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They fulfil ecological, social and urban design requirements, and upgrade adjacent neightbourhoods an even whole city districts. New parks are being built all over Europe, in the hearts of cities or out in the periphery, as in the case of Invalidenpark in Berlin and Thames Barrier Park in London, respectively. Some, such as Park André-Citroen, Paris, serve purely recreational purposes. Others, namely the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum Park in the Netherlands, are devoted to art or to botanic abundance, as the Botanical Gardens in Barcelona. The creation of such extensive new green*spaces is always the subjekt of public and professional discourse, no matter whether this concerns La Villette in Paris, Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in the Ruhr, or the new park at Munich´s old airport in Riem: Accordingly, the compact survey is rounded off by theoretical discussion. Based on essays published in "Topos - European Landscape Magazine" between 1993 and today, the resulting collection of familiar and less-known parks from many European countries provides an excellent overview of curent approaches to parks an park design.

Pages: 128
Format: English/German
Illustrations: 138Colored

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Best of Topos selects best-practice projects that respond in exemplary fashion to the challenges confronting landscape architects, architects and urban planners in the 21st century: The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, the Samir Kassir Square in Beirut, the planning for an ecological Public Administration Town in Korea, and the transformation into a park landscape of what was formerly the world’s biggest landfill site, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, New York. Outstanding contributions from the last ten issues of Topos – The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design demonstrate innovative strategies for growing cities and the challenges resulting from deindustrialisation, constantly changing land uses and, above all, climate change.

Pages: 112
Format: Language: english24 x 29,7 cm
Illustrations: 200Colored

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Roads, tunnels and bridges negotiate mountains and fjords cutting deep into the land. Long winters with heavy snow call for extensive avalanche protection. For the last two decades the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has devoted extensive efforts to constructing roads that are not only technically perfect, but also include the surrounding landscape in road planning and design. Roads and bridges are therefore also designed according to aesthetic aspects and adapted to the cultural landscape. This book presents exemplary planning and projects from all of Norway´s provinces. The essays provide an account of the history of road building and point out the increasing importance of the mountain and coastal roads for tourism.

Pages: 160
Format: English/German
Illustrations: 150Colored

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Always moving between nature and artifice the art of landscape architecture expresses itself in a sensitive awareness of time and place. If the design is not to become a mere ornament, then it must be supported by concepts and visions, daring to create something new from the existing surroundings. This collection of essays, which have been published over the last decade in Topos - European Landscape Magazine, is a valuable contribution to the literature in the specialised field of landscape architecture. The authors include Paolo Bürgi who writes on dimensions of memory, Christophe Girot who makes reflections towards a general theory of landscape, and Kathinka Schreiber who takes a critical look at landscape in film.

Pages: 144
Format: English/German
Illustrations: 190Colored

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Repeated success in winning competitions, above all in China, also brought him international recognition. The current issue of Edition Topos shows a synopsis of his projects for the first time. His work is marked by a thirst for variety and contrast. Rainer Schmidt reveals his design philosophy in an introductory essay. He makes a case for a romantic attitude towards designing in order to create landscapes with sensual and usable spaces which go beyond function and decoration. His strong belief in architectural forms is stressed in the chapter "Architectural Landscapes" with such projects as the grounds for the Infineon company in Munich, or in planning for the International Congress Center at the Parliament Building in Bonn. In addition to the design for the National Garden Exhibition 2005 in Munich, the book presents "Event Landscapes" such as plans for the Olympics in Beijing or the sports complex for the Asian Games in Qatar. The project overview is completed by "Urban Landscapes" such as the Munich Park City in Schwabing, the new center for the Chinese city Cixi, or the public park in the Lefortovo-Quarter in Moscow, and "Airport Landscapes" such as planning for the Munich and Frankfurt airports.

Pages: 160
Format: English/German
Illustrations: 200Colored

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During the last century Danish and Swedish landscape architecture was amongst the European avantgarde, and in more recent years, the development in Scandinavia along with Spain, the Netherlands and France has captured our interest once again. A new generation of designers has been responsible for creating landscape architectures which met with international praise, and the names Snøhetta, Thorbjörn Andersson, Stig L. Andersson, Steen Høyer und Preben Skaarup are now known far beyond the borders of Scandinavia. Featuring examples from Topos which include the harbour area in Copenhagen, new squares in Bergen, the redesigning of the railway station area in Jordro/Haninge, and avalanche protection in Iceland, this volume provides an overview of Scandinavia´s contribution to the design of new parks, squares and landscapes. callwey verlag/birkhäuser, münchen/basel 2002

Pages: 144
Format: English/German29,7 x 24 cm
Illustrations: 87 Black and White / 73Colored

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In any discussion on contemporary landscape architecture, visionary urban development or revolutionary building, it is impossible to overlook the Netherlands. The experts look to this small, flat country which constantly seeks to exceed its narrow boundaries by creating new space. The Netherlands is crowded and so it is hardly surprising that architects endeavour to "stack" landscapes and functions as the Dutch pavilion in the Expo 2000, designed by MVRDV demonstrated. Here, new ideas and concepts in architecture and landscape design fall on the fertile ground. Rem Koolhaas had prepared the way: nothing must stay as it is, even the open countryside and the towns can be changed, moulded, shaped. The Dutch are experts at building in the sea, on polders, on man-made islands, and on former harbour areas as in Rotterdam Kop van Zuid. Architecture and landscape architecture are not only a matter of public interest but they are ongoing processes in the Netherlands, and this is reflected in many of the projects in this book which include the gardens and squares of West 8, the Museumsplein in Amsterdam, the town planning in Zutphen or Apeldoorn. The examples have all been published in different contexts in Topos, but this is the first time that they have been collated to provide an illuminating overview of contemporary Dutch landscape architecture.

Pages: 128
Format: 24 x 29,7 cm
Illustrations: 100 Black and White / 90Colored

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Etta Gerdes, an emerging photographer of Germany´s younger generation, has photographed Oberlander´s landscape project - in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife and also in Berlin. Gerdes´ photos of Oberlander´s projects are touring Canada and Germany in an exhibit presented by the Goethe-Institute Montréal.

Pages: 112
Format: Language: English/German24 x 29,7 cm
Illustrations: 63Colored

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They attest to the variety and dynamism of European landscape architecture. This book presents successful open spaces throughout Europe, designed by well-known and less well-known landscape architects, in places such as Kalmar and Kabelvåg, London and Barcelona. They were chosen by the editorial staff of the specialist journal Topos: International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from projects completed between 2000 and 2005. This selection of the best landscape architecture projects of the new millennium arranges them in four chapters. The exemplary parks, squares, waterfront promenades and memorials attest to the abundance and variety of the European landscape architecture scene as well as to the high status of the profession, which has developed in many European countries into a leading urban design discipline.

Pages: 160
Format: English/German
Illustrations: 200Colored