Memorial landscape architecture

(1948–2008) British-American Geographer, Professor and Author.

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MEMORIAL A LAS VÍCTIMAS DE LA VIOLENCIA

Image 16 of 45 from gallery of Montpellier Metropolitan Cemetery / Agence Traverses - Paysage, Urbanisme, Architecture. © Marie-Caroline LUCAT

The project is to replace the traditional generic cemetery space with highly differentiated urban context, releasing the identical heavy stone-made tombs on the ground to various sensitive crystal-like prism in the sky, the tension between life and death, mortal and immortal, past and future has been reintegrated in increasing densified urban realms.

Image 1 of 28 from gallery of Earthquake Memorial Hall and Relics Park in Longtou mountain Town / HUAXIA Architects Studio. Photograph by Xiu Huo

Image 2 of 14 from gallery of Sian Memorial Park / IROJE Architects & Planners. Photograph by JongOh Kim

Ringdijkpark is a robust ecological landscape park for humans and animals in the Haarlemmermeer. Our design enters into a powerful dialogue with the three existing, typically Dutch landscapes in the context: ring canal, dike and polder. The area is an elongated zone between the historical residential area along the Ringdijk and the economic activities of […]

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We continue with French philosopher Michel Foucault. In his 1967 speech to an architecture audience, he introduced the concept of

Arlington National Cemetery Expansion / Falon Land Studio LLC, USA