The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture. The Award Jury composed of a Landscape Architect from each of the five IFLA regions, and the Secretary General of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) who served as a guest member of the Jury, agreed with the nomination…
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Kobe Macco and Lisa Troiano have won the Evariste-Mertens-Price 2016 with their office as the federation of swiss landscape architects BSLA recently announced. We are so proud of our former students and wish them all the best for the project in of the Grünfels-Area in Rapperswil and with their office in LINEA landscape I architecture…
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DGJ has won a competition as landscape architect in the team of Meier Leder from Baden and Müller Sigrist Zurich – two agencies that are successful innovators in the design of collective housing. Together they have designed a neighborhood of nearly 160 new homes along the Limmat River, 20 km west of Zurich. http://www.dearchitect.nl/nieuws/2016/11/16/dgj-wint-prijsvraag-brisgi-in-baden.html
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Dear Colleagues at Delft. A postcard greeting just to let you know, that I am working hard on my PhD ‘architecture with landscape methods’ in my own designed mountain retreat in the upper Rhine valley of the Swiss Alps. Perfect condions up here in Pigniu. Pulver, gut, 0 Grad, wechselnd bewölkt. Heading full spead ahead…
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This week-end the Zeeheldentuin – a organic community garden in The Hague was officially opened with a festive act. From today on it is open every day for neighbors and interested visitors. The opening was started with the novel sport discipline ‘allotment garden race’ to distribute around ninety gardens to their new owners. Around noon…
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The Netherlands’ largest and most beautiful Garden Idea Park – Appeltern chose a design of my practice DGJ Architects & Landscapes as hommage to Vincent van Gogh. The garden information park Appeltern has been laid out in a way that will give you inspiration and help you with your own garden. A walk through the…
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De Zeeheldentuin is definitely designed – This week a group of volunteer students and professionals of Landscape Architecture under my guidance as a teacher and practitioner finished the definitive design of De Zeeheldentuin. For the last six months we met almost every Monday in our studio DGJ Architects & Landscapes in The Hague, around the…
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Last year Michael van der Meer, the director of the Science Centre and Rolf Hut from the Faculty of Civil Engineering asked us to design the ‘smallest polder of the Netherlands’ at the Campus of TU Delft. We invited 5 students (Lowin van der Burg, Marij Hoogland, Linda Nijhof, Emma Ottevanger and Cem Steenhorst) from…
Read MoreThe question mark in the title of our blog can be removed. From Tuesday 9 October 2012 we do landscape TOGETHER with TU Delft and Wageningen University. The two happy gentlemen on the photo are no other then Kees Slingerland, the General Director of the Environmental Sciences Group of Wageningen University and Dirk Jan van…
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The Delta Alliance Young Professionals Awarding ceremony at the Rio plus 20 honored TU Delft Landscape Architecture alumni Federico ‘Freddy’ Curiel on a global podium. Tonight, On Thursday, 21st of June in Rio, the Awarding ceremony of the Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award took place in the UNEP pavilion at the Rio plus 20 Conference…
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