The design concept with a series of repeating elements was developed for the entire course of the Emscher. The ‘River of Trees’ is the overall theme of the project. The choice of vegetation responds to the surroundings: In the retention…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has just released an amazing online tool for mapping coastal flood risk. Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper allows users to examine, in great detail, the vulnerability to flooding of any location along the Atlantic…
The city of Madrid dug 43 km of tunnels into which the exit routes and motorways of the 6 km section along the River Manzanares disappeared.
Michel Desvigne proposes “a rigid development plan, an infiltration strategy, an evolutionary occupation process, exploiting the fragmentation of the territory to introduce gardens and walks”; the idea is to create: “a provisional parks system, which accompanies all transformations without waiting…
The attempt to rebuild the lower ninth ward in New Orleans, just where the levees broke, is one of a highly courageous level. Since the height and quality of the levees as the connection with surrounding levees is not sufficient…
The noise reducing effect of reshaping the ground’s surface was the inspiration for a landscape strategy and design for an area of approximately 330 hectares to reduce the groundlevel noise of starting planes on the runway ‘Polderbaan’ of the airport.…
Into the heart of downtown Detroit, a productive vegetable garden that also functions as an engaging public space is a tangible expression of the possibilities for integrating urban agriculture into city spaces and city life.
On invitation of the association of the Incompiuto Siciliano and the collective Alterations Video, Coloco office has realized a performance to rehabilitate an incomplete and abandoned theater from more than thirty years.
In 1990 the city of Hannover is selected to host the EXPO 2000. The project started in 1993 with the aim to realize the new residential district of Kronsberg in the south of the city of Hannover, at the foot…
From 2000 to 2010 the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land took place in Lusatia (Brandenburg). Through 30 exemplary projects and EU-projects IBA gave economical, creative and ecological impulses for the required structural change in the mining region.