Hellend Vlak van Ronquières By Susie & Heather Background of the project Hellend vlak van Ronquières is an inclined plane working like a boat lift on the Charleroi-Brussels Canal near the village of Ronquières. Completed in April 1968, it bridges the height difference of 68m in the Hainaut Plateau. The ships are lifted by two…
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By Vivian & Xinyu What we like about this project The planting of grouped elms at the entrance of the park creates the memorial atmosphere which is totally different from the outside suburban environment. It grabbed visitors’ attention immediately in order to make everyone immerse. The symbolic signs along the route are composed with paved…
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By Summer & Fudai Background of the project A tour along the River Leie in the city center of Kortrijk, with nicely designed parks, infrastructures, and facilities. The place was originally called the Leiepark created in 1905 and restored in 2005 by Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, which presents a new face, with an enlarged Leie, new…
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By Ziting Bao and others A three-day excursion to Belgium left a deep impression to us, we visited many attractive cities and diversified landscape design projects. Well-designed parks, green spaces, and plazas provide ideal places for crowded urban living. Memorial Word War I landscape of Ypres promote our reflection on the war and view the…
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As landscape architects we deal with time and process. We plant trees from nursery and wait for them to grow into a mature form, we decorate gardens with flowers which blossem in spring, we create public spaces like waterfronts according to the dynamic of floods and tidal change. Nothing is fixed and can be controlled…
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Thomas Jefferson, landscape architect. Part IV: Washington By now we know that the 45th president of the US is not somebody who is going to spend a whole lot of attention to the relation between state and landscape. Still, there remains much to learn from the landscape architect/president. The development of the nation’s capital shows…
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A landscape architect for president. How about it? In the first part of this feuilleton this idea turned out to be not as far-fetched as it sounds…. All first American presidents were gardeners/farmers, using their own garden to experiment with and express their ideas on what the future America should be, with Thomas Jefferson as their champion. In…
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“… it may be said that Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the Fine Arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.”[1] A landscape architect for president. How about it? In Thomas Jefferson landscape architect. Part I this idea turned out to be not as far-fetched as it sounds…. All…
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In the present publicity excess on the American presidential elections, Trump versus Hillary, I can’t help fantasizing about the ideal president. What about a landscape architect for president? Well, it has been done before, and very successfully… Actually all first presidents were gardeners/farmers, using their own garden to experiment with and express their ideas on…
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Roads and landscape The road in the landscape is a multi-faceted subject, as we could read in the previous posts by Gerdy Verschuure and Steffen Nijhuis. Driving as a means to experience the landscape is one of these aspects, which sometimes has been exalted to an art in itself. When traveling through the United States,…
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