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s we go to press the UAE is celebrating its 41st National day and it’s with great pride that Landscape has been able to share some of the UAE’s most innovative urban design projects across our 12 issues in the past year. As we look forward to 2013, we have chosen to end the year with an array of projects that have been internationally recognized by various landscaping bodies and we believe will act as a benchmark for future projects. As the Europe and the US struggle with their ailing economies, the world has to look to Asia and in particular China for the new boom era. China is indeed at the forefront of some really exciting new projects. We feature China’s new Tianjin Binhai HighSpeed Rail station as it nears completion. The project encompasses the public domain on both the northern and southern sides of the station, including an area of around 80 hectares, which highlights the complexities of the landscaping due to the harsh weather conditions. (page 47) Also featured is China’s Celtic garden, which has been awarded in IFLA’s (International Federation of Landscape Architecture) international competition of landscape architecture and is going to be part of a 176 large park built to mark the 2013 universal landscape art exhibition in Jinzhou, China. In Jordan, the ASLA has awarded the Dead Sea Master Plan that is said to become a powerful road map for sustainable future development at critical historic and cultural sites all across Jordan. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers for their support and wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year!
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Bab Al Bahrain, plano vertical general situation and schemes idea
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ASLA Award Master Plan development for Jordan A higher level of inclusive play Interview with Peter Harradine Berkely Garden China speed rail network
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News & Events DM completes Al Warqa 2 residential park The General Projects Department at Dubai Municipality has completed Al Warqa 2 residential Park project stated by Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality.
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he total area of the park is 1.7 hectares which has been designed in line with standards and specifications of green cities for reducing cement spaces and increase green areas relying on the elements of eco-friendly materials. The highest standards of quality have been adopted to design the garden taking into account the people with special needs in the selection of appropriate games and ease of movement as well as the safety factor through the implimentation of a green wall to protect children. The garden consists of three main entrances, corridors, shaded wooden benches and signboards. In addition, there are areas for children’s plays, sandy areas for ball games for adults, synthetic jogging track and other buildings services. The park area is surrounded by herbal trees, shrubs and seasonal flowers with distinguished elements such as solar lights and other eco friendly features.
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One Home One Tree Campaign to welcome National Day In response to the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, for planting and caring of Union trees, Dubai Municipality has launched a campaign under the slogan ‘One Home One Tree’.
‘The launch of this campaign comes as part of Dubai Municipality’s keenness to promote patriotism and provide opportunities for the citizens to express this occasion reflecting the spirit of belonging and loyalty to the homeland,’ stated Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality. Lootah said that this occasion reflects the extent of awareness and sense of responsibility towards the nation and its environment. He pointed out that the municipality through this campaign distributed a tree for every house of the Emirate of Dubai.
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News & Events The Carpentry Workshop Dubai Garden Centre
DG of International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) participated actively in Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development in Uruguay. Dr Ismahane Elouafi, ICBA DirectorGeneral, attended the GCARD2 (Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development) conference, Foresight and partnership for innovation and impact on small-holder livelihoods, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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he conference, which is the second in a new series of global conferences held by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR http://www.egfar.org/) in collaboration with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) every two years, focused on how to implement
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actions and assess their impacts identified in theGCARD RoadMap. The RoadMap, which was an outcome of the 2010 GCARD1 conference, highlights the changes required in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) systems to reduce hunger and poverty, create opportunity for income growth while ensuring environmental sustainability and meeting the needs of resource-poor farmers and consumers. The forum also provided the ideal high-profile opportunity for the launch of the Association of International Research Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA). Speakers presented to the delegates the vision for AIRCA to drive the global push for Healthy Landscapes in order to increase global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture within healthy, sustainable and climate-smart landscapes.
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The Carpentry workshop conjures up an image in my mind of strong men with hammers, nails, chisels and with lots of lovely wood lying about. A sweet smell of sawdust and the sound of wooden products being created.
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his is not an image but is the reality at the Dubai Garden Centre Carpentry Workshop.
Danny Powell, General Manager at the Dubai Garden Centre explained “there was a niche to be filled in Dubai for wooden products to be tailor – made and I have been lucky enough to have found 4 exceptionally talented carpenters”. The Carpentry workshop is located at the back of the Dubai Garden Centre and is supervised by Jaspal Singh. Since its opening a few weeks ago Jaspal says “we have been very busy”. Items from Dog houses, to garden sheds, trellis and archways, sheds to hide pool equipment such as pumps, shop signage such as a café menu board, the variety is enormous. ‘We use mainly red meranti wood from Malaysia but of course we can work with any wood and we have two painters in the workshop” Jaspal explains. “The possibilities are endless from original design to reproducing existing product, we are even happy to do repairs just come down and talk to Jaspal” offered Danny.
The Carpentry workshop is open Saturday to Thursday 8.00am to 5.00pm. Fridays 8.00am to 1.00pm
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News & Events The General Projects Department at Dubai Municipality has completed Nad Al Hamar Park project stated by Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality.
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he total area of the park is four hectares which has been designed in line with standards and specifications of green cities for reducing cement spaces and increase green areas relying on the elements of eco-friendly materials.
The highest standards of quality have been adopted to design the garden taking into account the people with special needs in the selection of appropriate games and ease of movement as well as the safety factor through the implimentation of a green wall to protect children.
There are not many places in the U.A.E where you can find a forest of trees 10 metres high but in the new extension of the Dubai Garden Centre you can.
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he entrance off Sheikh Zayed Road will have a magnificent, glass Swift conservatory complete with stone floor. To the left will be an exquisite show garden with paved courtyard, showcasing BBQ’s , as well as the Jamie Oliver wood fired ovens big and small. Then your eyes will feast upon tree after tree towering as high as the shade cloth roof and beyond. The urban tree farm has been laid out by tree types for your ease and convenience.
You will first find Bonsai, Topiary and Cacti then Ornamentals and Succulents followed by Olive and Fruit trees, then row upon row of tall, mature Palms and other Trees. Advanced palms
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In addition, there are areas for children’s plays, sandy areas for ball games for adults, synthetic jogging track and other buildings services.
The park area is surrounded by herbal trees, shrubs and seasonal flowers with distinguished elements such as solar lights and other eco friendly features. The park will be opened soon for the public with adequate parking facility.
New Extension to the Dubai Garden Centre
such as the majestic Cuban Royals, Foxtails, Areca, Date, Coconut and Royal just to name a few.
You are confronted by ancient, thick trunked olive trees, gnarled, mature grapevines, you turn a corner and you are next to an orange grove.
Landscape supplies such as railway sleepers, bricks, boulders, rocks, marble, slat, lawn edges, wheelbarrows etc. are also displayed near the back and there is even a driveway and open gate at the back to provide an easy access loading bay for cars, trucks or utilities. Danny Powell, General Manager of the Dubai Garden Centre explains “the extension was needed as the
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The garden consists of three main entrances, corridors, shaded wooden benches and signboards.
current store was too small for the increased product range we are now stocking and we wanted to satisfy the Customer demand for mature plants, landscaping supplies and large garden items such as fountains, lengthy Acacia wood tables, planted arches and obelisks as well as very, very big pots etc“. The wooden tables are stunning, you could easily seat 20 people at one sitting but they really are objects of beautiful, natural wood.
There is a long wall running down one side of the extension and this has now become the ‘Wall of Fame’ which is sponsored by 7days newspaper and the Dubai Garden Centre. An idea to encourage local artists to display
and sell their work, this wall will be available to artists ‘free of charge’ during the weekend and will start 1 December 2012. Amongst the foliage will be Dave, a very big dinosaur that is happy to give rides to children without eating them. The atmosphere is one of serenity and peace and as you walk through you can hear water falling from the many water features. Stone tortoises, elephants and Buddha’s peak out from the foliage.
This expanse of luscious greenery has attracted local bird life and their happy whistles and chirping add to the already wonderful creation of the Dubai Garden Centre expansion.
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News & Events
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workshops for companies and associations with free entrance.
The Italian Pool Award comes back in 2013, the recognition of design and construction excellence of Italian pools. This year in addition to the Indoor Award for indoor pools and the Outdoor Award for outdoor poolsrespectively in the Private and Commercial pool categories, the competition presents important news: the category dedicated to the biological pool, a typology that each years has an increase in its admirers. The complete rules with indications on the procedure of sending material and due dates for registrations is available in the site www.forumpiscine.it In conjunction with ForumPiscine is the fourteenth edition of ForumClub, Expo and International Congress for Fitness, Wellness and Aquatic Clubs. In the exhibition area – dedicated to news on equipment, products, accessories and services for the realization and management for fitness and wellness clubs, sport centers and natatorium facilities – ForumClub will also have their own International Congress that for more than ten years has responded to the needs and formation of entrepreneur, managers, instructors and personal trainers in fitness and wellness clubs. All updates on the Congress and the procedure for participation is available on www.forumpiscine.it and www.forumclub.it.
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Shared Wisdom in an Age of Change
New Zealand will be hosting the 50th International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress (IFLA) in Auckland from 10th – 12th April 2013. The theme for the 50th IFLA World Congress will focus on knowledge sharing around the increasingly challenging issues facing our local and global environments in an age of considerable and frequently dramatic change. It will provoke thought as to how we as the landscape profession can and should participate in the shaping and management of the future. An exciting and inspiring array of international and local speakers will contribute to an exploration of the Congress theme and sub-themes of which include Resilient Cities and Communities. Don’t miss out on THE landscape architecture Congress of the year. Register now (online at www.ifla2013.com).
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Development
Bab Al Bahrain by Juan Carlos Garcia: plano vertical general situation and schemes idea
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the big challenge is work with two different scales one is the skyscraper with 200 meters high and in front of the Souq scale with around three floors. Developing points We connect the main streets in Manama with the building in the square in both sides of the Faisal highway.We have to solve the extreme climate conditions and generate it as an oasis. A landscape with shadows and water that temperate the hot temperature. We Epilogue Our Project tries to offer a peacefully landscape. From the square emerging the ground as a tree grow slowly and it is own way. A new order. It is necessary to connect the souq with the seafront area with a pedestrian axis. The yards are sited to adapting to the movements of the inhabitants an guide them among the pathways guiding the paths. A change of density is required in our area where The space is opened as wings. For the Master-Plan and new design in the Bab al Bahrain. We studied the urban-form of Manama. The sense of the project is how integrate the contemporary public space with the old city. This area is now invaded for services spaces like parking, hotels, malls, stores, fabrics. Otherwise It is the border of king Faisal highway and in front of the highway is the Bahrain financial harbour in the seafront district. We have to get a meeting square for the inhabitant of Bahrain that it is near downtown but with good system of communication with the wharf and the sea. By the other hand
operate the terrain to get the accurate surface for our program. We connect the main streets behind the square with underground streets and place the parking with around 1200 car park. One of the main problem of this services area is the lack green zones. We studied especially the gardens and park. The Bab al Bahrain in referential space and main axis of the city from the beginning of Al Manamah actually after the city have increased on inhabitants civil structures has been built. As an important port-city has been looking the sea since foundation. It is trying to recover the origin opening the city to the sea. We are enhancing the directional axis from Bab Al Bahrain av. As pathways of communication from downtown to the sea. This axis as equal than ways among dunes run around hills surprising and offering new views to enjoy the landscape. The platforms and yards is covered with wild grasses and compact sand. The main pathways is covered with timber. The entrance to the square will build with limestone asphalt. The ways are covered with textile sheets tempered the resoleil creating shadows in both directions. The building are sitting arising to get enough high to found. Each building have backyard to get light and ventilation.
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Lightning: We design the illumination to pedestrian area without columns. We use beacons on the floor to keep the lines of the sense of the project. Ways, in main points and use deflector direction.
Almost It is placed three artifitial lakes on foro areas. Because the lack of green areas and with extra pure water from the plant. It must plan global civil structures and new buildings public buildings and site post office. We build a carpark (1200) with 22.000 msq on two floors underground and connect government ave, road 1507 and Al Fardah Av. We understand the sense of our occupation with the sector in front of Bahrain financial Harbour. We connector both sides with a pedestrian bridge over the King Faisal Highway. We Project six public buildings, Two buildings for car-park and vendors, national archives, children´s museum, Islamic culture center and a new postoffice. We solve the electricity switching with a wind park on the sea with 8 twist tower. We project a salinition plant to get pure water for the new sector and green areas.
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Urban furniture: The design of the urban furniture as prefabricated banks of artifitial stone. The design come from the lines of pathways. rogram: Parking 1600 Shadow spaces Green Area Prade Area Post office Offices Water space Playground Areas for Reading rest areas Food vendors Plantation: 2000 units Phoenix dactylifera 650 units Orange tree 450 units Lemmon tree 1350 units Phoenix canariensis 7500 units Lavandula 4600 units Rosmariensis 1750 units. Almonds trees 640 units. Pomegranates 850 units. figs 3000 sqm. Salicornia perennis 8000 sqm. Chenopodiaceae 5600 sqm. Chenopodiaceae murale Mix with cynodon dactylon wild grasses
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ASLA Award Master Plan development for Jordan The Master Plan provides a powerful road map for sustainable future development at critical historic and cultural sites all across Jordan.
he Dead Sea Master Plan provides a sustainable, visionary plan that preserves and enriches the stunning ecology of the Sea; promotes no-build zones and integrated growth patterns; and encourages economic development that will benefit local communities. The comprehensive Master Plan includes landscape design, market analyses, and design guidelines, all based on climate and infrastructural realities. The Kingdom of Jordan must take an innovative approach to economic development. To that end, the Government of Jordan has established a series of six “Development Zones” in which efforts are directed to increase foreign and domestic investment. The “Dead Sea Development Zone”, one among the six zones, encompasses 40 square kilometers of coastal
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land along the Dead Sea, the lowest body of water on earth and a stunning historic setting. Challenges to development at the Dead Sea begin with a legacy of short-sighted planning efforts. An aggressive parcelization plan executed in the 1990s resulted in the disposition of hundreds of hectares of ecologically sensitive, culturally important, and economically valuable coastal land to developers at low prices with few restrictions. As a result, stretches of insular, private resorts now block views and access to the Sea. Most vacant coastal land has since been sold to developers, who plan to continue this pattern of exclusive privatization. A lack of basic infrastructure and scarcity of resources primarily fresh water and waste treatment strategies further hinder development and pose immediate public health problems for the nearby existing community of Sweimeh, an economically depressed village to which tourist development has turned its back. The Dead Sea’s many assets — which the current development pattern threatens — include health benefits, diverse and beautiful ecological systems, and an impressive cultural history. As part of the current planning effort, an extensive site analysis with a focus on the site’s natural systems has revealed both what attracts visitors to the Dead Sea and the critical measures needed to protect these assets from exploitation
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The first step in framing the Master Plan was the setting aside of ecologically sensitive land for conservation. Critical “no-build” zones included existing wadis and watersheds (mountainous and alluvial variety), ecologically sensitive warm water springs and vegetation, existing slopes greater than 25%, threatened Tamarisk tree species, and Important Bird Areas (IBAs). The resulting conservation plan in concert with a developable land inventory forms the basis for sustainable, balanced interventions at the Dead Sea. The Master Plan is then conceived as a series of districts, formed within this comprehensive landscape and conservation framework. Each district has its own mixed use ‘activity node’ providing a critical mass of services including public water access, views, vibrant street life and a range of development opportunities for all scales of investment from international developers to local businesses. A spectrum of sustainable infrastructure systems — an improved road network, public transportation, fresh water supply, waste water treatment, and utilities — stitch the districts together.
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Emphasizing the Public Realm Critical to promoting a robust, sustainable economy at the Dead Sea is enhancing and improving all aspects of the public realm in a sustainable way. Fostering a vibrant public life and public interactions — outside the realm of private resort environments — affords visitors and resident’s opportunities to engage in public commerce, enjoy new public spaces and gathering areas, gain access the Sea, and foster a newfound sense of community. The proposed “Corniche District” — a dynamic mixeduse boulevard that forms an edge to a new ecological preserve and new public beaches — exemplifies these priorities. Public services and amenities serve the entire site and are clustered in a new district adjacent to the village of Sweimeh, a small and struggling community of 4,200 residents. Much-needed public space, health care facilities, educational opportunities, affordable housing, and other industries and services initiate a critical mass of commercial activity. The development of the “Sweimeh District” diversifies the economic base of the Dead Sea and provides employment opportunities and services to residents.
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Spatial and design priorities include promoting landscape connectivity and access to the Sea. Land to the east of the Dead Sea Highway is cut off from the water not only by a wall of privatized land and inwardly focused developments but by the busy Highway itself. The Master Plan identifies all available seaside parcels and proposes they be developed as mixed-use nodes focused on public open space and access to the Sea. Proposed development near the cluster of resorts abutting the existing Convention Center demonstrates increased connectivity across the Dead Sea Highway and to the Sea itself. Available coastal parcels, wedged between large, insular resorts, provide a new model of development, respecting natural assets, incorporating open space, and welcoming commerce, public life, and pedestrian activity.
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Sustainability strategies permeate the plan from a regional scale to a building scale. The scarcity of fresh water is addressed through a careful analysis of future supply and the introduction of measures to mitigate demand. A proposed centralized Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) will recycle precious water for irrigation while solving basic public health and pollution problems caused by insufficient waste infrastructure. Public transportation — within districts, throughout the site, and connecting to regional destinations — reduces reliance on private vehicles. At a district level, streets and blocks are laid out to minimize solar heat gain on buildings. At the building scale, guidelines informed by the Jordanian Green Building initiative promote sustainable strategies such as building shading, material selection, and xeric planting palettes that conserve resources while referencing regional design and enhancing a sense of place.
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Environment
Creating a welcoming, safe and accessible environment is just as important as the play equipment you put in it. A well-designed environment makes the space more comfortable and user friendly for children and families of all ages and abilities.
A higher level of inclusive play
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ver the years, we have learned that accessibility is not enough. Simply getting a child with limited mobility onto the playground doesn’t necessarily enhance their play experience. Nor does it take into consideration children with sensory deficits and other developmentalissues.
A Higher Level of Inclusive Play™ brings together children of all abilities, meeting a variety of needs on a single playground.
It may sound like a tall order, but inclusive play doesn’t have to be daunting. Our design philosophy addresses the environment, the play experience and variability. We believe that the combination of these elements allow every child to choose how they want to engage in the playspace. Our process is grounded in best practices from experts in the field of Universal Design, developmentally appropriate practices in play for all children and our collective history of what is needed to support all children.
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Inclusive playspace design takes deliberate planning, but the reward is a community play area that embraces every member! Flexibility/Options While many children readily flock to large playstructures, some feel more comfortable in smaller, cozier spaces. The addition of groundlevel activities allow small groups to explore different play experiences at their own pace. Provide gradually increasing levels of challenge. Your design may include overhead events at different heights or create combinations of stepping forms and balance beams. Self Directed Watching children at play, we’ve noticed how they naturally gravitate toward activities that capture their interest and correspond with their abilities. By offering a variety of equitable yet diverse options, you’re providing a wide range of self-directed play opportunities in a layout that accommodates the needs of the widest range of users.
Better playgrounds. Better world.™ Since 1971, Landscape Structures has been committed to enhancing children’s lives by fostering and creating inspiring play experiences while honoring the environment. We create innovative playground equipment to inspire children to grow strong bodies and minds so their futures remain bright. And to further ensure a better tomorrow, we are sensitive to the environment through manufacturing practices that minimize our impact on the earth. Our goal from day one has been to foster healthy children playing in healthy communities year after year, generation after generation.
Cognitive
Kids learn by doing. A playground can reinforce learning and enhance problem-solving skills with games, mazes, maps of the world, tracing panels and more. Cognitive play can happen individually, in an interactive group, and in teachable moments between adults and children. Physical
All kids benefit from activities such as balance and coordination, muscle strength and endurance, cardiovascular exercise and motor planning. To meet as many needs and skill levels as possible, consider including graduated levels of challenge, complex alternative routes, elements that encourage cross-lateral movement and a variety of developmentally appropriate risks. Social/Emotional
The playground is a wonderful opportunity for children to grow both socially and emotionally.
Variability
Inclusive playgrounds should present a variety of play opportunities to meet the widest range of children’s abilities, needs and interests. Such a playground will continue to support children as they grow, offering new challenges as they master one component and move on to another. Variability meets a child’s curiosity with a developmentally appropriate challenge, building comfortably on the skills they already possess to help them gain new skills. By striking this balance and achieving a “just right fit,” children are encouraged to challenge themselves in ways that they can control and manage.
Play Experience
Playgrounds can offer many opportunities for children to further develop physical, cognitive, sensory and social skills. An inclusive design includes a balance of play experiences to build all these skills. As they challenge themselves physically, they also learn how to manage joy and frustration, friendship and conflict, while developing a stronger sense of self along the way. Whether engaged in parallel play, quiet play or active social play, an inclusive playground provides plenty of opportunities for children to get their current social and emotional needs met. Include a variety of gathering spots, some that can accommodate several children as well as cozy, quiet spaces for just a few. Sensory
Children of all ages, physical and developmental abilities are attracted to sensory activities. A sensoryrich inclusive play environment can bring all of these children together while providing each one with the sensory experiences they seek. Most kids enjoy sliding, spinning, swinging and climbing. Besides being fun, these activities sharpen our internal senses — vestibular (awareness of how our body moves through space and against gravity) and proprioception (awareness of body position and how much force is needed for an activity). The sense of touch is a whole-body experience. We recommend making a wide range of materials and textures available for touch — rough and smooth, hard and soft. Natural elements such as sand and water or flowers and plants provide ever-changing multi-sensory experiences.
Kids of all abilities are captivated by displays of color, moving objects and visually stimulating surfaces. Interactive play panels promote both individual and interactive play. Keep in mind that color can generate strong responses for visually sensitive children. In these instances, consider simple color schemes in more muted color tones and/or earth tones.
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“Every golf course is a big garden” Peter Harradine
S Peter Harradine designed and co-designed over 160 golf courses
ome of the UAE’s most ambitious amateur golfers gathered at the Creek Golf Club this week for the Audi quattro Cup – the world’s most popular tournament series for amateur golfers. The venue is a place close to Peter Harradine’s heart. The Swiss is the Principal and Senior Architect of “Harradine Golf” which is a company with offices in the UAE that has designed, constructed, re-modeled and supervised the construction of over 200 golf courses in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. “Our landscaping company Orient Irrigation Services together with Al Naboodah was responsible for the construction of the up-grading of the
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Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club course which was originally designed by Karl Litten”, he says. For Peter Harradine every golf course is a big garden. Harradine is an avid golfer himself, who has retired from playing due to a back injury. With a former handicap of 5 he has now moved on to being a spectator, but still encourages his sons and his design team to play. He considers most of the golf courses he designed around the world to be his second home and is proud of being the mastermind behind some great golf courses in the Arabian Gulf, including the Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa Golf Course, Doha Golf Club in Qatar, the National at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, The Sharjah Golf and Shooting Club and the Al Hamra Golf Course in Ras Al Khaimah.
You designed some of the greatest golf courses in the Arabian Gulf. How would you characterize a perfect golf course? For the majority of golfers in the UAE and the rest of the world a good golf course is not really about the site, layout or how challenging it is. They’re judging the course by their own success. For them the course evaluation is simple: good score – good course, bad score – bad course. I try to design my courses so that they are
easy to play but difficult to score. And most golfers do not see the beauty around them; they concentrate on only the ball. Playing golf is like being in a rally – you focus on the track, you cannot unwind. What is your favorite golf course? I like the Emirates Golf Course in Dubai. It was the first course in the UAE and I have some fond memories playing there with my sons. The National in Abu Dhabi I favor because of the parkland character, that was
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created out of a white salt flat, and the various options it offers for the players. What is the biggest challenge in designing a golf course? It is important for me and my team to rely on the natural preservation and integration of the existing topography and environment. We try to improve or enhance the particular features of each site in order to create a unique course for that particular location and not just a copy of one of the courses built elsewhere. We want to deliver courses that are a challenge to good players whilst avoiding unnecessary hazards and frustrations to the less experienced golfer.
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Furthermore each course should reflect the region; it should be a local, distinct and unique experience. What is so fascinating about this sport? Golf is a very strategic game. You never get bored. How do you rate the popularity of this sport in the UAE and the quality of the game? The standard of golf in the Middle East is better than in Europe. Although most golfers are playing just for fun, they love to compete. If you play golf, you like to reduce your handicap and prove your abilities.
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Lauri Twitchell:Photos by Peter Suchecki:Staircase & Grotto originally built in 1922-24
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Lauri Twitchell:Photos by Peter Suchecki: Area painting group in flower & vegetable garden in June
Photos by Peter Suchecki: Square pool garden in full bloom in September
Photos by Peter Suchecki:West side of Blake Side. Stairs & path built by U.C. Landscape Architect students
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The garden was deeded to the Landscape Architecture Department in 1957 by Anson and Anita Blake. Their original family home was on Piedmont Avenue where the UC stadium now stands. The building of the stadium prompted the building of two homes in the Kensington hills, Anson Blakeʼs house, now Blake Garden, and the Edwin Blake house, now the Carmelite Monastery. The siting of Blake house is integral to the garden’s design: it shelters the Formal Garden from the strong prevailing winds off the Golden Gate. The grounds for both estates were designed by Mrs. Blake’s sister, Mabel Symmes, who graduated from Cal’s Landscape Architecture Department in 1914. Ms. Symmes’ original plan showed great sensitivity to the site. Much of her original plan can still be seen in
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the design of the Pink and Yellow Gardens with its grotto, inspired by the Villa Tusculana at Frascati, Italy and the reflecting pool which was part of a system to take advantage of underground water. The Redwood Canyon, with redwoods cuttings brought from the Blake’s property in Berkeley and St. Helena, is planted along a natural waterway. The original plan also shows a lake in the Australian Hollow, taking advantage of the high water table in that part of the garden. The area was restored in 2010 to a native wetland by U.C. students and Blake Garden staff along with some volunteers. The wetland now provides habitat to a community of Pacific Chorus frogs and area birds. Other parts of the garden include: the Mediterranean Garden on the western side of house, a showcase of drought-tolerant plants from the world’s Mediterranean
climates; the Cottage Garden, full of roses, flowers for cutting, vegetables and herbs; the Square, with its water lily-filled pond, and beds brimming with low- water perennials; and the Event Lawn and surrounding beds, another fine example of watersmart gardening. The garden is home to nearly 1500 plant species, over fifty bird species, as well as raccoons, frogs, salamanders, and the occasional fox. The garden is all organic, with many sustainable practices including four kinds of composting, rainwater harvesting, and hives of honeybees. Additionally, the ‘Create with Nature Zone’ offers a space for visitors of all ages to experiment and build with materials collected from the garden. Please visit the Garden’s blog at: www.laep.ced. berkeley.edu/blakegarden Photos by Peter Suchecki:Bench designed & built by U.C. Landscape Architect Students. Seating made with mostly recycled redwood from the graden
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Celtic Garden
Land 30’s project for Jinzhou’s 2013 World Landscape Art Exposition
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The Celtic garden was awarded in IFLA’s (International Federation of Landscape Architecture) international competition of landscape architecture and is going to be part of a 176 large park built to mark the 2013 universal landscape art exhibition in Jinzhou, China.
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Land30 is a young and energetic studio with a multidisciplinary team of professionals sharing artistic and environmental sensibilities as well as a passion for design. It has its epicenter in Spain and spreads through Europe with its collaborators. The approach is holistic and their attention to detail is renowned. Starting with a solid concept and developing it like a sculptor that chisels through a rough stone until a polished final proposal is achieved. Studying the context of the project is important: climate, ecology, culture, history, etc. This leads to a careful selection of soft and hard materials, shapes, colours and aesthetics to fit into the context of a project.
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Kierland Commons Scottsdale, Arizona By Design Workshop
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ormulating principles that would maximize personal comfort, Design Workshop rejected typical suburban shopping center layouts, with their large expanses of asphalt for wide streets and parking lots and instead embraced an urban configuration that would compress streets and plazas to encourage outdoor use. The pedestrian-oriented setting locates a mix of uses within a convenient walking distance of each other. With over 570,487 square feet (53,000 square meters) of mixed-use buildings that feature fashionable retailers, upscale restaurants, high-end condominiums, corporate offices, narrow streets and a town park for everyone to enjoy, Kierland Commons is the first urban village to successfully integrate mixed-uses in an urban outdoor setting in the region despite summertime temperatures exceeding 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius) on a regular basis. Almost every other notable mixed-use project in the region is indoor, air-conditioned and with lower retail sales per square foot (or square meter). One of Kierland Commons’ biggest challenges was addressing the human comfort for people walking outside in the hot Arizona heat. Design Workshop and the developer realized they could satisfactorily address this issue through creative shading and conditioning solutions, which also would help drive retail and housing sales. Fundamental to this goal was the organization and orientation of its streets and buildings. Kierland’s central main street and the buildings that line it are positioned in an ideal solar orientation, east-to-west, which means that the short end of buildings and the outdoor sidewalks are not directly exposed to the hot afternoon sun and the heat from the west.
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Moreover, the streets and buildings are more tightly spaced to provide shading by buildings and canopies that hang above the public sidewalks. The addition of landscape shade canopies over the sidewalks and in front of the retail storefronts at the street level was an innovative idea despite the concept being met with great resistance from the retail brokers and tenants. The idea was fundamental to the project’s success; shading of the sidewalks during the summer months enabled shoppers and visitors to be more comfortable and to shop longer. These landscape canopies provide enough shading that the covered sidewalks are approximately 42 degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 degrees Celsius) cooler than the exposed streets nearby. In addition, the unique style of the canopies gives the project a resort ambiance, unique amongst other shopping districts in the region. The net effect of the shading concepts has resulted in retail prices of $675 per square foot ($43,000 RMB per square meter), which is better than any other retail project in the metropolitan region especially in the summer months when many stores and restaurants typically see their sales figures decline. Prioritizing the pedestrian experience and community amenities were especially important to attract people from nearly 20 miles (30 kilometers) away, the desired trade area of this project. The Design Workshop team looked at different options for a central public space including large central lawn town plaza and shaded town park. The designers recommended that a shaded town plaza be located at the center of the project so it can be used for gatherings and events year round. The town plaza is now used for a variety of activities including promotional displays, product demonstrations, auto/boat shows, ride and drive events, autograph signings, professional and community-based concerts and performances, vendor shows and fairs, etc. The central plaza (complete with lawn, a palm grove and interactive pop-jet fountain) has become so popular with local residents that on warm and sunny afternoons you’ll find families with young children in the plaza for hours on end. The restaurants that surround the town plaza enjoy some of the highest sales of any restaurants in the district. Retail sales are only one metric of success. Above the shops are corporate offices and high-end housing units. The lease and occupancy rates of the offices are some of the highest in the area. The housing units have enjoyed similar prosperity. In fact, housing units that face the town park have very high resale values despite the fact that most of them face directly south towards the sun. Recently, sales of several units have been reported to equal $700 per square foot ($48,000 RMB per square meter). Even with such high prices, people have bought them because they want the best that Kierland Commons has
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ӊaĂ–ZĂ´fĎ€g øª°VAĂ‰Â°â€ Ă˜dGäÉcĆ’Âľe !?半Ñ£dGÉfĂ´XÉÌe Design Workshop Team Members – Todd Johnson Jeff McMenimen Roger Socha David Davis Tom Snyder External Team Members – Communication Arts Primus Engineering EDAW Awards Received – 2009 Award of Excellence Urban Land Institute 2003 “Crescordiaâ€? Award for Environmental Excellence Valley Forward Association 2004 Honor Award Arizona Chapter of the American Society for Landscape Architects
åèdE Ç s r d Ç vK rFM ÂŹW U'Ç W èÇd B Ç ÉdO WOD Ă¨Ăƒ âd äèĂ? to offer: close proximity and the ability to walk to shop, dine, work and play in a unique garden environment. Éd Çè W Ă?U ĂŠU UJ S TheWoodbine Company, owner of Kierland Commons, is proud to be a community partner, strivingL% to meet community UN `O challenges through a combination of employee volunteerism, financial support, in-kind donations and partnerships with š WOFO d UM non-profit organizations which have missions consistent with the owner’s vision and values. They have established longterm affiliations with a variety of prominent organizations in the region such as the Little Legends at Scottsdale Healthcare-Shea Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Additionally, Kierland Commons supports important sustainability initiatives like a trash recycling program, electrically powered security vehicles, desert plantings and time irrigation controls to save water, and LED holiday lighting (which lowers the project’s carbon footprint). Kierland Commons has been praised for its environmental excellence as a model for livable communities and was the only Phoenix project to be designated by the International Council of Shopping Centers as a “Lifestyle Center.â€? Furthermore, the project recently received the Award of Excellence by the Urban Land Institute, one of only 10 projects in North America.
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China’s highspeed rail network will become the most expansive in the world as new additions reach completion. This feat of engineering is changing the nature of public transport across the country.
he project wasn’t without its challenges, the design challenge included resolving the interchange between transport modes as well as presenting the opportunity for designers to focus on passenger experience in the delivery of a new type of transport-related public space. Tianjin Binhai High-Speed Rail station is located in the new district of Binhai, and is a planned point of interchange between high-speed rail, three metro lines, local and regional bus routes as well as local taxi services. The HASSELL design for the public domain aims to seamlessly integrate these services by providing connections above and below the plaza surface; opening lines of sight between the previously planned entry points; and forming a series of strategic spatial manoeuvres to provide comfortable and efficient passenger movement. The project encompasses the public domain on both the northern and southern sides of the station, including an area of around 80 hectares. The HASSELL solution proposes two distinct settings for the station, with an urban garden to the north and an urban interchange plaza on the southern side. LANDSCAPE DESIGN The garden areas on the northern side of the station have been designed to provide protected areas from the cold winter winds, through the creation of sunken entry ramps. The selection of endemic plant species, together with their strategic location, aims to offer visual interest with varying colours through the seasons, while minimising maintenance requirements in winter.
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The harsh environment of Tianjin had major implications for the design, generating a number of the key sustainability initiatives. The plaza form allows light to penetrate the underground areas and provides ventilation of the sub-surface concourse spaces, while also creating two protected and green atrium spaces for interchange movement and improved lines of sight. When resolving the ‘in-between’ spaces that surround these large pieces of urban infrastructure, it was critical that the precinct engaged with the street edge. This has been achieved through the insertion of retail buildings, which activate the street and sunken plazas and draw people down into the metro station.
Project details Project name: Tianjin Binhai Transport Interchange – Public Domain Location: Binhai New District, Tianjin, China Client: Tianjin Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation Designer: HASSELL Scale: 80 hectares Status: Work in progress Imagery: HASSELL Awards: 2012 World Architecture Festival Awards- Overall Winner - Future Projects - Infrastructure
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Produced through a collaborative team model, the design objectives of a landscape architecture project expanded to encompass broader spatial alterations to the metro station and focus on improving the passenger experience across all transport modes. Generated through the involvement of urban designers looking at access to the rail and metro stations, as well as architects focusing on improving interchange movement, the interventions that simultaneously shaped above-ground and sub-surface spaces meant the resulting design scheme was as an integrated response. Prepared for the Third Railway Institute, which was responsible for delivering the project on behalf of the Tianjin Economic Development Agency (TEDA), it was necessary to achieve a number of complex objectives across many levels. Undertaken at a stage when much of the structural and site planning tasks of the transport planning project were nearing completion, an intelligent approach was required to meet the client’s objectives within a limited timeframe. The ultimate goal that had been eluding previous schemes – satisfying the planning officials for the district – was achieved through the clear communication of the potential for improving the experiences of users of the many Tianjin transport networks converging at this site. Tianjin Binhai Transport Interchange won the Future Projects – Infrastructure category at the 2012 World Architecture Festival. “The project delivers a highly complex brief to integrate a transport interchange that links a very large highspeed-rail terminal, the metro and the bus. The structures are humanised and create spaces which are full of light and cleverly landscaped,” noted the Judge
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group of viewers stumble upon a secluded garden. Framed by walls with a viewing window, the group peer inside to find a garden adorned to entice the senses. Their eyes look over the rich colours, their ears listen to the sounds of running water, they smell the aromas of eriostemon, their mouths water as they see the fruit hanging from the fruit trees, they lean in the window and touch the asparagus ferns. The viewers are both enchanted yet intrigued at the same time by this mysterious garden; Who eats from those trees? Who sleeps on that bed? Who drinks at that table? In one of the walls the group finds an entrance to the garden; a doorway covered entirely in grass, which appears to get narrower as you get closer to the garden. Everyone of your senses beckons you to enter the garden‌.
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This garden has been designed with different elements in order to entice and tantalise each of the five senses. The elements (such as the day bed) have been designed to appear that they are coming out of the garden itself; importantly, it is the elements which adapt to the garden, rather than the garden being designed to accompany key structural elements. The dense plantings help to create the perception of a plentiful, beautiful, indulgent, and alluring garden for the senses.
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Ross refined his design and construction skills working with Melbourne International Flower and Garden SHow gold medal winning, Paal Grant Designs. Ross currently teaches Horticulture and Sustainable Landscape Design part time and was awarded the Don Flemming Medal at this years Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. The garden was designed and built by Ross Uebergang of RossU Design & Landscape. website: www.rossu.com. au email: info@rossu.com.au. InStyle Gardens helped with the construction and was sponsored by Landscaping Victoria our states Landscape Industry Association.
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Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
Saudi Arabia
N/A
Jacobs DCSA (Saudi Arabia)
3500000000
Current Project
Emirates Aluminium Limited - EMAL (Abu Dhabi)
UAE
N/A
Outotec (Germany)
80000000
Current Project
Industrial Investments Company (IIC Steel) – Egypt Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon)
Green Carbon Plant Project - Aluminium Smelter Complex Phase 2
Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the development of a new elastomers project, which will produce more than 400,000 tonnes of rubber, thermoplastic specialty polymer and carbon black. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build a green carbon plant, as part of Phase 2 of the aluminium complex in Khalifa Port & Industrial Zone.
Wafa & Mellitah Complex Fuel Station Construction Project
Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build a fuel station in Wafa and Mellitah Complex.
Mellitah Oil & Gas Services Company (Libya)
Libya
N/A
N/A
N/A
New Project
Safaniya Oil Field Development Project - Phase 2
Development of offshore Safaniya oil field - Phase 2.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)
Saudi Arabia
N/A
N/A
500000000
New Project
Electric Network Construction Project West Buraydah Substation 8840
Construction of 132kV electric network for West Buraydah Substation 8840.
Saudi Electricity Company - Central Region (Saudi Arabia)
Saudi Arabia
N/A
Capital Lights Company for Electro-Mechanical (Saudi Arabia)
7000000
Current Project
Elastomers Project
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