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04/02/2026

The story of Kansai airport 🛫 terminal 1 is anything but boring!
The airport was originally designed by Renzo Piano at the beginning of the 90s.

In 2025, the airport was well redeveloped by with respect to the original design.

06/10/2025

An airport, as a threshold territory, functions as a processing terminal for travel in and out of a destination. For frequent travellers, efficiency, clarity, and speed are key; for leisure travellers, the airport becomes both the prologue and epilogue of their holiday experience. The design of K-Studio reinterprets the Cycladic village vernacular—its whitewashed forms, courtyards, and flowing paths—into a contemporary spatial choreography. A ribbon-like façade breaks down the building’s mass, creating layered indoor and semi-open spaces that invite exploration and extend the island’s hospitality. Informed by Mykonos’ tradition and materiality, the new airport balances crafted design with engineered functionality, greeting and farewelling visitors with the island’s characteristic warmth and optimism.

28/04/2025

"The Anemos consortium consisting of Grimshaw, Haptic, Athens-based K-Studio, Arup, Leslie Jones, Triagonal and Plan A has been appointed to design the expansion of Athens International Airport (AIA). The project will increase the capacity of the airport from 26 to 40 million passengers by 2032 through a phased programme delivered within a live operational airport environment. 

Originally designed and constructed by Hochtief and completed in 2001 ready for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens International Airport is the largest airport in Greece, located 20 kilometres from the city centre."

16/04/2025

MTD landscape architects have drawn up a design for the forecourt and boulevard on behalf of Eindhoven Airport and in collaboration with de Bever architects. Here, the world of technology and innovation and the world of the Brabant landscape park come together in a green, sustainable and innovative public space
Accessibility for everyone and softening the hard landscape of a big scale infrastructure with planting were two of the main ambitions for the airport.

17/03/2025

Mixed forest is the main vegetation zone of Europe, however during the past decades, it has been extensively changed by humans. Surviving patches of woodland—associations of broad-leaved trees and some conifers, summarily described as Atlantic, central, and eastern—hint at the formerly extensive cover. Indeed, although as much as 80 percent of Europe’s land was once forested, in the early 21st century, various forests (including both boreal and mixed types) covered only about 30 percent of the continent.

In southern Europe, Mediterranean vegetation has a distinctive character, Mixed forest is the main vegetation zone of Europe, however during the past decades, it has been extensively changed by humans. Surviving patches of woodland—associations of broad-leaved trees and some conifers, summarily described as Atlantic, central, and eastern—hint at the formerly extensive cover. Indeed, although as much as 80 percent of Europe’s land was once forested, in the early 21st century various forests (including both boreal and mixed types) covered only about 30 percent of the continent. In southern Europe, Mediterranean vegetation has a distinctive character, containing broad-leaved evergreen trees and shrubs as well as areas of scrub. Around the sea that vegetation is called maquis; it includes aromatic plants and small trees such as olives and figs. broad-leaved evergreen trees and shrubs as well as areas of scrub. Around the sea that vegetation is called maquis; it includes aromatic plants and small trees such as olives and figs.

04/03/2025

Despite being the second-smallest continent, Europe still boasts a wide range of climates and biomes. The continent’s location, topography, and proximity to various bodies of water contribute to several distinct environmental zones and thus landscapes.
At the southwest part, the vegetation varies from boreal forest and tundra to grass and shrub steppe and even senidesert neat the Caspian sea.

04/02/2025

Μια μικρή αναζήτηση μας σχετικά με την τοπική χλωρίδα που συναντάμε στις 6 Ηπείρους.

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Η Ανταρκτική είναι η πιο κρύα, ξηρή και πιο θυελλώδης ήπειρος στη #Γη, καλυμμένη από τεράστια στρώματα πάγου που αποτελούν περίπου το 98% της επιφάνειάς της. Το #τοπίο του διαθέτει πανύψηλους παγετώνες, παγόβουνα και χιονισμένα βουνά, με λίγες μόνο βραχώδεις εξάρσεις ορατές κατά μήκος της ακτής. Παρά τις ακραίες συνθήκες, ορισμένα ανθεκτικά φυτά επιβιώνουν, κυρίως βρύα, συκωτάκια και φύκια όπως το Antarctic Pearlwort και το Deschampsia Antarctica, που ευδοκιμούν σε παράκτιες περιοχές χωρίς πάγο και εδάφη πλούσια σε θρεπτικά συστατικά. Αυτά τα ανθεκτικά #φυτά διαδραματίζουν κρίσιμο ρόλο στο εύθραυστο #οικοσύστημα της Ανταρκτικής, υποστηρίζοντας μικροσκοπικά ασπόνδυλα και συμβάλλοντας στη #βιοποικιλότητα της περιοχής. Σε αντίθεση με άλλες ηπείρους, η #Ανταρκτική δεν έχει δικές της χώρες.

29/01/2025

South America, the fourth-largest continent, has diverse landscapes like the Andes, Amazon, and coastal plains, creating varied climates and biomes.

The Amazon Rainforest is rich in biodiversity with dense vegetation and heavy rainfall. The Andes’ Alpine Tundra has few trees due to high altitude. The Pampas in Argentina and Uruguay are fertile grasslands supporting grazing wildlife. The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, hosts drought-resistant plants and specialized fauna.

22/01/2025

North America can be divided into five physical regions: the mountainous west, the Great Plains (between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River), the Canadian Shield (rocky plateau extending through most of northern and central Canada), the varied eastern region, and the Caribbean. Mexico and Central America’s western coast are connected to the mountainous west, while its lowlands and coastal plains extend into the eastern region.

In those regions various landscapes are shaped including desert, grassland, tundra, and taiga.

Notable desert plant species includes the saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), and mesquite.

Taiga has a lot of freshwater ecosystems including rivers, streams, lakes, fens and marshes and forests thrive. Many of the plants, due to the conditions have shallow rot system. The roots work together with mycorrhizal fungi to get the most nutrients they can from the soil.

When it comes to the tundra landscape, it tends to be herbaceous. Herbaceous plants are ones without woody stems. Grasses and mosses are some of the herbaceous plants that grow in the tundra. Examples of tundra plants include reindeer moss, liverworts and lichens.

06/01/2025