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Discover 116 award-winning designs tagged Landscape Design on A Design Magazine.

Nanhua Glimmer Public Landscape

Nanhua Glimmer

Nanhua Glimmer is a public landscape park in Pingtung, Taiwan. A decommissioned school campus was transformed into an open park for the community and for elderly visitors. The former campus wall was removed, so the new planting and lighting connect with the surrounding streets. Curved concrete retaining walls, finished in terrazzo, echo the patterns of the pineapple fields and the folds of the mountain ridges. A mist facility with fine nozzles waters the plants and recreates the mountain mist. Embedded light strips spread even light at night.

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Lilanz Creative Park Landscape

Lilanz Creative Park

Lilanz Creative Park is a landscape design for a corporate creative park in Quanzhou, China. The park covers 40000 square meters and was completed in 2021. Silk is used as a guiding element, expressed through curved paving that connects the different functional areas. Sculptures and a stacked spring waterscape add scenes of daily life to the streets and lanes. Ecological permeable bricks cover the large paved areas and work with underground storage modules to collect and reuse rainwater for irrigation. Local plant varieties are used to keep maintenance low.

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Terra Urla Hotel Garden Landscape

Terra Urla

Terra Urla is a hotel garden landscape located in Urla, Izmir. The design blends ancient local building traditions with contemporary sustainability. Site-sourced stones are assembled with dry-stack methods to form breathable surfaces that support biodiversity. Planting is based on endemic flora, including Olea europaea, Pistacia lentiscus and Laurus nobilis, with drought-tolerant aromatic species in lower layers. Smart irrigation and xeriscaping target water savings of fifty percent. A restaurant, a spa, sensory gardens, walking paths and a vineyard observation deck form the visitor route.

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Cruise City Demonstration Area

Cruise City

Merchants International Cruise City is a permanent landscape design for a demonstration area in Zhanjiang City, China. The landscape area covers 10783 square meters. The design refers to the nearby sea areas and uses waves and boats as recurring themes. Water features and undulating corridors recall mountains and water. The corridors are made of perforated aluminium plates in wave grey, with carved hollow patterns that are lit at night. Visitors move through a valley, a canyon, a shaded forest and a plank road to the waterfront.

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Royal Mansion Exhibition Center

Royal Mansion

The project is located at the west of Suo River Park in Zhengzhou. The origin of Chinese ancient Poetry, consisting of enrich abundant ecological wet park. The landscape principle is to create beyond fantasy and romance landscape while echoes ancient romance of poetry traditional style. The journey begins with an initiatory of journey of woods exploration, followed by Bamboo plank road, terrazzo scenery wall, mirror installation. The rope platform, which inspires children to perceive more outdoor activities, creates an extraordinary environment for children to experience and explore nature.

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Yunyang in Huanan Exhibition Center

Yunyang in Huanan

The water line has been turned on and shifts through the whole site plan, shifts the emphasis the water history culture of Dan yang from commercial to social connecting to the nature. The mirror water courtyard accessible public open space to variability of activities.The results to encourage visitors to have memorable through the enjoyment of the diverse community. Art sculptures light up the communal atmosphere. The experience of the integration of tradition and modernity, is shuttle in nature, a journey chasing the light.

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Rizhao Bailuwan Cherry Blossom Town Art and Cultural Space

Rizhao Bailuwan Cherry Blossom Town

Rizhao Bailuwan Cherry Blossom Town is a park landscape design in Rizhao, China. The design respects the natural mountain setting and the character of the existing orchard. Three elements define the site. A pure cherry orchard is elevated above the ground. Curved textured walls, built from local granite boulders found on the site, blur the boundary between vertical wall and horizontal path. Winding roads covered with cherry blossom petals complete the impression of a forest valley. Local craftsmen shaped the stone with traditional techniques.

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Timscape Indoor Landscape

Timscape

This project creates a near zero energy smart vertical garden for Tims Cafe in the underground first floor of Beijing's Jewelry Mall. Reinterpreting classical Chinese garden philosophy with a green core and walkable rainforest landscapes, it integrates intelligent irrigation, full spectrum LED grow lights and rooftop photovoltaics for energy self sufficiency and closed loop water recycling. The 236 square meter space combines ecological materials, therapeutic planting and digital operations, building a sustainable commercial interior landscape model reconnecting urban dwellers with nature.

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Yichang Riverside Park Public Spaces

Yichang

Yichang is a riverside park in Hubei, China, upgraded into a public recreational space along the Yangtze River. The design extends the riverfront road system and the view corridors, and adds seating areas that face the water. Vegetation was rearranged to open the river views and to form lawns and open spaces with public facilities. The park contains an ecological and humanistic area, a dock area and a family play area. Traces of the former dock, including a gantry crane, are kept and given new uses. Blue tones and sculptures refer to the river and to ecological protection.

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Skybow New Cultural Landmark

Skybow

Skybow is a landmark sculpture created for Wuyou Town in Yan City, Jiangsu Province. The form is based on the local topography, which resembles a bow, with the Chuanchang River as the handle and the Pearl Creek as the string. The main structure takes the shape of a drawn bow to express readiness and courage. Relief patterns on the surface form a cultural totem. The inner ring of the pedestrian walkway is engraved with the historical timeline of the town. Lighting, a water curtain and flowing lights complete the setting.

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Forest Heart Culture Center of Tartu

Forest Heart

Forest Heart envisages the transformation of an existing park into an emblematic public space and cultural center, offering an innovative urban design solution for Estonia. The design underscores the significance of crafting a versatile and ecologically astute environment that positions the park as a pivotal gathering point, fostering communal engagement and the celebration of the city's cultural identity. Forest Heart presents a distinctive landscape-centric urban design that pays homage to the nation's heritage.

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Yuanye Spring Urban Farm

Yuanye Spring

Yuanye Spring is an educational facility that seamlessly integrates education, agriculture, and technology. Farming not only serves as a valuable tool for teaching children about history and environmental challenges but also offers an opportunity for them to explore sustainable living on Earth and beyond. Yuanye Spring aims to enhance children's agricultural experience through an enriched hands-on education encompassing farming, technology, history, and sustainability. The goal is to elevate the perception of farming as a profession and inspire more students to pursue studies in agriculture.

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