World Landscape Architecture

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World Landscape ArchitectureStudent Project | AI Fungi and Residual Ground AI Fungi and Residual Ground investigates how residual landscapes can be reimagined through fungal intelligence, environmental sensing, and AI-mediated ecological design.

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World Landscape ArchitectureGuobin No.7 Residence – Forest Retreat | Change Studio Winner of an Honourable Mention in the 2026 WLA Awards – Built Commercial Residential Landscape Design category Urban Haute Living, Forest Retreat in Shu Located beside the historic Jinniu Hotel and…

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World Landscape ArchitecturePanlong Tiandi | Sasaki Winner of an Outstanding Award in the 2026 WLA Awards – Built | Masterplanning & Urban Design category Panlong Tiandi renews a 700-year-old village through a landscape-led master plan that preserves…

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World Landscape ArchitectureGlobal Technology Company | Berger Partnership Winner of an Honourable Mention in the 2026 WLA Awards – Built | Commercial Landscape Design category Global Technology Campus is a 72-acre landscape transformation of a 30+ year-old low-density…

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World Landscape ArchitectureHAID Science Park | LOLA Landscape Architects Winner of an Honourable Mention in the 2026 WLA Awards – Built | Commercial Landscape Design category A Breathing Bio-Tech Organism Rooted in nature, the Haid Science Park reflects a mission to build…

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World Landscape ArchitectureShanghai Midtown Belt: A Landscape-Led Urban Design Framework Winner of an Outstanding Award in 2026 WLA Awards – Concept Masterplanning & Urban Design category. The Midtown area spans approximately 600 km² between Shanghai’s inner and outer ring roads and…

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World Landscape ArchitectureCarved by Water: The Geological Logic Behind Wadi Landscapes Wadis are dry valleys that carry water only during and after rainfall events, and are characteristic features of arid and semi-arid regions.

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World Landscape ArchitectureKimpton Nine Trees Shanghai | TOA Landscape Architecture The Kimpton Nine Trees Hotel is a resort development located at the heart of the Central Ecological Park in Fengxian District, on the outskirts of Shanghai.

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World Landscape ArchitectureUniversity Studio | Politics of Conservation The “Politics of Conservation” studio is part of a multi-year teaching and research initiative focused on landscape conservation in Northern Thailand.

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World Landscape ArchitectureWhat Are the Top-Rated Sensory Playground Panels for Inclusive Outdoor Spaces? Augsburg Park | Courtesy of Little Tikes Commercial Inclusive outdoor play spaces succeed when equipment actively engages children of all abilities through multiple sensory pathways.

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo