The trail traverses the lands of three traditional owners being Barengi Gadjin Land Council, Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation and Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation and includes three regional council jurisdictions. The project includes 10 sites along the GPT plus the group site of Stony Creek but excludes Stage 1 at Bugiga, undertaken previousl...
A former primary school was once situated here. The school moved away many years ago as a result of the urban modernization, and the disappearing of the traditional market place cultures in nearby communities. In order to reactivate local communities in Tianhebei District at the same time combine historical context and urban trend culture. Digital trend brand ifanr combi...
Crafts as input. Arttenders has generated a broad support base in Almere Buiten by involving the neighborhood in the design process. Children from Almere Buiten have for example helped figure out their ideal playground for the square at Baltimoreplein. Their crafts served as inspiration for four designs for the artistic playground. The design title Baltimore Bend was dec...
Lakeview sits on land that was once home to the Lakeview Generating Station, a large coal-fired energy plant. After 50 years of industrial use, this land could use a facelift both economically and environmentally. Here’s how the development will regenerate the land. The Lakeview Village development combines high-quality housing options for multiple lifestyles and life s...
As the water system and fish ponds occupy a large area and form a fragmented spatial pattern in local villages, many bridges have been built to connect the areas segmented by water. With rapid urbanization in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, many local villagers have abandoned the traditional fishing lifestyle in favor of living a more urban life. For this...
The objective can be explained by three basic strategies: The first one is a territorial logic promoting the riverbeds as spaces of landscape interest. The second one is the urban strategy, consolidating the green recreational-cultural axis tangent to the river. And the third one is the technical solution, a very punctual action with low environmental impact. THE TERRI...
On a hot summer Thursday, a crowd of parents gathered on a bench at Churchill Meadows Park in Mississauga, Ontario. As they rested with their backs against the glazed wall of the site’s newly completed community center, watching their kids in the adjacent playground, they were protected by an airy overhang on the building’s west facade that serves as a shading device, sh...
The origin of the sandstone goes back to a marine beach that formed the then the tropical region of Lucerne 20 million years ago. Since the Middle Ages, the rock has been used as a quarry and in the early 19th century, the sculptor Thorvaldsen worked on it artistically for the famous Lion Monument. After the uncovering of the glacier pots, which were discovered by chance...
Arkins Promenade is part of a new, mile-long riverfront pedestrian corridor that will run between 29th and 38th streets next to the city’s Five Points and River North Art Districts. Designed by Denver-based firms Tres Birds and Wenk Associates, the project features a 400-foot, steel-based walkway that uses reclaimed telephone poles as structural supports, raising it to 2...
The park is nestled into Warsaw’s urban fabric and is easily accessible using public transportation facilities. Its proximity to spaces like the University of Technology, National Library and Mermaid Stadium makes it an outdoor space used by a wide range of people. Meanwhile, the two main objectives of WXCA’s design were to improve the symbiosis of the park’s urban and ...
Designed by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Marge Arkitekter, the winning proposal for the development of Stockholm central station has been unveiled. The project, put forward by the team which includes LAND Arkitektur, Thornton Tomasetti, Ramboll, Wenanders and TAM group, will bring several modes of transport together in a single integrated transport hub, while ...
MAD architects took inspiration from orange gantry cranes to design the winning scheme for a 65,000 sqm international cruise terminal in Chongqing, China. The project, led by Ma Yansong, and in collaboration with the China Academy of Building Research (CASR), will transform an existing cargo terminal in the city’s Cuntan port area with access to the Yangtze river. The ne...
Shanghai-based practice TROP: terrains + open space completes its ‘an villa’ in Shaoxing, a city along the south of China’s Yangtze river. Here, visitors can get lost in a network of alleys, bridges, and canals. The built fabric of the area is defined by its irrigation system and its ancient rooftops clad with overlapping tiles — elements which drove the design of the co...
With its 45-metre height, Milan’s Monte Stella is the only real presence of geographical scale in a city devoid of landscape – no rivers or seas, no mountains or hills. The Navigli themselves are too narrow and full of buildings to evoke the large scale. Built starting in the late 1940s – with the rubble from World War II bombings, as well as a lot of material from the S...
In september 2021, QUAD studio and Dalu architecture won one of the most prestigious architectural competitions in Chengdu, China. The mix-use development proposal — Chengdu NBD center — stands 120 meters high and features twin office towers and retail and cultural facilities clustered around a multi-leveled public realm. Located within the Jiaozi park business district,...
Before creating large-scale, headline-making landmarks – the Vessel and Little Island in New York, and 1000 Trees in Shanghai amongst them – Thomas Heatherwick established his name with striking, small-scale works, building-sized objects, witty, ingenious and often kinetic. There was 2004’s curling, crowd-pleasing Rolling Bridge in London’s Paddington and The Sitooterie,...
The design concept combines the inspiration of the regional architecture of Rajasthan with a modern take on a hexagonal pattern. The shape is used in the shape of the villa courtyards, green roof landscaping and the shading pergolas. “The original contours of the site have been used as an interface to create architecture,” the designers said. Thereby, each villa is nes...
This proposal identifies a few functional specifications and articulates the space into three main areas, differentiating the central pedestrianized area from the adjacent areas that can be accessed by cars. The central part is the core of the project, it directly accesses the opposite railway station from a car-free area. This pedestrian square becomes the gateway to th...
In 2016, the airport operator Finavia launched a design competition for theexpansion and modification of terminal 2.The competition task included relocating the departures and arrivals halls to a new building so that the existing departures hall of terminal 2 could be turned into gate areas. The 43,000 SqM departures and arrivals building comprises two distinct volumes;...
Snøhetta has been announced competition winner for the design of Eliel and Asema square in Helsinki. The project, dubbed ‘klyyga,’ or ‘the crossing,’ will soon bring new life to the downtown central hub of the finnish capital, and is designed together with local finnish partners Davidsson Tarkela Oy and WSP. Reconnecting the two city grids with a vibrant new plaza and ci...
The project is located in the northern suburb of Nantong, Jiangsu, China, with a total construction area of 4552.8m². It took four months from concept design to final completion. The project includes 3 buildings： a Comprehensive Service Center called "Gather Grain into Granary"， an Exhibition Hall of Rural Life and a public restroom renovation. Considering the project i...
Multidisciplinary designer Chris Fox is developing a landmark urban artwork interweaving between the Rozelle interchange ventilation towers in Sydney, Australia. Envisioned as three landscaped monoliths, the project takes ground above a new parkland on the edge of Rozelle bay – an area once bursting with vibrant ecosystems that have morphed over millennia. Previously mud...
TK studio has shaped the landscaping for ‘the forestias’, a multi-generational neighborhood designed by Foster + Partners. Located on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand, the new residential development prioritizes the wellbeing of residents and features a 48,000 sqm urban forest at its center, designed by TK studio. The ‘forest pavilion’ stands as a gateway to the for...
As climate change continues to wreak havoc on the planet, people are seeking more efficient sources of renewable energy. While new technologies are developed each year to combat the issue, one ancient source of energy continues to surpass them all. That’s right, wind power continues to be one of the most cost-effective and efficient sources of sustainable energy availabl...
Green Connect is being carried out to modernise the station and the adjacent public square, offering improved public spaces and links throughout the city. The redesigned station will form part of the new Rail Baltica high-speed rail network, for which Zaha Hadid Architects is also developing the Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia. "Green Connect will be a future-pro...
Architecture office Kaleidoscope Nordic introduces ‘powered by ulsteinvik’, a concept city proposal in Norway that utilizes local natural resources to generate a pleasing environment for people to live and work in. The future-oriented project takes shape as a ‘smart hub’ with urban functions and various multifunctional facilities right next to the sea. The proposal estab...
nowadays, wind power is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy technologies, with its usage increasing rapidly year by year, on a worldwide level. in denmark, wind power is so commonly used that wind turbines are now really part of the local landscape. in fact, wind energy already provides 40% of the energy in denmark, while the danes hope to reach 70% by 2030. ...
OMA has unveiled plans for a 145-meter pedestrian bridge to connect communities in the rural town of jojutla de juárez in mexico. the new ‘jojutla bridge’ will replace a preexisting main bridge and forms part of larger reconstruction efforts by infonavit after a devasting 7.1 magnitude earthquake in 2017. ‘we are beginning to face natural disasters more frequently an...
The landscape ‘corrals’ by DECA Architecture are intrinsically molded by the natural conditions of their sites in coastal Greece. The works seek to sensitive and sustainable attention to the celebrated surroundings, designed with a language that is at once informed by the organic topography and instilled with parametric logic. The corrals harken back to those of antiquit...
The construction industry is one of the most material-intensive and environmentally detrimental human activities. With their pavilion called livMatS, the researchers aim to offer a viable, resource-efficient alternative to conventional construction methods. To do so, they use flax, a naturally renewable, biodegradable material that is regionally available in Central Euro...
Buildings around the world are being constructed with reinforced concrete. However, both the production of steel and cement, an ingredient of concrete, generate large amounts of CO2. 3D printing concrete helps reduce these emissions, as it only deposits material where it is necessary. This project took it a step further by leaving out the reinforcement steel. The Block ...
The proposal, which was ranked second place alongside Sou Fujimoto’s floating tower, embodies the chinese city’s pioneer spirit and acknowledges both its maritime past and its technological future. ‘What is a landmark? does a landmark mark the land? or does it mark its time, its era?,’ asks Snøhetta as part of the project’s design concept. ‘A landmark is a product of it...
Overlooking the olympic sports expo and the Qiantang river, the landmark commercial complex is sited in the core area of the Qianjiang Century city, and draws inspiration from the concept of ‘setting sail.’ The collection of workspace towers suggests an array of billowing sails, celebrating the riverfront site and symbolic of ‘riding a wave of prosperity.’ The podium rec...
New Ecological Axis-Jialing Pearl Riverside Nanbu County, Nanchong is known as the "Second City of Chengdu-Chongqing Circle" in Sichuan." A history of the south, the love of water through the ages", for thousands of years, the water of the Jialing River has been rushing here, nourishing everything, and the people of northern Sichuan have thrived here and compose a glorio...
Aidia Studio designed the perforated roof made from structural steel and glass-reinforced concrete panels to enclose over the platforms and concourse. The geometric grid will be glazed in places to keep out the rain and lined with wood on the inside. The studio designed the station to respond to Tulum's climate. The town is on the Yucatan peninsula, which has a tropica...
A winning competition entry, the sculptural and dynamic work of architecture will stand as a new addition to the evolving area of the chinese city which has recently seen many large-scale developments. Designing the project, which hosts a viewing platform and exhibition space, the team at Sou Fujimoto asks: ‘how can a tower evolve while continuing to attract attention, a...
