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We take a look at Green Studios, a landscape architecture, science and technology platform specializing in green walls and roof gardens. Co-founded by a group of scientists, designers and an economist, their mission is to bring nature to concrete jungles in the hottest cities on earth using remarkable skin technology. See page 14. It seems that going green is a common theme, as on page 18, we learn how landscape architecture firm Nomad Studio conceived a living, kinetic sculpture – a hanging garden ‘Green Air’ - nested within the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis. Over on page 36, we discover how the town of Puerto de la Cruz in the Canary Islands has been transformed through a regeneration project which has redesigned an entire waterfront.

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Planning and Landscape Design Firm InSite Establishes Foundation for the Future Abu Dhabi-Based Firm Leads Middle East Markets

InSite, the specialized urban planning and landscape design practice, announced its new brand inspired by the concept of Planning for Living. Based in the UAE, with offices serving 7 countries, the firm launches with one of the largest, dedicated professional staff headquartered in the Middle East. “This is an exceptional time to be working in this market,” said Angus Robertson, Managing Director of InSite. “The pace and scale of assignments in this region has attracted many of the world’s leading planning and placemaking talents to our doors. Together we are committed to plan and create distinguished, sustainable, high-functioning and deeply desirable built and natural environments.” Born from KEO, InSite offers a fully-integrated master planning, urban design and landscape architectural design services recognized for inspired, yet pragmatic solutions. InSite’s ability to draw global talents to the market has been key to the launch of a specialized firm. He continued, “InSite is distinguished by agile thinkers and dynamic problem-solvers. Client focused professionals. Working right here.” “We are a purpose-led firm,” said Robertson. “We’re committed to high-performance planning that serves as a foundation for economically, socially and environmentally successful development.” Said Robertson,

“We want to be the firm remembered in 100 years for the discerning choices we make today.” “The natural environment here, while seasonally harsh, offers a reserve of untapped value to development,” said Robertson. “What a sensational opportunity we have at InSite, to serve our clients through our designs that can use resources of the natural environment to enhance the experience of users, while improving the economics and operational function of designed places.” Robertson added. “Given the unique topography, climate, geology and horticulture of the region – and the iterative nature of landscape design – you really have to be here, to effectively work here.” Donna Sultan, KEO’s Chief Executive Officer said “Launching InSite follows our strategy to have stronger connections to our clients through specialized branded groups that can better serve client requirements more directly.” In concluding, said Robertson “InSite is a stewardship organization. All of us share a profound sense of responsibility to place users and their unique needs, with an eye to the future. We embrace our clients’ opportunities and ambitions, while respecting the character of communities and the preservation of this area’s natural resources.”

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STUDIO GANG TO DESIGN THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM’S 2017 SUMMER INSTALLATION As the latest Summer Block Party installation by James Corner Field Operations comes to a close, the National Building Museum is pleased to announce that Studio Gang has been selected to design next year’s summer installation. The temporary structure will be the latest in the Museum’s annual series, following ICEBERGS by James Corner Field Operations, which remains open through September 5, 2016. Previous summer collaborations include The BEACH by Snarkitecture (2015) and the BIG Maze by the Bjarke Ingels Group (2014).

Founded by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urbanism practice based in Chicago and New York. Their award-winning projects range in scale from the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo to the Aqua Tower in Chicago. In addition to designing exhibitions for the Art Institute of Chicago, Design Miami at Art Basel Miami Beach, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Studio was recently selected to design the expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The 2017 Summer Block Party installation is the latest in a series of collaborations between the National Building Museum and Studio Gang. In 2003, Jeanne Gang exhibited a translucent marble curtain hung in tension for the exhibition Masonry Variations (Pictured right; photo © Jim Tetro); she presented a lecture for the Museum’s 2009 Women of Architecture series on “Transforming Skylines and Communities”; and in 2010 Gang served as an advisor to the Museum’s Intelligent Cities project. “We are delighted to embark on a new collaboration with Studio Gang over the next year” said Chase W. Rynd,

executive director of the National Building Museum. “With their creativity and impeccable design credentials, they are poised to reimagine the possibilities of this series.” Each Summer Block Party installation presents innovative, interactive experiences that temporarily transform the Museum’s historic home and challenge visitor perceptions of the built environment. Although the concept for the installation is currently in development, Studio Gang intends to engage this spirit of creative experimentation that has defined the series’ success. “It’s great to return to the National Building Museum, where our Marble Curtain was such an important early project for Studio Gang, one that informed our thinking about material innovation and research,” said Jeanne Gang, founding principal of Studio Gang. “We are looking forward to building on the legacy and energy of the summer series, in the historic space of the Museum’s Great Hall.” Details of Studio Gang’s design for the National Building Museum’s Summer Block Party will be announced in early 2017. The installation is slated to open to the public on July 4 and will remain on view until Labor Day 2017.

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SWA Projects Receive Three Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) 2016 ASLA Awards Acknowledge SWA’s Expertise on the Waterfront in Baton Rouge, Houston, and Ningbo, China SWA projects in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; and Ningbo, China, have received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Each of the projects reveals innovative strategies for vastly improving water quality to reconnect communities to their waterfront identities. The three projects are among 30 recipients of the ASLA professional awards honoring top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications, and research projects in the U.S. and around the world, selected from 456 entries. “Reconnecting urban communities to their waterfronts is an increasingly important element of our firm’s work, as a means to address environmental, cultural, and economic challenges,” said Gerdo P. Aquino, CEO of SWA. “We are honored that the ASLA has recognized SWA’s innovative work in this area.” Garnering an Honor Award in the General Design category was a 250acre remediation project located in the southern part of China’s Yangtze River delta region. Eco Corridor Resurrects Former Brownfield spoke to the jury on many levels: “They succeed admirably in making this site feel natural. There are so many opportunities to enter and enjoy it.” SWA design principal Hui-Li Lee and her team, based in the Sausalito office, stress the broad application of their creation of a “living filter” in Ningbo’s canals there to other similarly sized cities, encouraging people to view it as an example of the economic and quality of life successes that investing in green infrastructure can offer.

Ningbo Eco-Corridor (image courtesy Tom Fox/SWA)

The firm’s two other award-winning projects were undertaken in SWA’s Houston studio and also exemplify successful approaches to building community by addressing the health of local waterways. Baton Rouge Lakes: Restoring a Louisiana Landmark from Ecological Collapse to Cultural Sanctuary traces the ongoing regeneration of a popular open space in a city frequently strained by environmental challenges. The jury gave it an Honor Award in the Analysis & Planning category, applauding the project’s ambition and commending its “approachable, clear, and understandable” presentation and straightforward analysis. Kinder Baumgardner, Houston’s managing principal and the lead designer on this project, also sees his team’s efforts in Baton

Baton Rouge Lakes (image courtesy SWA) Rouge as prototypical. “I’m interested in how cities work, and the rewilding of our urban places,” he explains. “The future of biodiversity and the preservation of wilderness now lies in the hands of city dwellers. When cities embrace the complex relationships between nature and infrastructure the effects can transform attitudes that result in a healthier population, and a healthier environment.”

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Homefarm Singapore

Singapore SPARK Residential Architecture, Garden + Terrace, Health + Wellness,Landscape Architecture, Lifestyle, Sustainable Development,Urban Design Beijing, China,

SPARK unveils Homefarm – a concept for the next generation of retirement housing. The bold conceptual project proposes the combination of apartments and facilities for seniors with vertical urba farming. SPARK’s aim is to generate discussion about the many potentials that can emerg from the mixing of two typically separate realms. The question of how to support and accommodate a rapidly ageing population confronts man nations in Asia. In Singapore, for example, a substantial demographic shift is underway. By 2030, one in five Singapore residents will be aged 65 years and over (up from 6 per cent in 1990). The swelling proportion of seniors will place significant demands on social, economic and infrastructural systems. Achieving a secure food supply for growing city populations is an equally pressing challenge for rapidly urbanising Asian nations. This challenge is keenly felt in Singapore, a small and fully urbanised city state without a hinterland. Currently, Singapore imports over 90 per cent of its food, and has in place strategies for the diversification of food sources and the boosting of local production through intensive agricultural technology. The Homefarm concept allows seniors live in a garden environment created by a vegetable farm, where they may also find employment. The concept introduces vertical aquaponic farming and rooftop soil planting to the realm of high-density and flexible housing that has been designed to cater to the needs and preferences of seniors. Residents may combat the financial stress that is often faced post-retirement by working part-time at the farm under the direction of a professional vertical farming implementation

team. Facilities catered to the needs of an older population are provided in the lower levels of the development (and are also open to the public), while the housing is stacked above in a curvilinear terraced formation reminiscent of land contours. “We designed this concept for Singapore,” says SPARK Director Stephen Pimbley, “but there is the potential for it to be applied in any location that would support the growth of leafy green vegetables on building facades and rooftops.” He continues, “We are keen to see this project materialise at some point in the future. The concept is a realisable solution to real and pressing problems faced by many of the world’s growing cities.” The gardening activity would offer numerous benefits beyond personal income generation, including community connectivity and the promotion of health. Simultaneously, beyond boosting the resiliency of Singapore’s food supply, the production of food in the heart of the city could provide a platform for community education, help lower Singapore’s high carbon footprint by closing the gap between producers and consumers, and contribute to the perpetuation of Singapore’s ‘City in a Garden’ vision in a productive capacity. SPARK believes it is the duty of the architectural profession, through its capacity to imagine and shape both the city and the ways in which we live, to contribute to overcoming the challenges of urban life. Homefarm is the second conceptual project to emerge from SPARK’s Singapore studio this year, following the Solar Orchid floating hawker centre. Homefarm is part of a growing portfolio of research and visionary design being undertaken by the studio in the interests of imagining untried responses to real urban problems.

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Impossible is nothing By: Green Studios At Green Studios, we realise that the space outside homes and offices could and should be as aesthetically pleasing and emotionally stimulating, as the space inside. Urban environments are continually changing, diversifying and sprawling and each phase of their development brings a unique set of confronts on how cities can remain healthy, appealing and create long-term sustainability. The most crucial question facing urban areas today is how to keep residents and workers attracted to live in, work in and participate in the city. At Green Studios, we focus on these challenges as part of our raison d’etre and endeavor to breathe life into towns and neighbourhoods by creating spaces that make people feel emotionally connected, thoroughly engaged and immensely fulfilled. We are a landscape architecture, science and technology platform specialising in green walls and roof gardens. Co-founded by a group of scientists, designers and an economist, our mission is to bring nature to concrete jungles in the hottest cities on earth. This idea kicked off seven years ago in Los Angeles and Beirut and gave birth to a series of inventions revolving around a smart and soft material that can attach to literally any surface, thrive with plants and can even lead to real farming in cities. Starting up small with an objective to change people’s experience inside dense urban setups, today we are doing business with world leaders in the green technology field, academic research centres, governmental and semigovernmental entities and we are constantly looking to disrupt the vertical and roof gardens market. Our inventions revolve around a smart ‘skin,’ which comes in many variants depending on the weather conditions. That skin, or smart sponge, changes its water and nutrition patterns according to outside environments and it allows us to apply advanced technologies in agriculture such as

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hydroponics at a reasonable cost in a plug-and-play user-friendly interface. It’s also connected through a smart system that includes an app that sends push notifications depending on need. This allows for less maintenance while offering optimal plant growth conditions. When offered to designers and architects, the skin’s flexibility and ease of use delivers them the flexibility to create new green elements. That is what we call mutated landscapes and it’s an open platform for any artist to use and impact the field of design. The shift towards sustainability is manifested worldwide, especially in terms of building urban spaces. Sustainable economic development is also the focus of the Dubai government and it is in this area that our technology and innovation comes to the fore. As Dubai forges ahead with its ambitious plans to go green in time for Expo 2020, Dubai Municipality has earmarked AED six billion to develop a further 12,000 hectares of urban greenery, through landscaping and horticultural projects, in a bid to transform the emirate into a green paradise. In Dubai we created a living wall that covers the facade of the Municipality’s head office

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building. An iconic project indeed, our first major project in the UAE and a major endorsement of our capabilities and professionalism, the wall is one of the first of its kind in the region in terms of scale, and stands 33 meters tall. Further, Dubai Municipality recently launched a new green building rating system called Al Safat. The system applies to all types of buildings including residential, commercial, industrial and other facilities. Al Safat plans to reduce electricity consumption 20 percent, water by 15 percent, carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent and waste by as much as 50 percent. We at Green Studios intend to play a major role in these proceedings. Utilizing our technology, Dubai Municipality aims to realise its vision by 2021the reference for global development and for Dubai to be the smartest and most sustainable city in the world. They launched this initiative while showcasing our green wall technology on their building façade. The possibilities are infinite and so are the benefits of green walls and roof gardens. Aesthetic appeal aside, green walls tend to reduce urban heat, air pollutants and dust as well as offset the carbon footprint of people and fossil fuel emissions. Green walls insulate and cool buildings, protect them from the elements and create habitats for birds and insects, which enhances biodiversity. In addition, the technology increases real estate value and can be used for growing food in an urban setting. Roof gardens reduce storm water runoff, retain rainwater and, together with plants, return a portion of this water to the atmosphere through evaporation and transpiration. They also decrease heat and cause buildings to consume less energy, leading to significant cost savings. In summer, a roof garden protects the building from direct solar heat and during winter months, minimises heat loss. It also gives the home a delightful additional room to savor with family and friends. Our remarkable skin technology has resulted in us winning numerous awards and the respect of our peers. Green Studios was winner of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region for Innovation in Green Walls and Roof Gardens in 2011, Lebanon Best Business of the Year award 2012, Endeavour High Impact Entrepreneur 2014 and Dubai Municipality awarded us for our contribution to the environment in 2015. We have showcased our expertise in Los Angeles, Cairo, Dubai and Beirut and we have projects up and running in Stuttgart, New Jersey, Amman and many other locations where our solution is in demand. Our technology on building facades and roofs is possible due to the progress of science and technology coupled with passion and determination. Impossible is nothing. More exciting is the role of governments in realising their vision andcities such as San Francisco, Dubai, Singapore and others will play a major role, along with us, in developing this paradigm. At Green Studios our objective is to enhance communities, not only where people work but also where they live. We want environs and the people in them to feel emotionally rewarded at all times. For that reason, we are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all, in the most natural ways imaginable.

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Designed by landscape architecture firm Nomad Studio, Green Air is the second installation of a play in two acts at the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis. It is a sculptural aerial garden and second act of a broad exploration that started in 2015 with Green Varnish, a monumental green fabric composed of thousands of succulent plants that symbolically covered all the inconvenient facts of our lifestyle.

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Conceived as a living, kinetic sculpture nested within the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis, Green Air proposes an immersive space, a hanging garden that floats above a tapestry of ever changing shadows.

The installation was carefully deconstructed last fall and its components were reutilized to build Green Air, creating continuity and dialogue between the two pieces and the people who experience them. For the second act, the space was modeled as the inverse of Green Varnish, both in form and intention. What was a solid piece anchored to the ground plane, is now a dispersed fluid volume suspended from an elevated

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plane. What was hidden is now exposed, hovering overhead, inviting us for an urgent reflection upon the contrast between the dynamic and static in natural and man-made systems. Green Air is a space in and of itself, a systematic yet delicate arrangement of Tillandsias, hanging from thousands of slices of repurposed wood, suspended from the courtyardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steel canopy, moving as a supra organism. The installation has a powerful transformational impact on the courtyard

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Landscape Architecture as Resilient Urbanism By: Janneke Eggink

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“… a city is always in a state of transition. The problem of a planner is to shape that transition towards a desired end.” Ludwig Hilberseimer Contemporary cities face many challenges from severe weather and economic disparity. While these problems seem far too big to be influenced by a landscape architect, this is exactly the responsibility we bear. Urban resilience is the key for future projects and landscape architects are uniquely positioned to facilitate resilience. Urban resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. (100 resilient cities)

Resilience is being increasingly explored over the past few years. A prime example of this is the Rebuild by Design competition by The Rockefeller Foundation. Rebuild by Design placed local communities and civic leaders at the heart of an interdisciplinary creative process - a new way to connect design, funding and implementation strategies. The author was personally involved in the Blue Dunes proposal which was a project largely driven by a landscape architecture practice (West 8). Most of the winning teams were either led by a landscape architect or a landscape architecture firm.

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Perkins + Will are a strategy partner firm with Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient cities program and have developed a keen focus on the possibilities of resilient design. “Designers have an opportunity to help move the public conversation around resilience away from doom and gloom, and refocus it on the possibilities for positive change in our communities.” Kristen Hall, Perkins + Will One of the ways that Perkins + Will has invested in resilient design has been through its yearly Design Leadership Council competition created to identify talented next generation design leaders in the firm. The 2016 competition has just been concluded and at the core of the design program was the challenge of resilience. The project site is the former Ford automobile factory site in Saint Paul Minnesota. The competition challenge was to develop a speculative mixed-use planning proposal for the entire Ford site at a conceptual level. The design concepts should reflect innovation in resilient strategies and sustainable criteria based on Perkins + Will RELi standard for resilient design. The over-arching approach to this competition combines three components - renewable energy, mixed-use development and a worker cooperative to create an ecologically based, resilient livework solution for an intergenerational audience. Tallent Factory team-work-live Talent Factory, the winning proposal uses a systems-thinking approach to eliminate racial and economic disparities through education, employment, housing diversity and affordability and nurturing local businesses. This is combined with a series of water systems and ecological design strategies that frame the development of the site. Talent Factory on Ford Site is the anchor that brings together all the educational institutes around it into a network of talent spines that would keep the talent in motion, resulting in an increase in employment and decrease of talent draining to other states. The team was inspired by a quote by Lynne McTaggart that proposes, “A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.”

The live-work concept has been taken to a new level in this project. The land use program is 25 percent housing, 25 percent office space, 25 percent learning space and 25 percent production. Within each hub, the production space is collectively used, which means anyone can use this space if booked through an app. So if someone is working in Hub 01, they can also rest within the same hub until their reservation period is over.

25 percent of the retail sector is dedicated to local business to promote state run enterprises and startups. 35 percent is to be allotted to showcase avenues and showrooms for products produced in these hubs, to promote innovation and research, and opportunities to innovate and sell at the same table. It’s important to realize a wide range of housing variety, with smaller plot sizes, different building types and energy efficient housing.

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In 1913, Ford introduced the first assembly line. Talent Factory introduces the ‘Ford Legacy Humanity at Work’, an assembly line connecting learn, work and live. It emphasizes both system thinking and brings the legacy of ford assembly line in a new era of digital research and retail. The factory runs as a cooperative and is base model for other institutes around to follow. Users learn what the factory can offer you, it gives you opportunity to follow your passion and gives you space to work, access to investors, opportunities to sell your products. In return, you also become an investor, giving opportunities to other start-ups, growing food for yourself and the community and spreading knowledge to other hubs as well.

In the existing situation, components of the system of live (water and food) are separated and unsustainable. What we propose is a system where each component is closely related to each other to have an intelligent cycle of water, goods and people. The sustainability objective is to realize closed systems of selfreliance and self-sufficiency. Storm water collection forms the base of the urban design framework. The green infrastructure has different functions including: - storm water management (rain gardens), - grey water treatment (constructed wetlands), - air filtration and - soil remediation (phytoremediation).

I landscape urbanism Storm water management Important ancillary positions of the sewerage in urban areas are next to the drainage of sewage, the drainage of storm water and the abundant of groundwater. In the future we expect a higher amount of rain water; this means that the capacity of the sewage should be big enough to avoid the water pollution caused by the increased rain intensity. To reduce the overflows, the runoff water should be collected in a separate system. In new urban developmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the aim is to collect 60 percent of the runoff separated. Grey water treatment In households that you find concentrated and less concentrated wastewater flows, a distinction is generally made to black water and grey water. In the current collection system, these flows have been drained mixed. Even storm water usually goes through the same drain and because of the difference between the concentration and composition, it is better to treat the black and grey water flow separately. In concentrated form, black water is a potential fertilizer, like it has been used in the past. Besides that, the organic substance in black water represents a certain amount of energy, which can in combination with organic kitchen waste, be extracted with fermentation as methane gas. The volume of grey water is more than 70 percent of the household wastewater. An important advantage of the separated treatment of grey water is the fact that grey water has a lower concentration of nutrients what makes it easier to treat. By the local treatment of grey water, a new local water source has been created. The treated water has been discharged in the most cases in an urban water feature. In areas with water scarcity the water can be used for hydration

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Soil remediation Phytoremediation has the capacity to assist in the remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, oils, greases, and heavy metals, which are among the common toxics found in urban brown fields. Plants typically used in phytoremediation include Indian mustard, willows, poplars, Indian grass and sunflowers. Their root systems help to rebuild the soil structure. Zoning of the project will start on the least contaminated area, for example the existing surface parking. The remaining site would be under soil remediation and built in phases. Parkland is located in the heart of the project. Each home is a maximum of a quarter mile from a public open space. Each park includes public gathering spaces, community gardens, local agriculture and sale of own grown food. The bicycle and pedestrian network will be improved to creating a bicycle community.

The treatment systems can be recognized as multifunctional. They should not only be considered as wastewater treatment systems alone but also as bio productive ecosystems that use the fertilizing value of wastewater. Various examples show that wetlands have a large potential in producing biomass. In such a multi-functional approach, wastewater treatment might even become an economic activity that creates income and reduces or covers the cost of wastewater treatment. The goal is to achieve true balance - socially, economically and environmentally. Talent factory approaches a regenerative system thinking process that utilizes landscape frameworks that reinforces resiliency in a holistic and personal level. It reflects the potential for landscape architectures capacity to deal with resilience holistically. This underpins the fundamental value that landscape architects must bring to their projects. Beyond a unique skill set landscape systems thinking should be regarded as an absolute responsibility of landscape architects in every project and every place. That is the idea that drives us in our daily work. Talent Factory team members: Aarathi Muralidharan and Janneke Eggink

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Time to play By WAX Design

Glenelg Foreshore Playspace has transformed a trip to the beach into an adventure that entertains children in new, imaginative and innovative ways. Promoting principles of nature play and risk-benefit, the play space integrates opportunities for children with physical, sensory, cognitive and intellectual disabilities. The playspace represents a new benchmark, an innovative play experience that has revitalised the Glenelg Foreshore, creating a destination where children and adults can have fun, socialise and connect with the coast. The design of the play space borrows from the surrounding landscape context as well as the history and culture of the Glenelg Foreshore. The mounds and precast concrete walls reflect the waves and dune formations,

reinforced by the inclusion of a giant four meter wide slide and elevated timber platform that form the prefect break. The climbing wall, cubby and tunnel become a giant sandcastle for children to explore while the concrete walls and brightly coloured dome net represent an abstracted beach towel draped over the site. The nature based play elements draw inspiration from the indigenous

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decisions made. Engagement through a family fun day used cognitive mapping and preference voting to provide information regarding the community’s ideas and aspirations for the play space. Further feedback was given through the council’s website which highlighted strong support for the project. The project demonstrates the community benefit that can be delivered by an innovative and high quality play space. The Glenelg Foreshore

Playspace has created a place of congregation and interaction that fosters inclusion, irrespective of the social or economic factors while revitalising and activating adjacent commercial and tourism areas. The playspace has reinvigorated the Foreshore creating a valuable asset which is now an exemplary play destination in South Australia. Its success is measured by the two hundred plus children and adults who constantly visit since the opening in January 2016.

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vegetation of the area. The structure and aerial roots of mangroves are reflected in the custom timber log climb, rope balance and boardwalk. The intertidal environment of the mangroves is reimagined as water play in the giant sand pit. A diverse gradient of challenge is integrated across the play space, catering for all ages, genders, cultures and abilities without segregation or restraint. This approach enables children to make decisions, gain confidence and tackle different levels of risk. Sustainability principles were embedded in every aspect of the project. All the existing trees were retained, with the planting of numerous trees as

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Tell us about your educational background and experience. I studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and after graduating in 1993, I attended Polytechnic University of Metropolitan Catalonia for my Master of Architecture. We’ve been working on projects within the region such as the Crystal Towers in Dubai and mixed-use and residential projects in the Lusail quarter in Doha. We also have regional offices in both countries, UAE and Qatar, since 2013.

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Have you won any awards for your work? We are honoured and delighted to be continuously recognised in the region with several national awards including the Cityscape Awards since 2005. Murat Tabanlıoğlu and I were both selected as Architect of the Year in 2010 by Middle East Architect Award and Architect of the Year by Big Project ME in 2013. The GCC has been very welcoming and receptive of Tabanlioglu and taken a keen interest in our work. We are now frequent visitors to the region and feel at home here. The company’s headquarters are in Turkey and you’ve made a significant contribution to the landscape there. Are you still as committed to doing business in Turkey after the recent coup attempt and political instability or would you consider moving your offices elsewhere? We will continue to develop projects in the country. In fact, very recently, we worked on two mixed use projects in Ankara, one of which is the Incek Loft that also shortlisted on this year’s Cityscape Awards. We have our head office in Istanbul, Turkey, and although we have regional offices in London, Doha and Dubai, we will still continue work in our home base. Turkey is abundant in natural beauty and natural resources, a key element to our

design process and we would never consider giving that up for anything. Business is going forward as usual in the country, and we have experienced no repercussions from the political climate. As the construction sector is the locomotive industry, I trust we shall continue contributing to the design and to the economy. Turkey is a strong country and has the will and power to overcome the worries of the period. Tabanlıoğlu is committed to continue operations in Turkey, after all it is our home and that itself develops an unbreakable bond. We currently have several ongoing major projects in the country, such as the Ataköy Waterfront, 7Mavi, Renovia, Yenitepe all big scale urban mix use projects, Vakıfbank Headquarters in Istanbul to name a few. The passing of Zaha Hadid left a void in the world of architecture and particularly for a lot of female architects who saw her as an inspiration as she has broken through so many glass ceilings. Do you believe that your own achievements have encouraged younger woman to enter architecture? Zaha Hadid was a friend and an inspiration to many, and she has definitely left an inerasable mark in the architectural realm. She has also raised the

bar for modern architecture and broken a lot of stereotypes and barriers that paved the way for future female architects. The percentage of female architects in our team rose to almost 60 percent, and this could very well be a result of me being a partner and architect in the firm. You’ve been working in time for over a decade, how has the architecture scene evolved here in your opinion? There has undoubtedly been a shift in the design process of projects in the UAE. More and more architects are realising the importance of building projects for people, and not just for the sake of art. People are the end user, and we should build keeping them at the forefront. Are architects now more conscious about a projects sense of place and environment around it than they were when you first started working in the UAE? As Tabanlioglu’s design philosophy has always been to harmonise ‘people’ and ‘place’, we have always incorporated the surrounding’s natural resources and considered the environmental value in our projects.

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Do you think the resulting landscape of Dubai is a reflection of multicultural architecture? Dubai is a showcase for modern architecture. It’s a city that grants architects immense probabilities and capacities of experimental design. Every good architect has a chance to contribute to this significant urban development, so the city becomes a reflection of various cultures internationally, a kind of representation of the time we live in.

Do you think your designs have a hallmark? Would people be able to point out one of your buildings and say that’s a Tabanlioglu design? Our architectural philosophy has always been dedicated to being in harmony with “the place” and creating ‘places for people’ to appreciate. With every project, we hope to create something impressive and innovative in terms of design and not merely repeat projects. People would be able to identify our projects because they are aesthetically pleasing, but also purposeful and efficient. Our projects never compromise the practicality of the structure just to appear more modern or creative. We strike a balance between the two, creativity and functionality in addition feasibility. Our work involves creating clear, functional and interactive spaces that are in harmony with the existing values and environment. We basically prefer local materials such as natural stones, timber and mesh applications. Despite the most contemporary technique and methods, we involve local values in the design, from vernacular heritage to natural resource. This is our signature design style. Which upcoming projects have you been commissioned for? We have approximately 30 ongoing projects in Istanbul as well as in other cities of Turkey and abroad.

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Islands in the stream By: Menis Arquitectos

The town of Puerto de la Cruz has always been a pioneer of tourism development in the history of the Canary Islands. It is a mature and expert destination; however it has suffered from the consequences of time and despite its undoubted value, needs a major renovation. Taking advantage of the upcoming creation of a new harbor area, Menis proposes the complete regeneration of the entire waterfront, which, together with a new multifunctional area around the waterfront, would achieve a large-scale urban regeneration. In this sense, the project will recover the original position of the waterline disappeared since the 50s and 60s when a containment wall and a maritime esplanade were built for safety and protection reasons. To achieve this, the project will use - and this is the core concept - the Canary Islands Stream (La Corriente de las Islas Canarias) in order to build a water layer with a varying width between 25m and 40 m. What is the Canary Islands Stream? It is the natural current of the Atlantic Ocean that runs from East to West and turns from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, and from there to North along the US coast to the North Pole and then down to England, Portugal and gets back to the Canary Islands. This current explains the Canaries climate on both sides of the Ocean and it actually helped Columbus to discover America. The project conceived by Menis directs the stream naturally, pacifying it, in this way, allowing water sports and activities in a controlled area. Otherwise, due, to the strong Atlantic Ocean, you could not even think of such activities; at

A6 Tenerife North, swimming or any other water sports use to be dangerous in certain times of the year, especially in wintertime. This ingenious use of the Canary Islands Stream adds a high value to the harbor and it also produces a second beachfront facing the volcanic mountain El Teide, Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest peak. Besides by using the stream, Menis intends to restore the close relation the old town of Puerto de la Cruz has historically had with the Ocean. Formerly the water reached to where our design intends to conduct the stream, bringing the water back to people again and recovering the historical profile of the town.

Behind this water layer and parallel to it, multi-purpose buildings will be built to transform the harbor into a whole new public area to offer leisure and economic activities. This will be a new core of the economic and urban recovery designed to facilitate social cohesion and cultural activities. The program of this set is more than a simple mix of functions; the aim is to achieve an organic connection between the old town grid and the harbor; to connect individual spontaneity, participation and educative entertainment with commerce and gastronomy. The set will contain: public squares, public promenades, a shopping mall, a

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sailing school, a beach club with a pool on the deck whose bottom is actually the transparent ceiling of the underneath rooms, a night garden, parking, a 360 º viewpoint, restaurants, an open air Auditorium, flowers and gastronomic market and a fish market. Menis’s design includes a new beach as an extension of Playa Jardín (The Garden Beach) designed by César Manrique in 1992. There are a number of features that distinguish the new beach from the existing one: it is a privileged natural viewpoint since it looks at the spectacular volcanic mountain El Teide. Moreover, because it faces south, its users will be protected from the cold trade winds (Los Alisios) and big waves; bathing will be accessible and easy for everyone, throughout the year. The new harbor breakwater will also “support” the beach, which makes its construction sustainable and will help maintaining the sand in place in a natural way. We will use the local volcanic black sand.

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Between the beach and the town, there is a greenery layer that covers a parking underneath. Among the natural trees there are artificial trees (lampposts) able to harvest sun energy during the day to use during the night for the lighting. Puerto Deportivo - Pesquero y Parque Marítimo en Puerto de la Cruz (Puerto de la Cruz Waterfront and Marine Park) Location: Puerto de La Cruz, Canary Islands, Spain Year of Design / Current Project Condition: 2015 – ongoing Estimated date to start construction: fall 2017 Built m2: 82.000 m2 (building 16.000 m2 + urbanization) Public use area: 29.721 m2 Cost: 36.508.000 Euros Architect: Fernando Menis Client: Teleferico Pico del Teide S.A. Consultants: MSFPA S.A (Engineers); Marisa Tejedor (Marine Biology)

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Green in Blue for Resilience Recent research in the past decade has been advocating both in environmental science and urban design circles and the importance of integrating nature. Such research lead by Timothy Beatly formed the basis for an urban planning and design framework for biophilic cities. Biophilia as defined by Harvard University conservationist E.O. Wilson, who describes “the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. Innate means hereditary and hence part of ultimate human nature. Building on Wilson definition, in his seminal book on Biophilic cities, Beatley mentioned the key attributes on biophilic cities. In this article, I am conceiving an innovative urban design strategy that can retrofit existing urban waterfronts into resilient coastal developments through embedding within them opportunities to connect with nature. The proposed urban design strategy would contribute to diverse forms of green and public spaces, contributing to the overall resilience of urban waterfronts and ultimately the coastal regions they belong to. An added value – detrimental for sustainable development – is the awareness of the importance of nature to the daily life of everyone, through fostering an active connection with nature, residents and visitors would be more willing to contribute to the sustainability of their cities. Biophilic Urban Waterfronts developments are planned to permit multiple ways to access abundant nature to large numbers of its residents and visitors, the physical network of green spaces and nature at the coastal regional level need to be planned in a way to manifest green commitment over time. Integrating of the different green open spaces and parks and green landscapes into a more holistic ecological network is one of the planning objectives of a regional coastal plan. In particular, Helsinki in Finland adopted an overall network that connects the suburban areas to urban areas in a flowing ecological corridor.

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Climatic change By: Nadine Bitar

CEO, Placemaking.me Blue might be where the impacts of climate change would be mostly felt as marine coral reefs, oceans levels and marine biodiversity are subjected to the increasing pressures of global warming. The global consensus on agenda 2030 announced by the United Nations and the successful COP21 Paris climate change agreements is that significant light beacons that would guide us in our seemingly complex situation the earth face. It is nowhere like coasts – one of the fragile ecosystems threatened by rising seawater level- that the battle for resilience could be not only fought but won. This article advocates the importance of Green in Blue to plan for resilience on coasts – Green being the spaces that are necessary to connect with nature and participate in its processes and proposes a new tool for coastal urban developments through the incorporation of biophilic cities in planning and master-planning waterfronts developments. Blue and resilience In resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), the United Nations General Assembly announced the Agenda 2030 – an agenda agreed by 156 countries delegations and country representatives on the 25th of September 2015 . Although the 17 goals are formulated to guide sustainable developments in general on a national, regional and local level, it provides a flexible framework to think about resilience as one of the main principles to support nations, regions and cities sail through what it sees as one of the most challenging climate eras.

Figure 1- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Agenda 2030 ( source :United Nations)

Resilience has been indirectly related to Goals 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. In ending poverty (Goal 1), the loss of resilience causes greater vulnerability of waterfront communities as they are rendered weak due to environmental poverty. The United Nations environment program

released an executive note on the environmental dimension of Agenda 2030, stating environmental poverty is defined by the conditions disrupting access to natural assets, lack of comprehensive resource management and ecosystem degradation. For ending hunger (Goal 2), the resilience of agricultural coastal lands is a primary condition to achieve food security and also promote sustainable agriculture. As for Good Health and wellbeing (Goal 3), coasts are the cultural landscapes with an abundance of opportunities for an active lifestyle that ensures healthy lives through active spaces and also promotes the wellbeing for all. The marine environment and coasts have always been perceived as the spaces where life skills and ecological knowledge can be acquired - supporting quality education (Goal 4); each one of us has a memory of a learned skill on the beach flying kites, collecting shellfish or interacting socially. As for decent work and economic growth (Goal 6), urban waterfronts are associated with economic prosperity and inclusive employments; as early as 3000 B.C., Migrant populations have flocked to harbors forming multi-ethnic communities that traded in between them. As such, waterfronts contribute to economic resilience as they have built knowledge on how to wither structural economic shifts through building international trade routes. Resilience has been directly mentioned as essential to sustainable cities (Goal 11), climate action (13), protecting life under the sea and on the land (14, 15). For sustainable cities and communities ( Goal 11), urban waterfronts a form of coastal developments present the first defense line in the resilience of coastal areas, environmental disaster hitting multiple coasts around the world have mainly affected coastal cities and in particular their urban waterfront. For example, in target 11.b calls to considerably strengthen the role of cities and human settlements in planning and regulating mitigation and adaptation to climate change in addition to resilience to disasters. However, building the resilience of urban waterfronts developments depends less on the blue and more on the green as the availability of open green spaces and a network of social and physical infrastructure proves essential to resilience . It is around planning the open spaces and protecting habitats and ensuring the reverence of coastal cultural landscape that resilience of urban waterfront developments needs to centre itself. So, how we can plan and masterplan for that green? What are the tools to make sure its contribution to the overall coastal resilience is safeguarded?

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Figure 2- Helsinki New Waterfront - by DCCP Architectures ( Source:www.the architecturelist.com)

Biophilic Urban Waterfronts are planned to actively reinstate coastal biodiversity - they are green, living and nature-full and thus supports their residents in feeling a deep connection with the local flora, fauna and fungi found, and with the climate, topography, and other special qualities of place that serve to outline this environment. In biophilic urban waterfronts, public green spaces offer opportunities to interact , educate and teach visitors, residents and employees to easily recognize common species of trees, flowers, insects and birds, this awareness would mobilize the society to participate more actively in climate action and climate adaptation initiatives. Public spaces are natural open spaces that are designed for abundant opportunities to be active through strolling, hiking, bicycling, exploring, and elongating the time spent in sunlight while respecting human comfort limitations; innovative research is needed to explore how such activities can be supported in hot and humid climate. Biophilic waterfronts imped elements to encourage multisensory experiences, where the sounds of nature (and other sensory experiences), the visual or ocular experience of green are preserved, restored and protected.

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Biophilic waterfront celebrates natural forms, shapes, and materials. Waterfronts architectural and urban design elements are inspired by nature’s and are based on the 3.8 billion years of research and development that other species of Flora and Fauna have performed so far. Being inspired by nature to build systems has been the basis of Janine Benyus Work on Biomimicry, as she has put forward examples of built structures. In particular, the late Zaha Hadid’s design for the new performing arts centre on Abu Dhabi Waterfront stands as a living proof of how such architecture can take form. She described it as a movement similar to growing ‘’fruits on a vine ‘’ that gradually develops into spaces as network of successive branches.

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Biophilic waterfronts developments educate through deeply connecting with, and helping to steward nature, whether though a nature club, organized tours, fostering a plant or tree, or volunteering for nature restoration projects. As such, it becomes linked socially and technically to its region through knowledge sharing and awareness programs. They to limit the impact of resource use on nature and biodiversity beyond their urban borders and take steps to actively support the conservation of local ecosystems and habitats. Port Vell in Barcelona adopted a strategy for biophilic activities; the port contains an aquarium hosting multiple activities to spread awareness about marine life in addition to sophisticated environmental systems to limit impact on nature.

Recommendations and Conclusions Resilience is an increasingly important theme in an era of climate change. Agenda 2030 and its subsequent Sustainable Development Goals announced in 2015 have tackled directly how resilient coastal urban development’s contribute to the sustainability of urban communities (goal 11) in order to take climate action ( goal 13) and protect land and sea ( goal 14, 15). Resilient costal urban development assists indirectly the fight to end poverty and hunger (goal 1, 2), provides education, jobs and improves health and improve infrastructure (goal 3, 4, 8, 9). However , the resilience of coastal urban developments depend essentially on the Green rather than the blue. As such, urban waterfronts need to be planned as biophilic developments, fostering a deeper connection with nature, offering opportunities for an active lifestyle and becoming a living lab for biodiversity and environmental integrity. Biophilic urban waterfronts are places where by developing a deeper connection with nature, its residents, visitors and employees contribute actively to their sustainability. Biophilic urbanism models need to be developed specifically for the hot and humid climate and also the desert environment in order to propose innovative solutions on how we can plan waterfront developments to connect earth, sea and sky for them to outlast beyond 2030.

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Bridging communities By Marco Hemmerling Located at the RhineCarée, one of the most significant public urban spaces of Cologne, between the two major bridges, the Hohenzollernbrücke and the DeutzerBrücke, the RheinRing represents the new centre as well as the link between the two halves of Cologne inner city. The circular construction serves as an attractive pedestrian walkway directly accessible from the Altstadt, the historical city centre, on the west, and in the east from the Rhine Boulevard on the opposite side, as well as offering access to the flanking Rhine bridges. The free-floating ring above the river Rhine is a light arch construction that picks up formal references to the flanking Rhine bridges as well as to the special buildings nearby such as the Lanxess Arena, the main station building, the Museum Ludwig or the Sternwellen shade sail by Frei Otto. The geometry of the RheinRing is based on the mathematical model of a super ellipse, a flattened ellipse that mediates between the square and the round forms. The bridge above blends smoothly into the square of the Rhine Carrée and, following the same formal principle, forms wider and narrower areas, which arise from the planned utilization. The geometrical model introduced in 1959 by the Danish writer and inventor Piet Hein describes a form that is pleasing to the eye and which he himself describes as, “The super ellipse has the same convincing unity as the circle and ellipse, but it is less obvious and less banal, it is a relief from the straitjacket of the simpler curves of first and second powers, the straight line and the conic sections.”

The cantilever arch bridge forms a barrier-free and inviting access with its generously rounded passages to the water’s edge and to the existing Rhine bridges. Here the new pedestrian promenade joins the existing route forming a multi-layered road network.Since the support-free suspension requires no additional bridge piers in the Rhine Carrée, river traffic moving along the north-south axis remains unaffected. The mooring points of the Rhine river traffic which so far are only located on the western bank will now become evenly divided between both Rhine banks as laid down in the conceptual ideas which give both Rhine sides equal importance and they will be oriented in both shipping directions.The river, which is of such importance to Cologne allows for a more intensive and innovative experience through the RheinRing as an urban space in the inner city, highly frequented by pedestrians and cyclists. The additional urban space gained, has great potential for cultural events, sports and leisure activities. By bridging the two sides of the Rhine, the design takes up the central questions, which were broached in connection with the urban development master plan for the inner city of Cologne. Here multiple synergies are created in particular for the urban space Rhein, the core area, and the East-West link. Also, the characteristic ring structure of the city gains a more identityboosting center created by the curving pedestrian bridge, which serves both the needs of traffic andthose for recreation and it forms a new stage for public life in the centre of Cologne.

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103

9/8/16

10/18/16

Landscaping Elements & Irrigation Networks O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Landscaping Elements and Local Irrigation Networks.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Landscaping Elements & Irrigation Networks O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Landscaping Elements and Local Irrigation Networks - Contract S 104.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Irrigation Systems O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Landscaping Elements & Irrigation Networks O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Landscaping Elements and Local Irrigation Networks - Contract S 105.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Landscaping Elements & Irrigation Networks O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Landscaping Elements and Local Irrigation Networks - Contract S 102.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Landscaping Elements & Irrigation Networks O&M

Operation and Maintenance of Landscaping Elements and Local Irrigation Networks - Contract S 103.

Department of Municipal Affairs & Transport - Abu Dhabi Municipality

Abu Dhabi

9/25/16

10/17/16

Operation, Maintenance, Cleaning and Planting Services

Landscaping Maintenance

Maintenance of Landscaping

Ministry of Interior (Saudi Arabia) Muscat Municipality (Oman)

Saudi Arabia

1333

8/31/16

10/17/16

Oman

641

9/8/16

10/16/16

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