson Economics Prize is inviting landscape architects to enter the competition to come up with the best proposal for a new garden city. The competition’s £250,000 first prize will be awarded to the entrant offering the best answer to the question: ‘How would you deliver a new Garden City
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Wider than Metropolis – new city form
Last week new winds has shaken urbanism theory. Widely known urban geographer Edward W. Soja presented ‘The End of the Metropolis Era‘. Following Ed Wall’s overview I give more personal reflections on the lecture. Firstly, we should understand processes shaping the city. City is an agglomeration of people, who shear expenses, and being in close
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Making Belief: Public Imaginaries and New Eutopias
Making Belief: Public Imaginaries and New Eutopias Tim Waterman Open Lecture 6:00pm, Wednesday 27 November Avery Hill, Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre University of Greenwich Tim Waterman, beginning with gastronomy and landscape, and through analysis of taste and media apparatuses of tastemaking, examines our urban future imaginaries to discuss how new beliefs can be nurtured that
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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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