Landscape Architecture: PLATdesign Project name : Kashiwa Center Cemetery Completion date : 2010 Location : Chiba, Japan Area : 1.2ha Designer of Architecture : Someya Architectual Design Office Client : Izumiya Sekizaiten, Inc. What kind of a place is a cemetery? We began the design of this project by reconsidering the nature of cemeteries. […]
Landscape Architecture: PLATdesign Project name : Kashiwa Center Cemetery Completion date : 2010 Location : Chiba, Japan Area : 1.2ha Designer of Architecture : Someya Architectual Design Office Client : Izumiya Sekizaiten, Inc. What kind of a place is a cemetery? We began the design of this project by reconsidering the nature of cemeteries. […]
Architects / Designers: PLANT Architect Inc. in collaboration with Douglas Coupland Location: Ottawa, Canada Client: Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation (CFFF) in collaboration with National Capital Commission (NCC) Project manager: Mary Tremain, Partner, PLANT Architect Inc., GB Associates Design team: PLANT Architect Inc. — Mary Tremain, Lisa Rapoport, Chris Pommer (Partners; Architects) | Vanessa Eickhoff (Associate; […]
Landscape Architecture: Fitzgerald Frisby Location: Footscray Park, Ballarat Road, Footscray, Victoria, Australia Dates: Designed 2011, Construction completed 2012 Client: Maribyrnong City Council Site area: approx. 1500 square metres Construction cost: approx. A$300K Photos by Andrew Lloyd In the aftermath of two world wars, the Footscray community was keen to have those that did […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Gateway Landscape Architecture: 2.ink Studio Location: Portland, Oregon Design: 2007-2012 Construction: 2012 Area: Portland, Oregon Budget: $500,000 Text & photos: 2.ink Studio The NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Gateway and Heritage Markers Project supports the ongoing efforts of area residents and business owners to highlight the unique […]
Landscape Architecture: PWP Landscape Architecture Location: New York, New York, USA Completion Date: 2011 Client: National September 11 Memorial & Museum Architect: Michael Arad, Davis Brody Bond (associate architects) Photos and text: PWP Landscape Architecture The Memorial commemorates the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center, Shanksville, […]
Project: Mont-oig del Camp Cemetery Enlargement Design team: AAB Arquitectes – JOFRE ROCA ESTUDI D’ARQUITECTURA Location: Camí de Vilanova d’Escornalbou s/n. Polígon 30 Parcel·la 26. Mont-Roig del Camp, Tarragona (Spain) Property: Mont-Roig del Camp City Hall Design: 2006 Construction: 2007-2008 Area: 2.400m2 Budget: 370.000€ Awards: Selected project at the “Biennale di Venezia – Architettura 2012” […]
…I had this thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden. That’s all I had. Why did I want a room and a garden? I just chose it to be the point of departure. The garden is somehow a personal nature, a personal kind of control of nature, a gathering of nature. And the room was the beginning of architecture. - Louis Kahn, lecture at Pratt Institute Fall 1973
The historical and cultural background of the site formed the centre of the design concept and approaches, that Pak Tsz Lane was revitalized to become a park in Central district to retrace the old urban fabric and the veiled Furen Literary Society. The “Origin of Chinese Revolution” was therefore adopted as the design theme for the Park.
During the master planning process, which began in the late 1990s, the Trustees of Lakewood Cemetery asked Halvorson Design Partnership to take on the challenge of integrating a large new mausoleum in the historic garden landscape.
A new organization of the main station has involved the demolition of the existing memorial. The city of Besançon has wanted to create a "place of remembrance" that would incorporate elements of the ancient monument and could also welcome all commemorations of Remembrance.
Gustafson Porter Shared with us one of their classics. "The work to turn the design of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain from an artist's impression into reality involved skilled craftsmen from across the UK and groundbreaking high-tech production techniques previously used in the automotive industries."
On the site of the concentration camp Esterwegen, built in 1933, a memorial was set up in memory of all fifteen camps in the Ems region and their victims. None of the above-ground construction elements were still standing. For this reason, “tree parcels”, with the dimensions of the former barracks were cut out of the red oaks planted in the fifties ...
Poppy Plaza is the first of a series of planned public spaces along The Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory, a 9.5 km pathway that runs parallel to Memorial Drive and is designed to honour the sacrifices of Canadians during wartime. The design solution hinges on two distinct and interrelated surfaces: one of wood and the other of weathering steel ...
The site is in Chapultepec, the most important park of Mexico City. This part of the forest belongs to the Federal Government and was under the custody of the Secretariat of National Defense for many decades, so, first of all, the memorial project means the recuperation of 15,000 square meters of public space.
At first, the project was an engineering one. It involved installing plant-covered mesh retaining fabric at the top of the cliff and a protective wall at the bottom. Later, it evolved into a landscape architecture project ...
Jonas Dahlberg: "An emotional observation informs my overall concept. During the initial site visit to Utøya, I noticed how different the feeling was of walking outside in nature, compared to the feeling of walking through the rooms of the main building. The experience of seeing the vacant rooms and the traces of extreme violence brought me—and others around me—to a state of profound sadness. In its current state, the building kept close within it the memory of the terror acts of July 22, 2011. Like an open wound."
OMGEVING: The Bluff in the notorious ‘Ypres Salient’ is a unique wartime landscape that survives from the First World War. The site was the scene of widespread feverish digging of underground passages and shafts, mine explosions, sabotage and attempts at eavesdropping. In the context of the cultural tourism project, ‘Remembrance Park 14-18′, subtle measures in […]
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: The theme of temporality, which is omnipresent in landscape architecture, has a great influence with regard to the way historic cemeteries are dealt with. As great as their significance and effect has been on history, ageing and the preservation of memory, a cemetery’s functionality must also be based on current sepulchral culture and […]
scape: In the “Reichskristallnacht” – the pogrom night of 9th November 1938 the Nazi regime in Germany and Austria escalated the persecution of the Jews and many synagogues were burned and destroyed including that in Marburg. The project Garden of Remembrance utilizes the site of this synagogue and is a memorial to the Jews and […]
Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture: The Pukeahu National War Memorial Park extends the influence of the existing National War Memorial into Wellington City. A folded, terraced landscape provides a range of spaces, supporting commemoration while facilitating the everyday activity of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. Arras Tunnel provides an arterial route for traffic under the park, […]