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Building with Landscape. Buildings, bridges, promenades, architectural installations – where are they put? Into the landscape, of course. But not only into the one obviously recognised as such but also the one that is the setting for our daily life. Anything built always becomes part of the landscape; it cannot just stand alongside, unconnected. That is what makes things exciting, as demonstrated by the variety and above all the aesthetics of the examples presented here. In the context of landscape, beauty always plays a part. Architects optimise and stage both prospect and aspect. Drama and contemplation have the leading roles.

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C H I L E PUNTA PITE AND RENACA

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N O R WAY SELJORD AND TOURIST ROUTES

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P H OTO E S S AY THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

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Cover: Trollstigplatået viewing platform in Norway Design and photo: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

21 The Bondi to Bronte Coastal Walk Extension is located in eastern Sydney. Panoramic views

Florian Groehn

Dag Jenssen

along the cliff tops attract thousands of visitors.

32 The site-specific installations are carefully integrated in the open landscape at the legendary Seljord Lake in Norway. Interventions interlink modern architecture and local traditions.

16 The Long Studio is one of six studios in an artists’ residency programme on Fogo Island in

Bent Renè Synnevåg

Newfoundland, Canada.

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BUILDING WITH LANDSCAPE

TODD SAUNDERS

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KELLY SHANNON, MARCEL SMETS

Fogo Island Artists’ Studios

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Newfoundland’s sublime landscape stages new buildings

Towards Integrating Infrastructure and Landscape

Jarle Wæhler, Statens vegvesen

Infrastructure projects to enhance landscape quality SACHA COLES

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Coastal Walk in Sydney

CHRISTOPHE GIROT

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Australia: elevated cliff boardwalk with panoramic views

Sigirino Depot Switzerland: large artificial mound of excavation material

FULVIO ROSSETTI

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Rambla Punta Pite

TRIIN OJARI

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Chile: stone path using architectural forms

The Estonian Road Museum A museum carved into the landscape like a canyon

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CARLA RÜTTIMANN

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Routes Project new architectural installations such as observation decks offer outstanding views.

Reñaca Norte Promenade

NINA-MARIE E. LISTER

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Chile: a raised footbridge crossing an anthropogenically

RONALD RIETVELD

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New Wildlife Crossing Structures Wildlife crossing designs for North America’s roadways

disturbed dune landscape

KJERSTI WIKSTRØM

Bunker 599

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Netherlands: military landscape made publicly accessible

Towards a New Nordic Landscape Discourse Exhibition “Manmade Environment” promotes landscape architecture

TONE TELNES, GUNN MARIT CHRISTENSON

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Seljord and the Legends

Rietveld Landscape

Norway: lakeside-specific installations connect modern

JAN BUNGE

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architecture and local traditions

New Aesthetics for Modern Landscapes Adequate images for contemporary landscape design

ALF HAUKELAND

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A Romantic View of Scenic Landscapes

DOMINIC CHURCH

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Norwegian Tourist Routes offer scenic travel experiences

29 The Dutch Bunker 599 project makes a

CABE Space: The End of an Era England’s Commission for Architecture and the Built

military landscape accessible. A staircase cuts

Environment takes stock

PATRICIA MENESES

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through the massive concrete structure.

Silent Garden Currents

Taiwan: a cocoon-like garden pavilion in Taipei

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News, Competitions, Conferences, Projects

SARAH WINTLE

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Searching for “bagh”: Perceptions of Central Iran

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Authors

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Credits/Imprint

News, Awards, Personalities, Reviews

A travelogue of Iranian landscape impressions

Janet Rosenberg & Associates

J HENRY FAIR (PHOTOS)

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The Day after Tomorrow Images of our earth in crisis

82 The team around Janet Rosenberg designed an exemplary bridge for wildlife to cross North America’s roadways.

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Gustafson Porter win competition to design the Milan CityLife Park

plants and existing buildings as the design elements for the Valencia Parque Central, with water as the overarching design theme.

Gustafson Porter win Valencia Parque Central competition The landscape architecture practice Gustafson Porter from London has won the international competition on 25 January for a contemporary public park in Spain – the Valencia Parque Central.

Selected from 36 international teams, Gustafson Porter developed its winning masterplan “Aigua Plena de Seny” in an international multi-disciplinary team. The team with Borgos Pieper architects, Nova Ingenieria Project Management and Grupotec Engineers succeeded against high-profile teams, including Foreign Office Architects, Zaha Hadid Architects and West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture.

The Valencia Parque Central project covers the central urban area affected by the arrival of high-speed trains to Spain’s third largest city. The new contemporary public park is made possible by tunnelling the existing railway lines. More than half of the available site – a total area of 66 hectares – will be planted. A new 23hectare central park is to become the heart of Valencia’s most important redevelopment project to date, with

large green open spaces, play areas and cultural and educational activity space. Furthermore, a new residential area covering another 43 hectares is proposed. According to Mayor Rita Barberá, Parque Central will become “the most attractive, important and certainly the economically most significant project in Europe”.

Gustafson Porter’s design responds to the character of the landscape and culture of the Valencia region. The site is situated between the ecological habitats of the Turia River reserve, the agricultural plane, the Albufera natural park and the Mediterranean Sea. The landscape architects took their inspiration from the local ceramics tradition. They used the image of a bowl or container and gave each of these containers a theme, such as art, activities, people, landscapes, history and cultural memories.

In addition to the individual bowls they proposed an arts plaza, a flower garden, a children’s garden and a promenade of palms and jacarandas which opens out onto a central square that links all the main pathways in the park.

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Gustafson Porter integrated woodlands in the design for Milan CityLife Park to shield the activity field and to create a habitat for flora and fauna.

performances and concerts, a garden attracting butterflies and two plazas – the Piazza Tre Torri with a pattern of tram rails that are reminiscent of the streets in Milan’s inner city and Fontanili Piazza, which is filled with fountains at the heart of the park.

Initially more than 70 competition entries were submitted.

Gustafson Porter outstripped the design teams !melk (New York), One Works (Milan), Arup Italia (Milan), Ove Arup (London), Studio Tre Architetti (Milan) and Ferrara Palladino (Milan).

They succeeded against seven other short-listed teams that had submitted a masterplan: Agence Ter (France), Rainer Schmidt (Germany), Latz + Partner (Germany), Christophe Girot (Switzerland), Erika Skabar (Italy), Latitude Nord (France) and PROAP (Portugal).

In second place was PROAP, and Atelier Girot in third place.

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Gustafson Porter used landform,

London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter have won the international competition to design the Milan CityLife Park – a 170,000-square metre green space in the centre of Milan.

The park is a central element in one of the largest urban regeneration projects in the recent history of Milan.

Gustafson Porter’s concept “A Park between the Mountains and the Plain” – builds on Milan’s commanding position between the rich agricultural plains of the Po to the south and the routes across the Alps to the rest of Europe to the north. Built on the Milan microcosm, the twofold scheme of Parco Il Bassa (The Lower Park) and Parco la Alta (The High Park) will include the following key features: the Belvedere Pergola Garden with spectacular views over the park and an activity field with space for temporary events, such as garden festivals. They designed a sculpted park as a natural amphitheatre with informal seating for

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KCAP/Topotek 1 proposed a network of open spaces at Belval Square Mile into which the new mix of building typologies is integrated.

The design of the new topography is guided by the dynamics of the river. TLS/ KVA created water remediation ravines and terraces where water scours and erodes. In places where the river deposits material, land berms are shaped in the new park. The TLS/KVA design uses site topography to reconnect the Northside’s historic Farview Park with the river, and urban agriculture as well as new skilled jobs are proposed in the River City Innovation District.

As the winning team TLS/ KVA will become part of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s riverfront initiative and is to engage in a four-month transition phase to identify the next steps.

KCAP/Topotek 1 and Fakton win the Belval Square Mile competition in Luxembourg

By recovering wetlands and designing storm water remediation “ravines” TLS/KVA integrate public parkland with eco-infrastructure and a wide range of recreation activities.

TLS/KVA

The bi-coastal urban and landscape design team of TLS/ KVA, Tom Leader Studio from Berkeley and Kennedy & Violich Architecture from Boston, are the winning team of the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition – a masterplan for a 133-hectare site.

Decided on 28 January, the competition challenged to consider how a park system could protect the national ecological heritage of the Minneapolis Riverfront and the Mississippi River and provide Minneapolis with resilient, multi-tasking and sustainable eco-infrastructure.

From a pool of 55 submissions from 14 countries, four landscape and urban design teams had been announced as finalists in November. The other three finalists were the teams Ken Smith Workshop (New York City), Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston) and Turenscape (Beijing). The TLS/KVA team comprises 14 additional firms.

The TLS/KVA Riverfirst proposal offers a comprehensive remediation of the city’s storm water management system. With their concept the team intends to transform this system into a system of “tributaries” that are naturally cleaned with planted bio-filtration landscapes and returned to the river.

KCAP/Topotek 1

Green infrastructure TLS/KVA Team Wins Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition

The team of KCAP Architects&Planners from the Netherlands and the landscape architects Topotek 1 from Germany won the strategic urban development competition for Belval Square Mile. In cooperation with the financial and property consultants Fakton they succeeded against four international teams.

Belval is the 170-hectare site of a disused smelting furnace in Esch-sur-Alzette, in the south of Luxembourg. Since the mid1990s this decidedly sustainable project has seen the transformation into an urban neighbourhood with mixed-uses, including housing, work, education and recreation. The goal of the competition was to critically review the existing masterplan for ten centrally located blocks in the “Square Mile” neighbourhood regarding contemporary aspects including energy-efficiency and sustainability, and adapt it if necessary. Moreover, the place was to be given a new identity under the motto “experiencing industrial culture“.

“The central building blocks in the Square Mile with their historic chimney stacks and sinter basins will play a leading role in the development of Belval“, said Markus Appenzeller from KCAP. “Instead of the proposed monumental central axis, we suggest to activate the adjacent boulevards as the backbone of the urban neighbourhood. … A network of open spaces will integrate these elements into the surrounding city and landscape, and create an attractive environment for the mixed uses in the new area”.

Besides the completed buildings with stacked uses (housing and work above retail), the designers propose other mixed-use building typologies. Parcelling the site into smaller plots enhances the diversity of the urban quarter. The landscape designers reinterpreted the previous industrial function of the space around the sinter basins in a contemporary design. “So the square has spatial quality in its own right. The sunken gardens in the basins provide an unexpected element in the space”, explains Martin ReinCano, principal of Topotek 1. Around 43 percent of the areas adjoining the competition site have already been completed.

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Todd Saunders

Fogo Island

Artists’ Studios Newfoundland, Canada

The elongated structure of the Long Studio is one of six artists’ studios to be built in remote settings on Fogo Island.

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Alf Haukeland

A Romantic View of

SCENIC LANDSCAPES Norwegian Tourist Routes

The national tourist route project in Norway maintains the old roads as picturesque routes. A more scenic travel experience is offered by way of selected detours, where outstanding views and natural monuments are combined with new architectural installations and landscape interventions. The character and quality of these interventions vary greatly from site to site.

The Norwegian tourist route project has been on the road since 1998.

Marshalled by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the project is part of a national strategy whose aim it is to increase the attractiveness of Norway as a tourist destination. A selection of existing scenic routes was made and strategic sites identified on each route for the implementation of ambitious architectural projects. These projects are aiming at increasing the accessibility and the comfort for visitors taking a break to admire the scenic landscape views and the architecture.

Procedure. The strategy followed by the national road authorities has been to commission young architects and landscape architects for the tourist route projects. The practices were selected after some prequalification procedures, and the architects for each project have generally been commissioned following competitions involving approximately five offices. Up to the present time many more architects than landscape architects have prequalified for competitions and were later commissioned for projects. One explanation for this is that for most of the sites the design brief includes buildings. Another possible explanation is that architects apparently have better skills in conceptual design and graphic communication than landscape architects, probably due to the structure and content of the present educational system for the two branches of the architectural profession in our country.

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Each room of the Juvet Landscape Hotel by Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor is a detached small house. The panorama glass walls of the different buildings present spectacular views of the dramatic landscape.

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Hypar-Nature, the winning entry by HNTB and MVVA, is based on pre-cast concrete hypar forms. The design is informed by driver experience and animal preferences.

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NEW WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURES Nina-Marie E. Lister

In 2010 an international competition challenged design teams to conceptualise the next generation of wildlife crossing infrastructure for North America’s roadways. The project is sited at the Vail Pass on the I-70 highway in Vail, Colorado.

After more than half a century of continuous road building in North America, two phenomena have been recognized. First, growing numbers of wildlife-vehicle collisions are leading to higher levels of personal injury and property damage and to increasing insurance premiums. While human mortality numbers are not large, wildlife-vehicle collisions have increased

by 50 percent in the past fifteen years. A U.S. Federal Highway Administration study reports that there are an estimated one to two million collisions between cars and large mammals every year in the US, representing a significant danger to human safety and wildlife populations. Wildlife-vehicle collisions are also increasing as a proportion of the total accidents

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