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Ningbo Xiangshan People’s Square Area Design Competition

Tom Leader was honored to serve on an illustrious jury for this major international competition. The project is for a new cultural, athletic, and TOD architectural program and the re-imagining of the People’s Square– the current and future “living room for the city”....

ULI/Gerald D Hines Student Urban Design Competition

This year’s 20th annual student urban design competition was a redevelopment plan for an Oakland, California site. The challenge brief asked the students to address equity, housing affordability, access to neighborhood services, sustainability, and connectivity to surrounding communities....

Tom Leader speaks at the UVA School of Architecture AUC Inaugural Workshops

A set of workshops launches the research platform Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC) through engaged debate on three thematic areas that are identified as crucial for thinking about the future city, and the role the Asian City may play in our understanding and shaping of it: Geopolitics, Culture, and Ecology....

TLS Announced Winner for International Urban Design Competition of Shanghai Hongqiao Qianwan Area

TLS Landscape Architecture is announced winner for the Urban Design of Shanghai Hongqiao Qianwan Area within six international competing teams. Qianwan is located northwest of Hongqiao District, a city sub-core of Shanghai Masterplan. The competition scope includes overall area of 100 hectares, core urban design area of 20 hectares, central park area of 10 hectares.   Qianwan is located on the Suzhou River, as an interface between the traditional water town culture of the westside and the international modern trend of the eastside. TLS’s concept “Hydro City, Hyper Community” integrates water-oriented city making with international urban lifestyle, to create a new urban fabric that nourish great quality of life. Water and park infiltrate into communities and break up the boundary. Five different water characters merge their features into five featured zones. By uniting headquarters and communities, Qianwan will become a brand-new innovative...

TLS + AZPML Win Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Central Green Axis Landscape Design with “Super Campus”

TLS Landscape Architecture + AZPML Architecture LTD were announced as the winners of an international competition for the central green axis landscape design of the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base. The proposed “SuperCampus” seeks to create an interactive model for multi-levelled open space as a collaborative hub of global interconnection. Inspired by the open model of a college campus, it links business and research communities not only with each other but also with Shenzhen’s urban fabric and its ecological systems. “Aggressively biological”, the park is a living organism composed of 4 specific biomes which climb a topography of hills and invade hollows in the below grade layers to create a three-dimensional “campus mesh”.   Read the entire article here: A 'Super Campus' design by TLS & AZPML wins the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Central Green Axis   Watch the video click here...

TLS Announced winners of overall concept design and detailed node 1 & 2 design for Beijing Jing Zhang Railway Park

In April 2020, the Beijing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Commission announced TLS as one of the three winners of overall concept design and the winner of detailed node 1&2 design for Beijing Jing Zhang Railway Park in China after voted and commented by the expert committee and more than 100,000 online public participants.   TLS suggests the Jing Zhang Railroad park will be connected by eight moving lines to form a green axis connecting the city and the park. It endows the world-class science, education and innovation center with strong momentum. With the flexibility of the line, the park revitalizes the surrounding city, breaks the invisible barrier, and rebuilds the close relationship between people.   TLS was earlier selected as one of the 6 design teams last year from about 60 entries sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Commission and...

CLOSED – Applications for 2020 Summer Interns

TLS is now accepting applications for our 2020 Summer Internship Program!   About The Program TLS is an award-winning landscape architecture practice in Berkeley, CA. We do local and international design work, conceptual and built projects. TLS enjoys having interns immersed in projects as team members. Our internship program is also committed to experiencing the landscape through site visits and studio tours. Currently enrolled students only please.   Application Deadline February 10, 2020 Applications must be received by February 10th   10-12 Week Internship June 1st – August 15, 2020   Please Submit Cover Letter, Hard Copy Portfolio, And Resume To: TLS Landscape Architecture ATTN: Summer Internship Program 1015 Camelia St. Berkeley, CA 94710   Questions? Contact jobs@tlslandarch.com...

3rd Annual International Symposium on Planning and Landscape Environment Design of Contemporary Urban Waterfront Spaces

With a focus on ecology and functionality of the waterfront space the 3rd Annual International Symposium on Planning and Landscape Environment Design of Contemporary Urban Waterfront Spaces was held in Chengdu, China on September 20th - 21st. Urban designers and landscape architects from around the world were invited to speak including founder and principal, Tom Leader.  Here is a complete list of presenters:   Tom Leader, Founder and Principal of TLS Landscape (U.S.A) David Jung, Director of Landscape Architecture and Vice President at AECOM (U.S.A) Michael Grove, Chair of Landscape Architecture at Sasaki Associates (U.S.A) Richard Mullane, Principal of Hassell Studio (Australia) Kongjian Yu, Founder of Turenscape Planning and Design (China) Florian Zimmermann, Design Director of Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl (Germany) Martin Biewenga, Director and Partner at West 8 urban design & landscape architecture (Netherland) Stig L. Andersson, Design Director & Partner...