OMGEVING: The Flemish Plain contains a vast landscape which shapes a gentle swampy basin at this point of Hofheide. This basin is the setting for the crematorium, underscoring it and propitiating the permanent formation of a larger reservoir. The building is part of a walk through the park that spreads across the entire precinct, at […]
OMGEVING: The Flemish Plain contains a vast landscape which shapes a gentle swampy basin at this point of Hofheide. This basin is the setting for the crematorium, underscoring it and propitiating the permanent formation of a larger reservoir. The building is part of a walk through the park that spreads across the entire precinct, at […]
Thorbjörn Andersson with Sweco Architects: A memorial grove is a place for those who were left behind. It is a place to visit in search for consolation, and for reflections and memories of the beloved ones. When the parish in Askim, southern Gothenburg, planned to extend their burial grounds, they took the decision that the […]
Gitai Architects: Reflecting on a piece of land can awake different senses and memories from stories and events that occurred to us in the past and that might happen in the future. The contemplation on our environment is a process that juxtaposes our own narrative and a observation of a piece of land into a […]
THE ORDER – A PATH OF PEACE IN LES HAUTS-DE-FRANCE | A CREATIVE AND SCENIC JOURNEY ON THE SITES OF MEMORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Gilles Brusset: Impacted by the brutality of the 20’s century wars, the region Hauts de France chose to celebrate tomorrow’s heritage and affirm its resilience in landscape art by […]
Graveyards are not just burial places. Many of these spaces are also used for contemplative walks in the context of cultural witnessing. They are scenic as well as being ecologically rich. Many cemeteries today are under a great deal of economic pressure. The question arises whether the potential of these „secondary“ uses and qualities can […]
The Cemetery lies between the valley of river Riera de Odena and industrial part of town Igualada, 60km north from Barcelona. Cemetery reflects the characteristics of both typologies. The main area of the cemetery lies beneath the surroundings and puts a visitor on the same level with the dead, so one can see only stony […]
Landscape Architecture: Dušan Ogrin & Davorin Gazvoda Architecture: Aleš Vodopivec Sculptures: Janez Pirnat Location: Novo Mesto, Slovenija Design / Construction: 2000 / 2000-2001 (phase 1)
karres+brands: Cemeteries have always been, and still are, reflections of society: they provide an image of the relationship between the collective and the individual, the social relations of the time, the overall natural scene, the funerary culture and developments in the field of design and landscape architecture. Karres and Brands created a design for the […]
Memorials in general have always been a powerful storytelling landscapes as well as a political statements, usually accompanied with conventional symbols in order to be understood by the majority. Sometimes, designers are able to find an unconventional, more advanced way to express the story behind an object of remembrance. This particular memorial is dedicated to […]
The park, dedicated to General Maister and the soldiers for the northern border was planned as an abstract three-dimensional space, where the paths lead around geometrically cut grass crests. It is an abstract representation of the crest of the northern border, for which Maister’s soldiers fought. The crest next to the road is truncated and […]
Design: Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz Location: Stockholm, Sweden Year of competition: 1915 Year of construction:1917-1920 Official website
Cardinal Hardy: The work “Give Peace a Chance” commemorates the famous John Lennon song written during his 1969 Montréal bed-in with Yoko Ono. Conceived by artist Linda Covit and Groupe Cardinal Hardy’s landscape architect Marie-Claude Séguin, the work is made of approximately 180 limestone slabs laid side by side on flat ground, on which the […]
Switzerland’s largest cemetery and the central cemetery of the city of Basel exudes a monumental power with its clear axes and old trees. The redesign of sector 12 on the cemetery’s rearward slope allows the severe beauty of the old-established site to gradually transition into the contemplative tranquillity of unrestrained nature. 50 Hectares of Parkland […]
karres+brands: A cemetery intended for 2,500 graves and 180 children’s graves is not a straightforward commission. In this location the cemetery forms a green recreational structure within the municipality. The task was to ensure a firm consolidation of the cemetery to the surrounding landscape. For the new Oostervaart cemetery in Langedijk we decided to divide […]
Aspect Studios: The National Emergency Services Memorial honors the thousands of men and women who serve and have served in Australia’s emergency services. The memorial provides a place to reflect on those who have fallen or perished while carrying out their duties for the benefit of the wider Australian community. The spirit of the emergency […]
GREENinc Landscape Architecture: The Sharpeville Massacre – also known as the Sharpeville Shootings – occurred on the 21st of March 1960. 69 People were killed, including 8 women and 10 children. Over 180 were injured, including 31 women and 19 children. Many were shot in the back as they turned to flee. This event marked […]
EMF M. Franch: Under a field of cherry desenaris assayed the relationship between traditional forest-northern cemetery and the cemetery Mediterranean tradition-building, to locate a program without hurting the beauty and serenity of the enclave. The project is developed by the superposition of two realities and shapes that contrast and tension to emphasize its identity: the […]
3LHD: The Memorial Bridge is a spatial intervention and an urban public object, a construction with tactile properties and a symbolic object. It is a pedestrian bridge that embodies the utilitarian function and a memory of the Croatian war of Independence veterans, a place of memory and piety, but also a social gathering and socializing […]
A MAP is a whole of symbols recalling territorial concepts. The project is this as well: a map where takes place an abstract analysis of our territory and the bond established between mountains and human beings during particular circumstances. A PLATFORM: the strength of our bonds is our base.
A map of life.
The concepts of belonging, the […]
The old naval facilities on this site, which was a former naval port, were dismantled and the area transformed into a park, before being opened to the public. The large open air is covered by grass and the main spaces are defined as geometric forms by the white paths cutting through it. These simple pathways are dressed […]