The Meeting House: Reflecting a Simple Architecture with Traditional Materials and Techniques
The Meeting House is extending over 14’ in the air. Its precariously positioned structure invites the visitors to explore the area’s built environment.
Seoul Skygarden: A Big Plant Village for Korean Plant Species with Gathering Spaces
The public long park can accommodate some biggest variety of Korean plant species, including flowers, shrubs, trees. It collects more than 200 species and sub-species. The total plants that this park have is 24,000 plants that will grow in the next decade to the final heights.
McCormick Place: The Expansion of Convention Center and NFL Football Stadium
The complex center can organize all the facilities in McCormick Place with a string stroke that can be seen from the downtown of Chicago. The plaza itself has a role as a pedestrian space with vehicular circulation too. The detail of granite is used extensively and the active water feature creates the plaza centerpiece.
San Jacinto Plaza: An Update of 100-Year-Old Park with Historic Identity
SWA also works together with Lake Flato Architects to make a metal structure. This kind of structure can help the sculpture safe from the sun. The structure also provides a shaded area for the community activities, so they will not feel too hot.
Sun City Tower Kobe: An Elder Care Facility in Japan’s Unique Geographical Concept
The landscape setback offers a park-like backdrop for Sun City Hall and the Tea Lounge. Both spaces are considered as two important public spaces in Sun City Tower Kobe.
Google Headquarters: the Most Significant Modern Landscapes in the Last Century
SWA worked together with some developers and architects to design Google Headquarters. With this awesome collaboration, two key planning decisions have been created. The first is about treating the park and the campus as one landscape. The second is asserting the landscape presence by raising the building.
Shanghai International Dance Center: An Artful Harmony of Building with Modern Outdoor Space
The landscape of is full of curving bands of paving, promenades, hedges, and also rows of trees. The water fountain and the seating area also welcome all visitors around the city. Providing an awesome outdoor space for gathering.
Thousand Lantern Lake Park: Modern Public Gathering Space with Urban Design
SWA has an opportunity to design Thousand Lantern Lake Park with the relativity blank canvas. They can create a master plan for this park to connect and also inspire the Nanhai city into the future well. The site can grow faster too in the future.
Texas Instruments South Campus: Energized and Usable Spaces for Employees’ Well-Being
Previously, the courtyards were just grass and trees in the facility. However, since the project, the courtyards have large event lawns, trellises, a number of seating areas with different designs and styles.
Hermann Park: Revitalization Project of Houston’s Civic Treasure
The park has an 80-foot wide by 700-foot long reflection pool to act as the formal central axis for the space as well as a central cross-axis providing two smaller spaces to either side, one is the Arbor in the Pines while the other is the O. Jack Mitchell Garden.