Amongst 40 proposals from all over Scandinavia, JAJA Architects received a shared first prize in the idea competition for the development of Åndalsnes in Norway. “The Landscape Loop” by JAJA stood out from the competition by showing a “clear concept, analytic approach and convincing visualizations of the…

The International Garden Festival, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, Quebec, Canada recently announced the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 2011 edition of the Festival. A total of 194 proposals for conceptual gardens were submitted by over 500 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists…

Francis Bitonti of FADstudio and Andrew Zientek of Terrain Studios have shared with us their entry to the 12th edition of the Jardins de Métis International Garden Festival. The concept, combining landscape design with augmented reality technology, is titled My_SECRET[E].Garden.

We just published the winning projects of Canada’s National Design Exchange Awards in categories Architecture and Interior Design, and here are now also the award winners in the categories Landscape Design and Urban Design. The nationwide Design Exchange (DX) competition is open to all types…

London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter have recently won the competition to design the Milan CityLife Park with their concept "CityLife ‒ A Park between the Mountains and the Plain". The Mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, announced the winning design of the international competition to create a public…

German practice HENN ARCHITEKTEN has won the first prize in the international competition to design the new 'Nano-Polis Master Plan' in Suzhou, China. The proposal was designed by HENN ARCHITEKTEN’s Design & Research Studio HENN StudioB.

The design for the park Ruggeveld – Botelaar-Silsburg, a joint effort by Maxwan, Karres & Brands, 1010 & Goudappel Coffeng, has won the prestigious biannual Flemish Spatial Planning Prize for the most innovative and exciting initiative on environmental quality and sustainable…

The Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism announced the three winning teams of the "72 Hour Urban Action" Real-Time Architecture Competition. 120 participants, coming from 19 countries, worked together in 10 teams and had only three days three nights to design and build…

Danish practices ADEPT and LiWplanning just received The Danish Landscape Award for the project ”Måløv Axis” in Ballerup, Denmark, developed in collaboration with Imitio and Søren Jensen Engineering. The project will be inaugurated October 1st.

Populous has been selected to design a new sports park in the historic city of Datong, in the northern Shanxi Province, near Beijing, China. This is the second major sports hub for Populous in China.