The team led by Stereo Architektur, together with Studio Céline Baumann and Schnetzer Puskas, has won first prize for the project Stadtfeld in Pratteln. The project envisions connecting the three plots of the Evangelical Reformed Church, the Post, and the Canton of Basel-Landschaft through an internal network of open spaces composed of alleys, plazas, and gardens.

The team composed of the three landscape offices Schmid Baumann Kuhn wins third prize for the competition of the open spaces of the Kaserne site in Zurich. The project aims to bring some wild disorder within the former military site.

The parliament of plants can be seen at the Nieuwe Instituut as part of the Dutch iteration of the show Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, an exhibition about the history and future of the modern garden.

The team led by SERA (Studio Esch Rickenbacher Architektur) wins first prize for the construction of a mixed-use high-rise by Zürich-Oerlikon train station. The landscape project consists of two layers: an urban plaza on the upper street level and a logistic hub connecting with the ruderal landscape of the train tracks below.

The garden for the cooperative housing Lyse Lotte in Basel is completed!

The team of Studio Céline Baumann and Weyell Zipse together with Martin Frei and Knopp+Kiel wins first prize for the open spaces of the Rosental Mitte site in Basel. The proposal “Singing Spring” guides the transformation process over the next decade of Rosental Mitte site in Basel. It consists of a concept scheme securing the qualities of the newly created open space and a set of activating measures involving vegetative and human pioneers.

This exhibition brings together the work of landscape architects, urbanists, biologists and students from various backgrounds and generations, who are – consciously or unconsciously – drawing on the metaphor of ramification within their practice.

During the autumn semester 2023, we are investigating how rhizomatic structures may allow us to act upon broad territories in order to shape ecological and climatic corridors for humans and non-humans alike.

In 2022, Manifesta 14, the European Nomadic Biennial, takes place in Prishtina, Kosovo. Under the title „ It matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise “, Creative Mediator Catherine Nichols takes up the challenge of exploring and generating new practices and ways of collective storytelling. We have the pleasure to present the Queer Nature project in the Grand Hotel, a key venue of the festival.

The team led by Lukas Manz, Barbara Thüler and Farquet Architectes wins first prize for the construction of the new Walkeweg school. The project offers playscape amenities for pupils as well as ecological corridors for an urban flora and fauna.

The team led by Donet Schäfer Reimer Architekten wins first prize for the housing project of the plot 2.3 in the new district of Volta in Basel. Our contribution to the project concentrates on the roof terraces and green walls.

The creation of dynamic and living open spaces based on the iterative ecology between communities and their environment is guiding the approach of this landscape architecture project. The studio investigates the metaphor of ramification; a tool allowing to compose and qualify a territory through the quality of its void as well as the density of its mass.