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2025 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY • This issue’s deep dive into landscape architecture comes with a refreshing shift in our long-standing Architects’ Directory, our annual listing of promising practices from across the globe. This year, our survey of exciting studios goes outside, as we sample the international talent that is transforming the environment around us – shaping everything but our buildings. While the directory traditionally focuses on residential work and emerging professionals, this year’s profiles spotlight creatives in the landscape sector, casting a net far and wide, from young to established practices, exploring diverse iterations of what landscape is, and spanning Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Welcome then to our 2025 Landscape Architects’ Directory

SHELF LIFE • Why technology has a longevity problem

WHITE GOLD • At its South Tyrolean quarry in the Dolomite Alps, StoneX is cultivating one of the world’s finest stones, creating masterpieces with precision, ingenuity and expertise

CROSS PURPOSE • As Georgia’s government lurches towards authoritarianism, we head to Tbilisi to celebrate the capital’s indomitable spirit, its passionately independent cultural heritage, and its defiant creatives striving to inspire hope for future generations

NORTH STAR • The latest AP House from Audemars Piguet launches in Manchester, displaying design codes that nod to the legacy of its location

HOW TO TRAVEL MEANINGFULLY IN AN INCREASINGLY GENERIC WORLD • Lauren Ho explores the need for resonance, not reach, in the way we choose to make journeys of discovery

SITE SEER • How Belgian architect Bas Smets is pioneering the landscape of the future

A MEETING OF MINDS • Bas Smets is currently collaborating on a book with Emanuele Coccia, a lecturer at French research institute EHESS. The Italian-born philosopher’s work centres on ideas of landscape and our connection to nature, and his 2018 book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture was innovative in talking about the fundamental role of flora in our relationship with the world. Here we discuss landscape, its meaning and potential, with the pair

SOFT FOCUS • Antonio Citterio’s latest design for Flexform, the ‘Loungescape’ seating system offers cutting-edge perspectives on comfort and beauty

STREET LIFE • Nigeria’s creative scene is exploring new angles in a bid to reshape Lagos’ architectural language, embracing the informal structures used by the city’s market traders as paragons of adaptability, flexibility and identity

MAKING HISTORY • Luxury Italian footwear brand Santoni celebrates 50 years of craftsmanship, innovation and the human touch

STAR QUALITY • Chanel’s dazzling new haute jewellery collection zooms in on Hollywood’s golden era

LOCAL HERO • New Balance’s latest collection of Made in UK trainers is inspired by the lush palette of vineyard landscapes

Step change • How New Balance found the perfect equilibrium

HOME AGAIN • The artists reframing the domestic world

FUTURE PROOF • Three sustainable highlights from the 2025 Wallpaper* Smart...