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CONTENTS News Natural Biodiversity Center Karres En Brands Würzburg Ringpark Equiscape
Mount Royal’s Playground Groupe Cardinal Hardy (Now Lemay) Mellon Square | Reviving A Modernist Icon Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Playscape
Jezzine Barracks Place Design Group
Fiona Stanley Hospital Hassell
Public Media Commons Dlandstudio with Gilmartin/Powers
The Power Station Hocker Design Group
Universiti Teknologi Petronas Sasaki Associates
Skatepark Bethlehem Maier Landschaftsarchitektur & Betonlandschaften
Akasya Acibadem Central Park Sdarch Trivelli & Associati
Barbican Pop-Up Garden Gensler, Friends Of City Gardens & Transport For London
Bow RiverWalk Stantec Time Tissue Katerina Andristou Panita Karamanea Thanasis Polyzoidi
The Crown Jewel At Hamra National Park White Ise Courtyard Ayers Saint Gross
Traversal Landscape Taehyung Park
Nasha Times Hanhua
Frew Park Arena Play Structure Guymer Bailey Architects
Wanderers Devin Dobrowolski, Mary Miller, B. Cannon Ivers
Lefrak Lakeside Center Roofmeadow & Prospect Park Alliance
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COVER | AKASYA ACIBADEM CENTRAL PARK | SDARCH TRIVELLI & ASSOCIATI IMAGE CREDIT | SDARCH TRIVELLI & ASSOCIATI
News Mario SCHJETNAN wins IFLA 2015 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture, proudly announced at their World Council in St Petersburg, Russia, that Mario SCHJETNAN from Mexico has been selected as the winner of the 2015 premier award for Landscape Architecture, the IFLA - Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award. The Award Jury composed of a Landscape Architect from each of the 5 IFLA regions, and the President of UIA (Union International of Architects) who served for the first time as a guest jury member, agreed with the Mexican Society of Landscape Architects (SAPM), who nominated him for the award, that “Mario Schjetnan is a truly outstanding figure in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in Mexico, Latin America, and the USA.” His contribution has been not only through the realisation of many important projects, but also as an academic, sharing his knowledge and passion for the profession with others. The most representative projects of Mario Schjetnan comprise Tezozomac Park which was completed in 1982, Xochimilco Ecological Park in 1993, and the Rehabilitation of Chapultepec Park , all in Mexico City. His most recent award winning work in Mexico City is the Natural Garden at the Bicentennial Park in 2010. El Cedazo Recreational and Cultural Park in Aguascalientes, Mexico was completed in 1995. Schjetnan also worked on the Malinalco Golf Club in 1993, the Museum of Northern Cultures of Mexico in Chihuahua in 1995, as well as several projects in the USA such as Union Point Park in Oakland
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California in 2005, Small Tribute to Immigrant Workers at Cornerstone Festival of Gardens in Sonoma, California in 2004. As an academic, he enhances the thinking towards a new way of designing landscapes, an approach which is much more committed to nature, sustainability and the challenges of society in the 21st Century. The Jury felt that Mario Schjetnan’s contribution did indeed have “ …a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and on the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture.” Mario Schjetnan was selected out of a group of four finalists sent by the Nomination Committee to the Award Jury. Deliberation was long and difficult given the high quality of all the finalists. SOURCE | IFLA
American Society of Landscape Architects Announces 2015 Honors The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors represent the highest awards ASLA presents each year. The honors will be presented at the president’s dinner on November 9 at the 2015 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO. Honors included:
Olmsted Medal. The award recognizes individuals, organizations, agencies, or programs outside the profession of landscape architecture for environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship. Medal of Excellence | City of Scottsdale and McDowell Sonoran Conservancy The City of Scottsdale, Arizona and McDowell Sonoran Conservancy will receive the Landscape Architecture Medal of Excellence.
ASLA Medal | M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, will receive the ASLA The Landscape Architecture Firm Award | The Medal, the Society’s highest award for a landscape Office of James Burnett architect. The Office of James Burnett will receive the Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor ASLA may bestow upon a landscape ASLA Design Medal | Thomas Balsley, FASLA Thomas Balsley, FASLA, will receive the ASLA architecture firm in recognition of distinguished Design Medal in recognition of his exceptional work that influences the profession. design work. 2015 Honorary Members Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal | Carl Steinitz, Joel Albizo, Roxanne Blackwell, Senator Barbara Boxer, Susan Chin, Lorraine Davis, Pat Faust, Hon. ASLA Carl Steinitz, Hon. ASLA, will receive the Jot D. Nina-Marie E. Lister, Barbara McCann, Charles Carpenter Teaching Medal for significant and McKinney, Walter Metcalfe Warrie Price, C. Ford sustained excellence in landscape architecture Peatross, Susan Rademacher, Charles Waldheim Mayor Knox H. White, Robert Yaro and Mark education. Zelonis LaGasse Medal – Non-Landscape Architect | SOURCE | ASLA Gregory Long Gregory Long will receive the LaGasse Medal for contributions to the management and conservation of natural resources and public landscapes. Olmsted Medal | Design Trust for Public Space The Design Trust for Public Space will receive the
News 5 Teams shortlisted for Singapore Railway Corridor Back in March the The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched a Request for Proposals for the Rail Corridor in Singapore and received proposals from 64 teams in the Stage 1 PreQualification exercise that closed on 15 April 2015. The teams comprise local and international landscape architectural and architectural firms, including tie-ups between local and international firms. The URA recently announced the 5 teams shortlisted for Stage 2A includes West 8; Grant Associates; Turenscape; Nikken Sekkei; Olin Partnership; for the full list of team members….. TEAM 1 Lead Landscape Architect | West 8 (Netherlands) Lead Architect | DP Architects (Singapore) TEAM 2 Lead Landscape Architect | Grant Associates (Singapore/UK) Lead Architect | MVRDV (The Netherlands) Local Architect | Architects 61 (Singapore) TEAM 3 Lead Landscape Architect | Turenscape International (China) Lead Architect | MKPL Architects (Singapore) TEAM 4 Lead Architect & Lead Landscape Architect | Nikken Sekkei (Japan) Local Landscape Architect | Tierra Design (Singapore)
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TEAM 5 Lead Landscape Architect | Olin Partnership (United States) Lead Architect | OMA Asia (Hong Kong) Local Architect | DP Architects (Singapore) “The five teams chosen demonstrated a clear understanding of the design issues and considerations for the project. They showed originality and creativity in their approaches, but yet were sensitive to the local context and relate strongly to the planning and design goals,” said Mr Ng Lang, Chief Executive Officer of the URA and Chairperson of the Evaluation Panel. In this stage, the five design teams will develop the overall Concept Master Plan and Concept Proposals for the Rail Corridor, including two special interest areas for the urban-green-blue integrated concepts at Choa Chu Kang, and the concept designs for the adaptive reuse of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station.
Frick Collection Abandons Current Expansion Plans The Frick Collection in New York City has abandoned is current expansion plans, which would have destroyed the East 70th Street Garden designed by the internationally influential British landscape architect Russell Page (1906-1985). The garden is one of only three of Page’s surviving public U.S. commissions and is considered by the New York Times to be one of his “most important works.”
concerns, though the garden was little mentioned and Page’s name was absent. Birnbaum’s June 30, 2014 Huffington Post article Here’s What’s Missing in the Debate Over the Frick Collection’s Proposed Expansion first raised the issue, and his August 26, 2014 That ‘Temporary’ Frick Garden – It Was Created to Be Permanent undermined one of the Frick’s key talking points, that the garden was temporary. Significantly, in his July 30, 2014 article The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman wrote “Great public places and works of landscape architecture deserve to be treated like great buildings.”
A coalition led by Unite to Save the Frick, with whom The Cultural Landscape Foundation worked, orchestrated a broad-based opposition to the expansion, bringing in artists, architects and other significant individuals and organizations. The New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Municipal Art Society, and other SOURCE | The Cultural Landscape Foundation cultural institutions also weighed in. Everett Fahy, who as the Frick’s director in the 1970’s commissioned Page to create the garden, decried the “awful” expansion in an extensive interview with Bloomberg News Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff.
Source | URA “Sanity has prevailed and Russell Page’s brilliantly designed garden at the Frick has been saved,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, president & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, adding, “this is all the more significant because works of landscape architecture are often overlooked, their artistic and cultural significance is either unknown or not understood, and they’re seen as open space usable for expansions.” The Frick Collection’s proposed expansion, announced in June 2014, immediately raised
W端rzburg Ringpark EQUISCAPE
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WÜRZBURG RINGPARK EQUISCAPE For the design of the Ring Park in Würzburg we created the “5C concept” and linked it to the initial “Level Concept”. The “5 Cs” stand for: Create (openness), Connect (movement patterns), Concentrate (activities), Capture (more green), Conserve (Lindahl’s initial movement pattern, historical trees) The park gains openness, more greenery, better connections & activities and at the same time conserving its assets. By linking the 5C concept to the “Level Concept”, different features like elevated entrance mounds, fountains, hanging lights etc. have been implemented. The Ringpark was originally planned by Lindahl in the end of the 19th century. Connecting the movement lines to Lindahl‘s original scheme we developed a design consisting of one main path that offers the possibility of fast connection while at the same time giving the opportunity to experience the park. The secondary pathways open the neighborhood to the park. The activities are concentrated to certain zones which are enhanced by the natural entrances along the main path. Close to the station square, there is also a play of levels with mounds that flank the square on either side. Another part of the design is the two phase traffic solution which opens the square for pedestrians and also reduces traffic from four lanes to two in the first phase and a tunnel in front of the Hauptbahnhof in the second phase in case the first phase does not entirely solve the problem. The tramway system is improved by replacing the loop at the station square to Berliner Platz.
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Station square The Pleichach, an important but at the moment underused part of the city‘s history is brought back to life by the creation of river side along the Ring park. The play of mounds and more open green near the square creates a straight access to the main station and offers a recreational zone. According to Lindahl‘s original design, the station square is transformed into an open & accessible space. This generates clear site lines and which are enhanced during the night by the lighting scheme that follows the connection concept. Pavilions replace the high density kiosks which brings together the station square and the refined Northern Ring park. By removing the tram lines from the station square, a no-traffic zone is established, providing a secure area for the people. The lake side The lake side offers a range of activities; a playground for the children, a cafe, performance platforms & decks and a variety of seating surrounding the lake in a natural setting. By bringing together activities for different age groups & genders, social control is induced. The elevated terrain on the northern side of the lake provides a view axis is created to the vineyards. Berliner Platz, the new hotspot The former Berliner Platz with a diameter of 88m is transformed into Würzburg‘s new hotspot, lowering the Berliner Platz allows continuous transit to bikers & pedestrians within the Ring park and at the same time connecting the whole Ring park from north to south. By simplifying the present road network, a fluent traffic movement which enables a smooth solution for car and public transport, is implemented. Berliner Platz offers gender and age friendly activities, skatepark for the youth,
WÜRZBURG RINGPARK EQUISCAPE
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WÜRZBURG RINGPARK | EQUISCAPE
WÜRZBURG RINGPARK EQUISCAPE playground and trick fountains for the children, cafe and resting places for one and all. This new design induces social control and makes Berliner Platz a new attraction for the city of Würzburg.
WÜRZBURG RINGPARK WÜRZBURG, GERMANY Design Firm | Equiscape Team |Martina Welther, Nishtha Bali, Iwein Mertens, Saranya Gunasekaran Credit | Equiscape Text Credits | Equiscape
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