Riverfront
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about riverfront
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.
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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
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Bars
Arbory Bar & Eatery
Arranged as an abstracted assemblage of freight carriages sited alongside the Flinders Street Station platforms, Arbory is a hybrid public/private space where pedestrians and patrons alike, ebb and flow or pause to enjoy each other’s company along the riverside. The brief was to convert a disused rail line into a publicly accessible contemporary restaurant and bar venue that would not only sit comfortably within the surrounding heritage context but also contribute positively to the local residents and the tourist experience of Melbourne.
The design of a series of white polycarbonate box buildings allowed the kitchens, bars and back of house areas to be contained within a minimalist ‘singular’ architectural form, whic... More
Project • By petrjanda/brainwork • Coasts
The rebirth of the Prague’s riverfront
The first part of the long-awaited revitalization of the Prague riverfront area called Náplavka is coming to completion, making it one of the most attractive public embankments in Europe. In autumn 2019, nineteen vaults on the Rašín and Hořejší Embankments will be put into use. Six will feature the biggest elliptical pivoting windows in the world, connecting the inner spaces with the riverfront area in a unique way, through the diagonal rotation of the five-meter wide glazed “lenses”. The other spaces will have distinct steel sculptural entrances.The area has gradually grown in popularity thanks to the program activation that began in 2008. One of its initiators was architect Petr Janda, the author of the architectural concept. The alm... More