Created by Rising Realty Partners, the Patrick Blanc-inspired vertical garden stretches over 80 feet tall and uses the modular and flexible LiveWall Green Wall System. The vertical green wall and pocket park are located on the east side of the PacMutual Campus, the city’s only historic building to receive LEED Platinum certification. The vertical green wall was design...
The 2.7-acre Pier 55 has been given final consent by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Hudson River Park Trust announced last week, after the project overcame a lawsuit earlier this year. Heatherwick Studio's $130-million (£89 million) design features white mushroom-like stilts that emerge from the river to support the undulating landscape. Located 50 metres off th...
Dubbed the Chicago Skyline, the cable car would transport passengers from the city's Navy Pier to the Riverwalk and Millennium Park, right by the downtown district known as The Loop. Renderings show glass-walled capsules suspended from a wire. "The Chicago Skyline is a sophisticated, environmentally friendly aerial cable car that will be a unique urban experience," sa...
Public architecture can’t please everyone at once. Too many people want to have their say: users, the local community, politicians and, in this case, nature. Building a three-kilometer-long walkway in Tasmania while preserving, or even improving, the natural beauty of the place is not an easy thing to do. But in the end, it was the key to pleasing everyone. Australian...
In 2010, a small, rural community in Portugal launched an international architecture competition. The historical town, located just north of Lisbon, was looking to integrate a technological park that would house innovative start-ups and serve as a public space for the community. Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha won the competition and set about exploring ways to create ...
In 2010, BIG Architects was solicited to create a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen. True to their forward-thinking style, the firm did not simply envision a plant that turns trash into electricity. They wanted to contribute something greater, something that would involve the community and bring awareness to the environmental problems that we are facing. The project br...
Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has completed a raised park and pedestrian bridge for the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The Paleisbrug, as the bridge is called, connects the old city center with the newly developed Paleiskwartier. ‘s-Hertogenbosch is characterized by a large area of undeveloped green space, called the Gement, whose urban...
The sixties are back in tact and more beloved than ever. LAX Airport was practically obligated to refurbish its outer layer to match the city’s glamour, and its existing 1960’s Theme Building was inspiration enough for a radical completion of phase one. Since its unveiling on June 20, 2013, the one mile roadway area separating the parking structures from the eight termin...
When you think of the subway in a city as big as New York City, the first images that come to mind are pretty dark and gloomy. To tell the truth, it’s a bit the same in every subway (except in Stockholm). Once you get down the stairs, you don’t expect to see the light until you get out of there. The American architecture firm Grimshaw decided to change that for the Fulto...
Water towers are everywhere and often offer a stunning view on the surroundings that remains otherwise inaccessible to the public. The one located in Sint Jansklooster in the Netherlands differs from the others on that point. It has been transformed into a watchtower of the weirdest kind by Zecc Architecten. The Dutch architecture firm has designed a spectacular staircas...
Markthal Rotterdam is the Netherland’s very first covered market. Located in a historical corner of the Dutch city, Markthal regroups a veritable mini-village within the larger urban setting. Local firm MVRDV was asked to create a building that was closed and protected from inclement weather, but a building that would also be an extension of the surroundings, includin...
The list of extraordinary architectural projects in Baku, Azerbaijan, keeps growing. From HOK’s Flame Towers to BIG’s proposed Zira Island and the recent Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center by Zaha Hadid Architects, interesting architecture is popping up left and right. Perhaps it’s no wonder since it is estimated that the Azerbaijani government is investing $6 billion in arc...
Public swimming pools could be described as a cesspool of microbes drowned in chlorine. Yes, sharing a single basin of water with dozens of strangers can be a less than appealing, but this public pool renovation in the Parisian suburbs might win some converts. Dominique Coulon & Associés modernized the pool’s existing structure by adding an exterior extension that inc...
Playgrounds are a quintessential part of childhood, but adults are left out of the equation. Too big to play on the child-sized structures, adults are often relegated to tediously waiting around on benches. The 10Cal Tower by Thai architects Supermachine Studio bridges the playground gap by creating a structure upon which both adults and children can play. The labyrin...
The Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport was officially inaugurated on November 28th. Designed by much lauded architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the airport is a vital addition to Shenzhen which is one of the fastest growing cities in all of China. The terminal covers 500,000 square meters and is 1.5 kilometers long. It will be able to handle up to 45 million p...
While Africa’s population expands rapidly, the continent’s infrastructure remains underdeveloped, hampering the delivery of goods and services. A possible solution is on display at the Venice Architecture Biennale—vaulted drone ports. The domed structures built of a brick/tile hybrid combine traditional materials and forms with high-tech substances. Renderings show the l...
As sea levels rise, more and more construction projects are going to sea. These include homes in New Orleans designed to float in case of flooding, houseboats in London and a floating school in Lagos. Though the latter was destroyed by a storm, another waterborne school in Copenhagen is on the drawing boards, as is an entire eco-sensitive city intended for the waters off...
London-based ZHA – whose figurehead passed away earlier this year – won a competition in 2014 to redevelop the derelict 22,000-square-metre site, in response to the city's need for more office accommodation. Its plan is for a series of curved mid-rise structures interspersed with public plazas, aimed at stitching together Prague's Districts 1, 3 and 8, and creating a ...
Clad in innovative and transparent photovoltaic glass, the solar bus shelter is capable of generating 2,000 kW-hours per year—equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power the average London home. Designed by Polysolar in collaboration with hard landscaping and street furniture supplier Marshalls, the Canary Wharf solar bus shelter proves that urban infrastr...
Eight years after the competition launched by the City of Paris for a complete reconstruction of the Forum des Halles, the center of gravity in Paris has “The Canopy” by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti. The site of the central market place that Zola called “the belly of Paris” was demolished during the 1970s, creating a hole that was called for several ye...
The concept "Wind Tower 2016" represents a kind of skyscraper which is shaped by tsunami and hurricane masses. The global climate change leaves visible traces in the environment which sometimes emerge in the form of scars or devastation or simply represent the disappearance of something that has always been present. Humans struggle against this largely self-inflicted ...
Located on the public quay that extends into Salerno’s working harbor and marina, the new maritime terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects continues the city’s relationship with the sea and connects Salerno’s rich maritime traditions with its historic urban fabric. The new maritime terminal is composed of three primary interlocking components: administration offices ...
the plans have been drafted by OMA new york, led by partner jason long, in collaboration with DC-based program management team, brailsford & dunlavey. located in the district’s southeast corridor, the transformational vision for the RFK campus seeks to leverage the region’s waterfront, provide neighborhood amenities, and connect the current site with increased and sustai...
the collaboration resulted in an organic and rational tram for the next generation of alstom ‘citadis X05’ citywide tramways. the shape is designed to slip through the historical town paving a new wave of contemporary urban infrastructure. each tram is designed to summarize the architecture of the city, with matching colors of the sumptuous place massena or villa mat...
the scheme was originally part of a restricted competition organized in 2012, before the project was abruptly cancelled in mid-2014. the vast 25,220 square meter development includes a symphony hall for 1,700 people, the headquarters for the ‘orchestre national des pays de la loire’, a congress center, a hotel, and a terraced restaurant. the congress center is positi...
Once completed, the 'world's first vertical cable car' will transport passengers 138m up in the air, making it the UK's highest public observation tower outside of London. Construction of the viewing pod – a dome-like glass enclosure 10 times bigger than the capsules of the London Eye, another iconic Marks Barfield Architects creation – completed late last week. Ex...
The twin brothers Alban and Attila Scheiber stand behind this outstanding concept unique in the whole world. The two hotel keepers and mountain lift owners from Hochgurgl have been totally enthusiastic about the "Top Mountain Cross Point" project right from the start. Their business group also comprises a ski school and the scenic Timmelsjoch High Alpine Road. Definitely...
Portions of the terminal's roof started to let in water earlier this month. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is overseeing the project, said the leaks had been caused by work on the Richard Rogers-designed Three World Trade Center tower above. The transit terminal, whose design was first unveiled in 2004, is still under construction. It consists of...
Proposed with engineering firm Elliott Wood, the 184-metre bascule bridge is designed to open in the middle to allow boats to pass through – similar to the landmark Tower Bridge further upstream. The bridge would be the first opening bridge to be built on the River Thames since Tower Bridge in 1894, and the first dedicated pedestrian and cycle bridge to cross the rive...
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has spent almost two decades working on the transformation of the city's transport interchange and the surrounding area, in collaboration with engineering firm Arup. At the centre of the masterplan is the new transfer hall, which includes all of the waiting areas and facilities for trains, trams and buses, as well as a variety of shops and res...
Known as Project: Under Gardiner, the design proposes the transformation of four "forgotten" hectares under the city's Gardiner Expressway to create a series of public spaces. The initial concept was conceived by local urban designer Ken Greenberg, along with Marc Ryan and Adam Nicklin of Public Work, a Toronto-based landscape architecture firm. Their design featur...
London-based Conran and Partners has spent 11 years working on the regeneration of the 20-hectare site on the north bank of the Tama River. It has created 400,000 square metres of homes, shops, offices and leisure facilities. Futako-Tamagawa Rise includes four new high-rise blocks – a trio of residential towers ranging from 28 to 40 storeys, and a 30-storey office bui...
topped with an oversized thatched dome, the natural structures are completely made of bamboo, drawing influence from traditional bamboo basket sheltering fowls. the largest structures measure at 24 meters in diameter at a height of 12.5 meters and were made by skilled workers who weaved each piece of bamboo on site. the elaborate detailing of the structure features a do...
the project is the first step in the creation of a new topography for the area, in hopes of returning it to its former pristine condition. the design has three distinct portions, the biggest being the pelota court. the form is placed atop a small hill, and supported by a sports path that runs around the site. walkways connect with the path, and form a connection point...
formed in the shape of a flower, the distinctive and irregular building offers 15,000 m2 of grade A offices and once fully finished in 2016, will include 9 more office buildings designed also by the firm located on top of the aedas-designed shopping center. providing a total of 110,999 m2 of rentable office space, the building rises as four towers which fuse together ...
