The Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition 2018 (2018MIECF), hosted by the Macao SAR Government, was successfully concluded on 14 April 2018. The three-day event promoted interaction and cooperation between Green enterprises from countries and places such as those along the Belt and Road, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay […]
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On 11 May 2018, the third MalaysiaGBC Leadership in Sustainability Awards Night 2018 recognised top leaders in the Green building industry at the Setia City Convention Centre, Setia Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Held in conjunction with World Green Building Council Asia Pacific Network leadership awards, the winners will be representing Malaysia in the regional Asia Pacific […]
In conjunction with Earth Day 2018, the World Green Building Council’s report Doing Right by Planet and People: The Business Case for Health and Wellbeing in Green Building urges companies to make ecological improvements. It highlights tangible economic benefits of Green building and showcases improved occupant satisfaction when firms implement new health, well-being and productivity […]
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HB: You have an interesting background, beginning your career in parasitology rather than ecology. How did you become involved in biodiversity conservation? LC: I have always been the tomboyish kind, right from childhood. My parents had a plantation and I used to help them on the weekends—well, I hoped to be a bit helpful but mostly ran around, […]
BJ: You have built a multidisciplinary practice, which deals with multiple facets of sustainable development in India and abroad. From water management and landscapes to architecture and restoration, you have worked on a myriad of projects in the past. Why and how did you set up such a practice? MR: I will start with answering the why because the how […]
GREENWAY MASTER PLAN GreenWay is a 5.8-kilometre multi-use linear link between Iron Cove and Cooks River. It is envisaged as an urban green corridor, a continuous and connected shared landscape for cultural engagement and recreation. Following the route of the Inner West light rail, this platform features bike paths and foreshore walks; bushcare sites; cultural […]
A degraded 10-mile-long river corridor, covering an area of 484 acres, is ecologically recovered and transformed into a lush and high-performing greenway that reconnects humans with nature. This heals the physical and mental damage done to the local community, who have suffered the degraded environment for decades due to relentless development. Riparian plains have been […]
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The West Java campus is conceived as a compact living-learning ‘village’ that sits harmoniously within its natural setting. The master plan took advantage of the morphology of the site by concentrating the development of academic and student housing around the central valley and the ravines. This will enable the preservation of key watersheds on-site and […]
For our landscape issue, designers are looking into natural processes that have been lost or fragmented. There are three perspectives on this. Dr Yu Kongjian has been the force behind China’s sponge city movement. For inspiration, Dr Yu turns to the Chinese countryside and agricultural practices that have had, for hundreds of years, methods and strategies […]
The loss of green cover in cities is often discussed as an issue of human well-being. We speak of increased urban heat island effect, worsening air quality and the psychological discomfort arising from our separation from nature. These are important points, and critical to developing more liveable cities, but they overlook a crucial consideration: that […]
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For its winning competition scheme, HASSELL has been appointed as design partner for the development of a critical urban area within the new Qianhai business district of Shenzhen, one of China’s important ‘gateway’ cities. As Mawan is a new area in Shenzhen, the plan focused more on strategic concepts; detailed landscape and sustainability input was […]
Scheduled for completion by September this year, Philippe Rahm’s Central Park (previously named Jade Eco Park) has been erected on the site of the former airport of Taichung, Taiwan. The park will serve a new residential and commercial district that backs onto the Tunghai University. Spanning 70 hectares, it includes space for leisure, sport, family […]
