Responding to the brief for a park that would host events and performances and be fully accessible to the disabled, RPBW worked closely with New York-based landscape designer Deborah Nevins and local practice H Pangalou & Associates, planning gridded gardens of local fauna and long connective pathways at the grounds of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in Athens. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), the SNFCC rises out of Athens’ suburban coastal landscape at Kallithea like a longstanding landmark. The summer garden is 4m below street level, where a waterfall has a cooling effect, stimulating evapotranspiration to the upper levels of the house.Īn Athens promenading ground designed by New York-based landscape designer Deborah Nevins and Athens-based H Pangalou & Associates with Renzo Piano Building Workshop The ‘wet garden’ with pool and fountain exists at the core of the house, to be used during the hot season and connecting all the social living spaces together while the winter garden, a more relaxed and private space, sits up on the roof where a shaded terrace opens up views to the sea. Architects Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser Abulhasan – principals and founders of AGi – decided to use gardens to solve this request, weaving outdoor living into the fabric of the home while creating three spaces for different activities, times of the day and seasons. They examined the behaviour of the family to define the purposes of the outdoor spaces. ‘We search for the site’s hidden narrative, abstract what we find and apply this process to the community’s needs.’ĪGi Architects design a home for outdoor living in KuwaitĪ family came to AGi Architects with the challenge of designing a house that would allow them to live outside 365 days a year, even in the midst of the Kuwaiti summer, when temperatures soar to over 40☌.
‘Our ancient land holds many stories, a number of which are rarely visited by Australia’s population due to the continent’s vast scale,’ says Simone Bliss, senior landscape architect at TCL. Its work ranges from masterplans to residential projects and public gardens, such as the spectacular Australia Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Cranbourne, designed in collaboration with Paul Thompson.
Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s impressive National Arboretum in CanberraĪustralian landscape architecture practice Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s park project in its home country, the National Arboretum in Canberra, was created in collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. A sprawling 250-hectare site of 100 single species forests and 100 gardens intertwined, the arboretum is a stunning solution to the need for tree diversity protection and offers facilities that invite human exploration. TCL’s projects oscillate in scale and are a careful balance of sustainability and aesthetics.
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