https://www.llginternational.com/new-folder-1 daily 0.75 2015-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413398874849-QWHI5MNTBW706AYQGCBF/2013-08-16-A.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Sinan East City Reconstruction Sinan East City Reconstruction Concept Plan - Sinan, Guizhou, China 思南区位 思南县位于贵州省东北部、乌江流域的中心地带、武陵山腹地，东邻梵净山，南靠泉都石阡，西接历史名城遵义，北连重庆通长江。思南区位优势明显，交通畅达，基础设施建设突飞猛进。在建中的两条高速公路（杭- 瑞、重庆酉阳- 黔东南剑河）在县城交汇，2013 年6 月前将全线建成通车；乌江航道整治及思南枢纽港正在建设，届时500 吨级船舶将直通长江；规划建设的贵阳至郑州、昭通至黔江、都匀至黔江三条铁路过境思南，思南通往遵义、重庆、贵阳、怀化、黔江等地的4 小时经济圈正在形成，思南与全国各大中城市的时空距离日渐缩短。 形态概念 船的唤醒（船划过水面留下的水波，船唤醒水面）” - 强调水波的动感 “陡崖”- 一个重复的建筑表面组成的系统， 看起来依旧像波浪 “河” - 强调“长的” 水和波浪的形状 “喀斯特” 强调整体的弯曲的地形 “太极”强调弯曲、核心和平衡。 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413474521421-N9YDHB7D97664M2QG0S0/12121.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421272674511-7N4DIEGR30Z30MKP0XRG/1GhantootModelAerial.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Phase 1 Rendered Site Plan Ghantoot Green City - Abu Dhabi, UAE Ghantoot includes a commercial center, hotels, office blocks, residential developments, warehousing and light industrial areas with a planned population of 1 million. Phase 1 of Ghantoot Green City includes housing and community facilities to support 100,000 individuals. Residents will enjoy a resort-like setting where they may live, work, learn, shop, and relax at this ‘greening the desert’ tree plantation oasis north of central Abu Dhabi, UAE. The vision for Ghantoot was to be a sustainably designed multi-use community. In addition to the extensive landscape, open spaces and community amenities planned for the project, world-class recreational amenities were planned including a golf resort, equestrian trails and canal marinas. During prior employment with RNL, LLG’s principal served as the lead designer for the community landscape architecture of Ghantoot and served as an urban design team member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421273243933-IUFWDXKKHCP55ZP4OEVO/LLG_International_FOSS_UD_02.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Perspective Forest of Seih Sederah Urban Design - Abu Dhabi UAE This master plan is based on the idea of integrating the traditional Arab city with a contemporary conception of modern urban living. It is designed to be a mixed-use community that is compact, pedestrian-based, linked by transit, and inspired by sustainable principles. The plan uses principles of traditional Arab urban design described by Hassan Fathy, such as self-shaded walkable streets, layers of privacy, selective use of native vegetation, and the souk as an integrated pubic space. Modern ideas and necessities such as transit, underground parking, and infrastructure have been layered onto this traditional understanding to create a new urban environment that is both sustainable and integrates the best of the past and the future. The city block structure supports natural ventilation and shading; buildings are placed on the block for the optimal orientation (elongated east-west). Public areas and buildings are designed to be naturally shaded and include rooftop photovoltaics. Courtyard building forms predominate to promote an appropriate regional form. Wind turbines are designed to power the public infrastructure (lights, utilities, and streetcar). Xeriscaping and native plants minimize water use. During his prior employment with RNL, LLG's principal served as the lead designer for the parks and recreation and as a member of the urban design team of the Forest of Seih Sederah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421339451485-19D37UWNEW27XGF6ZCKP/LLG_International_Yunling_220_14.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Illustrative Land Use Plan Yunling Mountain Golf Resort Community - Kunming, Yunnan, China This element of the Yunling Mountain resort community is located closest to the feature amenities of the project including a golf clubhouse, a boutique hotel, and a full-featured day spa. The master plan provided a variety of housing densities and types ranging in size from 900 square meter corporate villas to 200 square meter attached courtyard villas. The design integrated a network of bicycle and pedestrian linkages to the clubhouse, spa, hotel and public open spaces. Since all streets will be used by cars and golf carts, parking for both types of vehicles was provided. The pre-existing agricultural terrace walls were used to organize the arrangement of lots and streets so that the architectural walls of the buildings and sites would express the terraced planes of the site, providing a memory of the site’s prior use and unifying the community design with consistent materials and a continuity of forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421341693596-XPY2W4JRASI6HZQN3ZNX/LLG_International_Yunling_780_26.jpg URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Yunling Mountain Golf Resort Yunling Mountain Golf Residential Community - Kunming, Yunnan, China The golf residential neighborhood, surrounded by the Rees Jones designed golf links, is the larger of the first two phases at the Yunling Mountain Golf Resort and was developed as both a second home and permanent home neighborhood. The district is enriched by a large number of golf course frontage lots, numerous parks and open spaces, and alternative transportation walks, paths, and trails. The neighborhood concept was based on the separation of sub-neighborhoods from each other by natural features of the site such as a wooded ravine, a central agriculturally terraced park in a broad natural valley, a preserve of steep land forested with Yunnan and Huashan pine, and a natural glade of those trees that connects to nearby public open space. Included in the neighborhood are three feature amenity buildings. The first is an athletic clubhouse for swimming, tennis, fitness, and dance studios. The second is a market center of small shops and daily services with underground parking. The third is a retreat center located near a wild area and trails that is suitable for conferences and ecological education. A fourth center was considered for on-site recycling and re-processing of glass, metal, wood and paper with the idea of a crafts center for making hardware and other furnishings for community buildings. The steep slopes of the site were addressed with 4 and 5 meter road widths to reduce grading and villa gardens with walls integrated with the buildings and the site to create private outdoor areas for residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421342347059-PQBFGD2JL1S9SEJ24Y35/Horiz003.png URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING - Rendered Community Plan Horizon City - Aurora, Colorado USA Horizon City was intended to be the sustainable downtown heart of east Aurora and the immediate area, to bring responsible, connected and healthy choices in living, working, shopping and entertainment to the eastern fringe of Denver's metropolitan area. It was envisioned be an urban community linking the environmental aspirations of an active, involved segment of the Denver metro population with a community where environment, community and economic sustainability are within reach of everyone. During prior employment with RNL, LLG’s principal served as the lead designer for the community landscape architecture of Horizon City and served as an urban design team member. https://www.llginternational.com/new-folder-3 daily 0.75 2015-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421344202726-FBSR931L42PBFOGDEY67/Drawings12.jpg CRAFT - Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Italy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421344846251-DEV1EI7HEWL8EPM3ISUF/Drawings3.jpg CRAFT - Halley's Comet Park - Crystal City, Virginia USA https://www.llginternational.com/competitions daily 0.75 2015-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421272065755-HUZWQP3Q1HJVB1ZYG1PN/LLG_International_Competition_USBG_02.jpg COMPETITIONS - Competition Entry Board US Botanical Garden – “The National Garden of the American Wilderness” - Washington D.C. The Wilderness Garden was designed to serve as a living visual, aesthetic, scientific, and intellectual reference for interpretations of our natural landscapes and the roles they have played and continue to play in the development of our nation. The garden is designed as a seamless iconographic representation of the natural vegetation of the continental United States. The time period chosen for display is the post-glacial era just after humans arrived in North America (10 to 20 thousand years before the present). The gradual but persistent growth of the human population through time increasingly altered the natural vegetation of the continent. These changes, however, were envisioned to be treated in detail in the future National Museum of the American Indian and were not a major subject of the Wilderness Garden. The proposal won and honorable mention in a national competition. The award was given by Theresa Heinz (now Kerry) in Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421344477058-CHW54MEPQDQANOR41CE1/LLG_International_Competition_Hong_Kong_BCF_03.jpg COMPETITIONS - Submittal Board – Site, Landscape, Building Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facility - Hong Kong, China This proposal was intended to create an iconic, ecologically sustainable, and functionally effective boundary crossing experience for the delight and comfort of travelers between Macao and Hong Kong. The formal concept for this proposal is about the life of the sea. It is an expression of vertebrate morphology together with landform and sea-form associations, their expressive and cleansing functions, and the nature of their organizational patterns. The design included detailed coordination of building forms with site and building ecological systems in order to create a self-sustaining infrastructure for the site operators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1430508742880-CMWAWDWXCYI6AINR71PU/WTC-5.jpg COMPETITIONS https://www.llginternational.com/new-folder-2 daily 0.75 2015-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421271244148-0VSVZ1FAFJ3LFEZQX7VK/Web2-K1.jpg PROJECT PROGRAMMING & DESIGN - Shanghai ASEAN Complex Shanghai ASEAN Complex - Chenggong New Area, Kunming, Yunnan, China The design concept of the Shanghai ASEAN Commercial Complex was derived from the stunning movements of dancer Yang Liping, locally known for her Peacock Dance. The interpretive motion of dance generates not only the urban framework but the spaces between. The concept is built upon three principles of the Peacock Dance – the physical Frame (body), the Space (void) created between the physical objects and Movement (dance) inherent with the various motions of the peacock.Walkways from all four site corners lead to the different program areas. The site is landscaped using a lush palette with a pattern expressing the peacock's tail. Careful placement of the three towers promotes views overlooking central activities of the property and in all directions surrounding the development. Tower massing is separated to allow for views between buildings and for maximum privacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1421271633518-32EFJMFLS4LNYTPGQVLR/Web2-TonglingAerialPerspect.jpg PROJECT PROGRAMMING & DESIGN - Aerial Site Perspective Tongling Convention Center - Tongling, Anhui, China LLG prepared the design for a new convention center in one of the city’s new districts, north of town overlooking a lake. The site and architectural solution led to the development of a high rise hotel overlooking a major plaza, a conference center organized around a traditional Chinese water garden, three major convention halls capable of either dividing or combining for flexibility in tenant usage. A major site event plaza included a bridge over an arterial street to a park across the boulevard which fronts on the lake. To commemorate the long history of copper mining, the plaza was named "Copper Plaza" and used elements of copper in the design. https://www.llginternational.com/work daily 1.0 2015-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413327952391-2NXNM7H3VWHGXN3B2R2C/32324343535454.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413393140875-D0DB8L3LJ887SER8OAX5/LLG_International_Tan_Xinpei_Park_03.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Aerial Perspective Tan Xinpei Park - Wuhan, Hubei, China LLG International won a competition with its proposal for a park, lake, high density residential, and canal retail district in Wuhan, China. The naming of the park is to honor the memory of Tan Xinpei (1847-1917) who was a native of Wuchang (now Wuhan) in Hubei Province. He combined the hu-guang accent and the pronunciation in Central China to form his own articulation style, which gained wide recognition as a model tune in Beijing opera. The park design includes a major outdoor venue for performances by musicians along the shore of the lake, connected by a canal and walkway to the ancient/traditional architecture of the proposed nearby canal retail center. The area was historically a fluctuating wetland as part of a local lake complex. Many were either dredged as open water or turned into aquatic plant farms. To honor and restore some ecological functions, a portion of the park is returned to habitat use as conjoined upland and wetland with a rustic/modern ecological research and visitor center. The center will be built in a wild area with piers and boardwalks making the natural features easily accessible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413393741711-XHDCY8M3COJWZZNJRTEM/LLG_International_Yunling_Clubhouse_02.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Clubhouse Setting Yunling Mountain Resort Golf Clubhouse - Kunming, Yunnan, China Yunling Mountain Golf Resort’s signature Rees-Jones designed golf course is anchored by a courtyard style golf clubhouse designed by Mason Architecture and Design. This arrangement is inspired by local vernacular courtyard buildings and the materials from which they are constructed. The design of the clubhouse courtyards and its site express the local agricultural terracing systems and the organically arranged walls that support the fields. A challenge of the design included accommodating movements of carts from the 18th hole uphill to the cart storage area in the basement and from there much further uphill to the 19th hole over a bridge crossing an adjacent road. An entry court was designed to accept tour buses and yet still permit car parking, bag drop, and an intimate pedestrian character. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413394052307-EBAUCK8XA90AKSP9YLAU/LLG_International_Yunling780_13.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Residential Community Open Space Plan Yunling Mountain Golf Resort Open Space - Kunming, Yunnan, China The parks and open space design for all of the Yunling Mountain Golf Resort was conceived as a connected system of linkages between domesticated residential areas and surrounding golf course and pine woodland areas. The first goal of this approach was to provide a recreational alternative system of transportation for community residents and also to provide movement corridors for the local wildlife to obtain food, water, and shelter without needing to relocate from the site. The second goal was to open the site up from what might otherwise have been a high degree of imperviousness, so that natural drainage flows and infiltration might continue to be accommodated, lessening the need for expensive stormwater infrastructure. The open space system helps the residential neighborhood configurations “shake hands” with the natural patterns and processes of the site. Sub-neighborhoods are created between linkages in the open space network. The network itself is both designed and ecologically restored to various levels of natural functions. Within the designed elements of the open space are located nine parks. Three of these are provided adjacent to the golf course or to building amenities to leverage the value of these sites and open views of the golf course to all residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413394848724-MM4BEN34S5ME1YZLMIZM/LLG_International_Yunling_Entry_5.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Yunling Mountain Golf Resort Main Entry Gate Yunling Mountain Golf Resort Entries - Kunming, Yunnan, China This 150 by 5 meter polished black granite gateway wall reflects both the visitor and the landscape in what appears to be an inaccessible, spirit realm in the depths of the stone. The power of the gateway is the transition to a world of nature-inspired activity that lies ahead with “The Spirit of Golf," or the central play experience – to engage with a rolling plane of rich green grass surrounded by a lush pine and meadow landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413395523884-YEUT7HTRCUS25RVWCJT8/LLG_International_Tian_Fu_Waterways_01.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Section at Village Core Tian Fu Waterways - Shanghai, China Tian Fu is a agricultural district served by a network of canals, lying generally west of central Shanghai. As a consultant to the Charles Group, LLG prepared cross sectional drawing studies to highlight the pleasurable living and shopping experience potential between both new and restored farm villages and canals. Recommendations for the ecological development of canal edges to sustain living systems adjacent to developed public spaces were also provided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413395839345-KG7SX5QQLRZ7F89TAXDG/LLG_International_Miramont_02.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Park Core Area Miramont Park - Fort Collins, Colorado USA Jeff Lakey led the design and construction administration of a thirteen acre neighborhood park in Fort Collins Colorado. His work included collaboration on playground area design with Denver artist Andrew Dufford. Jeff led the community open house public participation process to develop programming and design for the park. The construction of the site included collaboration with neighborhood builders to construct a viewing mound out of nearby basement excavations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413399311334-HU6JJ9PK9FPP1GPO85IU/6.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413399917095-IK8W18PDFX73NVV6GI1U/LLG_International_Shams_Central_Park_RNL_02.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Overall Site Perspective Shams Central Park - Shams Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE The Central Park is a major attraction of Shams Abu Dhabi, offering about one million square feet of open space and recreational amenities. It is a key feature of the development that will help the developer, Sorouh, deliver a "life in perfect balance" for the 70,000-strong Shams community. Central Park was designed to offer active and passive recreation for the Shams community, positioning it as a daily destination for residents and visitors. The design includes shops and cafes bordering the canal promenades, three levels of vehicle parking below the entire park, a mosque and a state-of-the-art restaurant overlooking the water theatre. The Central Park canals and lagoon serve as the confluence of the city's canal and open space system. Jeff Lakey participated in the design as a leading member of the invitation-only submittal by the RNL team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413400443353-U91RY71IN6APJ1DIDV5X/LLG_International_Al_Ghadeer_RNL_08.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Retail Canopy Street Al Ghadeer Community - Abu Dhabi, UAE During prior employment with RNL, LLG’s principal led the landscape architectural team and served as co-leader of the urban design team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413400576483-KCQTSLQTT8FNHEEVNVU1/LLG_International_EAA_RNL_01.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Airshow Grounds During 2007 Event EAA Airventure Airshow - Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA Read about site construction progress and planning objectives: http://www.eaa.org/news/2008/2008-10-30_siteplan.asp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413401036012-MZ9ZSORY75RWM89FL80E/LLG_International_Al_Raha_01.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Al Raha Island Community and Shore Hotel Al Raha Beach Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE The Al Raha community and beach hotel, while separated by a canal, were designed as an integrated project linking an existing hotel, two beaches, waterfront retail, and high rise apartments. A landscape design was prepared to develop a lush, embracing setting for hotel guests and ease their transitions as they moved throughout the site. The site and landscape design integrated with the architectural spatial and metaphorical concepts to pursue a clear and strong vision for the hotel. Jeff Lakey participated in the design as a leading member of the invitation-only submittal by the RNL team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413401449741-FPWAS32CXVTOQEPFMVY8/LLG_International_Child_Associates_04.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Hospital Courtyard, Boston, Massachusetts USA Selected Legacy Projects Over a period of 25 years LLG International principals and students have advised clients on the development of significant landscape spaces, parks and gardens well as prepared design recommendations and construction documents. A few examples are shown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413396178758-Q5KIVDCF39E7TO27Z3BK/LLG_International_Horizon_06.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Neighborhood Drainageway Concept Horizon City Center - Aurora, Colorado USA The community landscape at Horizon City Center used nearby natural vegetation and physiographic provinces as models for open space types. For example, “piney terraces” were modeled after the topographic prairie outcrops of the high plains where Limber Pine naturally grow in rocky, fissured soils with low precipitation. The particular character of this example provided the community with a locally compatible landscape type suitable as a buffer between two adjacent freeways and commercial uses. Several other district types were conceived and integrated into the community in a similar manner. All were adapted versions of locally xeric communities that helped achieve Horizon’s stringent sustainability goals for local landscapes and their water demand. High plains wetlands were also developed for stormwater conveyance, infiltration, and filtering prior to discharge to local tributaries of Denver’s Sand Creek. During his prior employment with RNL, LLG International’s Jeff Lakey served as the lead designer for Horizon City Center Parks and Open Space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413398513014-0SCLVJLXK5U3HGJ5HKN9/LLG_International_FOSS_01.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Community Landscape Street View Forest of Seih Sederah Landscape - Abu Dhabi, UAE Based on research of recreation needs for integrated populations of expatriates, a recreation plan was conceived and implemented in the master plan for open spaces and parks throughout Seih Sederah. The influence of populations from other parts of Asia and the Middle East drove the recreational activity program to include soccer fields, a cricket stadium, basketball courts, and lacrosse fields. Walking and bicycle paths through open spaces were integrated into the alternative transportation network of the five separate villages of the community. One open space area near the community core was conceived as a botanical garden for local environmental education and tourism enjoyment. While with RNL, LLG International’s Jeff Lakey served as the lead designer for the parks and recreation of the Forest of Seih Sederah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413399765941-S2DD3CXRUUEZWC4DZ3UI/LLG_International_Nagpur_RNL_03.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Office Park Ground View Nagpur Technology Park - Nagpur, India During his prior employment with RNL, LLG International’s Jeff Lakey served as the landscape architecture lead on the development of designs for the public plaza space at Nagpur Technology Park of 500,000 square meters of office space. The site experience revolves around interlocking rings to enclose unique experiences throughout the campus. Because of the site scale, the grand gesture of the rings will be discovered over time by incremental visits during daily employee breaks. The site user will gradually discover the organizing structure of the paving rings as they travel through the site and view from above. The important functional design components deal with climate control in an environment that is typically very hot and humid with a wet monsoon season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413400076000-0WKV5ZH758PSM1UC3GTY/LLG_International_One_Steamboat_Place_RNL_04.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Project Site Plan One Steamboat Place - Steamboat Springs, CO An approximately $160 million development, One Steamboat Place is among the first new developments to occur at Steamboat Ski Resort. The project includes 42 fractional and 38 whole ownership residences. A key aspect of the design included fitting a plaza-covered underground garage, connecting to the existing retail garage and transit center. The plaza also had to accommodate a possible chair lift base wheel. The chief issue with the plaza was to make an inviting public space that served all the base ski facilities at Steamboat Ski Resort and connect to the premier new residences at the property. Concept urban and landscape design provided while previously employed at RNL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413397983369-VGZJY99AXOXCSJWSG0CU/LLG_International_Zhongyou_Hotel_04.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Northwest View Zhongyou Hotel & Retail Center - Shanghai, China LLG International teamed with Denver architects Hangar 41 for the urban and landscape design of a five-star hotel and shopping center in Shanghai, China for an invitation-only international design competition. Just south of Shanghai’s Pudong district, this site has a direct canal connection to historic Xinchang, a tourist-rich ancient salt-mining canal town. Traditional-garden-inspired angular circulation within the site promotes “safe” exploration around corners and sightline intersections to retail spaces, the main hotel structure, a conference center, and constructed greenspaces. The “wings” of the building are peeled apart so the internal spaces of the tower can be naturally lit, providing interest and a procession for the guests entering their quarters. These views also allow for showcasing the prominent retail spaces below, inviting visitors to explore and shop. Plazas at entries to the lower-level retail and waterfront areas suggest crystalline forms compatible with the architectural concept, extending it throughout the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413475094301-0Q90UI5RWG8628O7P2FB/32.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413394425819-E1150BS1DLX73D3U0Z4P/LLG_International_Dali_Miwan_05.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Site & Landscape Concept Plan Dali Miwan (Moon Harbor) Resort - Dali, Yunnan, China Dali Miwan (Moon Harbor) is a new 200,000 square meter (land) retail and residential village project in Yunnan Province in southern China. LLG International prepared the community, street, plaza, and garden landscape architecture for the site, which is located between Cang Shan (mountains) and Erhai (lake) on a long sloping earthen plane with a long history of ancient trade, settlement, and Buddhist temples. Important features of the design include a series of water chute streets to expose the otherwise below grade storm water and creek channels that move water from the mountains to the lake. A central plaza organizes the community as a distinct urban center with a series of constructed waterfalls and an entertainment stage for the enjoyment of tourists and residents. A rich, flowering, and leafy garden interprets both the local mountain and lake landscapes for the heart of a five-star hotel complex located in the northeast quadrant of the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50295d74c4aaba8b212f040e/1413998782252-4WR4X5H43169H2RC785W/7.jpg LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Aerial Perspective 1800 Larimer Roof Top - Denver, Colorado, USA The organizing idea for the 1800 Larimer Street Roof Garden reinforces the architectural design of the overlooking building which can be considered “lifted sky panels.” As attached to the building above, these are blue tinted reflective glass. In the garden they are raised planting beds used to divide space and to host mostly wind-activated plants, primarily grasses, as well as seed and berry plants that are visited by creatures of the sky. The raised planting beds create intimate visitation areas with dark metal chairs and tables for employee meetings and breaks for taking in a little urban nature on the roof. At the time it opened in 2010, 1800 Larimer was the first high-rise office building constructed in Denver’s central business district in more than 25 years. It ushered in a new class of office tower designed for energy efficiency and low toxicity. The 22-story building includes a 17,000-square-foot outdoor terrace, Denver’s largest private park, intended to attract birds and pollinators to the core of the city and to bring contact with nature to the buildings employees. 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