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Reimagine the ICONIC Notre-Dame with Bas Smets
© Studio Alma for BBS Brussels-based landscape designer Bas Smets intends to create a better Notre-Dame experience for both tourists and Parisians with an eye towards sustainability. The world watched despairingly when the medieval cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire in 2019. It was inconceivable that this beloved French icon, completed in 1345, might so easily be destroyed. But like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Notre-Dame’s restoration steadily progresses with a hope that portions can reopen in 2024, just in time for the summer games. Taking the lead on Notre-Dame’s exterior refurbishment is Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets who is working collaboratively with architectural and urban planner GRAU and…
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An iconic San Francisco park gets a 21st-century update
Carved into San Francisco’s hilly Chinatown, a newly renovated park and community clubhouse flip a disjointed recreation place into a new hub of intergenerational action. By mixing architecture and landscape design and style, the job transforms a complicated and awkward site into a rare, public social room for the densest neighborhood in the city. [Photo: Bruce Damonte/courtesy CMG + Jensen] Willie “Woo Woo” Wong Playground, built by CMG Landscape Architecture and Jensen Architects for the city’s Recreation and Parks Section, has been an essential community space in tightly packed Chinatown for just about a century. Before, the fifty percent-acre park was a little bit of a jumble. Situated in the…
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A Closer Look at 6 Artists from The Iconic Home
Just after winning most effective in show at a group school artwork exhibition, Turner attained even additional confidence and approached local gallery Style and design Source, exactly where his abstract paintings proceed to garner the highlight. Despite his hefty tutorial load, Turner is devoted to turning out artworks that he describes as “expressive, historic, and sophisticated.” They can also be uncovered at Contemporary Remains in Nashville and Paloma & Co. in Houston. Michel Smith Boyd Smith Boyd is renowned for his ritzy residential interiors and solution collections like rugs for ZGallerie, but the Atlanta designer is also an artist, as amped about paintings as he is about the new glass…
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