The design of the park, named Magma Flow, was inspired by the flowing lava of a volcano, with the colorful red, yellow, and orange pathways connecting the various spaces. An orange ramp leads from the ground and up and under one of the buildings. There are games that both adults and children can play, like tic-tac-toe and a seesaw. There’s a staircase that leads up to...
Rivera’s work, titled Man, Controller of the Universe, came immediately to mind for the architect Tatiana Bilbao when the hotelier Ernesto Coppel Kelly asked her to design an aquarium in the resort town of Mazatlán on Mexico’s northern Pacific coast. “What worries me about aquariums is how they reinforce the idea that man dominates nature,” Bilbao says. “The question bec...
Named Future Car Park, the building is located in the city's central business district and has a capacity of 500 cars. "Future Car Park invents a new way people commute to urban hubs, while creating an urban oasis that is a synthesis of the latest automated parking technologies, public space, event spaces and hanging gardens for the public," the studio said. The car pa...
The uniqueness of the place and the ethical and aesthetic responsibility for living in the place in parity with nature are realized by the authors as a strategic worldview based on natural processes that are sustainable in their development. The language of architecture of the viewing platform, addressed to the nature of the living, is a biomimetic aesthetic that has an ...
As designers, many of what we consider our best ideas will never be built. Some succumb to budgets or changes in scope, others to design competition submissions – whatever the reason, such ideas are filed away on hard drives or dusty drawing racks. Then we move on, conscious that in our industry, it can feel like much of what we produce is destined for the bin. But what ...
Planning approval and listed building consent was recently granted by Southward Council for Carmody Groarke's plans, which will be the biggest redevelopment of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in over 20 years. The most significant addition will be a 160-square-metre pavilion, designed as a creative space for children to play, that will be built in the gallery grounds. It w...
As the latest chapter in the decade-long evolution of Midtown West in New York City, including the redevelopment of Penn Station, the adaptive reuse of the Farley Building into Moynihan Train Hall with offices above, and the creation of Manhattan West and Hudson Yards, the neighborhood has emerged as a new mixed-use destination knit together by a series of civic spaces t...
Called Amoeba Public Restroom, the facility designed by People's Architecture Office has an irregular and organic shape reminiscent of cellular organisms. "The Amoeba Public Restroom is designed with inclusivity as a priority, whether people are families with kids, have disabilities, or are gender non-conforming," the studio told Dezeen. "The cohesive space places an e...
Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by this lost scene and memory of the city, the design of the ‘The Pavilion of Floating Lights’ includes tree columns to generate an interior space like a pathway between forests. Created as a place where visitors can experience natural and urban environments, the building has glass w...
The $2.5 billion Waterfront Brisbane project, designed by FJMT (now FJC Studio) and Arkhefield, will occupy the site of the former Eagle Street Pier restaurant complex. The development comprises two towers of 52 and 44 storeys, a 9,000-square-metre public open space, and a new 280-metre-long riverwalk connecting Waterfront Place and the nearby Riparian Plaza, which was ...
To be located on a riverbank site formally known as Western Region Park Reserve, the centre will create an open space for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people that directly connects to the Yerta Bulti Country of the Port River. The centre is designed by Ashley Halliday Architects and Wax Design in collaboration with the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, Port Adelaide Enfie...
The space is the center of the residential area, with apartments clustered around it and being connected to Jungnangcheon. However, there was a one-lane road that split on both sides, and the dead-end space under the overpass was very dark because of the steep slope. The steep slope was trimmed in a cascading fashion and a sports facility for residents was created, but i...
On the other hand, the particular geological-geotechnical problems of the area, related to phenomena associated with the situation of instability presented by the edge of the slope where the action is located, and which caused permanent damage to said structures, precipitated the need to act against to the risk of landslides that existed and that could have affected not ...
Named the Arco del Tiempo (Arch of Time), the public artwork in the city's Second Ward will be covered in photovoltaic modules to generate nearly 400,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually and provide shade for locals. Described by Land Art Generator Initiative, which commissioned the project, as "the world's largest sundial", the structure will project the sun's ra...
It is a comprehensive initiative designed to improve and revitalize the existing slums in the city. The project focuses on a strategically located coastal plot that encompasses slum settlements and a canal, which starkly highlights the visual disparity between the affluent and the impoverished. Its main purpose is to uplift the living conditions of the less fortunate and...
A 3.2-hectare precinct south of the Queen Victoria Market is set to become a three-tower complex with a 1.8-hectare park on the site of the market’s existing car park. The design team comprises NH Architecture, Kerstin Thompson Architects, 3XN Australia, Searle × Waldron Architecture, Openwork, McGregor Coxall, Lovell Chen and Urbis. The $1.7 billion development is ena...
Replacing a 1949 concrete bridge, the new structure blends organically into Aarau’s distinctive cityscape and the natural environment of the Aare river while strengthening the region’s transportation network. As a comprehensive bridge and riverbank design, the project creates an appealing urban space, and with its distinctive, elegantly curved arches, becomes a new landm...
This bridge has two access levels; one is 35 meters above the water surface and provides an impressive panoramic view. The other level is 10 meters below the first, provides an amusing pedestrian path, and offers multiple gathering spaces for people to come together. The structure comprises small intersecting trusses along the bridge to control this bridge’s weight and d...
Situated amidst the tropical coastal landscapes of Hainan Province in China, the newly completed Haikou Xixiu Park Visitor Center is shaped by MUDA-Architects with inspiration from both indigenous cultural values and contemporary form. Designed and constructed over a span of three years, this project sinuously harmonizes with the surrounding natural environment while uph...
Red Dunes Playtopia in Guanggang New Town in China is a project that embraces the natural topography to create an undulating landscape for children’s activities. Taking cues from mountain nests and jungle treehouses, the architectural design by XISUI Design incorporates rippling hills made of concrete that provide ample space for children to freely run, jump, and roll, e...
SCULPTURAL ARCHITECTURE The land chosen by the City for construction of the car park construction is located along rue de Boigne, a historic road in the Chambéry city center. The street, built in the first half of the 19th century and lined with arcades, leads to the castle of the Dukes of Savoy, a major heritage building built in the 12th century, passing by the famous ...
The Angel Oak is a beloved southern Live Oak tree situated within the Angel Oak Park on John’s Island, one of the Sea Islands outside of Charleston. The tree is a popular tourist location and historical site, largely due to its claims a the oldest living thing east of the Mississippi River, with estimates of its age ranging from 400 to 1,500 years old. The tree is also p...
The former fishing town, perched on the South China Sea, has grown from approximately 300,000 residents in 1980 to nearly 20 million today. Unsurprisingly, that growth has fueled a long-running construction boom that includes myriad civic institutions. One such project is the Four Roof Pavilion by Los Angeles–based firms Found Projects and >Schneider Luescher: Its airy d...
We were inspired by the strong authenticity of the working Harbour and Conservation Area, and the harbour's active transformation towards a new sustainable marine economy. The project consists of a series of pavilions with winter gardens on the ground floor for community use, and self-contained studios for start-up entrepreneurs on the first floor. The first south pavili...
Makoko is not only the largest floating slum in the world. It is also and above all a place where there is a great spirit of community, mutual aid, sharing and work. Unfortunately, its inhabitants are now threatened by pressure from the authorities and climate change and find themselves in the grip of fear and anxiety. Hope for a better and more prosperous future is dimi...
As a public building demolished and rebuilt at the original site, its basic functions include public toilets and shower rooms that are open to tourists in the park all day long. It is an improvement of public welfare design for the public toilets in Haifeng Sports Square of Shenzhen Bay Park and has served the surrounding citizens and visitors since May 1, 2023. Analysi...
Snaking through the forests that fringe the edge of Lake Fyresvatn, in Norway’s Hamaren Activity Park, this one-kilometre-long wooden elevated walkway is a spectacular and sympathetic addition to the landscape of Telemark. Inaugurated in June 2023, the Treetop Walk in Hamaren Activity Park opens up the pine forest to all ages and abilities, rising up from the forest floo...
Boksto 6, in Vilnius, Lithuania, was designed by architect Christina Seilern as a mixed-use development in the heart of the 500-year-old Unesco World Heritage-protected Old Town. Described as a ‘transformative restoration’ Studio Seilern Architects' designs preserve a historic complex of buildings, while fully modernising and elevating them with a series of dynamic inter...
On the occasion of Art Basel 2023, the VITRA Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, unveiled Tane Garden House as the latest addition to its unique architectural ensemble. Tucked between the Umbrella House and Oudolf Garten, the structure is the work of Paris-based studio Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects. It takes shape as a compact, octagonal wooden shed that spans only 15 s...
Set to be located in the Eastern harbour in Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, the ferry terminal will have a concrete base intended to evoke the hand-built coastal paths that are common on the smaller Faroese islands. This will provide easy access from the water to the 8,000 square-metre ferry terminal, which will also house the headquarters for the shipping c...
Fawkner Memorial Park in Melbourne’s northern suburbs is one of Australia’s largest and much-loved burial grounds. Originally designed by architect and surveyor Charles Heath, the cemetery is state heritage listed for its “unusual layout” with its seven radiating avenues and its connection with the garden cemetery movement. The vast 113 hectare park integrates a number o...
MVRDV's new project marks a transformation in a historic district of Palma de Mallorca, in Spain. Seven buildings, five of which have already been completed, compose a new urban mosaic within the Spanish neighborhood of El Terreno. Each building becomes an architectural object, constructing new urban relationships, using different housing typologies that generate new wa...
Its main building is the Pavilion that represents culture and recreation through spaces that make up a library, classrooms for art, painting and sculpture academies, a marimba room -the national instrument of Guatemala-, an exhibition gallery of Mayan pieces integrated with the exterior where a replica of the stela “E” of Quiriguá was sculpted –the highest monolithic blo...
Located in the heart of downtown, the Le Viennoise retail area stands as a prominent landmark. To enhance accessibility, the project features three primary entrances interconnected by three axes. The main entrance is situated on Mohamed Basiouny St., the second entrance can be accessed from Champlion St., and the third entrance is connected to Qasr El Nile St. Adjacent t...
Vally, who is the founder of the architecture studio Counterspace, developed the design as a homage to the Congolese agriculturist Paul Panda Farnana, who once lived in the city. She described Farnana as "one of the most important, yet least acknowledged figures of the city", who "epitomises the region's complex relationships with past and future generations of migrant ...
The design concept forms part of a proposal for future electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) infrastructure networks that would connect and transport people at high-speed to popular locations across Dubai. It is proposed to be located next to the Dubai International Airport and would integrate with the existing transport systems at the airport, as well as surro...
