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3rd International Urban Design Conference

By Digital Landscaping • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: Conferences, Congress, Symposiums, Events

“Designs On Our Future”
Australia’s population is projected to increase by 60 per cent in the next 40 years, what impact will this have on our existing cities?
What impact will the debate over sustainable population for Australia have on our existing cities?  The conference will examine how our new cities are [...]



Our Cities, Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life

By Digital Landscaping • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Conferences, Congress, Symposiums, Events

Our Cities, Ourselves:
The Future of Transportation in Urban Life – Architects, Developers, and Transport Planners on the Future of Our City.
Saturday Jun. 26, 2010 11:00 AM – 05:00 PM (in 7 days and 19:09 hours.)
Where: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.

The symposium is organized on conjunction with an exhibition at the [...]



SMART Ideas Urban Design Competition

By Digital Landscaping • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Contests, News

SMART Ideas Urban Design CHARETTE & COMPETITION

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 8:00 AM - Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM (PT)ELIGIBILITY
This competition is open entry. Entrants may be from any discipline –
architects, planners, developers, engineers, urban designers, transportation
planners, energy managers, landscape architects, students,
community leaders, suburbanites, cyclists, poets, artists, or general
public. Multidisciplinary design teams [...]



Symposium WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, 16 November

By Digital Landscaping • Nov 6th, 2009 • Category: Contests, Events

Symposium WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture
16 November 2009
10 AM to 6 PM
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Federal attention to America’s infrastructure is a critical part of our nation’s economic recovery plan, but
we must also consider how that investment in the next generation of bridges, roads, and waterways will
create more sustainable, more engaging, more livable cities. This symposium [...]



Second Announcement 47th IFLA WORLD CONGRESS, SUZHOU, CHINA

By Digital Landscaping • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Conferences, Congress, Symposiums, News

THE 47th IFLA WORLD CONGRESS, SUZHOU, CHINA
May 28-30,2010

China is a huge country with a long history of civilisation. The people are kind,
diligent, and friendly. China’s rich and diverse natural and cultural resources and
belief in seeking harmony with nature are the basis for its philosophies, and way of
life. Chinese landscapes and gardens strongly reflect this idea, [...]



West 8: Opening permanent sculpture garden in Leidsche Rijn Park

By Digital Landscaping • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: News, Projects

On September 11, the permanent sculpture garden in Leidsche Rijn Park was officially opened.  As an opening act, the new sculpture Barricade from Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo was set on fire.

The sculpture garden is inspired by the book Possibility of an Island by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The device [...]



Workshop: Informing the Design of the Future Urban Landscape

By Digital Landscaping • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: News, Workshops

October 27 to 30 2009
Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley Michael Smyth & Ingi Helgason, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK
This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners from across disciplines. Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise [...]



WAN Urban Design Award 2009

By Digital Landscaping • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Contests, News, Projects

WAN Urban Design Award 2009

World Architecture News (WAN) has been running major international competitions such as House of the Year since its inception in 2005. Seeking to break the mould of the traditional annual awards ceremony, the WAN Awards are run on a bi-monthly rolling programme by [...]



3rd Landscape Architecture Exhibition, 2 – 14 September 2009 – Belgrade

By Digital Landscaping • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Exhibitions, News

3rd Landscape Architecture Exhibition
2 – 14 September 2009
IKAR Gallery, Club of Aviation (Klub Vazduhoplovstva)
Strosmajer street 3, Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia
The exhibition will take place in Belgrade, from 2nd till 14th September 2009. The organiser is the Serbian Association of Landscape Architects.The place of the event  is The IKAR Gallery, [...]



PARK(ing) Day

By Digital Landscaping • Aug 23rd, 2009 • Category: Events, News

PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day global event where artists, activists and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

PARK(ing) Day is an open source invention, which means anyone can participate without official “permission,” as long as you observe the license [...]