Urban Nature

We've selected our favorite projects which play a different take on the urban parks and gardens that we know and love. They show that parks of the future can be something more than city oases and recreation arenas: some of them are powerful environmental vessels which can influence the natural quality of their environment and develop - not in spite of - but along with the city and its inhabitants. Others serve to regenerate a territory which over the course of time has been exhausted and became dysfunctional, lending it a new meaning in the urban fabric. And there are those trying to imbue the landscape with memories and the cultural and historical heritage of spaces, which all contribute to what we perceive as "the spirit of a place" and what actually make us remember it, love it, go back to it. And thus, keep it alive. Check the associated blogpost here: http://openbuildings.com/blog/2011/06/urban-nature-5-contemporary-takes-on-city-parks