Mandaworks

Mandaworks in the final round of Grasbrook, Hamburg competition!

05-12-2019

We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected for the final round of the prestigious Grasbrook urban planning competition in Hamburg. The six finalists are paired up to form three teams of urban planning and landscape architecture duos. The last leg of the competition wraps up in April 2020. We are looking forward to develop and deepen our proposal together with our assigned second round teammates, Karres en Brands, and wish best of luck to the other finalists! Check the entries of the first round and read more about the competition here!

On Tuesday, Manon Otto will join Supercoordinator Richard Sommer for final reviews of the T.O. Superstudio “Urban Commons: metropolitan actors, metropolitan stages” at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. To discover the program and the great minds behind it, visit the faculty’s website here!

Next week, two of our team members travel to Luhacovice, Czech Republic to participate in an annual conference organised by the Czech Society for Gardens and Landscape Architecture, with this year's theme being 'The future is today'. This year's conference focuses on the contemporary trends in sustainable landscape architecture and design and seeks to find answers for how to cope with the impacts of global climate change. In their lectures, Martin Arfalk and Katerina Vondrova will showcase examp

Mandaworks lectures in Luhacovice!

22-11-2019

MW at the University of Toronto

03-12-2019

We are delighted to announce that we have been selected to participate in the parallel assignment for development of Kromet block in Gothenburg, Sweden! Together with our collaborators from Henning Larsen, Kanozi, Eliath and Sweco, we will compete against three teams to come up with a design proposal for a waterside, mixed-use block that will offer innovative and sustainable solutions for its future inhabitants and visitors. The competition wraps up at the end of January.

Our work has been featured in a few magazines around the world recently, with some written contributions from former and current Mandaworkers. In Krawkow’s Architektura & Biznes, former Mandaworker Kinga Zemla has written a fantastic 14 page article titled ‘Urban Egalitarianism’. The article offers a reflection on democratic design through the lens our project work across Sweden and Finland. The magazine also featured our Sundbyberg project on the cover - Thank you and great work Kinga! The late

Mandaworks is proud to establish a new friendship in China, this time with Xi'an Eurasia University, founded in 1995 in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. In a rapidly growing global world, we strongly believe in sharing of ideas and building bridges among all people, professionals and public. Martin Arfalk will lecture and participate in the studio for landscape architecture at the Xi'an Eurasia University, sharing the values and interests of MW. The lecture is being held on Tuesday 22nd of