Stone River / Jon Piasecki.

Jon Piasecki recently received a 2011 Honor Award from ASLA for his Stone River project. The magic of this project lies in the details. You need to watch the video (after the break) to appreciate the painstaking effort and attention to detail that went into this project.


Landscape Artist: Jon Piasecki
Location: New York
Collaborators: Rob Davis
Text: Jon Piasecki
Photographs: Jon Piasecki, John Dolan, David Borden

Video, project description, and more photographs in ARCHDAILY.

Sunnylands Center and Gardens / The Office of James Burnett , Frederick Fisher + Partners

An extension of the 200-acre desert retreat of publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the Sunnylands Center and Gardens is an interpretive center that celebrates the architectural and cultural legacy of the historic estate. Inspired by the Annenberg’s extensive collection of impressionist artwork, the landscape architect painted a living landscape that respects the character of the Sonoran Desert and demonstrates a new ecological aesthetic for landscapes in the arid southwest.

Landscape Architect: The Office of James Burnett (OJB) Project
Location: Rancho Mirage, California, USA
Architect: Frederick Fisher + Partners
Client: The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Photographs: Hester + Hardaway, Dillon Diers/The Office of James Burnett, Kerun Ip, The Office of James Burnett.

Read complete in ARCHDAILY

Exposición 3+3+3 Deconcursos Mendoza. "Una experiencia nómada"

La exposición cuenta con más de 15 trabajos de primeros premios de concursos realizados actualmente en todo el país. La misma tendrá 3 lugares de desarrollo en la provincia de Mendoza: San Rafael, San Martín y Mendoza.

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I Congreso Hispano Luso y el XIV Congreso Nacional de Arboricultura

Árboles históricos monumentales. Congreso Arboricultura 2011

20/10/2011 - 23/10/2011 | Congreso

I Congreso Hispano Luso y el XIV Congreso Nacional de Arboricultura

Lugar: Sintra (Portugal)

Organizado por: Asociación Española de Arboricultura y la Sociedad Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua.

Entra al sitio del congreso AQUI.

Seminario "Paisaje y Patrimonio".

El Centro Luso Español de Patrimonio celebrará el Seminario "Paisaje y Patrimonio" durante los días 3 al 7 de octubre en Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca). Los directores de este Seminario serán los Profesores Eduardo Martínez de Pisón y Nicolás Ortega Cantero.

03/10/2011 - 07/10/2011 | Jornada

Lugar: Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca).

Organizado por: Centro Luso Español de Patrimonio.

Sitio del Seminario AQUI.

Programa del seminario PDF

Jornada: Fragmentación de hábitats y corredores ecológicos.

06/10/2011 | Jornada

ECOPÁS'11

Hora: 08:45

Lugar: EUIT Forestal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Madrid

Organizado por: Asociación Técnica de Ecología del Paisaje y Seguimento Ambiental.

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CONCURSO INTERNACIONAL DE IDEAS PARA CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE LIMA.

El concurso busca impulsar la rehabilitación integral y renovación urbana del eje Jirón Ancash, a través del tratamiento y rehabilitación de 5 espacios públicos ubicados en su recorrido.

La intervención estará contribuyendo a entender el Centro Histórico de Lima como un espacio vivo, que puede ser re interpretado, enriquecido y renovado, conservando su memoria histórica y valor patrimonial.

El concurso está dirigido a profesionales, bachilleres y estudiantes vinculados con la arquitectura, urbanismo, paisajismo, diseño, artistas plásticas e ingeniería.

CRONOGRAMA:

Inscripciones: 06 de Septiembre a 21 de Octubre 2011

Consultas: 06 a 16 de Septiembre de 2011

Recepción de los trabajos: 28 de Octubre de 2011

Fallo del jurado: 04 de Noviembre de 2011

Premiación: 11 de Noviembre de 2011

PREMIOS:

1º Premio: US$ 2.500

2 Menciones honoríficas

Para más información visite la página web principal del concurso AQUI.

Noticia difundida por Colegio de Arquitectos de Venezuela.

Concurso PUERTAS DE MARACAIBO: Proyecta una Idea.

Arquitecnica te invita a participar en el concurso de ideas para MARACAIBO transversal. En esta oportunidad te proponemos aportar ideas gráficas conceptuales sobre el siguiente tema:

PUERTAS DE MARACAIBO: PROYECTA UNA IDEA.

Bajo la premisa de definir una identidad arquitectónica y urbana de Maracaibo, hemos establecido el criterio de intervenir las principales formas de acceso a la ciudad identificándolas con un elemento de escala monumental. Las locaciones son:

Puerta NORTE: Parque las Peonías.
Puerta OESTE: Aeropuerto.
Puerta ESTE: Cabecera del Puente Rafael Urdaneta.
Puerta CENTRO: Malecón como muelle – puerto de cruceros.

Las ideas serán analizadas por un jurado calificador y se seleccionará un proyecto por cada opción de diseño, las cuales serán difundidas (con su correspondiente autoría) en este blog, en la página web de Arquitecnica y en un LIBRO que será publicado a final de este año.

El ganador o ganadores recibirán, aparte de la difusión de su idea, un ejemplar del libro y una invitación especial al foro de presentación de Maracaibo Transversal, de lo real a lo imaginado.

La idea consiste en plasmar tu visión particular sobre cómo te imaginas alguno de esos espacios, sólo tienes que representarlo en imágenes conceptuales, sketches y/o fotomontajes y un texto explicativo.

Si deseas participar en Puertas De Maracaibo, haz click AQUI y entra al sitio del concurso.

West 8 Winner of Freiham Nord Urban and Landscape Planning Competition, Munich.

On 21 September 2011, the Department of Urban Planning and Construction announced that West 8 has won the competition of urban and landscape planning for the first phase of Freiham North.

Freiham Nord will be the last substantial development to take place in Munich and will accommodate about 10.000 inhabitants. In the Masterplan, Freiham Nord has been divided into several project areas with different programming, each about 40 ha in size. The design competition in which 24 offices participated, was organized by the city of Munich and concerned the first two development areas.

Mayor Of Munich, Christian Ude comments that the West 8 winning design "promises a pleasing vibrancy and diversity of the plots."

More of Freiham Nord in WEST 8 web site.

The design work undertaken by ASPECT Studios on stage one of the revitalisation of Jack Evans Boat Harbour is now complete and the new recreational and aquatic playground is open to the public. The upgrade to the Jack Evans Boat Harbour enriches the existing park experience to become a unique civic place of waterfront leisure. The design strongly promotes physical activity by providing a range of public domain elements such as extensive walkways and cycle-ways. Steps, ramps for those with physical challenges, and unique water front conditions allow access to the water’s edge for swimming and boating. At 4.3 hectares, the parklands cater for a range of other uses enabled by the promenade including meeting places, weekend markets, memorials, children’s play spaces and generous green banks for relaxation.

Architect: ASPECT Studios
Location: Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia
Client: Tweed Shire Council
Budget: AUS$8 million
Project Area: 4.3 hectares
Project Year: 2011
Photographers: Simon Wood Read complete article in ARCHDAILY.

‘Fierljep’ Polder and Information Centre / Bureau B+B.

The city of Jinzhou is located 430 kilometers north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 20 kilometers inland. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of the Bonzai Sea. Part of this development is a park, for which Bureau B+B is building a ‘fierljep’ polder and an information centre. This polder-garden will open during the Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition in 2013.

Architect: Bureau B+B stedebouw en landschapsarchitectuur
Location: Jinzhou, China
Client: World landscape Art Exposition, Jinzhou, China Garden
Design: Bureau B+B stedebouw en landschapsarchitectuur
Design Year: 2011
Construction Completed: 2013
Project Area: 3000 sqm (garden)
Images and Photos: Bureau B+B.

Read complete article in ARCHDAILY.

Charla sobre fotografía y medioambiente: Fotografia y Naturaleza.

VEZ – Fotos y naturaleza.
A cargo de Silvina Enrietti
Miércoles 5 de octubre14.30hs. Aula 1.
Silvina Enrietti a partir de su vasta experiencia como fotógrafa naturalista expone las posibilidades de reflexión estética sobre el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales.


Mas informacion AQUI.

KRob 2011: The 37th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition.

THE 37th ANNUAL KEN ROBERTS MEMORIAL DELINEATION COMPETITION

The Ken Roberts is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. In the late 1920's, The Architectural League of New York established the first American competition for architectural drawings. It was named after Birch Long, one of their greatly talented and much-loved members who died while working on their 1927 exhibition. The "Birch Burdette Long Memorial Prize" was awarded annually until 1972, when it was discontinued for lack of interest in architectural illustration. It seems a remarkable coincidence, indeed that a new annual event in far-away Texas was initiated the following year by the Dallas Chapter of the AIA, and was subsequently named for the untimely death of a respected colleague.

This event preceded by two years the 1975 founding of the British Society of Architecture Illustrators (SAI), the first of several national organizations to follow. In 1980 the Japanese Architectural Renderers Association (JARA) was initiated, followed by the 1986 founding of The American Society of Architectural Perspectivists (ASAP) in Boston by Frank Constantino, Steve Rich and myself.

The NYSR in New York and the short-lived New Jersey Association were formed soon after ASAP. After the Koreans founded KAPA in 1990, the Australians became the "newest kid on the block" with their AAAI, which was organized [in 1995]. All this makes the Ken Roberts the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. - (article researched and written by Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA) General Eligibility All entries must be of an architectural nature, and must be authored by one individual.

Entries can be elevations, sections, or perspectives, and can be conceptual or final renderings. Exploration and innovation in unique techniques are encouraged. While there is no limit to the number of entries one can submit, submissions awarded in past Ken Roberts competitions are not eligible. Sketchbooks as a whole will not be accepted; a single, clearly marked page within the sketchbook may be entered.

Professional Eligibility. Each entry must have been executed while entrant is a professional in architecture or in related fields (architectural illustrator, educator, engineer, cg animation). Due to the versatile nature of the architectural profession, it is not required for the entrant to be employed at the time submitting work for KRob. All work completed after graduation from a design program is considered professional.


Student Eligibility. This category is open to individuals currently attending high school or pursuing a degree in architecture or design in the United States. It is also open to professionals who wish to submit work that was completed as a student at a design school before graduation. The work should Ihave been realized exclusively in an academic setting, and cannot be altered after graduation from the design program.

Entry Deadline. All entries must be received by Friday, October 28, 2011 5pm CST. Awards Presentation, Wine Reception & Lecture Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 6:45 PM in Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition January (dates TBD) The Dallas Center for Architecture, 1909 Woodall Rogers Freeway, Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75201

Visit competition web site HERE

Landscape and Critical Agency: Call for Papers

As far back as the 10th century the term ‘landscape’ referred to the ‘collective aspects of the environment’, as J.B. Jackson argues in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984). But rather than the scenographic art it later became, landscape design was initially concerned with the production and organisation of agriculture, housing and infrastructure within its surrounding terrain. Today, whilst the ‘collective’ man-made terrain of the 21st century also encompasses the globalised movements of finance, media and digital technology, our most urgent questions still concern how physical landscapes are produced and organised. As Christian Parenti and others observe, the present environmental and financial crises have escalated conditions of inequality, pollution, scarcity, and precariousness throughout the globe.

Seeking to explore the relevance of contemporary thinking about landscape to such issues, this symposium asks the question:

What agency does landscape possess, as a means of territorial organisation and creative production, to engage critically with the conditions that define the collective aspects of our environment?

There is a growing body of literature, to which Parenti’s Tropic of Chaos (2011) is only the most recent addition, concerned with the critical analysis of territorial transformation and the models through which its complexity might be understood. Within this literature can be cited the radical geography of David Harvey’s Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference and Spaces of Global Capitalism (1997); the urban political ecology of Nik Heynen et al’s In the Nature of Cities (2006); the model of ‘social nature’ elaborated by Bruce Braun and Noel Castree in their Remaking Reality (1998); Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin’s incisive analysis of the social and political significance of infrastructural development in Splintering Urbanism (2011); and Mike Davis’s unflinching documentation of the global phenomenon of informal settlement in Planet of Slums (2007).

Yet instead of attempting to grasp the significance of these radical perspectives, contemporary landscape design seems largely content to gloss over its practice with a discourse about environmentalism and sustainability, whilst remaining within the scenographic approach through which it has served power elites for the past few centuries. The most celebrated recent landscape productions — Olympic Park in east London, Manhattan’s High Line, or the cosmological gardens of Charles Jencks, for example — attest to this fact. Rather than seeking to locate its own critical agency, landscape design continues to serve the idea of exerting ‘dominion’ over land.

For more information visit http://landscapeandagency.wordpress.com/

Polymorphic: A Kinetic Installation

Polymorphic is a fascinating kinetic installation designed and produced by ten architecture students from Columbia University GSAPP in New York City. The installation was created within Fast Pace/Slow Space, a course taught by Brigette Borders and Mark Bearak. The team included Charlie Able, Alexis Burson, Ivy Chan, Jennifer Chang, Aaron Harris, Trevor Hollyn Taub, Brian Lee, Eliza Montgomery, Vernon Roether, and David Zhai.

For description and more visit BUSTLER.

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CONCURSO INNATUR: Centro de Interpretación de la Naturaleza

OPENGAP convoca este concurso de ideas abierto buscando propuestas innovadoras que apuesten por una estrategia contemporánea y vanguardista de implantación de arquitectura en un entorno natural protegido; planteamientos que provoquen sinergias entre el contexto natural y el edificio mismo. Se invita a los participantes a encontrar espacios que promuevan una profunda comprensión y asimilación de la naturaleza, induciendo a través de la arquitectura, sensibilidad, conciencia, entendimiento, entusiasmo y compromiso hacia el paisaje que les rodea. Cada concursante o equipo definirá el entorno natural en donde ubicará su proyecto, justificando en la propuesta la elección del lugar de implantación y la forma en que el proyecto interactúa con el mismo. El concurso esta dirigido a todos los arquitectos, profesionales del diseño, estudiantes de arquitectura y personas interesadas de cualquier parte del mundo. Pueden presentarse de manera individual o formando equipos de como máximo 5 personas. La entrega consiste en 2 imágenes digitales en formato .jpg con un peso máximo de 4 mega bites por imagen.

Mas informacion, visitar la pagina de OPENGAP.
Fecha Límite de Registro 11.11.2011
Fecha límite de entrega 15.11.2011
Ver bases AQUI.
Para consultas, escribir a concursos@opengap.net

Observation Tower / UNStudio + ABT + BAM Utiliteitsbouw + Haitsma Beton

This past week, the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Natural Heritage received a new observation tower during the mini-symposium ‘Experience Nature with innovative concrete’ in Peize. A multidisciplinary case study team comprised of UNStudio, ABT, BAM Utiliteitsbouw and Haitsma Beton were experimenting with the characteristics of ultra high performance concrete – a super dense mixture of fine grain structure which contains steel fibers – to manifest their findings in a functional, operative design. The observation tower will rest in the forested reserves of De Onlanden in Groningen and will extend 5 meters above the tree line to offer amazing views of the landscape.

Read complete article in ARCHDAILY

II Bienal Mexicana de Arquitectura del Paisaje 2011

La Sociedad de Arquitectos Paisajistas de México, junto con la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, convocan a participar en la II Bienal Mexicana de Arquitectura del Paisaje para proyectos construidos tanto por arquitectos mexicanos como por extranjeros residentes en México, la cual se llevará a cabo entre el 31 de Octubre y 30 de Noviembre del 2011.

La idea de esta Bienal es difundir las obras más relevantes para permitir, mediante el análisis y crítica, una reflexión acerca de la Arquitectura de Paisaje Mexicana Contemporánea, pudiendo participar tanto arquitectos como estudiantes de licenciatura o posgrado.

La exposición se divide en tres categorías, dentro de las cuales cada participante podrá exhibir un máximo de tres obras realizadas entre el año 2005-2010: Obra Construída, Proyectos (no construidos) y Trabajos Teóricos o de Investigación.

El periodo de ingreso es a partir del 1 de Agosto hasta el 26 de Octubre de 2011.

Más información en : sapm.com.mx

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