A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

Third Place, Liget Budapest, Built by Graeme Massie Architects in Budapest, Hungary with date 2014. Images by Graeme Massie Architects. Recent participants in the Liget Budapest design competition...

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

Japanese studio Fumihiko Sano designed a multi-purpose wooden structure for Maruwakaya, a company working in the realm of Japanese contemporary culture. Specializing in ‘monozukuri’, a concept that...

Built by Orkidstudio in Nakuru, Kenya with date 2014. Images by Odysseas Mourtzouchos. Built with a diverse group from a small Kikuyu community in the rapidly developing agricultural outskirts of...

Built by Mjölk Architekti in Prague, Czech Republic Most of our clients wants to live in their own house. Everyone of them wants to have a home in a beautiful place, mos...

Together with the Rijksmuseum, De Bijenkorf has invited artists, writers, musicians, architects, and designers from all around the world to take part in their artist in residence program. Situated in...

Built by Enrique Mora Alvarado in Chone, Ecuador SITE The Project is located in Convento (Chone) a rural area in the Ecuadorian coast, in an overwhelming natural envi...

The ‘Unfinished House’ by Yamazaki Kentaro has barely any partitions and is more of a free, open space. The aim of the architects was to create an open container that ‘changes as you design and live...

Built by Architect Lieven Dejaeghere in Izegem, Belgium with date 2013. Images by Tim Van de Velde. The client is a local social housing company (named Izegemse Bouwmaatschappij), operating in a town...

A window replaces a rolling shutter at the front of this former garage in Dublin that TAKA has converted to create extra space for an existing house

Completed in 2014 in Chiba, Japan. Images by Daici Ano. This is a renovation project of single-family house, originally used as a typical two-story apartment-house with eight small rental units in the...

Built by a21studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with date 2015. Images by Quang Tran. Saigon has altered beyond recognition, for us, it is hard to call a development, it is, actually, a sequence of...

Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Colombo (1959 - 1970) is an exercise in horizontal densification. The result of decades-old process of annexation of four rows of existing bungalows is a labyrinth of...

Casa Mora is an unbuilt project by Iñaki Ábalos y Juan Herreros, two Spanish architects who worked together from 1985 until 2008. (Cf another post we wrote about them on Socks). The very essential...

ARCA was named by the locals as it came as a ship in the middle of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. If fact, on a more anecdotic level, it’s an...

Completed in 2013 in Bengaluru, India. Images by Vivek Muthuramalingam, Gautam Vishwanath. The home is located in the outskirt of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake...

Built by Albert Faus in Koudougou, Burkina Faso LAAFI VILLAGE The nursery school is one of the buildings that make up the cultural center LE VILLAGE LAAFI of Koudou...

Il Girasole by Luigi Moretti, Rome (IT)

Built by Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop in Chiba, Japan This nursery school in Sakura, Chiba was planned to accommodate 60 pupils. Seiyu-Kai, a local social welfare firm spe...

Completed in 2013 in Ventanilla, Peru. Images by Mauricio Freyre. A rainbow for the desert of Pachacutec. The lack of rain in the Peruvian coast makes for extreme living conditions in the slums: in...

Completed in 2015 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Images by Joubert Loots, Maguelonne Gorioux. This project takes place in Joe Slovo Township, located on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa...

Completed in 2014 in Alphington, Australia. Images by Peter Bennetts . S+P and their 8 year old twin sons asked for a home “for community, art and nature to come together”. We designed them a village...

Located high in the Himalayan Mountains, the sparsely populated region of Ladakh is one of the more remote places on Earth. At over 3500 meters above...

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

Completed in 2016 in Ecuador. Images by Eduardo Cruz y Natura Futura. Log for a productive emerging dwelling Architecture as a social catalyst for transformation from the basics. There are times when...