AZURE_2014_07_08.pdf

11
trees and nature – playing up the notion
of relieving oneself in the bushes, while
presenting the park with an image of
itself. psastudio. ca
Landscape Architecture
10 folly forest
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Firm:
Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects
and Urban Designers, Winnipeg Team:
Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr
The children at Strathcona School now
have the stars at their feet. In reviving
this paved play area, local landscape
architects Dietmar Straub and Anna
Thurmayr punched holes into the
50-year-old asphalt surface, then outlined
these geometric perforations
in bright yellow and red, and planted
some 100 trees inside them. To add rich
texture and provide ground cover for
the new plantings, they arranged bricks,
logs and stones inside the bases. The
budget-friendly, reanimated space, complete
with such objets trouvés as a rusty
cauldron and silvery wooden beams,
now gives a whole constellation back to
this low-income neighbourhood.
11 Mangfall park Rosenheim
Location: Rosenheim, Germany Firm:
A24 Landschaft Landschaftsarchitektur,
Berlin Team: Steffan Robel and Joachim
Swillus with Carole Blessner, Stephan
Huber and Joachim Naundorf
To reconnect Rosenheim to its rivers,
Berlin landscape firm A24 ingeniously
transformed 13 hectares of urban
waterfront in the city in Upper Bavaria.
The backbone of this brilliant scheme
is a 500-metre-long boardwalk, which
morphs from ramp to promenade to
landscaped steps leading down to the
water’s edge, and connects to eight
pedestrian bridges. While these bridges
link the riverbanks, the previously
buried Mühlbach creek was uncovered,
and guarded inlets along its path were
reimagined as urban gardens. A timbered
platform rises above tiered lawns, provides
a viewing platform to the Chiemgau
Alps, to the east. a24‐landschaft. de
az awards annual jul ⁄ aug 2014 59