LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE NOW

Description

One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green areas around houses, stadiums or corporate headquarters have taken on a considerable importance, all the more so with the emphasis on ecology and green design. This book calls on the work of the top designers of the moment, from Ken Smith, author of the Museum of Modern Art’s rooftop garden, to West 8 from Rotterdam, but also on architects ranging from Steven Holl to Tadao Ando, who have long been fascinated by the environments of their buildings. There are new names like the Lebanese landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic and well-known ones like Renzo Piano. There are established firms, like the Wirtz family from Belgium or Gustafson Porter from the United States, and young creators like Sophie Agata Ambroise from Lugano. Landscape architecture may not always be easy to delimit, but this new book opens the doors and windows of today’s architecture into the gardens of tomorrow.

CONTENTS

• AECOM: Pier Head and Canal Link, Liverpool, UK
• – Civic Space Park, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
• Tadao Ando: Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan
• – Lee Ufan Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
• Balmori Associates: The Garden That Climbs the Stairs, Bilbao, Spain
• Patrick Blanc: Orchid Waltz, National Theater Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
• – Max Juvénal Bridge, Aix-en-Provence, France
• M. Caffarena / V. Cobos / G . Alcaraz / G. Delgado: Centenary Park, Punta San García, Algeciras, Spain
• João Luís Carrilho da Graça: Archeological Museum of Praça Nova do Castelo de São Jorge, Costa do Castelo, Portugal
• – Pedestrian Bridge, Carpinteira River, Covilhã, Portugal
• Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez: Adriana Varejão Gallery, Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Brumadinho, Brazil
• Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Hypar Pavilion Lawn, New York, New York, USA
• Vladimir Djurovic: Hariri Memorial Garden, Beirut, Lebanon
• – Salame Residence, Faqra, Lebanon
• Peter Eisenman: City of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Glavovic Studio: Young Circle ArtsPark, Hollywood, Florida, USA
• Gustafson Guthrie Nichol: Lurie Garden, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• – Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, Washington, D.C., USA
• Gustafson Porter: Old Market Square, Nottingham, UK
• – Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park, London, UK
• Zaha Hadid: Eleftheria Square Redesign, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Herzog & de Meuron: Plaza de España, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• Steven Holl: Vanke Center / Horizontal Skyscraper, Shenzhen, China
• – HEART: Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
• Martin Hurtado: Izaro Estate, Casablanca Valley, Chile
• – Morandé Winery Productive Services, Casablanca Valley, Chile
• James Corner Field Operations / Diller Scofidio + Renfro: The High Line, New York, New York, USA
• Raymond Jungles: 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
• – Coconut Grove, Florida Garden, Coconut Grove, Florida, USA
• Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei / Helmut Hornstein: Georg-Büchner-Plaza, Darmstadt, Germany
• Maya Lin: Storm King Wavefield, Mountainville, New York, USA
• – Eleven Minute Line, Wanås, Sweden
• Giovanni Maciocco: Anglona Paleobotanic Park, North Sardinia, Italy
• Michael Maltzan: Playa Vista Park and Bandshell, Los Angeles, USA
• Mecanoo: TU Campus, Mekel Park, Delft, The Netherlands
• Fernando Menis: Cuchillitos de Tristán Park, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• Eduardo de Miguel: Cabecera Park, Valencia, Spain
• Miralles Tagliabue EMBT: HafenCity Public Spaces, Hamburg, Germany
• Catherine Mosbach: L’autre rive (The Other Bank), Quebec, Canada
• Yoshiaki Nakamura: Miho Museum Gardens, Shigaraki, Shiga, Japan
• NBGM Landscape Architects: The Freedom Park, Salvokop, Tshwane, Pretoria, South Africa
• Victor Neves: Reorganization of the Riverside of Esposende, Esposende, Portugal
• Nieto Sobejano: Plaza de Santa Bárbara, Madrid, Spain
• Officina del Paesaggio: Community Gardens, Chiasso, Switzerland
• – YTL Residence Garden, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• OKRA: Domplein, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• – Afrikaanderplein, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Palerm & Tabares de Nava: García Sanabria Park, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• John Pawson: Sackler Crossing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK
• Renzo Piano: Renovation and Expansion of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA
• Plasma Studio: “Flowing Gardens,” Xi’an World Horticultural Fair 2011, Xi’an, China
• Shunmyo Masuno: SanShin-Tei, One Kowloon Office Building, Hong Kong, China
• Ken Smith: Kids Rock, Children’s Play Environment, Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California, USA
• – 40 Central Park South, New York, New York, USA
• – Santa Fe Railyard Park and Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Taylor Cullity: Lethlean Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Luis Vallejo: Santander Group City Campus, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
• Michael Van Valkenburgh: Connecticut Water Treatment Facility, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• – Alumnae Valley Landscape Restoration, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
• – Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, New York, New York, USA
• Weiss/Manfredi: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, USA
• West 8: Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan, New York, New York, USA
• – Madrid RIO, Madrid, Spain
• – Toronto Central Waterfront, Toronto, Canada
• Wirtz International: Ernsting’s Family Headquarters, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
• WORK Architecture Company: Public Farm 1, Long Island City, New York, USA

418 pages, color ills / 20 x 25 cm / English, German, French