Prags boulevard by Kristine Jensens Tegnestu
The design firm of kristine jensens tegnestue created a really great 3/4-mile-long park/bicycle path/pedestrian walkway. it serves a circulation function, and also contains spaces for playing soccer, gardening, skateboarding, picnicking and play-acting.
Founded in 1701 by French fur traders, Detroit is a major port city, located north of Windsor, Ontario, on the Detroit River in the Midwest region of the United States. It is known as the world’s traditional automotive center and an important source of popular-music legacies, celebrated by the city’s two familiar nicknames, Motor City and Motown. The city’s name comes from the Detroit River (in French Rivière du Détroit), meaning « River of the Strait. » The name alludes to the connection the river forms between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
Detroit’s crime rate has brought it notoriety, while the city continues to struggle with the burdens of racial disharmony between itself and its suburban neighbours. The city has experienced budget shortfalls, leading to cuts in city services. Nevertheless, Detroit is currently experiencing a downtown revival with the construction of the Compuware headquarters, a recently renovated Renaissance Center, three gambling casinos, new stadiums and the Detroit Riverwalk. The city serves as an entertainment hub for the metropolitan region.
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Avenida Simeón Cañas & trees by wannes deprez / ony one’s photostream
Maintaining green areas on the motorway,Munich, by Narr-Rist-Tu?rk
The Narr-Rist-Tu?rk landscape architects’practice from Marzling developed a maintenance and development plan for the compensation areas set aside in association with the construction of the A 99 motorway near Munich.
The compensation areas are broken down into numerous smaller sections arranged on both sides of the motorway. Different development aims were defined for the individual areas, and their implementation depends largely on how they are cultivated in future. The concept is based on uses like grazing, mowing and timber cultivation. The dry locations will be used for grazing by Merino sheep, and thus will also be maintained. The grazing will continue for 10 years, which secures long-term care for the land. Wet areas and areas near the road are to be mown. This is carried out, according to the nature of the green area, on different rotas. Roadside timber will be cut back, retaining single, well-developed trees. Timber cultivation secures the development of stable, ecological high-quality shrub and timber stocks in the long term. Apart from specialist nature conservation measures, the compensation and landscaped areas also fulfil important functions in terms of recreational use. To avoid conflicts, visitors are positively controlled in busy areas. The planners intend to promote the development of the compensation areas through cultivation measures to as great an extent as possible, so that alongside its transport role the motorway will be able, in future, to assume the function of linking biotopes as well.
Text and illustrations are from « Spielräume – Zeitgenössische deutsche Landschaftsarchitektur » – Éditeur : Birkhäuser Basel
Design Team: Peter Tonkin, Neil Mackenzie, Heidi Pronk, Kon Vourtzoumis, Richard Healey-Finlay; Landscape Architecture: Taylor Cullity Lethlean; Artist: Robert Owen
Driving away from the city, with the rusting Corten steel bridge arcing overhead. Photograph John Gollings
The project was designed to be experienced at a freeway speed of 110km per hour. It includes three series of sculptural sound walls, a pedestrian bridge and a set of design parameters for road bridges, crash barriers and retaining structures.
The main series of walls by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer total over 2 kilometres in length, and are made from facetted austenitic steel sheets modelled in simple concave and convex folds to produce a gently undulating wave of steel floating on a recessed dark concrete base.
The second sequence of blades, with “lace curtain” screen based on Robert Owen’s Cadence #1(a short span of time
A second series of walls by Taylor Cullity Lethlean, are translucent and transparent, preserving light and views from residential areas. These are edge-lit acrylic, sandblasted with a digital pattern and overlaid with coloured precast concrete blades. The third series, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, build on the existing landform with dramatic earth sculpting. The use of gabions and heavily planted earth berms achieve the required sound control.
The screen of etched perspex, with LED lights, which responds to the speed of passing cars. Photograph Peter Hyatt.
A major element of the work was a new pedestrian bridge, which was designed as a gateway to the distantcity of Melbourne, visible on the horizon. The bridge, a complex curve in plan and elevation, is a tubular steel truss faced with the same austenitic steel as the main sound walls, which at this point appear to leap over the road in a gesture of welcome or farewell.
Text: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
View to pedestrian bridge with Melbourne in the background.
