A lush green lawn with colorful plants and flowers can be both a source of joy and a source of terror—the never-ending mowing. Finally, you are watering without attracting the wrath of your drought-aware neighbors. Yet, there are so many weeds.
Photography
Christian Lambert (Cover image), Brandon Hoogenboom
Golfing is such an amazing sport, where patience and alertness, tactfulness, and strength constantly mix and intertwine for the ultimate precision and success. Not for everyone, not extremely popular, it remained a sport for a selected group of people of selected interests and characteristics.
Photography
David Mark, John Such (Cover image)
To introduce this meeting of culture, aoe created a Cultural Exchange City Reception Center in the city where it all begun. The marriage of the Italian and Sino style was at the heart of the project to illustrate the cultural mix and was adapted to merge the structure and its surrounding.
Project name
Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City Reception Center
Photography
Arch-exist Photography
Principal architect
Wen Qun
Design team
Ma Jianning, Fan Ruixue, Wang Ye, Chang Zhiyu, Pan Jichang, Li Xiangting, Lu Yu
Interior design
Zhu Dan, Du Jing, Liu Jingyi, Xue Yawen, Liu Chen
Structural engineer
CSCEC AECOM CONSULTANTS CO., LTD
Material
Low-E glass, local wood, and green roofs
Client
Tianfu Investment Group Co., LTD
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition
The Green Hub: A resilient vision for Thessaloniki by Angeliki Tzifa & Sofia Nikolaidou wins 2nd prize in ALUMIL’s International Architectural Ideas Competition ArXellence 2.
Project name
The Green Hub: A resilient vision for Thessaloniki
Architecture firm
Angeliki Tzifa & Sofia Nikolaidou
Location
Thessaloniki, Greece
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk Maya, Lumion, Enscape, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Principal architect
Angeliki Tzifa & Sofia Nikolaidou
Design team
Angeliki Tzifa & Sofia Nikolaidou
Visualization
Angeliki Tzifa & Sofia Nikolaidou
Typology
Landscape & Urbanism
Amazon unveils a proposed design for the second phase of its Arlington, Virginia headquarters, designed by NBBJ. It seems to be inspired by Samarra Malwiya tower in Iraq or the Tower of Babel.
Location
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Built area
2.8 million ft²
Typology
Commercial › Office
Tetro Arquitetura: The India house, located on the banks of Lingambudhi Lake, consists of three main elements. A horizontal pavilion suspended over volcanic stone walls that emerge from the ground, and a 17-meter-high tower where the library and the spa reach the spectacular view of the surrounding landscape.
Architecture firm
Tetro Arquitetura
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Design team
Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, Igor Macedo
Visualization
Igor Macedo
Typology
Residential › House
It would be difficult to find a garden in a more idyllic setting than Les Jardins d’Etretat. Perched high above Normandy’s stunning Alabaster coast, it looks out over staggering white cliffs and La Porte d’Aval, a natural stone arch. The historic garden has now been revived by landscape architect Alexandre Grivko, who has transformed it into a site...
Project name
Les Jardins d’Etretat
Landscape Architecture
IL NATURE
Location
Avenue Damilaville, 76790 Étretat, France
Photography
Matteo Carrasale, Richard Bloom
Design team
Alexandre Grivko, Natalia Bogomolova, Vera Kalashnik, Valeriya Kanavin, Alina Trunova, Inna Korneeva, Elena Popova, Marcel Gherghelejiu
Typology
Landscape, Public Garden
Aquaticum Waterpark Debrecen has recently reopened its gates to the public. The complex, which is the latest characteristic building of the city park, was designed by BORD Architectural Studio. Now it is ready to provide an incomparable experience to its visitors with its unique atmosphere.
Project name
Aquaticum Waterpark
Architecture firm
BORD Architectural Studio
Location
Debrecen, Hungary
Photography
Tamas Bujnovszky
Principal architect
Péter Bordás
Design team
Zsolt Belanyi, Robert Gulyas, Noemi Gyarfas, Dorottya Hindy, Anna Illes, Artur Lente, Linda Lente-Papp, Tamas Mezey, Balazs Moser, Gyorgyi Puspoki, Viola Tóth, Istvan Ulmann, Reka Zsolyomi, Kata Zih
Landscape
Gardenworks - Judit Doma-Tarcsányi, Andre Waldmann, Beatrix Bőcs
Structural engineer
Hydrastat Mérnöki Iroda - Zsigmond Dezső
Environmental & MEP engineering
BORD Architectural Studio - Zoltán Hollókövi
Client
Debreceni Gyógyfürdő Ltd.
Typology
Recreation, Waterpark
