Solearena

Landscape Achitecture: Lutzow 7
Location: Bad Essen, Germany
Construction: 2010
Area: 7ha (entire project)
Cost: 1,95 million (entire project)
Project is a part of National Garden Exhibition Bad Essen 2010

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Platz der Einheit

Landscape Architecture: Wes & partner Landschaftsarchitekten
Project: Square of Unity
Competition: 1. prize
Design: 1998

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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Design: Peter Eisenman, architect and Buro Happold, engineer
Location: Berlin, Germany
Competition: 1997
Construction: 2004
Area: 19,000m²
Cost: €25 million.

Memorials in general have always been a powerful storytelling landscapes as well as a political statements, usually accompanied with conventional symbols in order to be understood by the majority. Sometimes, designers are able to find an unconventional, more advanced way to express the story behind an object of remembrance. This particular memorial is dedicated to the murdered Jews of Europe, and represents the political system of Nazism and it’s behavior towards Jews in Europe under the government of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. Memorial consists of 2,711 concrete slabs, arranged in a grid based system, some slabs are higher than other, some are missing at the edges, which could describe a process of spreading or decomposing at the margins. It is a cold, hard, deaf, heavy, extremely un-natural environment, contrasted with the Tiergarten park across the street. Though the memorial is a very confusing concrete landscape, and you can easily lose orientation (especially, when you are deep inside, where slabs reach a height of nearly 5 meters) you can’t hide. At every moment you can be seen from a great distance, since the paths are straight. See more photos on wiki.

image credit: Andrej Bašelj

image credit: Andrej Bašelj

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Square Depression

Design: Bruce Nauman

Location: Münster, Germany

Construction: 2007

Square depression is a project, which was originaly designed in 1977, when Burce Nauman was invited among nine other artists by Kaspar König to do a sculpture for an open space. It was built 30 years later in the campus of the university’s department of natural sciences Munster. Square depression is an inverted pyramid, ‘walk in’ sculpture made of white concrete. The aim was to create a space, where one could experience a feeling of being isolated, helpless and alone.

This entry was written by admin, posted on July 23, 2009 at 12:22 am, filed under Artscapes, Exstalations, Squares and tagged concrete, germany, Münster. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

BUGA 05 Playground

Landscape Architecture: Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten

Location: BUGA garden show 2005 / Munich / Germany

Playgrounds usually consist of pre-fabricated elements, which are A-Z tested and thousand times certified by various organizations; well that is the easiest (but not cheapest) way of doing it. Prof. Schmidt designed a landscape, without typical playground elements just with combining two material / colors (tartan and grass) and with modification of terrain. Landscape as it is provokes children to play and jump around and up and down.

The last photo was taken by Klaus Leidorf, check his aerial photos on his blog or personal website.

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New Garden - Dyck Castle

Project: Center for Garden Art and Landscape Culture / Dyck Castle

Landscape Architect: Stephen Lenzen for RMP Landschaftsarchitekten

Location: Dyck Castle, Kreis Neuss, NRW

Design period: 2000-2002

Construction: 2002

Cost: 31,25 €/m²

image credits: Stephen Lanzen

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