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The route is always accompanied by a wide flowery verge

Sanne Creuëls Photography, Visit Zuid Limburg

The route has its own materialization and signing on the road

By following the route, one discovers the highlights and distinctive scenery of Parkstad

Project • By LOLA Landscape Architects • Heritages

Parkstadroute Limburg

The LOLA Landscape Architects designed Parkstadroute is a recreational route (for cycling and hiking) of 35 kilometres, through IBA Parkstad, a region in the Netherlands that used to be known for its coal mining. The route is designed as a recreational route, revealing all the highlights and special landscapes of Parkstad, amongst which are quarts sand quarries, purple coloured heather landscapes, old relicts of mines and castles and man-made terral hills. Marked by a distinctive white dotted line, the Parkstadroute weaves through and connects the villages and cities of Simpelveld, Kerkrade, Heerlen, Landgraaf, Brunssum, Hoensbroek, Nuth, Beekdaelen, and Schinnen. The concept behind the route is built upon three pillars: Flow, experience an... More

The new garden surrounds the plaza in front of the Provincial Government Building and provides a beautiful contrast to the plaza’s stone materials (2025)

Arjan Boekel for LOLA Landscape Architects

Super Blossom is a step toward greening the city center. It began as a temporary garden and evolved into a permanent ecological garden.

The perennials and annuals were planted and sown in a bed of white sand. This reduces weeds and promotes better root development, making the plants much more resilient during dry periods (2024)

The new and existing plants continue to grow into the fall, causing the garden to constantly change. Season after season and year after year (2024)

At the site level, the challenge is to bring all climate goals together in a way that is visually striking and captures the imagination (2024)

Project • By LOLA Landscape Architects • Parks/Gardens

Super Blossom

Flowering plants are followed by perennials – forgotten location in Arnhem has gradually developed into an exuberant urban garden.Arnhem city council presented an ambitious vision for a radical greening of the city. Commissioned by the municipality, LOLA Landscape Architects studied the area of the South-East Canal of Arnhem, at the height of Eusebuisk Church and Stadskantoor, and made several proposals for greening this area and steps to achieve an overarching green structure. Arjan Boekel for LOLA Landscape Architects One of the most striking proposals within this initiative is Super Blossom (Superbloei), a project that removes large sections of pavement and replaces them with lush green spaces to promote biodiversity. The are... More

The entrance area of Broadleaf Creek shows tropical broadleaf plant

LOLA Landscape Architects

Following the original terrain, a winding path has been designed to meander alongside the creek

Project • By LOLA Landscape Architects • Parks/Gardens

Haitang River Park

The Haitang River, its surrounding dunes, and marshlands will become a natural landscape, in which urban, agricultural, and touristic functions are blended in harmoniously. From a sea viewpoint, one can witness the river gracefully flowing through a forested landscape, all the way to the mountains. Yoya Yoya In 2023 LOLA Landscape Architects won the design competition for the design of the Haitang River Park, in Chinese city of Sanya. The Haitang River project plays a central and crucial role in accomplishing this vision. Numerous natural destinations worldwide lost their distinctive qualities due to tourist over-exploitation. The aim is to strike the right balance between nature preservation and touristic development, harm... More

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Project • By LOLA Landscape Architects • Commercial Landscape

HAID Campus

It all starts with nature, and so does the Biotech HQ Science Campus. The HAID Group is driven by its mission to shape a better future for rural China through pioneering agricultural and animal husbandry high-tech. Nestled in the heart of Guangzhou, Guangdong, the HAID Group commissioned LOLA Landscape Architects to undertake the landscape design of its Biotech HQ Science Campus. LOLA Landscape Architects LOLA Landscape Architects LOLA Landscape Architects ● Full circle designThe landscape design reminds us that the campus can also be a self-circulating system. As a grand living biotech organism, landscape and nature gradually introduce themselves into the campus at different levels, generating a tridimensional landscape des... More

Active community participation drives the design of a mixed-use neighborhood in Düsseldorf

MVRDV

News • News • 29 Jan 2024

Active community participation drives the design of a mixed-use neighborhood in Düsseldorf

In the north-western German city of Düsseldorf, international architecture and urbanism office MVRDV and Rotterdam-based LOLA Landscape Architects are working on the development of a new social housing and community scheme. A project for property developer Cube Real Estate, plans for the “Grüne Mitte” development are rooted in the active participation of local residents. The design proposal includes 500 new homes, half of which will be either affordable or social housing, as well as community spaces created to elevate and reinvigorate the area. MVRDV The site is located alongside a busy road in Flingern-Süd, a working-class district east of Düsseldorf city center. It is currently occupied by an unde... More