{"id":47272,"date":"2024-01-11T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsungcnt.com\/en\/?p=47272"},"modified":"2024-01-15T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:28:34","slug":"samsung-ct-engineering-construction-group-snags-its-12th-ifla-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsungcnt.com\/en\/features\/engineering-construction\/2024-01-samsung-ct-engineering-construction-group-snags-its-12th-ifla-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group snags its 12th IFLA award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Samsung C&T\u2019s Engineering and Construction Group won an Outstanding Award in the Cultural and Urban Landscape category at the 2023 IFLA Asia Pacific Region Awards organized by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). This is the 12th<\/sup> IFLA title (and its first IFLA Outstanding Award) given to Samsung C&T E&C Group since it first picked up two honors in 2008.<\/p>

Outstanding Awards are given to the best projects in each category. The 2023 Outstanding Award was for Samsung C&T E&C Group\u2019s Nature Gallery landscape gardening project. To learn more about Nature Gallery, Samsung C&T E&C Group\u2019s landscape gardening team, and this prestigious award, interviews were conducted with members of the team at Group headquarters, resulting in this two-part story.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founded in 1948, the IFLA is a representative body of landscape architects around the world, with 77 participating nations. In the landscaping industry, the IFLA annual awards hold great prestige. In 2023, 433 projects were awarded in a total of 10 categories.<\/p>

One of those categories is Cultural and Urban Landscape<\/a>, for which Samsung C&T\u2019s Engineering & Construction Group received the Outstanding Award for its Nature Gallery<\/a>, a landscape garden project completed outside Raemian Gallery<\/a> in Seoul\u2019s Songpa district.<\/p>

IFLA award competition entries are assessed on quality of design and execution; design context; design value; environmental sensitivity and sustainability. Nature Gallery\u2019s efforts to carry out sustainable landscaping while retaining the look and feel of \u201cnature as it is\u201d and its role as a public space for city dwellers were highly praised.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Samsung C&T\u2019s Nature Gallery with the motif of \u2018nature as it is\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><\/div>
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Nature Gallery was created by the Landscape Group, inside the Residential Business Team within Samsung C&T\u2019s Engineering & Construction Group. To learn more, we visited and interviewed members of the group led by June Yang, who joined Samsung C&T in 1999 and who has plentiful experience both in the field and at headquarters.<\/p>

Asked about the philosophy behind Nature Gallery, June said they invested a lot to make the space accessible to everyone, especially nearby residents. \u201cThere are, therefore, no walls or fences, and we created it with a detailed plan to make it safe and comfortable to be used at night.\u201d he added.<\/p>

Jeong Jae-dong, who designs landscapes and also led on-site management during construction of Nature Gallery, explained that the starting concept was \u201coriginal nature,\u201d characterized by a landscape that feels pristine. And Park Sang-hee, a team member of this group, expanded on this by saying, \u201cNature Gallery focuses on unseen value. If we apply this landscaping to a future apartment complex, it may seem a little unexciting at first, but it\u2019ll become richer with time and look better in harmony with the surrounding nature.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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