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References of the new concept of world where we live

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Art Movements

Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” in Utah (photograph by Retis, via Flickr)

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Desert agriculture in Saudi Arabia.

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Landscape Architecture: Amir Lotan, Landscape Architect Location: Intersection of Ort Israel and Melacha Streets, Bat Yam Cost: 300,000 NIS (roughly 84,000 USD) Site size: 2,000 square meters Structure size: 300 square meters Commissioned by: Bat-Yam Municipality – Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism 2010- curators: prop.Yael moria, Sigal barnir.

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Design: Collectif ETC Location: Brest, France Construction: 2012 Photos: CollectifETC

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Landscape Architecture: Taylor Cullity Lethlean  and Wraight + Associates WSUD: Design Flow Civil engineers: Beca Structural engineers – gantry Felicetti, BGT Auckland Structural – general Beca Perspective artist: Ian Stantiall Lighting design: Electrolight: Ecubed Architecture – North Wharf buildings: Feron Hay Services engineers: Hyder Consulting Construction: Dominion – Jellicoe Street City Parks (Auckland City Council) Total Spaces Client: Waterfront Auckland Photography: Simon Devitt, Silo Park Cinema by John Davies

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Boustrophedon Garden by PLANT Architect

Landscape Architecture: PLANT Architect Inc Project Title: Boustrophedon Garden Location: Québec City, Québec, Canada Design Year: 2009 Completion Year: 2009

In 2009, PLANT was invited to design one of eleven Ephemeral Gardens for Québec City’s yearlong 400th anniversary festival. Boustrophedon Garden weaves together ideas from Québec’s regional long-lot system and Samuel De Champlain’s early agricultural experimentation and recordings in order to create a three-dimensional landscape “cloth” that registers growth and change in its warp and weft. Here, the public is able to scrutinize changing patterns of growth and bloom recorded over the course of the summer months.

The garden is conceived as a life-size graph. The site’s length is an axis of time with an embedded wood calendar marking the duration of the garden festival in weekly increments. Rows of different vegetables and herbs run the length of the garden, each with a corresponding set of overhead ropes. Each week, plant height measurements and a photograph of the garden are taken and permanently recorded on the three-dimensional garden calendar. Overhead lines are pulled down and weighted to mark significant life cycle events such as bloom and harvest time, making a three dimensional graph. Much like a gardener’s journal, observations are gathered in anticipation of improving next year’s garden. Increasing in complexity and volume throughout the summer, recorded data and vegetation proceed to engulf the visitor, while creating a dialogue with the plants that continue to change during their growth trajectory. As the plants die back and the fruit and vegetables harvested, the life-size calendar will remain as a garden journal.

Image Credits: Photos by Lisa Rapoport | © PLANT Architect Inc.

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Project Title: Cantinho do Céu Complex Urbanization Landscape Architecture: Boldarini Arquitetura e Urbanismo Location: Grajaú district, São Paulo, Brazil Design year: 2008 Date of Completion: 2011 (first part) Client: São Paulo Municipal Housing Office Intervention area: 150 hectares Park area: 30 hectares Photos credits: Daniel Ducci and Fabio Knoll

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Team: ASPECT Studios (lead consultant), NMBW Architecture, GTA Consultants, Form Structures, Martin Butcher Lighting Design Client: Whitehorse City Council Location: Box Hill Gardens, Melbourne VIC Scope: Concept Design, Design Development, Tender Documentation, Construction Project cost: 1.4 million Photographer: Andrew Lloyd

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2013/09/box-hill-gardens-multi-purpose-area-by-aspect-studios/

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OPEN AIR THEATRE IN PENTEDATTILO VILLAGE (RC) by SudArch as Architects

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  Reconstruction of the Szatmáry Palace by MARP

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FIRM

Haworth Tompkins

TYPE

Cultural › Hall/Theater 

YEAR

2012

Twelve years after Haworth Tompkins’ last major phase of renovation, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre celebrates their eightieth season with a series of significant new buildings. In 1999 Haworth Tompkins redesigned the front of house and technical spaces, rationalised the site layout and rejuvenated the landscape. Now for the 2012 season Haworth Tompkins have returned to the theatre, relocating the offices onto the site, rebuilding the dressing rooms, wardrobe and workshops and creating a new box office and sheltered seating canopy. Central to the renovation is the new Box Office and public face of the theatre, which will be open all year round. When completely closed, the Box Office presents a subdued frontage to the park, albeit with distinctive new signage and posters advertising forthcoming productions. In use the building unfurls like a horse-chestnut bud and opens out on the park, revealing gilded foliage on its inner facings and hinting of the theatrical magic within. In total the box office has three configurations depending on its use throughout the day and season. A new seating canopy curves around the southern perimeter providing an additional and complimentary space for the bar. Surrounded by trees, small booths are formed between the structural bays that create a more intimate environment for drinks. The backstage area of the theatre has been entirely rebuilt, following the sweep of the Inner Circle and forms a protective enclosure of the site. The new buildings, made entirely of natural timber, are designed to blur the distinction between them and the woodland setting, adding to the sense of romance and mystery. The offices are naturally lit and ventilated, with the majority of the windows are located in the Northern façade between projecting fins to mitigate the noise and light towards the stage.  Both the backstage buildings and the Box Office are constructed using pre-fabricated Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels from Stora Enso Building Solutions, which allowed for construction within the 6-month window between theatre seasons. Its lightweight frame requires minimal foundations and enabled existing tree-root systems to be preserved. The wood has been left exposed internally, removing the need for ‘wet’ trades such as plastering, while externally the buildings have been clad in rough-sawn larch boards. These are either stained a dark colour or left natural, echoing the repetitive verticality of the trees they sit amongst. 

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David Altmedj. Wave, 2011. 

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Operlab Competition Entry / Rafal Oleksik + Krzysiek Stepien

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Where?House / SASHIMI architecture + design

Architects: SASHIMI architecture + design Location: The Argus, Melbourne, Australia Production Team: Sasha Hadjimouratis, Starr Guzman, Kevin Karlberg, Steve Ward, Louis McCoy Year: 2012 Photographs: Christine Francis Photography

http://www.archdaily.com/363083/where-house-sashimi-architecture-design/

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Temporal Sustainable Theatre Finalist Proposal / PM²G Architects

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Architects: Csutoras & Liando Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Design Team: Laszlo Csutoras, Melissa Liando Structural Engineer: Sumarsono Area: 530.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Laszlo Csutoras

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Roc Cube

Architects: nook architects Location: Barcelona, Spain Furniture: Casa Jornet Year: 2013 Photographs: nieve