The park consists of three key spaces, an urban promenade, a water carpet, and a performance gallery. Terraced seating with curved edges provides a place to relax underneath the trees, while the nearby water features that surround pathways create a calming environment. At night, the tiered seating has lighting that highlights the curved edges. Other design elements in...
Called Lakhta Centre II, the 150-storey building would also have the highest occupied floor in the world at 590 metres. The tallest building in the world is the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and has a top floor height of 585 metres. Lakhta Centre II would sit alongside the Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of ...
BIG envisions the Västerås Travel Center as a hub that brings together all of the city's transport infrastructure under one roof and in one continuous landscape. The building will serve as the central station for trains and buses while providing a bridge between the city centre and the nearby Lake Mälaren — areas currently divided by train tracks. BIG first revealed a ...
Presented by Zuecca Projects, the exhibition will display architectural models, drawings, sketches and videos of the proposed greenhouse. ‘TROPICALIA – architecture, materials, innovative systems’ is curated by Alessandro Possati, director of Zuecca Projects, and Thomas Coldefy, architect and principal of Coldefy, the practice behind the ambitious project. Designed by ...
The annual platform recognizes and promotes the very best products, projects, services and their creators, in turn spurring global design and creativity to higher levels. 2021 continued this notion with winners spread across 104 different design disciplines, including furniture, decorative items and homeware design; building and structure design; and interior space and e...
The proposal is a transparent, transportable, modifiable prototype that generates the necessary climate for the survival of the orchids. Two greenhouses are manufactured, one for exhibition and the other for flowering. Orchids require a microclimate within a very specific range. The temperature, lighting, humidity, ventilation, irrigation and nutrients of the environmen...
The project is located in an agricultural area of the Baba canton - Los Ríos province - Ecuador, over a water channel, surrounded by local flora and fauna. Mr. Pepe, an elderly man, has the habit of drinking a cup of tea and coffee with his family every afternoon and has been doing so for years. The objective was to maintain this tradition within a space that allows the ...
This new apartment building is located on a site previously occupied by a 1920s, two-storey parking garage. The six-storey building comprises basement parking, duplex townhouses, lateral apartments, and a penthouse with its own roof garden. Mediating between the different sizes of the surrounding structures, the inserted volume both respects the scale of the street and r...
In a step that seems to bring it closer to reality, HyperloopTT and Dar Al-Handasah (dar) have revealed images of the first-ever completed full-scale designs for commercial hyperloop systems created with sustainable, responsive architecture and engineering. The complete design by HyperloopTT has been created in collaboration with Dar’s team including sister firms Perkin...
It was designed by Professor Xu Weiguo of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and built with printing machines and materials developed by the team. It is part of the “Art Bridge Space” in Shanghai, which can be used for book shows, academic discussions, and book sharing sessions. At the same time, it is also “Art Bridge 2021 Annual Figure”-Xu Weiguo’s artwo...
The project stands as the winning competition entry designed by an international team that includes OUTCOMIST, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Arup. In celebration of the industrial legacy of the site, the proposal reanimates disused infrastructure with contemporary, ecologically-minded programming. Most notably, the scheme wil...
The modular multifunctional complex is designed to promote a sustainable, environmentally friendly lifestyle, and encourage residents to integrate the use of outdoor spaces more effectively into their daily routines. The project has been selected as one of ten winners for the ‘cool Abu Dhabi challenge’, a global design competition with more than 1,570 participants from 6...
Turin is now host to Europe’s largest hanging garden, set high above the concrete modernist curves of the Fiat company’s Lingotto Factory. A collaboration between Turinese architect Benedetto Camerana and the botanist Cristiana Ruspa, La Pista 500 is a new public space and urban oasis for Turin. It’s joined by Casa 500, a dedicated exhibition space within the Pinacoteca ...
Designed by NBBJ — the architecture firm behind Amazon’s Seattle spheres — the project’s centerpiece is ‘the helix’, a tower filled with a variety of work environments for Amazon employees. As with ‘the spheres’, the building allows staff to be immersed in nature with lush gardens and native trees populating the entirety of the spiraling structure. ‘A true double heli...
As part of the project, the AZCA area of the spanish capital will be transformed into an open and connected destination for culture and recreation. The team was chosen after a two-stage competition as part of a larger initiative to reactivate public space with the support of the private sector. RENAZCA is a private initiative formed by companies who own buildings in t...
“By connecting to our architectural past through the adaptive reuse of the Farley Post office building, we are breathing new life into New York, and recreating an experience no one has had here in decades.”Laura Ettelman, SOM Managing Partner, continues, “SOM has been working on this project since 1998 - for more than two decades. Our deep commitment to this project has ...
The Bale site, as far as is known, is the only site in the world that hides fossilized remains under the sea, and it is assumed that some are as old as 200 million years. The Paleo Park within Camp Mon Perin is a combination of a themed amusement water park and an educational research polygon with the aim of approaching and popularizing this archaeological site in the...
Copenhill was conceived as an original urban hybrid, combining its core function as a power plant with a park, hiking trail, cafes, the world’s tallest climbing wall and—of course—a 400m ski slope. “The facility becomes part of the city and redefines the relationship between production and recreation,” David Zahle of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) told ArchiExpo e-Mag...
The bridge transforms the Everett waterfront, establishing a new connection between the historical Grand Avenue Park and the city’s developing waterfront district. At the bridge’s recent opening, Mayor Cassie Franklin commented, “It is a beautiful bridge, it is a utility project, and it is going to be part of our city for generations to come. It is a gorgeous new asset.”...
The no.2 bridge is located next to the government of Longgang Central District, connecting Vanke Square Commercial Complex with World Trade Department Store Square, Tianyu Phase II residential area, commercial pedestrian street and so on.Located above Dezheng Road and across Longxiang Avenue, the bridge is a two-story landscape corridor connecting multiple platforms.The ...
Vanke and the project overall planning unit URBANUS selected and convened the design units, and finally determined that the design of the first start-up area of the 05-02, 05-01 plot should be completed through Cluster Design under the guidance of URBANUS. A4+B2 plot Under the guidance of the large-scale planning and land plot guidelines, FCHA undertook the design ta...
EDEN is designed to resemble a spine blade: simple vertical rectilinear plains with slim windows form the blade with generous garden balconies situated in between. This approach grants privacy for each of the twenty apartments and allows for a generous central living space that forms the heart of each residence. The unconventional concrete walls are moulded with a topogr...
The problem of the Mega Block is two-fold: 1. It is anti-urban – it does not produce a walkable city and at the same time diminishes the quality of urban spaces. 2. It is high-carbon – its dependence on cars pollutes the air while produces traffic congestions. Once a city is built based on such inhuman spatial scale, it would be very difficult to remodel it into a livabl...
Designed for Qatar Railways, the first phase of the project has been completed with 37 stations and three metro lines (red, green and gold). Providing the spatial aesthetic for one of the most advanced and fastest driverless metro systems in the world, UNStudio’s design pays homage to Qatar’s regional architecture while firmly stepping into the country’s future. For t...
A TGV train to Paris stops there 13 times a day, traveling the distance in 1.45 hours. There are about 40 trains a day to Nantes. The station is located rue Auguste Gautier to the north of the railway line, rue Fulton passes to the south of it. In the area of the station, the bundles of rails are about 70 metres wide and cut a deep corridor running towards the city. The ...
The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside. Using the latest technology, the exterior glass turns opaque when locked. This allows users to check the cleanliness and whether anyone is using the toilet from the outside. At night, the facility lights up the park like a beautiful lantern.
The enclosure folds and thickens to contain a large digital media screen, a small cafe, and public restrooms. The corrugated metal skin both obscures and reveals the infrastructure contained within, creating a subtly dynamic veil that changes expression throughout the day. The project is designed to be in dialogue with the adjacent Tide elevated linear park, designed ...
An estimated 4,000 enslaved persons worked on the Grounds of UVA between 1817 and 1865 when the Union Army liberated the enslaved of Albemarle County. Owned and rented by the University, they created and maintained its famous grounds, pavilions, and Rotunda. The Memorial’s commemorative forms and historical inscriptions acknowledge the dualities of enslavement—the pain o...
Placed in public spaces, the initiative aims to gradually install 2,000 pieces of street furniture by late June: 1,500 on public transport shelters — three out of four — and on all 435 of Paris’ self-cleaning public toilets. Designed by Patrick Jouin, the free hand sanitizer dispensers have a 5-liter capacity which is enough to deliver around 3,300 doses per day. The ...
The park is designed to offer a spatial experience of the history and spirit of the Chinese constitution and its relevance to Kunshan and its citizens. Our task was to retrofit an existing park to take on new cultural and imaginative significance in the city. Core elements of the park reflect the role of the constitution in the lives of the citizens. Since constitutio...
The University of Westminster student has developed a low-cost paper-like material from bamboo pulp as a sustainable and local alternative to the polyethylene plastic sheeting typically used for polytunnels. Hague hopes that her project could encourage communities in the city of Jaipur to grow their own food in favour of a more self-sufficient, plant-based diet, which...
Rising to the "creative challenge" of the pandemic, designer Binder and psychologist Rimmele set out to solve the problem of creating a space that both protects its users from potential contagions while still enabling fun interactions. The resulting Rimbin concept is a playground made up of a group of individual play areas shaped like a cluster of water-lily pads on a...
Four densely striped columns expand into bridging arcs, that embrace the cross-campus traffic, pulling the paths into the pavilion. The hollow-bodied structure is made from two layers of 3mm aluminum, with a linear cut distance of 7,400 meters. Overall, there are 2,343 individual parts that make up the form, that are held together by 59,216 rivets.
Revealed in an interview on Sunday with Le Journal du Dimanche, Hidalgo said that the makeover will transform the entire thoroughfare into "an extraordinary garden" by 2030. Using a proposal drawn up by French studio PCA-Stream, this will be achieved by closing off half of the avenue's eight-lane highway to traffic and introducing pockets of greenery. The aim is to...
The 1,830-metre-long park was built on the site of the runway of Longhua Airport, which was Shanghai's only civilian airport until 1949 and closed in 2011. "Xuhui Runway Park is an innovative urban revitalization project that breathes new life into a unique piece of Shanghai's history," said Dou Zhang, senior associate director of Sasaki's Shanghai office. "With th...
The company has gone into the next phase in which UT Twente will collaborate with Autodesk to add sensors to the bridge that will be used to collect usage material data. Although the bridge has in fact been printed, it has not yet been placed in its final emplacement. The bridge is currently at the TU of Twente but should be placed in its final destination by this summer...
