The architect’s description The Sunset Parklet is a public parklet hosted by Other Avenues Food Store and Sea Breeze Café on Judah St. between 44th and 45th Avenue. The parklet consists of 4 “strips” that undulate along the length of the parklet, providing built-in seating, tables, and native planting. It includes a dog watering area with leash ties to assist dog owners...
The main intention of this urban intervention is to revitalize a degraded public space. We created a simple and open to all residents urban corner, destined to become a new landmark for the city, thanks to the contemporary and fresh use of the traditional and well-known Talavera´s pottery tiles. A symbolic material deeply rooted in local culture, important for its inhabi...
The designer’s description The sculpture Wavelengths captures Lake Ontario’s dynamic surface and gives a public passage visual interest. Wavelengths is suspended overhead in a vehicular and pedestrian passage that runs within Market Wharf from Market Street to Jarvis Street, south of historic St. Lawrence Market. Until about ninety years ago, Lake Ontario rolled over t...
The design combines tempered glass with stainless steel profiles of the highest quality. The transparent safety glass gives to this public building an architectonic and light atmosphere. Comenza has used the most innovative technology in order to facilitate the installation of its modular railing systems. Thanks to GlassFit railings, the 12 stations of Line1 of Panam...
LIKEarchitects' new art installation - Tripod - is a spatial installation instigated by the formal exploration of two architectural elements - the stairs and the balcony - that stands as platform settled to be enthralled by the city, inciting a variety of activities and seeking new relations with the territory and its' people. While many of these will take place naturall...
At the heart of the port of Brest, it was opaque, thickset and tagged, shelter the homeless. Dockers former office, he was nevertheless a landmark building known to all Brestois. His new function: host associations dedicated to sailors. Reflection of what he receives, the project now has a strong identity linked to the world of the sea, with two main inputs (one for the ...
This is architecture holistically engaging with the complexities and subtleties of its richly layered urban grain - and in so doing, delivering a bold but deferential scheme which provides a hinge point, a contemporary interface between the Pier Head group of buildings (known collectively as the ‘Three Graces’), to the north, and the Albert Dock, to the south. Designe...
Following intensive safety inspections in 2006, the City of Seoul deemed the 17-metre high structure of the overpass unsafe and intended to demolish and rebuild it, banning heavy vehicles’ access to the elevated roadway in 2009. Further consultation with residents and experts lead to the plan to regenerate the overpass, which totals 9.661 m2 in area, into a pedestrian wa...
A glass gap, which reflects the environment, forms a point of contact between the historical part and the addition of the court house. The extension is a simple, plastered, two level building that takes up specific formal elements from the existing building and reinterprets those elements, like the dimensions of the windows and the colour of the facade. In this way th...
Pier Eringa, president-director at ProRail, will perform the official opening ceremony. The new signalling control centre is one of the most important centres in the railway network. De Jong Gortemaker Algra architects and engineers (dJGA) is responsible for the structural, interior, construction and landscape design. The building, which features almost 4,500 m², is a...
The capital city of Senegal, Dakar is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula. The geography of the region, particularly Senegal’s distinctive Boabab trees, an important landmark in Senegal’s dry savanna plain and known for their enormous girth and life of over a thousand years has provided inspiration for the design of the Dakar Congre...
The new development designed by Fletcher Priest, Sauerbruch Hutton and Gustafson Porter sets up a dialogue between two striking and complementary new buildings whilst reinstating and improving the public realm of the entire area including a new pedestrian route and public square or piazza. Fletcher Priest was asked to masterplan the site by client Land Securities, se...
The bridge forms a 250 metre-ling link across the railway track between the historic centre of 's-Hertogenbosch and Paleiskwartier. Paleiskwartier is a newly developed district that houses the court building, various universities of applied sciences, homes and offices. The new bridge has also been fitted with a large solar collector, which will supply the surrounding are...
It is one of the key axes of the city centre, which is why it cannot be considered separately from the other city space within the context of the planned renovation. The intervention into the space must naturally be designed locally, in a way that allows an execution in stages, as provisioned in the project's budget. Still, it makes sense to outline the vision of the rev...
Within minutes of the completion of Stairway, an urban sculpture created by Izabela Bołoz in collaboration with Metro Copenhagen (the underground) for the city project Byens Hegn - Cool Construction, the surrealistic staircase was in full use. It is one of the more than 100 interventions along the 6 km of new metro line that will be in use in 2019. Stairway is one of...
One of Mateo’s first decisions in this process was to maintain the market’s characteristic metal structure comprising three volumes, the central taller than the ones either side, to encourage ventilation and the entry of daylight. The approaches have been reorganized, adapting the floor to the differing levels in order to eliminate the existing unevenness, and bringing t...
After being closed for more than five years, the redesigned and renamed Parc Zoologique de Paris, managed by the French National Museum of Natural History, reopens to the public on April 12 with architecture designed by Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes with Véronique Descharrières. Instead of opposing an architecture for humans and an architecture for animals,...
The work has been carried out by the Barcelona based office Mestres Wåge Arquitectes in collaboration with the Førde based firm Nordplan AS. Together they won the competition organized by the municipality of Førde with the aim to place all public services of the town into one single building. Førde is a town in Norway with approximately 10000 inhabitants. It is an im...
AHR has worked to redesign the station in order for TfGM to better integrate the various modes of transport – bus, taxi, rail, tram and cycling. Altrincham interchange serves as an integral link to Greater Manchester and the north west, connecting central Manchester and the airport as well as notable fringe towns such as Chester and Warrington. Four million passenger j...
The large polygonal building is located at the mouth of the Aarhus River, connecting the city with the port and water. Flanked by forests to the north and south, a recreational belt has been created through which a new light railway will run with a dedicated station at Dokk1. Road traffic will be redirected, so that it has direct access to the large under-ground car park...
ecological understanding: the design uses natural and local materials as a structural element. The focus was to create a connection which leaves no impact on the site, nor any harm on the bamboo itself, so after the temporary hotel is deconstructed, the materials can be reused as scaffolding on a construction site or reused as another temporary hotel on a different lo...
together, they tasked TEN arquitectos to develop an adaptable structure to serve as a platform for a diverse array of activities such as a food preparation station, stage for performances to just a straightforward spot for solace and shade. the resulting design came to a timber modular structure, sensitive to its outdoor garden context. the urban garden structure has b...
located at the edge of the french city, the building is surrounded by a distinctive landscape that features a diverse infrastructure of transit, lush greenery and artificial topography. the design references the site’s history and geography, merging landscape, architecture and interior design. the building’s monolithic appearance results from emphasizing horizontality a...
The New Kununurra Courthouse, Kununurra, Western Australia The design of the new Kununurra Courthouse, on the site of the former courthouse, interprets local physical qualities to capture the uniqueness of Kununurra in a building that is dignified and welcoming yet establishes a sense of gravitas. The architecture re-introduces the value of the regional courthouse w...
The building is designed for three to five years use and embraces a temporary and recycled aesthetic adding to the local architectural palette with a high quality design. The façade and a central chandelier were designed and built with the local community, creating ownership at the heart of the project. Hub 67 was a pilot project exploring the reuse of material from t...
the project aims to create a waterside destination that connects people to the falls, as well as a the region’s downtown district – an emerging location within the city. once completed, the scheme will give the public access to the united states’ second largest waterfall for the first time in over 100 years. ‘the magnetism of willamette falls is the genesis and spirit o...
the collapsible design can be used independently for events, waterproof walkways, or annexed to buildings or marquees to deal with fluctuations in crowd size. drainage takes place via a series of central supporting columns, allowing the interconnected structures to tessellate endlessly in a flexible variety of configurations. the canopy system has been developed throu...
The 744 parking spaces sit behind a facade of red, orange and yellow panels and snaking stairs, enlivening its street just two blocks from the beach. Architect Christof Jantzen answered a few questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? The commission was based upon a competitive RFP/RFQ process. Please pro...
the project is a conceptual work by 100architects that seeks unexplored uses that could be be added in addition to the recently renewed riverside area. the idea is essentially to allow easy access to the river, giving citizens the chance to establish relationships with the as-of-yet uncharted territory. an important feature of the ‘suprematist pool’ is its construction....
what differentiates this scheme is their location, predominantly, skate parks have been isolated on the outskirts of the city. however, ‘landskate parks’ combines the activity of skating into a new and alternative public space. the strategy is to blend the sport, a park, a square into one. creating new meeting points, uniting people of different backgrounds, encouragi...
conceived by foster + partners, the masterplan will see the formation of a new district which has been shaped by the heritage, history and the existing urban fabric. the finished 147,000 sqm scheme will hope to regenerate the area while seamlessly merge with the surrounding streets. the transformation will see the construction of new offices, residential towers, alon...
This unique prefab bus stop features glass and perforated plates as enclosures and uses efficient internal ventilation and lighting to create an easily maintained and pleasant space for commuters. The station was conceived as a metallic structure which arrives at the site pre-built. This allows for an easy and quick construction process and makes the entire structure ...
The new building is located in the capital’s Parque Patricios neighborhood, which is a former industrial area, and accommodates around 11,500 employees. What started off as a design for the municipal Buenos Aires bank transformed into a city hall that offers flexible work spaces and facilities aimed at the local community. The most distinguishable feature of the build...
The building, designed by Fentress Architects, features a dramatic arching roofline, daylighting, energy-efficient design and eco-friendly materials. The terminal is not only sustainable, it is also among the most technologically-advanced airports in the United States. The 1.25-million-square-foot terminal is inspired by ocean waves and is Fentress Architects’ thirty-...
The project, dubbed “The Yard”, has just opened in the corner of a massive bayfront parking lot on the corners of 3rd Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, right around the corner from AT&T park. The Yard project is intended as a temporary urban intervention to provide alternative uses for a portion of a massive parking lot, while also creating community in a neighborh...
Take for instance the town of Villetaneuse, a suburb of Paris that is split in two by new train tracks. To connect the two sides of the university town, Paris-based firm DVVD designed a footbridge that spans the tracks and also provides access to the train station. Like an unfurling leaf or a plant springing up from the ground Gateway Villetaneuse is a natural extension ...
