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SOM Wins Competition to Create Beijing’s Sustainable City Center
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was recently awarded the contract to create a stunning new Central Business District in Beijing. The project will integrate into...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
National Games Arena - China
Los Angeles-based design studio EMERGENT has taken
first place in a heated competition for the Civic Sports Center and
National Games Arena for the 2013...
Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Foster + Partners: Musée de la Romanitée in Narbonne
This winning proposal by London-based Foster + Partners and designer Adrien Gardere has been selected from shortlisted entries for an international competition to design the...
Architecture
Underground Home - The USA
This massive new home is slated for construction in the hills of Bel
Air, California. Clocking in at 26,800 sq ft we’d be inclined to...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Terrace 9 Housing Complex / Atelier Zündel Cristea
The competition winning proposal for the Terrace 9 Housing Complex in Nanterre, France by Atelier Zündel Cristea
aims to restore the human scale and legibility necessary for creating...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Queen Alia International Airport - Jordan
Project for Queen Alia
International Airport Amman designed by by Foster + Partners in
collaboration with Maisam – Dar Al-Omran JV.
Architects description :
Queen...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
FALKen by 3XN Architects - Denmark
FALKen (the Falcon) is a cultural building designed with clear
reference to the movements and directions of Frederiksberg, a refined
neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. The...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Bartlett offshoot lands Chinese contest
London-based Metamode has won the invited competition to design a new cultural park in China
The practice, which includes the current dean and chair of...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Tidal Docks Use Waves to Power NYC’s Streetlamps
The Big Apple’s known for its bright lights, but the city’s iconic luminescence also sucks up huge amounts of power every year. Luckily, a team...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Square in Space - Croatia
Ivan Filipivoc has shared this
preliminary project for a crafts center in Zagreb, Croatia. Deriving its
inspiration from one of the oldest crafts – blacksmithing,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
‘Green’ O-14 Skyscraper - Dubai
We originally showcased plans for this striking O-14
tower in Dubai back in 2007, and now the beautiful latticed
building is finally nearing completion. Designed...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
700 Megawatt Offshore Wind Farm Plan For Long Island Takes a Step Forward
Plans to develop an offshore wind farm near Long Island seem to have expanded a bit. The Long Island Power Authority and Con Edison have...
Sustainable Designs, Engineering
UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s Design Selected for New Hotel Tower in Frankfurt
Yesterday, UNStudio was selected in the competition for a 110 meter tall hotel tower in Frankfurt, Germany.
From the six projects presented, the jury, chaired...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
WWII Museum - Poland
Bulgaria-based design studio Dizarh presents designs for a WWII
Museum in Poland, explaining the concept thus:
"The idea for a Museum of the Second World...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Tallest Building in Asia Revealed for Seoul, South Korea
A new super skyscraper has just been announced for South Korea and will tower over all other buildings in Asia when it is complete in...
Urban Design, Architecture
eVolo 2011 Honorable Mention for “Seeds Of Life” by Mekano Studio
Young Egyptian practice Mekano Studio has sent us its entry to the 2011
eVolo Skyscraper Design Competition "Seeds Of Life" which won the team
an...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Snøhetta scoops prestigious Mies prize
Snøhetta has won this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for the best building in Europe with its Norwegian National Opera & Ballet house in...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Wairakei Golf Course Taupo New Zealand
Wairakei golf + sanctuary project on target
The first phase in
development of a unique wildlife sanctuary on the iconic 18-hole
Wairakei Golf Course...
Parks & Open Space
Active Street House
Limited Street Space
Responding to limited street access and a cliffside site, architecture designed the residence making the most of its unique site.
The house...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
South Korea Unveils Stunning Eco Dome Environmental Center
The National Ecological Institute of South Korea recently released plans for a large-scale nature reserve complete with an incredible series of eco domes, an education...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Railyards Cultural Centre - Denmark
Noted Danish office 3XN delivers another impeccable project, the
construction has already begun on their project design for Railyards
Cultural Centre in Denmark's second largest city...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
New Report: Offshore Wind Could Power Entire U.S.
There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined,...
Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Avenue2 Consortium Wins A2 Maastricht Project with Groene Loper Plan
The Steering Committee for the A2 Maastricht project in Maastricht, Netherlands recently announced that the project will be carried out by the Avenue2 Consortium, which...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
China Building “Biggest Solar Energy Production Base” in the World
Construction is in the works for what China is calling “The Biggest Solar Energy Production Base in the Whole World,” or more simply, Solar Valley....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Green Spaces - France
There's a lot going on in Paris these days: the City is in the process
of redesigning at least ten different neighborhoods, and a full...
Community, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
The greenest eco-resort in the world?
The "greenest ecoresort in the world" is set to be built in Monterey, California. The resort, called Monterey Bay Shores, will be built on 29...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Suncheon International Wetlands Center - South Korea
G.Lab* by Gansam Architects and
Associates of Seoul have designed a visitors’ centre for the
wetlands in Suncheon, South Korea.
Suncheon is one of the...
Wetlands, Sustainable Energy
Superkilen Park Denmark.
Superkilen is a park about diversity, conceived by BIG and Topotek1 in Nørrebro, Denmark. The project is intended to celebrate the neighborhood’s diversity that reaches...
Community, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
The Alibaba Headquarters - China
The Alibaba Headquarters in Hangzhou establishes new international
workplace standards in China, providing 150,000 square metres of
flexible open plan office space within a campus...
Community, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Munch/Stenersen and Deichman Competition Has Spanish and Norwegian Winners
Just a few days ago, Urban Logic reported on the prestigious international competition for the new Munch Museum and Deichman Library building in Oslo. The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Fifty Cars Equals One Bus
Every day thousands of cars drive to and from the airport releasing tons of unnecessary carbon dioxide. If everyone parked their car and travelled [sic]...
Landscape Art, Transport
Samoo Architecture PC co-Designs Winning Project, Taekwondo ‘One’, Design-Build Competition
Samoo Architecture PC, with the project lead Samsung C & T Corporation and Samoo Architects & Engineers in Seoul, Korea, have been awarded first prize...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Morphing Kinetower Skyscraper
In an interview with Kinetic
Architecture, architects Barbara van Biervliet and Xaveer Claerhout
explained that fixed or static design can no longer compete in a...
Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Amanora Vertical City Apartments - india
One of more than a handful of developments of its kind in the works
across India, MVRDV took on the challenge to participate in this...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
NeyPoulissen to Build New City Bridge in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Belgian practice NeyPoulissen Architects & Engineers have recently won the international competition to design & build the new bridge “De Oversteek” in Nijmegen, the Netherlands....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Uber-Efficient Eco Auditorium Sloping Green Roof
This sloping green-roofed auditorium offers a two-for-one deal – a sunken indoor concert hall and an outdoor auditorium on the roof. Designed for Elche, Spain...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Transformation Station Voorburg - Netherland
The city of Leidschendam-Voorburg
[the
Netherlands] has recently approved the design for a extensive
transformation of the Station area. The urban plan, designed by POSAD...
Pentagon Memorial
Pentagon Memorial by KBAS Studio
KBAS Studio worked closely with the familiars of the victims to project the Pentagon Memorial, inaugurated september 11, seven years...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
the city's commercial future - Rwanda
Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, has grand plans.
Donna Rubinoff, the city’s Director of Urban Planning, tells a story of
how the Rwandan President...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Home of the Future - China
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
finds a new balance between man, technology and nature with their design
for the Home of the Future, construction of this project...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Green Roof Systems : Review
'Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure' by Susan K Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth. At first glance,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Smith and Gill's "eco-bridge": Coming to Chicago's lakefront?
Picture this on the downtown lakefront: A two mile-long land bridge arcing into Lake Michigan and outfitted with wind turbines and a soaring central observation...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting, Future & Visionary
Beidler: Sense of Place and New Urbanism
Abstract: New Urbanism is an all-encompassing term that refers to an increasingly popular set of design tenets that draw upon traditional urban forms in the...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Stockholmsporten - Sweden
The project’s center is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that connects the neighborhoods and countryside on the road’s four sides, a work of art and...
Landscape Architecture, Planning, Future & Visionary
Green Roofed JeJu Island Heritage Center Rises in Korea
South Korea’s Jeju Island is known for its outstanding aesthetic beauty — it’s an area that bears testament to the compelling natural history of our...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Lansdowne Park Design Competition entries revealed
Recently the City of Ottawa revealed the five designs submitted by design firms for the redevelopment of the Lansdowne Park area.
The designs where labeled...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Metropol Parasol - Spain
Metropol Parasol’s neutral tone helps to harmonize the stark contrast of the ultra-modern structure with the medieval surroundings of Seville. Stairways and storefronts sit below...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Planning
Foster + Partners wins Stockholm Slussen masterplan competition
Following up from our recent postannouncing the finalists of the Slussen urban redesign competition, and news that Lord Norman Foster was awarded Prince of Asturias...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
'Memory of Water,' 535 Mission St.
The vision: When Kahn glimpsed the 535 Mission parcel, "the white field reminded me of Mono Lake ... what a cool opportunity to squander the...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Arena Ulstein - Norway
Lund+Slaatto Architects would like to share winning proposal for the Arena Ulstein competition in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The main idea of the project is to create...
Community, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Studio Shift approach each project with the belief that architecture has the ability to enhance individual and collective experience and quality of life. They have...
Community, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Tower House - Italy
Alter Studio Architetti Associati shared their design, which won second place, for the Tower House Competition for Treviso, Italy, which challenged architects to refurbish a...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Han River Art Island, Seoul by designcamp moonpark
Designcamp moonpark has designed an arts complex in Seoul which features a flowing cantilevered roof based on the movement of traditional Korean dancers. It is...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Open Parliament - Albania
Wolf D. Prix / COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presents the new 'Open Parliament of Albania' in Tirana which incorporates fundamental democratic values such as openness, transparency and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
New Discovery Walk - Canada
Overlooking the Sunwapta Valley along the Columbian Icefields in Alberta, Canada, the Discovery Walk has been designed as an extension of the landscape. It melds...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Ecotone Hydro Park
A recent thesis project at McGill University by Tania Delage who takes Lebbeus Woods’ idea of the borderline and the ecological phenomena of the ecotone...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Flushing Commons is a Green Megacomplex for Queens, New York
That all might change with the development of a 1.8 million sq. foot, $850 million megacomplex for the area. Dubbed Flushing Commons, the spacious, airy...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Bamboo Towers
Bamboo poles are connected together with high tech metal “X” joints
to create the exoskeleton of the home. Round platforms serve as the
floors, which...
Sustainable Energy
a hybrid residential tower
With changing times, we all are going to witness a drastic change in
new-age infrastructure planning. The building in the above picture is a
hybrid...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Future & Visionary
Tanzanian Hotel Inspired by Rock Formations
Not many people would be envious of you if you were living in a cave — but they might be a little envious if you...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
UNstudio: beijing creative zone
UNstudio were awarded first prize in the competition to develop a creative zone located in yanqing, beijing, china.
the beijing creative zone represents the urban...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture Project Footbridges - Italy
BHDP Architecture
commissioned to design a landscape architecture project footbridges in
Lucca, Italy as a solution to pedestrian and vehicle access that
proposed mixed use...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Work to part-pedestrianise Oxford Circus begins
Work on an experimental scheme to semi-pedestrianise Oxford Circus, one of central London’s busiest junctions, begins this week.
Engineering consultant Atkins has based its £5...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Transport
Broad Museum - The USA
Recently presented design for Eli Broad's new Los Angeles museum is set
to be the first door neighbor to the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Largest Library in Scandinavia
schmidt hammer lassen architects to Build Largest Library in Scandinavia
Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
NYC SUMMER STREETS: LAST DAY!
NYC DOT has been closing Park Avenue from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park on Saturdays, from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to all motor traffic...
Community, Urban Design, Transport
Tianjin Port East Area Competition Proposal - China
ZIP & BDX Studio shared their proposal for Tianjin Port East Area in China. Their design objective was to underline and continuously take advantage of...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Will this classic be fit for purpose?
As a prime mover in founding the Design Museum, our architecture critic considers the merits of its move to a refurbished Commonwealth Institute
Here's a...
Wetlands
Arthur Erickson 1924 - 2009
the canadian architect arthur erickson, known for his ground-breaking designs has passed away at the
age of 84. erickson was born in vancouver in 1924...
Urban Design, Architecture
Russian Orthodox Center- France
Russian architects Arch-group and French studio Sade Sarl last week won an international competition to design a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre beside the Eiffel...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
QuanHai Bay - China
This design for Qianhai area is known as a ring shape with a few piers which are banded with each other to be places for...
Sustainable Energy, Planning, Future & Visionary
Proposals for the National Museum of African American History and Culture REVEALED
As reported the other day, six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
NMDA's Kite City - China
Weifang, centrally located in Shandong in China, is a special city
popularly known as the ‘Kite Capital of the World’. The noteworthy city
is flying...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
The Park at Lakeshore East 'Chicago'
The Office of James Burnett
The Park at Lakeshore East is the central amenity of the 28-acre Lakeshore East development in Chicago’s Inner Loop. Overlooking...
Wetlands, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Boris's bridge: some bollockings
The idea of building a new bridge across the Thames lined with shops and houses, just like Old London Bridge, the one "falling down, falling...
Wetlands
Calatrava Reveals New Foot and Bike Bridge
Santiago Calatrava’s design for a new $24.5 million foot and bike bridge for the city of Calgary, Canada has just been unveiled. This new bridge,...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
First LEED Certified NFL Stadium Ever Coming to LA
A design for the new Los Angeles NFL stadium is in the works and it is set to be the first NFL stadium ever to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
A Skipping Stone Spans the Bow River
Canada-based Halsall Associates Limited and French firm RFR together have won the conceptual design competition for the new St. Patrick’s footbridge in Alberta, Canada. The...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Zoo Dresden - Germany
The imposing scenery of the park ‘Großer Garten’ is used as a visual
extension of the zoo and so gives the giraffe bawn the impression...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Crossing - Dubai
Whats role for this project was to provide landscape architectural
services for the worlds largest and tallest arch-spanning bridge
infrastructure project by Fx Fowle Architects....
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning
Various Wetland Site regeneration projects
Staff from the consultancy subsidiary of the famous
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Slimbridge, are bringing expert
wetland advice and knowledge to undertake ecological...
Wetlands, Planning
Mirador del Palmeral by STAR Strategies Wins First Prize in Spain
Dutch architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture has won the first prize in the international competition “Mirador del Palmeral” in Elche, Spain.
The project plans...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Site scenario for civic centre - The United State
Just south of California’s state capital Sacramento,
Elk Grove is a modest city with big ideas for the future. Back in 2006,
the City Council...
Community, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
A-lab Wins Office Design Competition in Oslo
Oslo-based a-lab have been commissioned to design the new Oslo office for the Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro.
a-lab’s proposal was chosen from 40 different competition...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Battle of Trafalgar by Jaime Hayón
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón will create a giant chess set in Trafalgar Square, London, as part of this September’s London Design Festival. Update: Hayón has...
Wetlands
The Spiraling Library - Austria
The design is an extension of the National Library of Austria from the
Beijing-based architect Chris Prechteck. It is located close to the
castle in...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
San Franciscans Turn Abandoned Lot Into Full-Fledged Farm
A proposed 239-unit development in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley has yet to come to fruition, leaving an ugly, empty lot in its place. Seeing this,...
Sustainable Designs, Just Interesting, Sustainable Energy
Irwell Park - The UK
Irwell City Park is a vision of a river and its coridor, which
has been reclaimed by its surrounding communities; of a river
transformed from...
RMJM's Suzhou higher education campus
RMJM has won an international competition to design a new campus in Suzhou in China.
The 120,000 sq m project, in the Du Shu Hu...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Stirling Prize shortlists Liverpool One masterplan
BDP’s masterplan for Liverpool One has been nominated for the 2009 RIBA Stirling Prize.
The masterplan’s nomination follows in the footsteps of Rummey Design and...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Belgrade Centre for Promotion of Science - Serbia
This proposal for the Belgrade
Center for Promotion of Science comes from DVA plus. The
mission of the architecture is to create a space for...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Projet Triangle - France
Herzog & de Meuron’s Paris pyramid has received approval by the
city’s cross-party council which approved a protocol agreement for its
construction in the south-west...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Copenhagen Waterfont
JDS, in collaboration with Klar, will redesign the harbour front Kalvebod Brygge as the result of a tender held by the City of Copenhagen, within...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Mirador by STAR - Spain
STAR strategies+architecture have sent to us their latest project
“Mirador” which won the first place in the International competition
Mirador del Palmeral de Elche, Spain....
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at at time.
PARK(ing) Day began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art collective, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in an...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
The Auckland plan
The Auckland Plan will be a bold 30-year vision and strategy for
Auckland underpinned by the Mayor's vision of making it the world's most
liveable...
Planning, Future & Visionary
Stockholm’s Slussen Project
The winner in Stockholm‘s ambitious Slussen urban redesign competition has yet to be announced, here are some exciting images of the currently shortlisted five proposals...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Pringle Creek 'green streets'
Building on some recent posts on the SEA streets in Seattle, and Crown Street in Vancouver, BC, a few images of Pringle Creek - the...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Landscape Institute announces 2009 Awards
Landscape Institute announced the 2009 Landscape Institute Awards recently with Gillespies winning the President’s Award for St Andrew Square in Edinburgh. The Peter Youngman Award...
Landscape Architecture
Spiritual and Cultural Russian Orthodox Center - France
Christian
Pottgiesser architecturespossibles recently shared with us
their entry for the Russian Orthodox Center in Paris. Read about their
proposal and view their renderings and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Horizonless Manhattan
Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and...
Just Interesting
San Francisco Bay Rising Tides Competition Winners
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) just announced the winners of its Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
W Hotels for Starwood - Mexico
New York, NY – April 01, 2011 _ Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard
Meier has designed two new W Hotels for Starwood in Mexico. The W...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
archi5 Wins “Nya Årstafältet” Master Plan Competition for Stockholm
French firm archi5 has been announced winner of the international master plan competition for Stockholm’s Nya Årstafältet neighborhood. archi5’s winning proposal ‘Arkipelag’ has been a...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour 2009
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch...
Sustainable Designs
Elwood Foreshore - Australia
ASPECT Studios in conjunction with the City of Port Philip completed the
re-development of the Elwood coastal foreshore for local residents and
the wider community....
Sustainable Designs, Parks & Open Space, Planning
University of Naples Metro Station - Italy
New York designer Karim Rashid
has renovated the University of Naples subway station in Naples, Italy.
The University of Naples subway station is highly trafficked by...
Landscape Art, Transport, Future & Visionary
The Shard: Vertical City Will Tower Over London
Construction has begun on the Shard, a skyscraper that will be the tallest building in Western Europe and will provide amazing views of London. Designed...
Architecture
Green-Roofed Sebrae HQ Harnesses Passive Design - Brazil
Gruposp has designed a new
corporate headquarters for nonprofit Sebrae
in Brasilia, Brazil that takes cues from the brutalist architecture of
the country’s capital while...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Manchester launches new design competition
Manchester City Council has announced a competition to redesign the historic St Peter’s Square and Library Walk.
The competition aims to ‘create a breathtaking, internationally-recognised...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Grow a Lush Green Garden Inside Your Furniture With FurniBloom
Looking for a fun alternative to your home or office’s drab and lifeless
seating? Then take a cue from the FurniBloom designed by Icelandic landscape architect
Dagný...
Just Interesting, Science & Technology, Future & Visionary
Galleria Centercity - South Korea
The Galleria attempts to re-define the traditional typology of such a
place, as changing societal norms in Asia have led supermarkets to
operate as “social...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Athletic-LOOP - The Netherlands
This assignment for a new multifunctional building with a spectator’s
grandstand along the existing track has been approached by us from the
sport itself.
The dynamics...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
1,000 banknote, Office Center
They say that money doesn't grow on trees. Well, in Kaunas it grows on buildings. A curvaceous, luminous, 10-floor office building designed in the form...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
A Learning Centre for Ryerson University - Canada
Today Ryerson University announced
the design of a new Student Learning Centre for their Toronto campus.
Designed by Snøhetta
in collaboration with Zeidler
Partnership Architects...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Design Unveiled for Portland Firefighters Memorial
Portland Fire and Rescue in partnership with Portland State University’s School of Architecture announced the winner of a competition to design the Portland Firefighters Memorial....
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
ContemPLAY Pavilion
The ContemPLAY
pavilion is a student led initiative developed at the McGill School of
Architecture as part of the Directed Research Studio program under the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Gocycle, the folding electric bike
The new Gocycle represents a radical rethink of urban cycling. Designed by the former Formula 1 engineer Richard Thorpe, the Gocycle features a lightweight frame...
Urban Design, Engineering, Transport
Jeongok Prehistory Museum - South Korea
Jeongok Prehistory Museum, built on a primitive site in South Korea,
makes one remind of the jet age. Designed by France-based X-Tu
Architects, the museum...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
Transmission Line Towers by Arphenotype
Project: High Voltage Transmission Line Towers by Arphenotype for Iceland
Adaptability is an distinction of evolution, but today’s instant variations in [virtual] extended phenotypes call...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Foster + Partners: major sustainable plan in incheon, south korea
foster + partners, together with PHA and mobility in chain, has won an international competition to design the masterplan for the expansion of the incheon...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning
A new hotel in the sporting complex of Huainan - China
The only sport that is believed to have brought together the (then)
two sparring nations of the United States of America and China together,
is...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
Swooping Hoover Dam Re-Design
The Hoover Dam is one of the world's most impressive man-made
structures. A staggeringly large concrete barrier measuring 222
meters high and 379 meters across,...
Sustainable Energy, Science & Technology, Future & Visionary
Acapulco Bay Bridge
This colossal bridge design by Mexico City based BNKR
Arquitectura is a unique approach to the problem of project
financing. Knowing the municipal government of...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Stockholm International Fairs - Sweden
When it's dark for more than half the year, a bit of indoor greenery can
help brighten up the day. At least that was the...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid Architects have shared with us a new project designed for the Rooya Group in Cairo, Egypt. The Stone Towers will offer retail, office,...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Light Box / WE architecture - Denmark
Copenhagen-based We
architecture recieved third prize in the competition for
the extension of an existing high school in Falkonergården.
Light Box is an extension of...
Architecture, Society & Culture
Winners of the 2009 Cleveland Design Competition: Lakefront Station
The Cleveland Design Competition recently announced the winners of the third annual competition - Project 2009: Lakefront Station - Ideas for a 21st Century Multi-Modal...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Ricard Viñes Square - Spain
The large green open spaces that surround the Seu Vella Cathedral and
dominate the whole city are the most beautiful public areas in Lleida, and...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Singapore Civic & Culture Centre by Aedas
The concept design is driven by the desire to blur the boundaries between retail and cultural zones and indoor and outdoor spaces with flowing spatial...
Wetlands
Villas in the Sky - Saudi Arabia
Designed to become a strong local
landmark Villa In The Sky tower by noted Henning Larsen
Architects will span over 34 floors on a special location...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Floating Urban Beach Barge Sets Sail on the Danube River
Hungary-based design team Urban Landscape Group recently completed an extraordinary summer project that allows visitors to float down the Danube in a portable pool! Dubbed...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
LAVA wins first prize for masdar - world's first sustainable city in UAE
Australia-based LAVA Architects recently won the bid to design the City Center for super sustainable eco-city Masdar in the UAE. LAVA imagined an outdoor city...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Ontario House for the 2010 - Canada
The Ontario Pavilion for the Vancouver
2010 Winter Olympic Games was designed as a physical and experiential
gateway to Ontario. The pavilion provided a unique...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Bond Bryan to Design New Landmark Building for Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University has announced plans to develop a new £25m building that will become a city center landmark thanks to its innovative design.
The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Welcome to Designing for Tomorrow
Welcome to ‘Designing for
Tomorrow’; a pioneering social network for everyone with an
interest in the design of our built environments. Designing for Tomorrow’ is dedicated to...
Community, Future & Visionary
Lincoln Mixed Use - the USA
Chad Mitchell, president of Denver based Meridian 105
Architecture, has shared with us his proposal for a planned
mixed use complex in downtown Denver Colorado....
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Babcock Ranch 100% Solar Powered City
We've heard about ecocities in far away lands, but now there's one planned for the Unities States. Located near Fort Meyers, Florida, Babcock Ranch will...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
2nd Street Trasnporation Enhancement Project, Louisville, KY
CARMAN’s role as Landscape Architects and Engineers was to reveal and emphasize the richly layered landscape of 2nd and Washington. The unifying system for the...
Urban Plan Rødovre Syd - Denmark
Copenhagen-basedWE architecture
shared with us their proposal for the urban plan of Rødovre Syd in Denmark.
Rødovre Syd is a suburbian area of Copenhagen,
characterized...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space
IT tools for shaping the built environment.
Rudi have released their Technology, Space and Place 2008, IT tools for shaping the built environment
Download your free copy of the publication here
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Transport
Dragonfly Vertical Farm concept by Vincent Callebaut
Amidst financial buildings and high-rise apartments, Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has redefined the conventional skyscraper. His 132 story complex for the south edge of Roosevelt...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Green Covered Taipei Music Center by Mario Bellini Architects
We’re totally intrigued by this pop music center for Taipei and its striking resemblance to a rolling green hill. Conceived by Italian firm Mario Bellini...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
McConnell Springs Wetland Demonstration_Lexington, KY
The intent of the McConnell Springs Stormwater Quality Wetland Pond project is to reduce non-point source (NPS) pollution in McConnell Springs and the creeks that receive...
City Square - Israel
The new cultural and service center designed by Yaniv
Pardo Architects
re-shapes the town square while creating commercial spaces, residential
units and a concert hall....
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
‘Why Don’t We Do It On The Stairs?’ - Denmark
‘Why Don’t We Do It On The Stairs?’ is the winning proposal for won the
architectural design competition ‘Build What Here?’ organised by the
Danish...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
Istanbul-based outfit Nuvist Architecture & Design entry to the Izmir Opera House Competition
Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings' life.
Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the
community, and...
Architecture, Just Interesting, Future & Visionary
Carbon Neutral Offices - Slovenia
This OFIS design was submitted into a competition
for a carbon neutral office by the Slovenian public power supply company
Elektro-Slovenija(ELES). For a site in...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Construction Begins on Amazing Tunnel-Shaped Rotterdam Market Hall
Imagine having this sweet public market pop up in your town? Well the lucky residents of Rotterdam are actually getting one! This week, the mayor...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
AGENCY architecture LLC, USA Ersela Kripa, Stephen Mueller
The project
proposes a global system of levees, serving also as a new brand of
urban farms at the city's edge, preserving local ecologies while...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Society & Culture
Kai Tak Cruise Terminal - Hong Kong
A foundation stone laying ceremony, attended by the Chief Executive of HKSAR, senior government officials and representatives of the architects Foster + Partners and Dragages...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Blue Crystal: A Sustainable Iceberg Lodge in Dubai?
Temporary ice hotels materialize each winter in frigid northern towns from Russia to Canada. As temperatures rise in the spring the structures melt back into...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Pro-Bike Guerrilla Artists
Guerilla stencil artists are on the loose…and they’re promoting urban
biking. Sometimes guerrilla work isn't
drawn by artists at all, just concerned people trying to...
Transport, Just Interesting, Future & Visionary
Alamillo Bridge - Spain
The Alamillo Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava and built for the 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville, became one of the most emblematic works of the...
Landscape Architecture, Transport
Decent homes need decent spaces
Decent
homes need decent spaces is about how social
landlords can provide more opportunities for people to enjoy the space
on their doorsteps, whether they...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research - China
The Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), designed by Henning Larsen Architects in Copenhagen, is devoted to Chinese-Danish collaboration. Otherwise known as the Swan...
Community, Architecture
2009 Serpentine Pavilion Design
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA today released a first rendering of their design for the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Solar Flower Petal Street Lamps Bloom by Day, Illuminate the Night
Smart design meets city lights in these solar-powered LED street lights by Phillips. Inspired by how flowers open up to the sun to collect the...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
PARK-ing Day 2010 Takes Place This Friday Around the World!
Heads up city dwellers – Parking day 2010 takes place all
over the world this Friday, so get out there and explore the pop-up
parks...
Urban Design, Future & Visionary, Society & Culture
Waitakere Library And UNITEC Facilities - New Zealand
Designed by Architectus Auckland in conjunction with Athfield Architects, this project consists of the new Waitakere City Central Library, which also integrates the UNITEC collection...
Community, Architecture, Society & Culture
Clone Town Britain 2010: High street diversity still on endangered list
Only 36 per cent of the high streets surveyed retain
their distinctive character with more than two thirds of their shops
being
independents.
The nef...
Urban Design, Planning
Green Light Tower - Greece
When we look from the see to the new proposal of the Pireaus tower This proposal will connect the tower with the see, the nearby...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
How to Design Livable Streets
It’s no secret that Good produces the best graphics to illustrate the most current and important points. They tend to go viral and get passed...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
In Flakes by Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Towada city has snowflakes floating around in winter, cherry
blossoms floating around in spring, sunlight sifting down through
the trees in summer, leaves floating around...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Beckmann N’Thépé and TN Plus to Design New Saint Petersburg Zoological Park
Bruno Tanant and Jean Christophe Nani of landscape design firm TN PLUS together with Aldric Beckmann and Françoise N’Thépé of architects Beckmann N’Thépé
have won...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Vertical Park: Stackable Solar Skyscraper for Mexico City
In the ever-expanding metropolis of Mexico City, green space is hard to come by. An estimated population of 22 million inhabitants bears an impressive weight...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Replacing Ugly Construction Site Barriers with Beautiful Living Green Walls
Normally at a big construction site, an ugly OSB wall plastered with posters provides a barrier between the site and the rest of the city....
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Jean Nouvel’s Stunning Museum Façade Dilates to Let in Daylight
France’s longstanding relationship with Islamic culture is embodied in Jean Nouvel’s
stunning Institut
du Monde Arabe. The visionary design surprised the 19 donor nations
when...
Architecture
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU to Design New Albanian Parliament Building
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU's
entry 'Open Parliament of Albania' in Tirana has won the First Prize.
The concept incorporates fundamental democratic values such as openness,
transparency and...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
Singapore’s Stunning Digital Cloud Skyscraper
Singapore-based design firm Design Act was a finalist in the competition for the World Expo 2010 Singapore Pavilion organized by the Singapore Tourism Board (for...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Amazing Skyscraper Farm for Vancouver
Vertical farms are one of our favorite future-forward concepts for creating sustainable cities. Providing locally-grown produce and food will not only help us reduce our...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
The Wave Wins Safe Trestles Competition
Project Description:
The Wave’s primary goals are to increase the safety of the path to
Trestles and protect its fragile beach ecology. There have been...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Our Cities Ourselves: Ten Global Cities Reimagined for Sustainable Transport
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) selected
ten diverse design teams to sustainably redesign mobility in their
urban centers. These architects and urban...
Urban Design, Engineering, Transport
MVVA Team Moves Forward in City+Arch+River 2015 Competition
Project Description
The jury chose the MVVA Team over four others competing to enliven the
area around the Gateway Arch and connect it to downtown...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
SOM Unveils Golden Hills Eco Village for Danang, Vietnam
SOM was just awarded the master plan commission for Golden Hills, a
major new sustainable city that dovetails with their recently revealed FTP City
in...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Schweeb: Human-Powered Monorail Flies Through the Skies
What could be more fun than gliding along on an eco-chic bicycle? How about shooting through the skies in a pedal-powered monorail capsule! A bunch...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Transport, Sustainable Energy
ODBC: new transport solutions, los angeles
Los Angeles county, will provide as much as 40 billion USD for local transit related projects over the next 30 years.
Paris based firm Odile...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Transport
Zaha Hadid’s Peaceful Nassim Villas for Singapore
World renowned firm Zaha
Hadid Architects' signature sensuous style is written all over one
of its latest projects, a pair of luxurious garden-filled homes called...
Architecture, Science & Technology, Future & Visionary
New Road by Landscape Projects and Gehl Architects
Description of the Intervention
The principles that the team applied were firmly rooted in a well
researched body of work – precedents set by experienced...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Transport
Hobsonville Point
New lease of life for harbourside
gem called Hobsonville Point
By RALPH JOHNS, director, Isthmus Group Ltd
Hobsonville Point, located on 167 hectares of...
Madrid RIO by West8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture
The ambitious plan by Madrid’s mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón to submerge a
section of the M30 ring motorway immediately adjacent to the old city
centre within...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Transport
West 8: puente cascara, madrid
The puente cascara in madrid by international firm WEST 8 officially opened this month.
working together with MRIO the architects designed the master plan for...
Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering
the exotic Markthauser - Germany
Set in the heart of the German town of Mainz, the exotic Markthauser is a mixed-use project clad in a futuristic facade of painted ceramic...
Community, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
A look at America’s most pedestrian friendly cities
Walking is arguably the most efficient mode of transportation, and you don’t need petroleum to power it; some French fries will do. But disturbingly few...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Transport
ADEPT Architects and Schønherr Landscape Win H+ Planning Competition
The municipality of Helsingborg, Sweden, chose Schønherr Landscape and ADEPT Architects (both from Denmark) as winners of the planning competition of the 100Ha site of...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
luzinterruptus: Installation An Almost ephimeral Autumn
Finding somewhere in Madrid with Autumn at its best was hard but in the end we did. It was in a far-away park in the...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
BDP has won an international competition
BDP has won an international competition to
masterplan and design most of the buildings within an urban regeneration
project in the city of Foshan in...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Residential Township - India
Southern India is getting a brand new LEED-Gold certified residential township. With the rapid influx of new urbanites bursting current city borders, urban planners and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Leeser Architecture wins design competition for five-star hotel in Zayed Bay, Abu Dhabi
Iconic design and state of the art technology create dynamic mini-city in the UAE
Leeser Architecture, an internationally recognized design firm, has won a invited...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Best Landscape Architecture Projects Received ASLA 2009 Professional Awards
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the winners of its 2009 Professional Awards. The jury considered nearly 600 entries—the largest number in...
Landscape Architecture
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects to Design Hospital in Kolding, Denmark
What the practice said: "Our architectural practice is new to the hospital sector, which may
prove to be an advantage", said Partner Kim Holst Jensen....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Tempelhof Airport - Germany
Berlin's famous Tempelhof Airport closed to the public in October of 2008. Rather than tearing down the striking semi-circular terminal building, which Norman Foster had...
Architecture, Transport, Parks & Open Space
MahaNakhon by OMA
German architect Ole Scheeren of Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed a skyscraper for Bangkok in Thailand. Called MahaNakhon, the building consists of a 77-storey...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Walworth Road, Southwark, London, SE17
The project was innovative because it combined a number of otherwise unrelated objectives into a single highly tailored solution. Research carried out showed high levels...
World’s First Solar-Powered Floating Island - Korea
The citizens living off the Han River in Seoul, South Korea inaugurated the world’s largest floating island just last week with great excitement! With two...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Danish Landscape Award 2010 Goes to Måløv Axis
What the practice said: ADEPT/LiWplanning, Måløv Axis, the project activates the normally
useless residual areas and turns them into places for recreational
activities and meeting...
Athletic Ripples - India
Architects Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta of the India based design firm, Studio Symbiosis, have shared with us their recent proposal, Athletic Ripples,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Solar Shanghai Pavilion Made From Used CD Cases
Preparations for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 are heating up and many countries are getting in on the action by designing structures for the space....
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem by Chyutin Architects
Israeli firm Chyutin Architects
have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a
sunken garden in Jerusalem. The Museum of Tolerance...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
Vancouver Convention Centre Features Canada's Largest Green Roof
This week, the west expansion of the Vancouver Convention Centre celebrates its grand opening, and we thought you should know a little about this incredible...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Capita Lovejoy reveals £1.5 million Golden Square
Capita Lovejoy, the land planning division of Capita Symonds, has unveiled designs for a new £1.5 million public square in Birmingham
The area known as...
Landscape Architecture
Auckland’s Spatial Plan goes under the microscope
In downtown Auckland last night a host of Auckland business and local
government leaders converged to listen as an expert panel shared their
ideas on...
Urban Design, Planning, Future & Visionary
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower - Japan
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is located in Tokyo’s distinctive Nishi-Shinjuku high-rise district and contains 3 different schools: Tokyo Mode Gakuen (fashion), HAL Tokyo (IT...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Shiny new chief executive for Auckland Waterfront Development Agency
We have one of the most
stunning waterfronts in the world and our challenge, over time, will be
to
transform it into an internationally recognised...
Urban Design, Planning, Future & Visionary
Beton Hala Waterfront - Servia
INTRODUCTION
Our design for the BHWC building starts off by acknowledging the importance of the existing Beton Hala structure not only as a significant...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Parks & Open Space
NZILA SPRING LECTURE SERIES 2010 - ECOLOGICAL URBANISM
ECOLOGICAL URBANISM A PROSPECTUS FOR THE SUPER CITY
:: The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects [Auckland branch] are
holding the annual spring lecture series....
European Chess House Competition Proposal - Montenegro
The Agency for development of Municipality of Herceg Novi in association with the European Chess Union have launched a single stage international competition for the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
An Urban Oasis for Rijeka, Croatia
Located in Rijeka, Croatia, this urban design incorporates public indoor and outdoor spaces into a modern example of a multi-functional city center. Designed by architecture...
Wetlands, Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Largest Green Wall in North America
Vancouver BC is set to unveil North America’s
largest green
wall, The extraordinary vegetated wall is
installed at the Longwood
Garden’s new East Conservatory Plaza....
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Diplomatic Quarter Celebration Hall - Saudi Arabia
Godwin Austen Johnson Architects shared with us their proposal in an invited international competition held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Their design for the Celebration...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Aotea Square - it's back and better than ever
After two years of redevelopment, the city's premier open
space reopened with a family fun day last Saturday.
Thousands came along to the reopening of...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Nuova Università Valdostana - italy
Italian design studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) has completed concept designs for a selection of cantilevered campus buildings for Nuova Università Valdostana on the site...
Planning, Society & Culture
West Loop Park Infuses Chicago With Green Urban Space
As the construction process for Hudson Yards drags on in New York, we’re glad to see green urban design is alive and well in Chicago....
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Best Awards Honor New Zealand’s Finest Designs
New Zealand's best designers and their projects were recently honored
with the 2010 Best
Design Awards in the four categories Graphic, Interactive, Product,
and Spatial....
Architecture
EDP Cultural Centre – Portugal
The EDP Foundation Cultural Centre in Lisbon is a project about water, light, reflections and people – a building that captures the essence of the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Norman Foster Unveils Twin Faceted Skyscrapers for Paris
Norman Foster + Partners recently revealed the masterplan for a new sustainable community just outside of Paris complete with twin faceted skyscrapers that will be...
Urban Design, Architecture
It’s Tower vs. Arch in Mexico City
The team composed of graduates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and headed by Cesar Perez Becerril, has been announced winner in a national...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Mountainous Green-Roofed Pyramid - Japan
Can you imagine stepping out of the subway to go work at a mountainous green pyramid planted with hundreds of trees on every level? Well...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Transport
Jersey City Waterfront Parks Conservancy Unveils “Connect the Parks” Master Plan
Master Plan to ensure the protection of waterfront parkland and dramatic Manhattan views for the pleasure of the community via passive lawns, kid’s play elements,...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / SANAA
Architecture photographer Iwan Baan has been documenting the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a series of temporary structures commissioned to renowned architects that sits on the Gallery’s...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
NL Architects Unveils Ascending Green-Roofed Staircase Office
NL Architects recently unveiled a beautiful green-roofed office complex for the Welfare Department and Work Agency of the City of Groningen in the Netherlands. Featuring...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Wiel Arets Architects Win 1st Prize for the IJhal in Amsterdam
Project Description:
Amsterdam’s Centraal Station is currently undergoing a drastic
transformation to become the centrepiece of the city’s plan to reconnect
neighbourhood clusters through the...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Giant Hand-Built Timber Tower - Czech Republic
Resembling a giant Jenga tower rising out of the landscape, e-MRAK’s Scholzberg Tower is a twisting structure constructed completely of timber. A collaboration with Honza...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects photographed by Edmund Sumner
Here are some photographs by Edmund Sumner of
the completed Balancing Barn holiday home in Suffolk, UK, by MVRDV and Mole Architects, including a
swing under...
Biodegradable Piezo-Art Pavilion - Denmark
Danish architects 3XN have created a swirling art installation that features some of the most advanced building and energy-generating technologies on earth. Designed for an...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Co-Op Canyon: Ecotopia Inspired by Anasazi Cliff Dwellings
Inspired by the cliff-side villages of Anasazi Indians, Co Op Canyon is a terraced urban oasis full of vertical gardens and lush spaces that aims...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
West 8 Wins Competition Vaartkom Leuven
West 8 in collaboration with Snoeck en Partners, Bas Dirk Jaspaert, ERM and Tritel, has won the competition organized by the City of Leuven, for...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
The Green School / PT Bambu
Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to
motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to
show people how to build...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Arganzuela Footbridge - Spain
The Arganzuela Footbridge in Madrid is now open for pedestrians and bikers to cross the Manzanares River and access a beautiful new park. Designed by...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Longgang Business Centre, China by Mecanoo architecten
Dutch firm Mecanoo architecten has won a contract to design the masterplan for a new business centre in Longgang, a district of Shenzhen in China....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
PARK + NetLab Named Winners in Competition to Re-Imagine Long Island’s Downtowns
Build a better Burb, a design
and planning competition sponsored by the Long
Island Index with the Rauch Foundation, has named the team of PARK...
Gorgeous Green-Roofed Structure - Canada
Hidden under the green roof soccer field where the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Trojans play all year is a three-story parking garage. Nestled...
Sustainable Energy, Parks & Open Space
SLA: Process Urbanism - The City as Artificial Ecosystem
SLA has
developed a landscape inspired planning method called processs urbanism.SLA does
not regard nature and the city as opposites. The city is part of...
Community, Urban Design, Future & Visionary
Paris’ La Samaritaine Restoration - France
2010 Pritzker Prize winning SANAA has released renderings to convert La Samaritaine department store in Paris into a mixed-use development. Commissioned by LVMH (client/developer) the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Cox Architects: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
the melbourne rectangular stadium by cox architects is the latest sports facility to go up in the sports capital of australia. the stadium will have...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Community Housing
To begin with visit Community Housing Aotearoa - www.communityhousing.org.nz
St. Hans “Haugen” Performance Center - Norway
The “Haugen” project is a proposal by Control New Arkitektur (ctrl+n) in order to start a discussion on how to make better use of the...
Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary, Society & Culture
Gehry Partners Selected for Eisenhower Memorial
Gehry Partners, LLP, the Los Angeles-based architectural firm headed by Frank O. Gehry, has been selected as lead designer of the national memorial to Pres....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
DCMS withdraws funding from CABE
The Culture Department, DCMS, has announced today that
it will withdraw funding from CABE as part of a Comprehensive Spending
Review which has seen massive...
Wetlands, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport - Scotland
Here is the first look at Zaha Hadid Architets latest project, Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport. Slated to officially open later this week the museum...
Architecture, Transport, Society & Culture
Emerald Plaza by Emergent Architecture
Public space is essential in any urban environment, but drawing people out can be difficult when the weather makes the outdoors uncomfortable.
The Emerald Plaza...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
The unstoppable rise of landscape urbanism.
Not long ago, landscape architects were often dismissed as the
consultants who put finishing touches on a building site—the broccoli
around a steak. But with...
Interpretation Center of the Andalusian Prehistory - Spain
Located in a national landmark, the proposal for the Interpretation Center of Andalusian Prehistory by Luis Machuca Associates strengthens and takes care of this feature...
Architecture, Future & Visionary, Society & Culture
Make's Nine Elms towers put on hold by recession
Make’s plans for a 30-storey complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.
The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
UP LOADING PROJECTS - INTRODUCTION
Good
practice and forward thinking – learn and inspire others around the world
Promote
and share your companies or individual projects / ideas –...
Community
Primary School & Sport Hall - France
Paris-based Chartier-Dalix architects shared with us their winning proposal for a competition to design a primary school and sport hall in Boulogne Billancourt, a commune...
Architecture, Planning, Society & Culture
Fieldwork | Mobile Tree Identification
It is important for a Landscape Architect to understand a wide variety about plants. It is one of the many mediums used and the greater...
Landscape Architecture
cepezed architects: 'rabobrug' bridge
delft based cepezed architects have won the competition to design the new bridge in the city centre of utrecht. the ‘rabobrug’ is a 275m long...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Transport
Sustainable Transportation Resource Guide
ASLA created a new online resource guide on sustainable transportation. The guide contains lists of organizations, research, concepts and projects related to sustainable transportation, including...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Landmark on Cebeli Hill, Antalya Turkey
1/1 Landscape
+ Architecture from Istanbul, Turkey have designed ‘Landmark
Project of Cebeli Hill’, with a new program that looks out new
requirements and opportunities. The...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
SFMOMA Expansion by Snøhetta - the USA
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have unveiled their design for an extension to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which will double the gallery’s exhibition...
Architecture, Society & Culture
Modified London Olympic Master Plan Unveiled
A modified master plan setting how the Olympic Park in East London
will be developed after the 2012 Games has been unveiled by the Olympic...
Urban Design, Planning, Society & Culture
a new clean energy spaceship-shaped campus - the USA
Steve Jobs made a quick visit to the Cupertino, California city council meeting on Tuesday to unveil Apple's plans for a new clean energy spaceship-shaped...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Verticle Urban Farming
Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet’s population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
'Capture the Rain' skyscraper by Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak
Polish architectural students Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak of H3AR received a special mention for their proposal in the 2010 skyscraper competition.
'Capture the Rain'...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Rosales + partners: Harbor Pedestrian Bridge, Cleveland
American firm rosales +
partners won the competition to design the new north coast harbor pedestrian bridge in cleveland, ohio. the movable footbridge will be...
Urban Design, Engineering, Planning
The Great Wall Apartment-Factory - Korea
Seoul-based Yamasaki Ku Hong Associates Design Lab is building a set of small-sized apartments that will mix ‘life, work and play’ all in one space....
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Society & Culture
Winning Entries of FormShift Vancouver Announced
The winners of the first ever FormShift Vancouver have been selected. In the Vancouver Primary category, honors go to a submission from Calgary-based Sturgess Architecture....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
The Queens Wharf Cloud "New 'party central' design released"
The 178.5m
long Cloud will have a steel and timber frame, covered in an opaque PVC fabric.
The walls will be be a mix of...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
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[BOX-ed] / Papaioannou Architects - Spain
Papaioannou Architects has shared their proposal for the Barcelona 2011 Bohemian Hostel for backpackers International Competition with us.
MAIN CONCEPT – Orientation
Key aspect in...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Snohetta: gambia university
snohetta create a unified vision for gambia’s higher level educational institutions with the new university of gambia. the new university will relocate and unite three...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Foster + Partners’ First Project in Vietnam Breaks Ground
Foster
+ Partners just broke ground on Hanoi’s VietinBank Business Centre, which is the
firm’s first project in Vietnam. Located strategically between central
Hanoi and...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
an outdoor library - Israel
Yoav Meiri Architects in collaboration with Arteam founded The Levinski Garden Library as a social-artistic urban community project. The project believes in the right to...
Community, Future & Visionary, Society & Culture
Solar Forest Charging System for Parking Lots
Although electric vehicle use is on the rise, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet in terms of providing them with a steady supply...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Transport, Sustainable Energy
100,000 Synthetic Trees Could Help Combat Climate Change
The field of geo-engineering has launched all kinds of outlandish ideas for combating climate change, from dumping iron into the world’s oceans to shooting mirrors...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Green Wave: Thermal Pool Wrapped With a Living Wall
The town of Royat, France has been famous since Roman times for
its thermal springs, and visitors come to the town to take advantage of...
One Airport Square - Ghana
The Ghanaian capital of Accra is swiftly becoming one of the strongest economic hubs in West Africa, as vast numbers of people flock to the...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Transport
St Patrick's Square reaches top 6 in World Architecture News Awards
St Patrick's Square has always been a special place in the heart of Auckland and its inhabitants, but since the recent upgrade by Boffa Miskell...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Spiraling Wood Sea Bath - Denmark
Designed by architect Fredrik Pettersson, the Sea Bath is an oasis at sea, located 100 meters from the shore. Curving around and around, wooden ramps...
Community, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
Foster + Partners to Design First Project in Luxembourg
Foster +
Partners has won the international competition to design Luxembourg
Royal Hamilius, a mixed-use development in the heart of Luxembourg City
developed by Codic...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Beton Hala Waterfront proposal - Serbia
Egyptian architects, Architektur Studio have submitted for the Beton Hala Waterfront project in central Belgrade, Serbia.
Through an architectural design that allows more FLEXIBILITY in...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Zaha Hadid Lifts Seoul with Green-Roofed Dongdaemun Plaza
Situated within the urban depths of South Korea’s largest shopping and business district, Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park will provide shoppers, tourists and residents of...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Kengo Kuma Wins V&A at Dundee Competition
"We were delighted by the quality of all the designs which were
submitted to the competition and I think this is reflected in the huge...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
ExxonMobil’s New Office Complex - the USA
New Haven, CT-based, Pickard Chilton said yesterday it planned and designed ExxonMobil’s new office campus that will be developed in north Houston, Texas.
ExxonMobil is...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Wellington's rocky new addition surpasses rocky criticism
No, it’s not a pair of
giant pumpkins or even a piece of anatomy belonging to the nether
regions—as
some earlier murmurings might have suggested....
Architecture, Just Interesting
Hangzhou Gateway by JDS - China
JDS/Julien De Smet Architects has shared with us the proposal for a mixed-use development in Hangzhou, China which recently won the Belgian firm the First...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Peg Sculpture
I Just think this is fantastic, how can you not just smile, the simplistic items that we all take for granted, and then turn them...
HAIMA Archaeological Museum of Punta Umbria - Spain
This proposal new Archaeological Center of Punta Umbria, Spain is designed by ETB Architects. It is conceived of as a simple and light architecture in...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
How Green Buildings Should Look: Ken Yeang
The Aesthetics of Green Buildings
Green architect Ken Yeang may be to skyscrapers what Buckminster Fuller was to houses. The Malaysian architect's visionary approach to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Studio Fuksas Wins Shenzhen Guosen Securities Tower Competition
A collaborated team of Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana
Fuksas and Chinese Shenzhen
General Institute of Architectural Design and Research has recently
won the first...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
Landscapes of Cohabitation - Greece
The Aegean islands are known for their great and dramatic beauty. Significantly, this beauty is the result of the interaction of natural and human agents,...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Society & Culture
A house that needs no heating
RMJM launch new housing design in response to tough financial climate
UK-based international architects RMJM launched the ‘MiLoft’ design, with its rooftop ‘aloftments’, at the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
francois blanciak architect: dubai tall emblem structure
continuing the coverage of the the thyssenkrupp elevator award to develop an iconic tall emblem structure for zaabeel park in dubai, heer is francois blanciak...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
The Citadel: Europe’s First Floating Apartment Complex
The Dutch have been fighting the rising and falling tides for centuries, building dikes and pumping water out of areas that are below sea level....
Urban Design, Architecture
Studiodosi’s Henge Adds a Radical, Modern Look to Leeds City Waterfront
Italian firm Studiodosi’s proposed building for the waterfront in Leeds, UK definitely packs a radical punch with its bright green facade, but its sustainable features...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Vinoly's Battersea Power Station plans tipped for approval
£5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea
Power Station recommended for planning by council officers
Rafael Vinoly’s plans to transform Battersea Power Station
should be given the...
An Eco Treehouse For Youth Empowerment
When rapper and designer Pharrell Williams had a chance meeting with architect Chad Oppenheim, they discovered that they shared a similar vision of helping make...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Future & Visionary
Floating Sustainable Ocean Cities
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a floating city with the noble goal of housing displaced peoples who's homelands have been destroyed.
The Lilypad Project...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Hancock named as Spitfire memorial competition winner
Nick Hancock Design Studio wins public
competition to design £2 million national memorial to the Spitfire.
The 36-year-old Australian, who worked for Richard Rogers
Partnership...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
New Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Competition proposal - Switzerland
Allied Works Architecture was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which encompasses tranforming an hlistoric train shed and industrial...
Architecture
Treasure Island Reveals New Sustainable Development Plan
This week the Architecture + The City Festival took us to Treasure Island for an upclose view of the proposed sustainable development plan and a...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Reform of the urban and infrastructure planning system, designing an internationally competitve city
Following a recent Cabinet
meeting, Nick Smith and Rodney Hide have shared their thoughts on
Auckland’s
spatial plan and how central government will work with...
Urban Design, Planning, Future & Visionary
Agung Sedayu Center - Indonesia
Departing from what is already exists in the mangrove forest of Jakarta, the Agung Sedayu Center rises out of the natural habitat as an iconic...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Competition for Urban Development in Split
In the international competition for the urban development of the Duilovo area in Split, Croatia, architecture practices 3LHD and Drazen Pejkovic have won the joint...
Urban Design
Joint Winner of Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Complex International Competition
A joint proposal by Ricky Liu & Associates (Taiwan) and CUH2A, Inc., Architecture Engineering Planning (USA) has won the international competition for the Taiwan Centers...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Water Droplet Resort Will Convert Air into Purified Water
Architecturally and thematically designed in the shape of a drop of water, the Water Building Resort intends to become the first building ever to convert...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Maxwan a+u, Karres & Brands, 1010 & Goudappel Coffeng Awarded for Park Ruggeveld
The design for the park Ruggeveld – Botelaar-Silsburg, a joint effort by Maxwan, Karres & Brands, 1010 & Goudappel Coffeng,
has won the prestigious biannual...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
My project of site in Riga & I look for partners
This is my project of modern Landscape Design of private site in Riga next to the sea shore. I used here bionic lines and geoplastics as...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
MAD Architects Unveil Urban Forest Skyscraper For China
Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Google Maps Adds Biking Directions for 150 US Cities
Attention cyclists across the US: the wait for decent biking directions is over! Google Maps users can finally get biking directions along with walking, driving,...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Transport
Henn Architekten to Design Wenzhou Central Business District
German practice HENN ARCHITEKTEN
has won the first prize in the international competition to design the
new Central Business District in Wenzhou, China. The proposal...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Reinterpretation of Paris Proposal - France
Brothers Daniel and Maximilian Zielinski shared with us their winning proposal for the modernization of Paris in the Living City Design Competition. Organized by the...
Planning, Future & Visionary
Taiwan Tower: Super Slim Greenery Clad Twin Skycrapers
The Taiwan Tower is a proposal by Vienna-based architect Steven Ma in Collaboration with San Liu, Xinyu Wan, and Emre Icdem.
This highly innovative project...
Discovery Green - USA
Hargreaves Associates have designed landscapes that accompany many of buildings we have previously featured. Their design philosophy centers on connection; the connection between culture and...
Sustainable Energy, Parks & Open Space
Little Wins Merit Award in Taiwan Tower International Competition
With a height of 368 meters (1,207 feet), Little’s
submission for the Taiwan Tower International Design Competition
symbolizes life, vibrancy and perpetual prosperity – cultural...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
True Grid - Zurich
The project is determined by the extreme conditions of the site through its location (at the border of the vast field of tracks of Zurich...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Pod Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur / Studio Nicoletti
In Petaling Jaya, west of Kuala Lumpur, a great urban development designed by Studio Nicoletti Associati
is underway for the establishment of a new urban...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Urban Meadow Proposal - Hangary
Barnabas Laris and Adam Vesztergom, in collaboration with Borbala Gyure, Csenge Csontos, Nora Kohalmy and Mark Antal, recently won the first prize in the Main...
Urban Design, Architecture
Winners Announced for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award 2008-2009
The winners of the XI edition of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award were announced earlier today. 2967 teams, consisting of 4651 architects from 106 countries,...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Skyburbs: Bringing the Burbs to the City
Some people like suburbia for the wide open spaces, yards, and the sense of privacy, but the ‘burbs are not nearly as efficient as urban...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Gustafson Porter wins CityLife Park International Design Competition
Leading international landscape architects Gustafson Porter
(London) have won the competition to design the Milan CityLife Park
with their concept CityLife ? A Park between...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Green Revitalization Plan - Dubai
Abu Dhabi’s Urban Planning Council recently unveiled their revitalization plan for a messy 1770 hectare sprawl between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The Shahama and Bahia...
Transport, Sustainable Energy, Planning
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Win Major Education Project in Germany
Danish firm schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an international design competition for a new 13,500 m2 auditorium complex for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Amazing Brick Machine Rolls Out Roads Like Carpet
Brick roads
are beautiful and durable, but we don’t see them too often due to the
effort it takes to produce them. What once was...
Engineering, Transport, Just Interesting
World’s 4th Tallest Building - China
A project of the Shanghai-based Greenland Group, the 119-level Wuhan Greenland Center will be comprised of about 300,000 square meters of floor area, including about...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
New York’s High Line Park in the Sky Opens Today!
An elevated park in the sky built on top of the skeleton of an old rail system? It may have sounded impossible only five years...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Geometric Park Heals a Rocky Rift in Bilbao
A beautiful geometric park has sprouted upon a once-barren slope that split two suburbs in Bilbao, Spain. Designed by ACXT, Pau Casals Square is a...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Ground Breaking on Auckland Waterfront
Gateway Plaza, at the eastern end of Jellicoe Street, is the last work to be tackled in a suite of waterfront places and spaces being...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Sky Court - Hungary
The existing structures of Terminal 2 were constructed in line with a modular arrangement concept typical in the Seventies. Under this concept, the building of...
Architecture, Transport
King's Cross competition
King's Cross competition sees six shortlisted firms announced
The redevelopment of one of London’s most famous railway stations is a step closer as the shortlist...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Contrail Biking Community Tool
Combining bicycle safety and a sense of whimsy, Contrail is a tool that sends a colorful message to the mobile community. The small apparatus attaches...
Transport
McGregor Coxall Wins International Waterfront Design Honour Award for Ballast Point Park Sydney
McGregor Coxall
a leading Australian Urban Design and Landscape Architecture studio
from Sydney was awarded the highest honour for their 2.5 hectare Ballast
Point Park...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Mixed Use Center - China
ATKINS Shanghai has recently completed the design concept for a future skyscraper/mixed use center for the future central business district of Zhangjiagang, China.
In March...
Community, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
PRP to begin first phase of Hackney regeneration scheme
PRP has been given the green light for phase one of the Haggerston West and Kingsland regeneration scheme in the London Borough of Hackney
The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
The Athenaeum Hotel – Patrick Blanc’s latest green wall
At 8 stories tall, rising from the street of Piccadilly to the top of the penthouse, the new green wall designed by Patrick Blanc for...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Santa Monica Palisades Garden Walk + Town Square - James Corner Field Operations
The design for Palisades Garden Walk + Town Square has been shaped by an
intense and collaborative community process and inspired by the
California Arroyo...
Landscape Architecture
Gazprom Tower - Russia
RMJM has been appointed to design the new Gazprom Group headquarters and business centre in St Petersburg.
The $3billion project will transform a 17-hectare brownfield...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
F.A.R
The result of the creation of a new lighthouse produced by the union of
24 recycled water containers is a big cube of 3.5...
new waterfront plan - USA
While many cities are well along in the process of transforming their post-industrial waterfronts, Philadelphia is just beginning the next chapter in revitalising its storied...
Parks & Open Space, Planning, Future & Visionary
INSURGENT GARTEN
The project proposes a new concept for the standard-garden. We try to
find new objectives for the conception of the garden, to express a...
Olympic Sports Park - China
Like many cities in China, Hangzhou is undergoing rapid urban change. While the city center had historically developed around the West Lake area, opportunities for...
Community, Planning
R432 tower - Mexico
The boundaries of cutting edge architecture in Mexico City have been extending year on year since LAR / Fernando Romero presented the gleaming Museo Soumaya...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
A New Bus for London by Aston Martin and Foster + Partners
Car brand Aston Martin and architects Foster + Partners have sent us more images of their joint first-place design for the New Bus for London...
Transport
Henn Architekten to Design Suzhou ‘Nano-Polis Master Plan’
German practice HENN ARCHITEKTEN
has won the first prize in the international competition to design the
new 'Nano-Polis Master Plan' in Suzhou, China. The proposal...
Urban Design
a zoological park - France
Paris landscape designers TN Plus and architects Beckmann N’Thépe have won a competition to design a zoological park on a series of artificial islands for...
Community, Parks & Open Space
A very Chinese experiment
Coping with growth - MAD commission 11 young architects to design Huaxi city centre
In 2008, MAD organized and invited 11 young international architects to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Amtek Office Building brings flow of energy in architecture
Deviant in form, traditional in belief
Located on the popular commercial strip in New Delhi, Tolstoy Marg, Amtek is distinctively outstanding even from afar. The...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
New Zealand - New ‘people hubs’ to be trialled in Taupo's CBD
Taupo's District Council’s Urban
Design team have placed new ‘people hubs’ around the Taupo's CBD to create funky
and flexible mini spaces for locals and...
Urban Design, Future & Visionary, Society & Culture
Lush Green Pedestrian Bridge - France
Unlocking the potential in abandoned roads, architecture firm Stephane Malka has dreamed up plans for a vibrant living footbridge, called Parissy, that connects the banks...
Sustainable Energy, Parks & Open Space
Modern Green Social Housing Complex Rises East of Paris
This new environmentally-sensitive social housing project in Bondy, France provides a beautiful series of apartments for 34 relocated families. Atelier du Pont (a member of...
Community, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Green-Roofed 8 Tallet Eco-Village
We've been closely following the development of Bjarke Ingels Group's 8 Tallet in Copenhagen from the beginning, so when we were invited by both BIG...
Community, Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Foster + Partners Unveil 5 Star Hotel for Heathrow
Recently approved by the Mayor of London, a new design-forward, energy-efficient 5-star hotel will be built very close to the Heathrow Airport. It will be...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Visions for a King’s Cross icon
Gustafson Porter is one of the five firms in the running for a design competition at King’s Cross Central.
The practice has been shortlisted alongside...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Skien Brygge New Urban Community by A-lab and SEA
A collaborative design effort by A-lab (Oslo, Norway) and SEA
(Copenhagen, Denmark) has been announced the winner of the competition
for a new urban development...
Community, Urban Design, Future & Visionary
Gleaming Crystal Towers - Saudi Arabia
Central Saudi Arabia is a difficult, if not impossible, location in which to create a new sustainable development. Summer temperatures can reach 120 degrees Farenheit,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Weekend Thought! - What can Humans Learn from Ants?
First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking
Ants never overtake. Not ever. Instead they form into platoons in which all the ants move at the...
Transport, Just Interesting
First look: RMJM's China Beach resort, Vietnam
The new Hyatt Regency Danang Resort will be built on China Beach in Danang, which was voted one of the top 10 most beautiful beaches...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Public Spaces in Banyoles
Banyoles’ old town used to be a deteriorated area in which vehicles and
pedestrians cohabitated around a urban system of narrow streets and old
sidewalks....
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Sculptural Playground in Schulberg by ANNABAU
The retrofitting of the “Schulberg” in Wiesbaden (Germany) creates a new
extraordinary public space. The play- grounds outstanding architectural
design, overlooking the city center of...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Evolo Skyscrapers
Kyu Ho Chun Kenta Fukunishi JaeYoung Lee 1st place
09 Skyscraper Competition
Location: Journal Square, Jersey City Project Scope: Structural engineering Architecture Project Type: High-rise...
Urban Design, Architecture
Will London 2012 be ‘The Green Olympics’?
The Winter Olympics are over and amongst the medals and trouncing the US at hockey, Vancouver was praised for hosting the “greenest Olympics ever” with...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Landmark Lusatian by Stefan Giers
Between Dresden and Berlin, the largest artificial lake landscape in
Europe is emerging. Lusatia’s lignite fields are becoming the Lusatian
Lake Land. The mighty craters...
Landscape Art
Dymaxion Sleep by Jane Hutton & Adrian Blackwell
Dymaxion Sleep is a structure of nets suspended over a field of aromatic
plants. Rather than walking through the garden, visitors lie on top of...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
New gateway to city centre
Work begun on first cable suspended bridge in New Zealand
Moller Architects, in association with Beca Infrastructure Ltd, designed the Ormiston Road Bridge which is...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
CABE launches Sustainable Cities
CABE launches Sustainable Cities
Dealing with climate change is the most pressing challenge facing us. Our new website offers priorities for action and international best...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs
New proposals for downtown Modiin
The Globe Ecological hub in Modiin is a generator, creating a thorough connection with its local population. The natural formations characterising our planet are expressed...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
The New Australian Gardens at the National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia
and its surrounding sculpture garden were completed in 1982 and are
located in the arts and civic campus of Australia’s...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Sharpeville Memorial Garden, a procession through the garden
The Sharpeville Massacre – also known as the Sharpeville Shootings –
occurred on the 21st of March 1960. 69 People were killed, including 8
women...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
West 8: Le Monolithe’ in Lyon
The green garden is located inside a contemporary urban block. The ‘Cour des loges’ is made of a composition of five distinct volumetric buildings. The...
Landscape Architecture
Vertical Upside-Down Casino Latches onto Hoover Dam
Rather than putting a strip in the middle of the desert, why not take
casinos straight to a source of power and water at the...
Architecture, Engineering, Future & Visionary
Kamyk Heritage Park / Tamizo Architects
Poland based Tamizo Architects
have sent us their latest project, the Kamyk Heritage Park. The idea of
the park’s concept was to create a kind...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
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[LONDON] Information Pavilion: The Trafalgar Relay by Dowling Duncan
The San Francisco office of Dowling Duncan has shared with us their entry to the [LONDON] Olympic Games Information Pavilion Competition which secured them the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
New House of Arts and Culture in Beirut
Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch has won the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House.
Catalano beat a large and competitive...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Kaohsiung Port Terminal Proposal by Asymptote Architecture
The winners of the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition were announced last Friday with Reiser + Umemoto's concept
taking the First Prize...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
New Taipei City Museum of Art / OODA Architecture
It’s another in a series of cutting-edge projects designed for the
blooming Asian market. The competition for the Taipei City Museum of Art
has drawn...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Mary Rose Museum
Cabe Review of the HM Naval Base, Portsmouth.
Building to house the conserved Mary Rose warship and associated artefacts, including museum shop, cafe and education...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Broadway Malyan's £73 million Singapore heart centre
Broadway Malyan has landed the £73 million project to design the new National Heart Centre in Singapore
The 35,000m² scheme is part of the larger...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
European Central Bank in Frankfurt
Construction of the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, to start in spring 2010
Urban Design, Architecture
sparch architects: shanghai international cruise terminal
sparch architects are responsible for the master plan for shanghai's new international cruise terminal. the 800-metre long riverfront site is located north of the historical...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
5 ways to close the “design gap”
Fantastic Article about the "design gap and how to close it by Jim Meredith
Among the most prevalent characteristics of the projects and
engagements we...
Just Interesting
Peeled Metro Entrances for the City of San Sebastian, Spain
‘Eleva’, the proposal for the entrances to the new underground of San Sebastian, is based on the idea of the manipulation of the terrain. As
the tubes...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Transport
zaha hadid architects: cairo expo city
Zaha Hadid Architects has beaten Norway's Snohetta to win a competition to design Cairo Expo City, a 450,000 sq m exhibition and conference complex. The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
A New Way to Plant Urban Trees
At the 2010 GreenBuild, Peter MacDonagh, the Kestrel Design Group, James Urban, FASLA, Urban Trees + Soils, and Peter Schaudt, FASLA, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects,
argued...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Contemporary waterside, landscapes and public spaces by Gillespies give MediaCityUK creative edge
Creative
companies and TV channels moving to MediaCityUK will be inspired by its
fresh new public spaces and waterside landscape, designed by
Gillespies. MediaCityUK has...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Dalian Shide stadium / NBBJ
NBBJ's proposed design for the new Dalian Shide football stadium in China represents a new direction in sports architecture by moving away from the creation...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Waiwhakaiho Footbridge - New Zealand
The bridge was designed by Peter Mulqueen of Wellington
company, Novare Design. Mr Mulqueen, who has worked with leading international
bridge design companies, says that...
Community, Landscape Art, Engineering
TAB Vision Street 2020 Proposal by Oli Mahmud Architects
Project Description from the Architects:
Formal Street has been injected with diversified programmatic component
for interactive urban process. Regular usable surface area has been
enhanced...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
TED TALK: Christopher Gielen’s Images of Sprawl
At the TED Mid Atlantic conference this year, German photographer Christopher Gielen
presented telling images indicative of American sprawl. The pictures
are startling, but nothing...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Planning
Domplein by OKRA
The heart of the city of Utrecht is built on top of a castellum. The
potential of the Domplein is to revitalize the significance of...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Future & Visionary
Battersea plans in turmoil
Viñoly's iconic chimney erased from design
Plans by Rafael Viñoly for the redevelopment of a 38-acre site surrounding historic London landmark, Battersea Power Station, are...
Urban Design, Architecture
DESIGNS UNVEILED FOR £193 MILLION NEW LIBRARY OF BIRMINGHAM
Dutch architects Mecanoo have unveiled their design for the new library in Birmingham, England.
Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council, today unveiled the design...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Urban regeneration proposal for Wadi Amman
A 4km strip of land in the centre of the city is trapped and isolated between two roads. The objective of the Masterplan is to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning
Perkins+Will Awarded First Place at International Architecture Biennale
Perkins+Will’s Master Plan for SANY Beijing was selected as the first place winner in the “Conceptual Design” category at the 8th International Biennale of Architecture...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
The Sulzer-Areal by Vetschpartner Landscape Architecture
Project Description:
The formerly self-contained industrial park opens to the newly occupied
dis- trict of Winterthur with housing, culture, service and commercial
sectors.
The Sulzerareal...
Landscape Architecture
Busan Opera House Proposal by Columbia University Team
In the past few days, we've received many exciting entries to the South
Korean Busan Opera House competition. The entry "Filtration" from
graduates of Columbia...
Urban Design, Architecture, Society & Culture
BGU University Entrance Square by Chyutin Architects
The square is located in the western part of the Ben-Gurion University
campus in the city of Beer-Sheva, Israel. The existing buildings
encompassing the square...
Landscape Architecture
Les Architectes FABG Wins Competition for New Cultural Venue in Montreal
Les Architectes FABG
is the winning firm in the architecture competition for a new cultural
venue adjacent to the St. Lawrence River in Montreal's Verdun...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
Stockholm Royal Seaport: Aiming for World-Class Sustainability
The latest project in Stockholm´s drive for sustainable city planning is called Stockholm Royal Seaport (Norra Djurgårdsstaden). The project is very extensive, constituting one of...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Planning
RMJM releases images of onshore station for London Array
Station will connect largest offshore wind farm in Europe with National Grid
Architect RMJM has released concept images of an onshore substation for the £2bn...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
On Asphalt II | Rapid Palace
Children have the inherent knack for making something out of nothing. While waiting for dad or mom to finish up work at the office they'll...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
JDS architects unveils new projects
Daymoon desarolladores S.A. de C.V. have contracted JDS to design and develop new projects: one in guadalajara and another in puerto vallarta, mexico. in puerto...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Planning
Tradetional Mall
Philosophy:
Exploration
The mall lesson for an exploratory trip to perform multiple tasks, including the purchase of goods or to meet Alasedkaae
Vcbht this trip...
Architecture, Just Interesting, Planning
Narrabeen Multi-Use Trail | Sydney Australia | ASPECT Studios
ASPECT
Studios has completed a multi-use trail at Narrabeen Lagoon
on Sydney’s northern beaches. The lagoon is one of Sydney’s
natural assets and is a major drawcard and...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Town Square in Hall by Auböck & Kárász
The task was to create both an adequate context for two outstanding
buildings (architects: Welzenbacher, 1932, Henke/Schreieck, 2004) and a
conference centre. The design is...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
Parksite Residence, Rotterdam
A former ambulance garage may seem like an unusual option for a home,
but in the hands of innovative Rotterdam design office Doepel Strijkers
it...
Architecture
Landscape Restoration of Landfill in Vall d’en Joan by Batlle i Roig
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A landscape restoration of a
rubbish dump has won the Energy, Waste and Recycling category at the
2008 World Architecture Festival...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum / Kengo Kuma & Associates
This is a plan to link two public buildings with a bridge-typed
facility, which had been long separated by the road in between. The
museum...
Brazil Promotes Sustainability with Eco-Park
Anna Dietzsch, Managing Director of Davis Brody Bond Aedas‘ São Paulo office and Levisky Arquitetos Associados designed this beautiful eco-park on what was once a...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
off architecture: jean moulin high school
the architectural reconstruction project of lycee jean moulin in revin, france is to be completed by off architecture in association with duncan lewis scape architecture...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
General Maister Memorial Park by Bruto Landscape Architecture
The park, dedicated to General Maister and the soldiers for the
northern border was planned as an abstract three-dimensional space,
where the paths lead around...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Urban farming takes root in Sweden
Swedish firm Plantagon broke ground last week on the
first vertical greenhouse in the city of Linköping. The slanting
structure was designed by Sweco, and...
Winning church design to bring congregation closer to nature
Young Danish architects firm Cornelius + Vöge has won an international competition for the design of a new church in Norway. The practise was among...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
TOPOTEK 1 Selected for Imperial War Museum North Exterior
The multi-award winning Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) in Manchester, UK has selected a preferred design team to develop the external spaces of the Museum...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Tianjin's premier waterfront destination
Tianjin is approaching the final year of its Eleventh five year plan, but this hasn't stopped the Chinese municipality extending their plans. Woods Bagot's Hong...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition
Jerusalem-based architects SAYA
have shared with us their proposal "Fields Of Memory" which has won the
team the Second Prize in the Atlantic City Boardwalk...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
Railroad Park: Magic in the Heart of the City
The Railroad Park in Birmingham, Alabama, doesn’t have
the glamour or the scenery of America’s most famous railroad park, and
it certainly doesn’t have the...
How It’s Looking: Waterfront Trams
The trams are back in Auckland – well, at least, the first section of
tram track has been laid on the corner of Halsey and...
Urban Design, Transport
Possibly the best example outdoor dining.... ever!!
The weather in The Netherlands has been unseasonably cold lately. Although it was
cold and nasty out it didn’t stop many of the Dutch residents...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
PREFAB: Stillwater Dwellings
We all love the idea of prefab homes - the simplicity of ready-made, to-go houses, and yet most of the time when we sit down...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
Winner of Next Wave Shelters & Kiosk Competition Announced
Young London architects Michael Tite and Tom Ebdon have won the competition for the design of a new series of seafront structures for the seaside...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
MS Lounge Sports a Forest-Like Facade of Recycled Plastic Tubes
The MS Lounge is a pavilion in Navarra, Spain that gets its distinctive look from the airy facade of green "reeds" surrounding it. Designed by...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Just Interesting
THE BLUE LINE - Winner of Kiev Islands Master Plan Competition, Ukraine
Project Description from the Architects:
Aimed at preservation and sustainable development of eleven major
islands on the Dnieper River and in the center of Kiev...
Urban Design, Transport, Planning
2011 Urban Edge Award Goes to German Water Artist Herbert Dreiseitl
German artist and landscape architect Herbert Dreiseitl, who specializes in incorporating themes of water into his designs, is the recipient of the 2011 Urban Edge...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Riga International Airport by Haptic Architects
UK based Haptic Architects in collaboration with Narud Stokke Wiig
Architects & Planners and Griff Arkitektur won first prize for
their proposal design of soon to...
Architecture
RAILWAYCOVER
In Collaboration with Rosemarie Trockel and Catherine Venart German landscape architecture firm Topotek 1 was commissioned to create an open space that cover a set...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
La Diana Showroom, International Congress of Architecture 1:100 - ITESM Mx. 2009 (First Prize)
As a temporarily construction, La Diana 4D Project, was designed with
the purpose to create spaces with regular three meters square modules
that where conceived...
Architecture
SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City Along High Speed Rail Line
SOM just won a design competition with their proposal for the masterplan of
Beijing Bohai Innovation City, which will be situated along a new high...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
Designing for Tomorrow: News
Designing
for Tomorrow: News
A
message to all members and visitors to Designing for Tomorrow (DFT)
We
are proud and excited to announce that over...
Community
3XN Wins Competition for University Building in Uppsala, Sweden
The new university building unites the past and the future by
extending the lines from the historical surroundings into an innovative
structure pointing towards future...
Architecture
Dancing Apartments
'dancing apartment' has been designed by korean firm unsangdong architects.
located in south korea the apartments are built using oblique lines in which each unit...
Architecture
Spiraling Skyscraper Farms for a Future Manhattan
As the world’s population continues to skyrocket and cities strain under the increased demand for resources, skyscraper farms offer an inspired approach towards creating sustainable...
Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering
£50million scheme plans to revitalise English seaside town
London-based architects CZWG have designed a 173 bedroom hotel, 120 homes and 1500 sq m of office space to help revitalize a key part of...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Solar City Tower for Rio Olympics is a Giant Energy Generating Waterfall
This renewable energy generating tower located on the coast of Rio is one of the first buildings we’ve seen designed for the 2016 Rio Olympics,...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Chad Oppenheim Proposes LEED Skyscraper for Miami’s Skyline
The mixed-use
building provides over 250,000 square-feet of housing for the College
in addition to two levels of street-side commercial space that wraps the
entirety...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Lamoricière School / archi5
Completed in September 2011, the reconstruction and expansion of the Lamoricière School, designed by archi5
upon winning a competition for their concept, is a landmark in...
Architecture
Waalse Krook, Urban Library of the Future by UNSTudio
UNStudio have sent
us their entry for Waalse Krook, Urban Library of the Future and Centre
for New Media in the Belgian city of Gent....
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Spiral Gallery / Atelier Deshaus
This gallery is adjacent to the central green land of Jiading new town.
The green land has pleasant scenery, and has existed from the beginning...
Architecture
Stepping up in Manhattan
Mixed-use block provides horse, car and human housing in central Manhattan
Located at the western edge of Midtown Manhattan, the Clinton Park mixed-use development, currently...
Wetlands
Holey Concrete: Pervious Paving Reduces Stormwater Run-off
Let’s be clear - paving a surface does not reduce storm water run-off, but if you must create a street, parking lot, driveway, or any...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
A Dramatic Detour by Active City Transformation
The design proposal of Danish practice Active City Transformation
for a new activity park in one of Copenhagen's suburbs was recently
selected as one of...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
renzo piano: le albere - urban development project
'Le Albere' is an urban expansion project of the ex-Michelin area in Trento designed by italian architect Renzo Piano,
who coordinates the work process through...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Green Roofed Cooper Point House Blends Into Big Sur
Fading right into the Big Sur landscape, this three-bedroom house is nearly invisible when viewed from certain angles. And that’s just how Mickey Muennig, the...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Denmark Brings World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Online
Wind power is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in Europe, so it’s no surprise to learn that Denmark is launching the world’s biggest...
Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
BIG and Fuglark to Design Faroe Islands Education Center
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and a team of consultants have won the largest ever commission on the Faroe Islands for a 19,200 m2 Education...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Salford Greengate public realm regeneration gets green light
Construction has started on the public realm element of the £450 million overhaul of Salford Greengate.
Landscape architects Grontmij, formerly known as Whitelaw Turkington has...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
The Harlem Edge by Praud
Project: ENYA Competition - The Harlem Edge
Designed by Praud
Team: Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim
Area: 2 475 m2
Location: West Harlem, Manhattan, New York , USA
Website: www.praud.info
From the Architects:
The...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Gustafson Porter Win Valencia Parque Central Competition
London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter
have won a high profile competition to design the Valencia Parque
Central. The winning project “Aigua Plena de Seny” was...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
National Tourist Routes in Norway
The tourist attraction National Tourist Routes - scenic roads for
exploring Norway’s breathtaking landscapes - comprises selected
stretches from north to south. Mountains, fjords and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning
MVVA Designs Hudson Park and Boulevard
Earlier last year Related Companies sealed the deal on New York’s Hudson Yards development, and we’re excited to announce that the competition to design Hudson...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Foster + partners design for UAE Pavillion at Shanghai Expo 2010
Foster + partners decided to base on a sand dune for their UAE Pavillion design for the Shanghai Expo 2010. The pavillion is a reference...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Natural Swimming Ponds Ditch The Chemicals
This gorgeous swimming pool isn’t a typical chlorine-filled watering hole–it’s actually a natural swimming pond that relies on plants to filter the water. (Don’t worry,...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Wind Turbine Bridge Transforms Italian Viaduct Into Public Space
A bridge that repurposes abandoned viaducts, produces energy AND looks
futuristically sleek? Yes, it can be true, and it is Italy’s proposed
Wind Turbine Viaduct...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Delancey Underground a.k.a “The Low Line”
As the Highline has everyone looking up, James
Ramsey and Dan
Barasch are asking people to start looking down. James
Ramsey’s vision to transform...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Valencia Parque Central Proposal by West 8
Rotterdam-based office for urban design and landscape architecture West 8
have shared with us their entry for the Valencia Central Park
competition. The design, a...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
City creates Pop-up Park in Yarraville
Part of bustling Ballarat St in Yarraville, Australia (a suburb of Melbourne) has been transformed into a “pop?up” park for a short term project which...
Urban Design, Parks & Open Space, Society & Culture
Schwartz vs. Alsop
An entertaining debate between landscape architect Martha Schwartz and architect Will Alsop*, conceived from comments from Alsop questioning the role of landscape architecture in the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Cracked Concrete Garden Springs up to Claim ASLA Award
Think you need an open plot of land with plenty of soil in order to cultivate a garden? Think again. CMG Landscape Architecture’s Cracked Concrete...
Landscape Architecture
Thornton Creek Stormwater Approach
The recently opened Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel sits on 2.7 acres as part of Thornton Place, a transit-oriented, mixed-used development just south of Northgate...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Städel Museum Renovated with Green Roof Dotted With Skylights
The Städel Museum reopened to the public last weekend after 3 years of renovations and expansions by local Frankfurt firm, Schneider Schumacher.
The renovation included...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Storm King Wavefield
Artist Maya Lin
Opening in may of this year will be 'storm king wavefield' a new installation by maya lin at the storm king art...
Landscape Art
A park for all people
Los Angeles is often seen as a disconnected city, better experienced by car than by foot. People there live in “pockets” and pretty much keep...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Making Public Places: Forum on Placemaking in Cities
On Monday, July 13, 2009, Diana Balmori and her NYC-based landscape and urban design firm hosted a forum that was part-academic discussion, part-social media experiment....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
In Washington, D.C., a Museum Gets a Cinematic Makeover
This spring, millions of people strolling at night near the National
Mall in Washington, D.C. will be able to see a museum turned
inside-out. The...
Architecture, Society & Culture
Food City: Dubai’s Self-Sufficient Ecotopia
This past February, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce authorized the development of a “free zone” dubbed Food City. GCLA, a green landscape architect firm, proposed...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Underpass Park Unveiled
A derelict area beneath a series of overpasses in the West Don Lands is going to be transformed into the most extensive park to ever...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Populous: Christchurch Stadium
Brisbane-based practice Populous have begun construction for the 'Christchurch Stadium', a temporary replacement athletic facility for Christchurch, New Zealand, which was destroyed by an earthquake...
Architecture
Badeschiff/ Winter bathing ship
When temperatures plummeted to -20F, the Spree Bridge Badeschiff became the coolest place in Berlin to escape the harsh winter. The fresh water of the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Gorgeous Green Roofed UCSF Lab Undulates Gingerly on a Hillside
The University of California SF Campus is set on Mount Sutro west of
downtown San Francisco,
and commands an incredible view of the city, but...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Sugoroku office by Daiken-Met Architects / Nawakenji-M
Japanese practice Daiken-Met Architects have designed and completed 'Sugoroku office', their personal studio
in Gifu, Japan. A three storey mobile framework supports stacked shipping containers,...
Architecture
Tate Modern extension by Herzog & de Meuron
Here are new images of architects Herzog & de Meuron’s extension to the
Tate Modern art gallery in London, which was recently granted
planning permission....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Boulder Approach in Brooklyn
Since Prospect Park’s Third Street
entrance closed to non-essential automobile traffic in 2009, a dowdy
metal police barricade has served as the formal entryway for...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
192 Shoreham Street by Project Orange
The two storeys that London architects Project Orange have added to the roof of a redundant brick warehouse in Sheffield look like another building stacked...
Architecture
Libeskind Wins $20B Seoul Master Plan Competition
Studio Daniel Libeskind Wins International Master Plan Competition to Create 34 Million Square Foot, $20 Billion New Riverfront Development District in Seoul, South Korea
NEW...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Pasadena Water and Power
Situated within the Pasadena Water and Power’s corporate yard, the new facility reprises the historic existing 1930?s brick and concrete warehouse in volume and vertical...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
6 POINTS FOR A “NEUE ANGEWANDTE” by Wolfgang Tschapeller
Viennese architectural firm Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH has won the First Prize in an international competition that seeks to overhaul the campus of the Angewandte, a...
Architecture
Tram Stop by Subarquitectura
Subarquitectura designed this beautiful tram stop located in the city of Alicante, Spain, turning a traffic circle into a public space.
This stop is the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
West 57th by BIG
Danish practice BIG has revealed designs for a pyramid-shaped
apartment building on New York’s West 57th Street.
Designed around
a courtyard space, the 80,000sq m...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Foster + Partners’ Towering Hermatage Plaza in Paris Gets the Green Light
Western Europe’s tallest towers just got the green light for
construction - and once complete, they will dramatically change the look
of the Parisian cityscape....
Urban Design, Architecture
The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi by Asymptote Architecture Nears Completion
New York-based Asymptote Architecture nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
HOK and Woods Bagot’s Langfang Eco-Smart City Master Plan Wins AIA Urban Design Award
The Langfang Eco-Smart City Master Plan was recently honored with the only 2010 Merit Award for Urban Design by the AIA Hong Kong chapter of the...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Planning
Construction of soma’s Thematic Yeosu EXPO Pavilion, South Korea
Austrian firm soma
is updating us on the latest construction status of their “One Ocean“
Thematic Pavilion for the EXPO 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea....
Architecture, Future & Visionary
June Callwood Park
Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 have been awarded with the first prize in the international design competition for Toronto’s June Callwood Park
The...
Landscape Architecture
LOT-EK Selected to Design New York City’s Pier 57
New York firm LOT-EK has been selected to design Pier 57 as part of New York City’s Hudson River Park development. The proposal, a team...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
KCAP wins Bay of Pasaia masterplan competition
KCAP Architects & Planners have won the prestigious masterplanning competition for the development of a 70 hectare site at the Bay of Pasaia, San Sebastián,...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Proposal by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects
Project Description from the Architects:
The Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center evokes a giant
vessel moored at the quay. Both preposterous and appropriate,...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Tea House by Archi-Union
From the architects:
Tea House, J-Office
The Tea House, located in the backyard of Archi-Union’s J-office, is
constructed from the salvaged parts of the original...
Architecture
Cedar Island
Stunning news via The Associated Press. Undeterred by the stories of Dubai, the global financial apocalypse, a shaky national political system, the occasional war and...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
WE HAVE NOW GONE LIVE.
We are
proud and excited to announce that from today we have now added 3 new features and additions that
will assist in shaping tomorrow's...
Community
JDS architects: chongming bicycle park
Belgian practice JDS architects have designed the 'Chongming Bicycle Park', a competition proposal which includes
a bike museum, visitor center and multipurpose hall in Chongming,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Sky-Terra Towers Sprout Cities in the Skies
As urban areas become more congested and dense, it becomes more challenging for city dwellers to spend time outdoors, exercise and relax. Buildings tower over...
Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering
Guangzhou Revamped as New Sustainable Super City
It’s an exciting time right now for Asia, which is expanding so quickly that whole cities are being designed, and existing cities have to be...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Vinoly completes UCSF research facility
The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at the University of California (UCSF) hosted a grand opening yesterday to celebrate the completion of a...
Urban Design, Architecture
Chalet in Château-d'Oex by RBCH Architectes
A modern chalet in Château-d'Oex, Switzerland that combines post and beam construction with prefab elements.
RBCH architectes about the project:
Situated
in a residential area...
Architecture
Aberdeen row over rival plans
Landscape architect Martha Schwartz is working on a £140 million Aberdeen project which critics claim threatens an arts centre scheme in the same location by...
Landscape Architecture
PINAR DEL PERRUQUET PARK
ARTEKS Arquitectura have created a gorgeous sculptural shade structure at a beachside park in La Pineda, Spain that mimics the shape of real nearby pine...
Landscape Architecture
Mike Chino Colossal Green Volcano Building Rises in Italy
A jaw-dropping feat of volcanic architecture has risen in the Italian
city of Nola, just a stone’s throw away from the cataclysmic Mt. Vesuvius.
Designed...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
haiko cornelissen architecten: fasten your city belt
Amsterdam and New York-based firm Haiko Cornelissen Architecten have produced 'Fasten your city belt', an urban design strategy for the Amstel III district of Amsterdam,...
Urban Design
House W by Kraus Schönberg Architects
Kraus Schönberg Architects projected this prefabricated, low energy house for a young family.
The house is one big connected space, separated by an upper and...
Architecture
The new Holmenkollen Ski Jump
The Holmenkollen site has been the cradle of
evolution in ski-jumping for more than 100 years. As the city of Oslo
will host the 2011...
Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
Learning from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Reena Jana of SmartPlanet recently interviewed the award-winning, Japanese architect Hitoshi Abe on the lessons he has learned from the March 11, 2011 earthquake
that...
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning
Strusshamn by Eriksen Skajaa Architects
Strusshamn is a settlement
on the southwest side of Askøy, an island outside of Bergen on the west coast
of Norway, with strong ties to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning
High Line Section 3 design unveiled
Friends of the High Line Co-Founder
Robert Hammond was joined by the New York City Parks & Recreation
Commissioner Adrian Benepe and members of the High...
Landscape Art, Parks & Open Space
Qatar Petroleum grounds by Martha Schwartz Partners
Landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners have designed the grounds for Qatar Petroleum headquarters by architects SOM in Doha, Qatar.
The design comprises artificial dunes made...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Western Concourse at King’s Cross by John McAslan + Partners
A semi-circular vaulted concourse designed by British architects John McAslan + Partners will open at King’s Cross Station in London next week. The architects, who...
Architecture
New Zealand Treehouse Restaurant Fit For An Elven Queen
Well it isn't covered in mirrored glass, but it is still pretty cool: a restaurant in a treehouse. One can almost imagine Galadriel hosting dinner...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
BLOCK 39, Center for Promotion of Science by SADAR+VUGA
Slovenian office SADAR+VUGA
has shared with us its entry for the Block 39, Center for the Promotion
of Science competition. The science center building is...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Finalists Announced for Urban Intervention Design Ideas Competition
From 107 design ideas submitted from around the world, Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space
has selected 3 finalists...
Urban Design, Future & Visionary
MAD Unveils Taichung Convention Center With Solar Eco-Skin
Like a cluster of pleated, venetian blind-esque volcanoes, this new convention center in Taiwan has “skin” that will naturally ventilate the structure and generate energy...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Újbuda City Centre by Garten Studio
The development started by demolishing a legendary department store of
the 2nd half of the 20th century – SKÁLA BUDA. Its inauguration in 1976
passed...
Urban Design, Architecture, Parks & Open Space
The Cubierta Cazucá Project Reinvigorates Bogota’s Slums / Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos
The urban renewal strategy in Colombia has taken roots in cities
across the country, including Medellín, whose streets were under the
rule of Pablo Escobar...
Landscape Art, Parks & Open Space
Playgrounds and Schoolyards by NIPPaysage
Redesign and renovation of numerous outdoor spaces and school yards.
Projects include efforts to reduce existing heat islands and create a
rich diversity of athletic,...
Just Interesting, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
School of the Arts is a Vibrant Green Addition to Singapore's City Center
While most countries have been cutting corners when it comes to the arts,
Singapore has heavily invested in a national plan focusing on cultural
development,...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
jakob + macfarlane: orange cube
paris-based jakob
+ macfarlane architects (dominique jakob, brendan macfarlane) has
sent us
images of 'orange cube', their soon-to-be-complete commercial and
cultural complex in lyon, france....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Klong Toey Community Lantern by TYIN tegnestue
Architects TYIN tegnestue of
Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok
and worked with the local community to build a climbing frame...
Community, Urban Design, Parks & Open Space
London’s Waterloo City Square Project
One of the last remaining blights of 1960s London is set for regeneration following the selection of DSDHA as the design team for the Waterloo...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Ground Zero towers face 20 year delay, says report
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster’s towers for New York’s Ground Zero site may not be completed for another 20 years, according to a leaked report...
Architecture
Daniel Libeskind’s “Reflections” Tops Off on Singapore’s Coast
Famed architect Daniel Libeskind has completed construction on the first tower in a massive waterfront development on Singapore’s southern coast that claims to be ultra-green....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
TREEPODS: Carbon-Scrubbing Artificial Trees for Boston City Streets
Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily
polluted world, it’s just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to...
Sustainable Energy, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
James Corner Field Operations’ Winning Design for Navy Pier Redesign
The team led by James Corner Field Operations has been selected as the winner in the international Navy Pier Redesign Competition. The Pierscape concept is...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
phooey architects: templestowe reserve sporting pavilion
melbourne based studio, phooey architects has created
'templestowe reserve sporting pavilion',
a climate, carbon and water neutral building that houses the australian
suburbs 100 year...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
HENN StudioB Wins Nantong Sports Center Competition
HENN StudioB, the design and research studio of Berlin-based Henn Architekten,
has won the first prize in the invited international competition to
design a new...
Architecture
Vision City
the Vision City proposal from sparch architects envisions a gargantuan a retail mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"...they cut the central portion of the new...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The REN Building Takes the Form of a Sloping Chinese Character
Architecture in China never ceases to amaze us—case in point—the REN
Building. Copenhagen’s Bjarke Ingels Group
(BIG) proposed this eye-catching design over a year ago...
Architecture, Landscape Art
School Center Lucie Aubrac / Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
A public institution with a strong identity
The school is distinguished by its spatial organization and design of
the facades of their surroundings. The free...
Architecture
Road to Freedom in Poland’s North
From March to June 2009, architecture students from Gdansk University of Technology prepared concepts of land development plan for one of the most important places...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Suppose design office: heiwa-ohashi pedestrian bridge proposal
This is suppose design offices' proposal for a pedestrian bridge in hiroshima.
many rivers flow to the hiroshima delta, and the green areas there on...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Burchfield Penney: New York State’s First LEED-Certified Art Museum
The new Burchfield
Penney Art Center, in Buffalo, New York, is the state’s first museum to earn LEED Silver certification. Opened
in November in 2008,...
Architecture, Society & Culture
Alésia Museum visitor’s centre by Bernard Tschumi Architects
The cylindrical centre occupies the same position held by the Roman army
during a historic battle against the Gauls over 2000 years ago and its...
Architecture, Landscape Art
Skiers Take Break in Pavilion Built of Reycled Pallets
Pallets are cheap and ubiquitous, with over two billion in circulation around the world. Architects and designers have been having their way with them, building...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
GM and Segway Announce Project P.U.M.A!
In one of the most incredible transportation announcements to date, General Motors and Segway have just released pics of a new battery powered two-wheeled vehicle!...
Urban Design, Transport
Foster to design Saudi high-speed rail stations
Foster + Partners has been appointed the designer for four stations on the Haramain high-speed railway
In a joint venture with Buro Happold, the new...
Architecture, Transport
Toronto Central Waterfront / West 8 and DTAH
The Central Waterfront, 3.5 km of Lake Ontario shoreline
immediately adjacent to the downtown business district, is one of Toronto’s most valuable
assets. Yet, despite...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
New Eurojust Headquarters / Mecanoo + Royal Haskoning
The Mecanoo + Royal Haskoning design team was recently announced as the winner for the realization of the new Eurojust headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands....
Architecture
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney / FJMT
The first university established in Sydney was, with great
vision and ambition, thoughtfully sited on a distinct rise overlooking
the city, placing learning and the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Amsterdam Footbridge-Cafe Concept Blends the Traditional and Technological
Architect Laurent Sain Val
and his team developed this incredible footbridge and cafe as an entry
for a design competition calling for new bridge ideas for Amsterdam....
Architecture, Engineering
Vincent Callebaut Unveils Coral-Inspired Carbon Neutral Eco Village for Haiti
Callebaut’s Coral Reef proposes building an artificial pier on seismic piles in the Caribbean
Sea. Modular duplexes built according to Passive House standards would
be...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Santiago Calatrava’s Peace Bridge Opens in Calgary
On Saturday, March 24 2012, The City of Calgary celebrated the opening of Santiago Calatrava’s signature Peace Bridge. The red twisting helix shaped pedestrian bridge...
Architecture, Engineering
OFIS Unveils 4 Self-Sustaining Islands in Maldives
Slovenian architect studio OFIS was recently granted a 25 year lease by the Maldivian government to develop a set of four islands into tropical eco...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Lantern Pavilion / AWP / Atelier Oslo
When Sandnes
and Stavanger were chosen as cultural capitals of Europe 2008, the
Norwegian Wood
competitions were launched to promote innovative, timber architecture
contributing to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning
New Bauhaus Museum - Honorable Mention by MenoMenoPiu Architects
In the open architectural design competition for the New Bauhaus Museum
in Weimar, Germany, the international jury awarded two second-place and
two third-place prizes. The...
Architecture
Interboro Partners “Holding Pattern” winner of the 2011 Young Architects Program at the P.S.1
three New
York firms, one Boston firm and one British firm were competing for
the 2011 summer installation of the Young
Architects Program at the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Selgascano: el B - auditorium in Cartagena
Recently completed, the auditorium and performing center 'el 'B'' designed by Madrid-based practice Selgascano is placed along the docks of the harbor city of Cartagena,...
Architecture
West 8's Decked Wave Bridge
As the second Wave Deck on the Toronto Harbourfront, the Simcoe Slip has officially opened for public enjoyment! I’m absolutely in love with West 8’s...
Landscape Architecture
OFF Architecture’s Bering Strait Project Allows Views at Arctic Marine Fauna
the winning entries of the Bering Strait Project competition that seeks to connect the short stretch of Arctic Ocean between Russia and the United States...
Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Future & Visionary
dominique perrault: fukoku tower
paris-based dominique
perrault architecture has completed 'fukoku tower', a 32-storey
office complex
in the heard of osaka, japan. situated on a corner near the city's...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Maritime and Beachcombers Museum / Mecanoo
Architects: Mecanoo Architecten
Location: Texel, The Netherlands
Client: Maritiem & Jutters Museum, Oudeschild
Museum design: Kossmann.dejong, Amsterdam
Project management: ABC Management Groep, Assen
Builders: Pieters...
Architecture
Sewing the seeds of knowledge
Dress Code is an elementary school designed for the
community of Fréchy in Switzerland by COMPLEX CITY. It is surrounded by
farming areas and nearby...
Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
Klein Dytham Architecture: KOBAN
Tokyo-based practice Klein Dytham Architecture have recently completed the 'KOBAN Police Box', a police station for
the neighborhood of Kumamoto, located on the southernmost island...
Architecture, Just Interesting
Moistscape Installation, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York NY
As an opportunity to explore the play of the natural within the artificial, we constructed a three-dimensional steel matrix inset with panels of living mosses...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Redevelopment of Highbury Stadium
Highbury Square an exclusive and truly unique development of high specification apartments constructed within the grounds of Highbury Stadium, the former home of Arsenal Football...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Clem Jones Tunnel
The $2 billion North South Bypass Tunnel project (known as the Clem
Jones Tunnel, or CLEM 7) is the first component of the Lord Mayor's...
Landscape Architecture, Transport
University of Indonesia Central Library / Denton Corker Marshall
Selected in an open design competition, the scheme by Denton Corker Marshall
for a new library for a university of international standing deftly
bridges the...
Architecture
I Want to be a Landscape Architect
UK Landscape Institute
What is a Landscape Architect?
"Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door,...
Landscape Architecture
New Zealand Train Station Transformed Into Green Meadow
Often times standing around in even the most modern and sleek subway stations can be an utter drag. But imagine the surprise if your local...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Transport, Just Interesting
People-Powered Skyscraper to Claim New “World’s Tallest” Crown in Dubai
It’s been just three months since the Burj Khalifa took the title of “world’s tallest building”, and already the shifting sands of Dubai have spawned...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Sun Moon Lake visitor centre by Norihiko Dan and Associates
Tokyo architects Norihiko Dan and
Associates have completed this visitor centre on the shore of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan.
Housing the tourist board’s offices...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
We Are Here Now / Spatial Information Design Lab / Columbia University
Addicted to checking your favorite site for constant
updates, or checking in with Facebook or Foursquare? Don’t worry –
you’re not alone, and Columbia’s Spatial...
Just Interesting, Planning, Society & Culture
SWAN / POM Arch and Scheiwiller Svensson Architects
Petrén Merom Architects and Scheiwiller Svensson Architects Office has the form given peared, an exciting 150-meter-high building will be built to Länsförsäkringar Gävleborg in Gävle....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Brent Knoll / March Studio
‘Brent Knoll’ is a new house by March
Studio located on the outskirts of Malmsbury.
Despite a brief to extend an existing 1850?s homestead, it...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
Ole Scheeren’s Floating Cinema in Thailand is Made of Recycled Materials
Floating on a raft in Thailand is an experience that dreams are made of, but add Ole Scheeren's cinema to the equation and you'll basically...
Just Interesting
National Wildflower Centre International Competition
Ian Simpson Architects Wins National Wildflower Centre International Competition
Ian Simpson Architects with Adams Kara Taylor Engineers and Hoare Lea Engineers has been announced as...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Frank Gehry’s Looming Spruce 8 Tower in NY
Last year, Gehry
raised more than a few eyebrows when he said that he felt LEED
certification was often awarded for ‘bogus stuff’ and that...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Xinyang Master Plan / WORD + SWA Group
For their latest master plan in Xinyang, WORD with SWA Group Los Angeles have
developed a framework that responds to the town’s predicted swift
population...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Stockholm Waterfront / White Arkitekter
The much anticipated Stockholm Waterfront, a Congress Center situated
in Stockholm, Sweden, was recently completed by the White Arkitekter.
The awesomely constructed Congress Center lies...
Architecture
European Prize for Urban Public Space - Winners 2010
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organized by six European institutions, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Cité...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Portuguese design firm Regino Cruz Arquitectos
The Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook is a 57-acre urban state park located
500 feet above the city in the heart of Los
Angeles. The park...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Habitat 44 / TETRARC Architectes
Tétrarc has created 39 social housing shaped as 11 “Houses” gathered
side by side. The resultant continuous volume describes a light 21
degrees inflexion on...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Smart Car Door Could Help Protect Cyclists & Pedestrians
Look Out!
Car doors can be pretty dangerous to cyclists (and sometimes pedestrians) in urban areas. In theory, the simplest solution would be to just...
Transport
National Taichung Digital Library / J. J. Pan & Partners, Architects & Planners
present their design for the National Taichung
Digital Library, a symbol of the constant stream of knowledge to which
the digital age has exposed us. ...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus / Aedas
Designed by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas,
the Terminus is a 430.000 square meter structure, equipped with 15 high
speed rail tracks that connect Hong Kong...
Architecture, Transport
Swedbank’s New International Headquarters / 3XN
The new Headquarters will be one of Sweden’s most modern and
innovative office buildings – focusing on transparency, Scandinavian
simplicity and dynamic social environments. Behind...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
GMP Architekten Unveils Plans for Naturally Daylit Changzhou Culture Center
Changzhou, China will soon have a massive new cultural center complete
with an arts museum, a science and technology museum, and a library. The
complex...
Urban Design, Architecture
Langdon Reis Zahn’s Entry for Library and Concert Hall Competition in Bodø
Here is another exciting proposal for Bodø’s new cultural center that made it into the shortlist, by London-based Langdon Reis Zahn in collaboration with 4B...
Urban Design, Architecture
Impromptu arquitectos + selahattin tuysuz architects : proposal for cycling bridge lisbon
portugese firm impromptu arquitectos together with international firm selahattin tuysuz architects have sent us in images of their proposal for a cycling bridge in lisbon....
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Transport
P.S.1 YAP 2011 entry: “Bottle Service” by MASS Design Group
Interboro
Partners’ “Holding Pattern” was selected as the winner of the 2011
YAP organized by the MoMA and the MoMA P.S.1. In order to extend...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Winners of the Amsterdam Iconic Pedestrian Bridge Competition
Three outstanding bridge designs have recently been selected as winners in the Amsterdam Iconic Pedestrian Bridge competition. Hosted by [AC-CA],
this open international competition called...
Urban Design, Architecture
LOOK: The Great Basket Drop Coastal Erosion
Louisiana has suffered more than its fair share of water problems in recent years, and now it finds itself besieged by another: coastal erosion. Scientists...
Landscape Architecture, Engineering
TAMING TYPHOONS: Incredible Storm Water System in Japan
If you think that’s a computer rendering, guess again. The incredible
engineering masterpiece pictured above is a massive stormwater
management solution for the metropolitan area...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
New Church for Våler / OOIIO Architecture
Following the fire which destroyed the town church of Valer, a
Norwegian town near Oslo, a competition for the design of a new temple
was...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Renewable Energy Revolution Sweeps the US
First, there was the solar frenzy in the Texas that led to new government initiatives supporting alternative energy. Now, spurred by the stimulus, states across...
Sustainable Energy
Redfern Park – creating a different playground experience
Redfern Park is located in the suburb of Minto, 60 kilometres south-west
of the Sydney CBD. Minto is an outer ring suburb currently undergoing a...
Architecture, Parks & Open Space, Planning
New Church for Våler / Visiondivision
Visiondivision's proposal for New Våler Church creates an ultimate landmark for this Norwegian town.
From the Architects:
The church in the small town of Våler...
Architecture
Spiraling Superfuturistic Newport Station in Wales Connects Two Sides Of The City
The tracks run smack dab through the middle of Newport and as a
result, each side might as well be its own city. Newport’s previous...
Architecture, Transport, Future & Visionary
SANDWORM / Marco Casagrande
Sandworm is an organic structure/space/creature realized on the dunes of
the Wenduine coastline, Belgium. The 45 meters long and 10 m wide and
high installation...
Architecture, Landscape Art
Vision 2030 by MVRDV
Dutch architects MVRDV have announced plans to extend the city of Almere by creating a series of artificial islands. Almere plans to grow to become...
Urban Design
Massive Green-Roofed Innovation Hub Set To Launch Botswana Into High Tech Business
The Botswana Innovation Hub is set to be located on a 57 hectare
veldt (wide open space in Africa) outside of Gaborone. 270,000 square
feet...
Architecture, Science & Technology, Future & Visionary
Thu Thiem Master Plan | Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam | Sasaki Associates
The planning for Thu Thiem has occurred over a nine-year span, through a collaborative and detailed design process led by Sasaki
and the Investment and...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs, Planning
River of Death and Discovery Dinosaur Museum
The River of Death and Discovery Dinosaur Museum (RDDDM) Society is a
non-profit organization formed in 2010 by the County of Grande Prairie
No.1. The...
Architecture, Planning
Shimmering Titanic Belfast Museum Celebrates the Famous Sunken Ship
The Titanic Belfast
is the world's largest Titanic attraction, and it is located at the
site of the famous ship's construction in Northern Ireland. Designed...
Architecture
The Big Picture
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects - NZILA
The Queenstown Lakes District has traditionally been the location of vast farming stations since colonial times.
Changing...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
KEPCO’s New South Korea Headquarters as a Green Energy Theme Park
In 2009, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced a competition for its new headquarters to be built in a city near Naju, South Korea....
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
the Huge Sudeley Bench
Now Pablo has created another work of art that has taken doodling to a
whole new level. I can easily see the fluid marks of...
Landscape Art
Hotel Aliah / Hiperstudio + Arkiz
The Aliah Project, a hotel for a green World Cup, designed by Hiperstudio + Arkiz
has been awarded as the winner of a competition organized...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
City of Los Angeles - Infrastucture Competition Winner
In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI (Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives) program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The...
Wetlands
Hadid and Van Berkel Unveil Designs for Burnham Plan Centennial
Zaha Hadid and Ben Van Berkel have unveiled their designs of temporary pavilions for Chicago’s Millenium Park.
Alderman Brendan Reilly and the Burnham Plan Centennial...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
First Certified “Green” Project in the Philippines
Leading international “green” architect Chad Oppenheim of Oppenheim
Architecture + Design was selected by top Philippine
developer, The Net Group, to design the nation’s first...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
JDS Architects: Hedonistic Rooftop Penthouses
The elmegade district is one of the most populated areas of inner Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The particular section of
Birkegade / Egegade / Elmegade in...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Most People Think Global Warming Won’t Affect Them
An interesting new study (.pdf) confirms a long-held suspicion of politicians and, more importantly, anyone working in the field of climate change awareness: Americans are...
Wetlands, Sustainable Designs, Just Interesting, Sustainable Energy
Telok Blangah Hill Park
Located in Singapore, Telok Blangah Hill Park’s newest addition includes “a fly-over-like infrastructure” that reaches 120 feet above the forest floor. The walkways are a...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Transport
OFL architecture + fueralab: london floating gallery
OFL architecture + fueralab concept design for a floating gallery on the river Thames is based on a topography of a cut, landscape; reinterpreting the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Eastern Michigan University’s New Science Center Reaches for LEED Silver
Eastern Michigan
University just unveiled a $90 million, energy-efficient addition
and renovation to their Mark Jefferson Science Building. Designed by Lord, Aeck, & Sargent,
the...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archeo-Park / Eisenmann Architects & Aytaç Architects
In the international design competition for Yenikap? Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, Turkey, three First Prizes have been announced this week. The jury...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Transport
FLOWLIGHT harnesses tidal power to illuminate docks with renewable energy
Tidal power, although not yet widely used, is one of the vast storehouses of energy that shows a great potential for future electricity generation. Harnessing...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park / Atelye 70, Francesco Cellini & Insula Architettura E Ingegneria
In the international design competition for Yenikap? Transfer Point and
Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, Turkey, three First Prizes have been
announced this week. The jury...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Transport
Charles Jencks: 'Northumberlandia' Green Goddess
Plans have been unveiled for 'northumberlandia' a landmark feature designed by world renowned artist charles jencks.
lying at the entrance to south east northumberland, near...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Urban Spaces - We Need More of Them
As much as we love temporary stunts, happenings, art installations and large-scale sculpture in the urban space, we want more.
We are on a...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Yenikapi Transfer Point and Archaeo-Park / Cafer Bozkurt Architects & Mecanoo Architects
In the international design competition for Yenikap? Transfer Point and
Archaeo-Park Area in Istanbul, Turkey, three First Prizes have been
announced this week. The jury...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Transport
Singapore Roof Garden
A city is a city and I'm the first to advocate density, high density cities are much more sustainable than low density ones. Notice I...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Populous Wins Incheon Stadium Design for 2014 Asian Games
It’s an exciting time for sports fans everywhere as cities around the world unveil the incredible stadiums that will host the events of tomorrow, and...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Carbon Neutral Eco-Center on New York’s East River
Designed by Kiss+Cathcart
Architects, Solar 2 is set to become a must-see green destination.
The building will have a non-integrated 90 kWh solar canopy that...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Future & Visionary
Beach and Howe St. Vancouver / BIG
Danish architects BIG have
unveiled proposals for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in downtown
Vancouver. The architects are working alongside a team that includes
developer Westbank,
consultants Dialog, Cobalt, PFS,...
Urban Design, Architecture
Giant Zig Zag Glass Canopy Envelops New College of Arts In Nantes, France
The plan calls for the rehabilitation of the site and creation of the
new college, Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de Nantes Métropole or
ESBANM...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Florian Busch Architects: House in Takadanobaba
Tokyo-based firm Florian Busch Architects
has recently completed 'House in Takadanobaba', a narrow dwelling positioned upon a remnant plot in Tokyo, Japan. Emerging as a...
Architecture
Green Island Project
Green Island
Tokyo is one of the best examples of urban development in the world or should it be "worse"? You've got skyscrapers everywhere, traffic,...
Urban Design
Amazing Landscape Park Design At Lakeshore East In Chicago
This park is a amazing landscape designed by The Office of James Burnett, located at
lakeshore east, chicago, USA. That will include 4,950 residential units,...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Parks & Open Space
FKI House / Urban Architecture Office
Situated on a narrow site in Tokyo, Japan, the 'FKI House' by Japanese firm Urban Architecture Office finds itself amongst
a residential district of ordinary...
Architecture
Exhibition of Munch/Stenersen Area and Deichman Axis Entries Opened in Oslo
Since March 12, the City of Oslo exhibits the 40 contributions for the Munch Area and the Deichman Axis architecture competition.
The list of invited...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Chung-Nam Government Complex Successfully Blurs the Lines
The design of a new Government Complex of Chung-Nam Province - one of the nine South Korean provinces – re-imagines the idea, image and functions...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Caracas Symphony Complex by ADJKM Arquitectos
Designed as part of the Símon Bolívar International Complex for Social
Action through Music, the Caracas Symphony will consist of two units, a
music conservatory and two...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Winners of Emmen Theater and Zoo Design Competition Announced
The collaborative proposal of Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects with Dutch architects Van den Berg Groep
has won first prize in an international competition for...
Architecture
Zaha Hadid’s Chinese opera house debuts
Zaha Hadid Architects’ Guangzhou Opera House in southern China opens
today.
The building’s “two boulder” design, inspired by river valleys and
pebbles in a stream,...
Architecture
Djuric Tardio’s Airy Parisian Home Is Topped with a Green Roof Garden
Djuric Tardio Architectes
were commissioned to design an earth-friendly home in a dense Parisian
neighborhood that has odious building regulations, so they rebelled a
little...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Cabe backs Rogers’ Chelsea Barracks scheme amid prince’s opposition
Cabe has come out in support of Richard Rogers’ reworked plans for Chelsea Barracks amid a growing chorus of opposition sparked by the intervention of...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Paik nam june media bridge
Paik nam june media bridge
by Seoul-based architectural practice Planning Korea
is a mega-structure over the han river that aims to efficiently expand
the city...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
D.I.Y Urbanism: Almere Oosterworld / MVRDV
MVRDV‘s proposal for an urban development in Almere Oosterworld, the Netherlands, is a template for a D.I.Y.
project that puts power into the hands of neighborhoods...
Urban Design, Planning
Scenarios for‘grand-paris’
On September 17, 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the inauguration of “La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine”, the visionary plan for a new...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Moshe Safdie’s Pixelated Sky Garden Apartments For the Coast of China
Safdie’s green-roofed residential development will hold 2,200
condominiums designed as 2nd home residences for families wanting a
beach escape and primary homes for families living...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design
The spectacular project designed for a location in Tokyo comes from the Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design studio:
Rainbow mille-feuille. A rainbow-like stack of 12
colored...
Architecture
Melbourne architects design new city in Jiangsu Province, China
As Zaha Hadid celebrates the completion of her first
project in China (Guangzhou Opera House), Melbourne-based architecture
practice CK Designworks has announced a vast 20...
Architecture, Future & Visionary
mikou design studio: public swimming pool - piscine du fort, paris
Paris-based practice Mikou Design Studio have designed 'Piscine du Fort', the winning proposal for a public swimming facility in Issy les Moulineaux, a suburb outside...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Win Museum Competition at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana
New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the competition for the new Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) on Copacabana Beach, Rio de...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Future & Visionary
Green and Sustainable Transportation Station Stuttgart by Ingenhoven Architects
Architecture building project
for station construct in green and sustainable transportation model.This
is a Main Station Stuttgart designed by Ingenhoven Architects for high
speed rail.whose...
Sustainable Designs, Transport
Cluny House / Neri & Hu Design and Reserch Office
For a private residence in Singapore, Shanghai-based architecture
firm Neri & Hu Design and Research Office pays homage to the
client’s Chinese roots by taking...
Architecture
World Business Center Solomon Tower - Korea
Asymptote has
been commissioned to build the World Business Center Solomon Tower
through an international design competition sponsored by the
Municipality of Busan City and...
Architecture, Planning, Future & Visionary
Henning Larsen Architects Wins New Office Building for Nordea Bank
Henning Larsen Architects
and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects
have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Vinoly's Battersea take 2
Rafael Vinoly's latest designs for the £4 billion Battersea Power Station project emerged this week as part of a public consultation by Wandsworth Council on...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Camping in the Urban Wilderness
I'm a fairly regular camper. Growing up in southern Ohio afforded me plenty of open space and woodlands to explore the wild and in a...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Wide LED Architecture Project - Dhabi
This LED building is based on collaboration between the architecture and
the lighting design. The architecture is handled by Asymptote
Architecture, and the lighting is...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Datong Art Museum by Foster + Partners
Construction has started on an art museum with four overlapping peaks that Foster + Partners have designed for Datong, China. The Datong Art Museum will be one of...
Architecture
Strategies in Bypass Urbanism
From a project by Viktor Ramos, Rice University, 2008.
From the project description by Viktor Ramos:
"This thesis takes a formal approach to understanding the...
Urban Design, Architecture
Dominique Perrault to Design the New City of Sofia
French architect, Dominique Perrault, has been selected to design the new city center of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The jury was chaired by professor Helle Jul...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Shell residence - Japan
the sculptural shell-like structure was built in the forest of
Karuizawa, located in the Nagano, Japan.
Its organic shape seems subtle within the forest, and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Dellekamp Arquitectos: Lookout point + coffee restaurant
Perched on a promontory in the Guadalajara region of Mexico, the
'Lookout point + coffee restaurant' designed by Mexican practice Dellekamp Arquitectos, will offer views...
Architecture, Landscape Art
Wind Turbine Towers Win Metropolis Next Generation Prize!
Today Metropolis Magazine officially announced the winner of their 2009 Next Generation prize! Titled Wind-it, the brilliant project aims to give our existing energy grid...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Guangzhou Opera House - China
Inspired by the organic forms of two fused boulders, the completed
Opera House is almost identical to the renderings released by Zaha Hadid
Architects in...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Solar-Powered Restaurant Aan Zee Rests Lightly in the Dunes in the Netherlands
A new restaurant along a beach path in Oostvoorne, Netherlands provides
an environmentally friendly dining option for beach-goers and outdoor
enthusiasts. Built into the dunes,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Stockholm Waterfront - Sweden
Stockholm
Waterfront lies adjacent to Stockholm’s
Central Station. The site has the best public exposure in Stockholm,
with thousands of train passengers passing by every...
Urban Design, Sustainable Designs
OMA wins first round of the Moscow City Agglomeration Development Concept Competition
In 2011, the Russian
Federation Council confirmed that the city of Moscow will annex
150,000 hectares to the southwest, making Moscow 2.4 times its
current...
Urban Design, Planning
Taiwan’s Solar Stadium is 100% Powered by the Sun
Taiwan recently finished construction on an incredible solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology! Designed by Toyo Ito, the dragon-shaped...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
New island set for China
Burgeoning development promises new retail hub by extending an existing canal system, the Yinzhou Fantasy Island Master Plan, developed by DeStefano and Partners will create...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning
Sunset Chapel - Mexico
This boulder-shaped building in Acapulco, Mexico, is a mausoleum by
Mexcian studio Bunker
Arquitectura.
Called Sunset Chapel, the faceted building appears to balance on the...
Architecture, Society & Culture
Plot B of China Mobile International Headquarters Campus / Leo A Daly
Leo A Daly, in
collaboration with Local Design Institute WDCE, recently won a
competition to design Phase 2, Plot B, of the international headquarters
campus...
Architecture
MIT Team Wins the 2009 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
A plan drafted by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning to redevelop a site within the Denver Design...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Power Flower Wind Turbine
Large, utility-scale wind turbines are fantastic and
can generate a lot electricity, but they also require a lot of land and
infrastructure. What if we...
Sustainable Energy, Future & Visionary
European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 Announces Joint Winners
The Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012,
chaired by Spanish architect Josep Llinàs, has announced two joint
First Prize winners, as...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
LAN architecture: hamburg housing
LAN architecture were awarded first prize in a competition to rehabilitate an industrial district in hamburg. the competition ‘neue hamburger terrassen’ aims to transform this...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Net-Zero Solar Academy - Germany
SMA is one of the
world’s leading manufacturers of inverters for photovoltaic systems, so
they stepped up to the challenge of building a world-class solar-powered...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Six Visions for the Los Angeles Union Station Master Plan
Metro officials have released six conceptual visions that suggest how
the historic Los Angeles Union Station could be transformed by 2050.
Preliminary “Vision Boards” were...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Transport
SF’s Transbay Transit Center
All of our patient waiting has finally paid off – the final design for San Francisco’s new transit center was finally revealed last week! The...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Transport
Bay East, Gardens by the Bay - Singapore
Gustafson
Porter recently received a commendation in the category Big
Urban Projects at the MIPIM AR Future Projects Awards 2011 for the
project Bay East,...
Sustainable Energy, Parks & Open Space, Future & Visionary
Badboot Lido Coming to Antwerp this Summer
One of the world’s biggest floating openair swimming pools will open on
the Eilandje in Antwerp, Belgium at the Kattendijkdok in mid-August. The
pool, with...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
visiondivision: 'umbrella' children's hospital project, rwanda
visiondivision architects have realeased images of their latest project which was part of the 'design for children' competition to design a hospital in rwanda.
insufficient...
Architecture, Engineering
IMI International Management Institute Kolkata - India
Nature in its various forms has always been a constant source of
inspiration to man. The sky with its various states and ever changing
colors...
Urban Design, Architecture
Paul de Ruiter Architects: Inspiration Centre in Grevelingen
Dutch practice Paul de Ruiter Architects, has designed the winning competition proposal for the 'Inspiration Centre'
to be constructed in Grevelingen, The Netherlands. Situated within...
Wetlands, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
SOM to masterplan vast £49 billion Saudi Arabian city
SOM has landed the commission to take forward the $80 billion (£49 billion) masterplan for King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia – one of...
Wetlands
Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church - Canada
The new Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church, designed by Teeple Architects, has
been conceived as a direct reflection of the liturgical vision of its
Baptist congregation....
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
Research and Educational Building for Technical University Denmark / Christensen & Co. Architects
Christensen & Co. Architects were recently announced as winners of the competition for a 40.000m2 laboratory building at Technical University Denmark.
The new research and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Victoria & Albert Museum new extension - the UK
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has unveiled seven rival
design proposals for a new underground gallery.
Some 15 years ago, the Victoria
&...
Sustainable Designs, Planning
The Weston Family Learning Centre / Hariri Pontari Architects
The transformation of the west wing of the Art Gallery of Ontario into
The Weston Family Learning Centre punctuates the museum’s ambitious
multi-phased renovation. The...
Architecture
Green Roofed Skyscrapers
Taiwan Breaks Ground on a Trio of Green-Roofed Skyscrapers
Taiwan recently broke ground on a trio of interconnected energy-efficient skyscrapers topped with lush rooftop gardens....
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Foster + Partners Selected to Design Carbon Neutral Park for West Kowloon Cultural District
The architecture news of the day is that Foster + Partners has been selected by the board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority to...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Winners announced for the National Mall Redesign Competition
After an intense and highly publicized competition, the Trust for the
National Mall has announced the three winning teams selected to redesign
the neglected sites...
Landscape Architecture
Aquatic Complex for Panamerican Games
Paisajes Emergentes (Emerging Landscapes) has a very unique approach to landscape architecture, which has made them win several competitions. Most of those competitions were not...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Finalists Announced for Queens Wharf
After thorough evaluation and assessment, five designs have been selected from the 237 original entries.
The Finalists Design number 024 - Andrius Gedgaudas, Architect, Shanghai...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
NZILA Resene Pride of Place Landscape Awards 2010 announced
New Zealand’s prestigious Landscape Architecture Awards ceremony was held on Friday 16th April in Wellington.
‘NZILA Resene Pride of Place Landscape Architecture Awards 2010? provided...
Landscape Architecture
DIY Urban Furniture Experiment
In Strasburg, France, studies are being conducted to rethink the
organization of the whole university campus. In the process, the
National Graduate School of Science...
Architecture, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
Yongsan Cross Towers of Culture / BIG
Situated at the south-east edge of the Yongsan master plan designed
by Studio Liebeskind for the Korean development group Dreamhub, BIG’s
Cross # Towers will...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Art
Reburbia: The voting is open
The Reburbia competition, sponsored by Inhabitat and Dwell, is now open for voting on the top 20 finalists. The design competition is geared towards re-envisioning...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
The Ubiquitous Network by David Zhai & Alexis Burson
David Zhai and Alexis Burson, two students from Columbia University
GSAPP, were recently selected in the New York category for their entry
in this year’s...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Music Park in Sevilla / Costa Fierros Arquitectos
The Park is located in an existing degraded area, lacking of facilities,
and known historically as a land dividing the nearby quarters (Águilas
and Los...
Landscape Architecture
New Westminster College Building - the UK
Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the award to design the sustainable
campus building back in 2006 and recently completed it in 2010. The
campus was built...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
J. MAYER H. Designs Series of Highway Rest Areas in Georgia
Berlin's J. MAYER H.
is currently designing a series of twenty rest areas along a new highway
in the Caucasus Republic of Georgia, connecting Azerbaijan...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Scottsdale Museum of the West
The Scottsdale Museum of the West will be a public attraction that becomes a "must see" destination in historic downtown Scottsdale. The city has long...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Intercity Vienna by SADAR + VUGA - Austria
SADAR + VUGA’s
competition entry for the Intercity of Vienna, Austria is an urban
redevelopment that stands as a symbol of quality architecture of the...
Landscape Architecture, Planning, Future & Visionary
NASA's New LEED Platinum Sustainability Base is the Greenest Federal Building in the US
NASA has charted the stars and sent
humans into outer space - and now they're breaking ground here on Earth
by launching the greenest federal...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Josep Lluís Mateo Wins Urban Design Competition in Sibenik, Croatia
The international competition for the reconstruction of the historical center of Sibenik, Croatia has announced Spanish architect Josep Lluís Mateo of MAP Architect as the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Umeå Architecture Academy - Sweden
The new architecture
school is part of a much larger arts
campus that will be completed in 2014 and will include the
Institute of Design,...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Stoss Landscape Urbanism win 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate
outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 13th annual
National Design Awards program. Stoss Landscape Urbanism has been
awarded...
Landscape Architecture
Going Mainstream
We like that being green doesn’t mean being crunchy. Rather, eco-consciousness is transcending stereotypes and rethinking how we live and relate to our world. As...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Sustainable Energy
Highway voids used for open space
Since 1986 a large strip of land was left with only the bones of what was to be the Lima, Peru’s railway for an electric...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Future & Visionary
the Tu Delf library - Netherlands
the Tu Delf library has been the go-to
place since to climb a hill in Delft, Netherlands since 1997. Visitors
can catch some sun on...
Community, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Herzog & de Meuron + Ai Weiwei: 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Design Revealed
The collaborative design for the '2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion' by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron and
Chinese architect Ai Weiwei has been unveiled and...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
DEVE Architects in Copenhagen winner of the revitalization of an industrial harbor area in Augustenborg
THE MODERN CASTLE
How can Augustenborg revitalize the local connection to its unique natural environment while asserting itself as a significant cultural node within the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
NASA Sustainability Base - the USA
Designed for approximately 200 people the new facility optimizes passive
design strategies and is projected to demand only 12% of the electrical
power and only...
Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Planning
Jellicoe Harbour & Silo Park / Taylor Cullity Lethlean & Wraight + Associates
Working waterfronts are constantly in flux; crusty, utilitarian,
muscular and dissolving, with temporal qualities that engage all of our
senses. Yet contemporary waterfront redevelopments are...
Landscape Architecture
Manta Ray-Inspired Saffire Resort Restores a Tasmanian Site To Its Previous Glory
A new resort on the Great Oyster Bay in Tasmania does more than just offer an exquisite luxurious retreat. The new Saffire Resort, designed by...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter: Gullesfjord Weight Control Station
Oslo-based practice Jarmund/Vigsnaes Arkitekter has completed the 'Gullesfjord Weight Control Station' in Gullesfjord,
in the county of Troms, Norway. Positioned along a roadway junction to...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
National Mall Winning Design Proposal for Sylvan Theater / OLIN + Weiss/Manfredi
New York-based architects Weiss / Manfredi and Philadelphia-based landscape architects OLIN
have been announced as winner of the National Mall Design Competition
for the Washington...
Landscape Architecture
Barcode Luminescence by Mikyoung Kim Design
Massachusetts landscape architects Mikyoung Kim Design have completed a series of lanterns in front of the Ocean County Public Library at Toms River, New Jersey,...
Urban Design, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture
ECO ART: Field of beams
It’s still the subject of (extensive) debate whether the electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) produced by appliances, cell phones and high-voltage wires contribute to human...
Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Just Interesting
Andrew Michler Flat Tower - France
The massive arch is 800 meters across or the length of the Burj Khalifa building
set on its side. The principle was to build a...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy, Future & Visionary
The Red Line / BIG
The invited design contest called for a strong architectural master
plan, comprising residential, commercial and cultural programme, forming
a new urban area around the existing...
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning
Enclosing the BQE
Robert Moses's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) did not meet the fate of his proposed roadway bisecting Washington Square Park and the Lower Manhattan Expressway, two well-known...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Engineering
Kevin Kennon Architects’ Tian Fang Tower - China
Kevin Kennon Architects is
designing a new landmark building for Tianjin Eco-City in China. This
120,000 square meter, 44 floor office tower and luxury shopping...
Architecture, Sustainable Designs, Future & Visionary
AS+GG Designs Dancing Dragons Complex for Seoul’s Yongsan District
Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
just released its design for Dancing Dragons, a pair of landmark
supertall mixed-use towers for the new...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
“Bubbletecture H” Building - Japan
When Japanese architect Endo Shuhei adds another
delectable design to his repertoire, you can expect a project title just
as incredible as the structure itself....
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Chapel of Rest in Graz / HOFRICHTER-RITTER Architects
The chapel of rest for the Steinfeld cemetery is designed in the form of
two curving formwork elements made of reinforced concrete and appearing
as...
Architecture
Passive Homes Heat Up Around the World
Green Architecture
Passive design is architectural design that eliminates the need for mechanical heating and cooling of a building through the use of smart, time-tested...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Lisette Spee and Tim van den burg: lawnge chairs
Artist lisette spee in collaboration with architect tim van den burg created 'lawgne', a series of lounge chairs for public spaces. made from metal and...
Landscape Architecture
Zorlu Center - Turkey
Zorlu Center, developed by Zorlu Property, is lead
sponsor of opening gala at the world’s leading real estate
fair MIPIM in Cannes, France. On the...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Owhanake Bay House / Strachan Group Architects
Located on Waiheke Island, a 19km ferry journey from down-town
Auckland, the Owhanake Bay house hunkers-down below a ridge line at
the head of a...
Architecture
VM Houses by PLOT - Denmark
BIG + JDS
= PLOT
architects have designed unique
architectural housing design of
VM Houses located in Copenhagen,
Denmark. The VM Houses, shaped like a...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Arch Cultural Center / 3XN
Urban Design, Architecture
Mall roof for the Mediacite retail centre - Belgium
The roof to the Mediacite retail centre in Liege, Belgium, was in fact
an afterthought by the client. With the design and construction work
for...
Landscape Architecture, Planning
The Blade / Dominique Perrault Architecture
Dominique Perrault
has been selected to build a tower within the future Yongsan
International Business Center in Seoul, whose master plan was designed
by Daniel...
Architecture
Taiwan’s Beautiful Bioshell Center for Disease Control
Inspired by the elegant form of the Nautilus Shell, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control’s BioLab conceals a dangerous riddle within its outer skin. Usually...
Urban Design, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Winners of the 2011 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards
The winners of the 2011 AIA
New York Chapter’s Design Awards have recently been announced. The
38 selected projects and the architecture firms behind them...
Urban Design, Architecture, Future & Visionary
HAO and Archiland Beijing Win Qingdao Master Plan Competition
Danish HAO / Holm Architecture Office together with Archiland Beijing has won the competition to design a master plan within the city of Qingdao, China....
Urban Design, Planning
Renewal of Rue De La Loi in Brussels
The Secchi-Vigano project for the renewal of Rue De La Loi in Brussels, Belgium has recently been unveiled by JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects. This master...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Station 5 - Israel
Station 5, by architect Ariel Noyman (AnArchiX), is the finalist
submission to the competition ‘Water Tower- new perspectives’ that was
organized by the Bezalel Academy...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Stage set at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse / OMA
OMA have created a stage set for an ancient outdoor theatre in Sicily that dates back to the fifth century BC. A circular wooden platform provides the main...
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Society & Culture
LA Considering Massive Central Park Above Highway 101
A massive proposal is on the table to create a half mile-long urban park above a section of Highway 101 in downtown Los Angeles. Dubbed...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Living Mountain Skyscraper - China
Desertification
is a serious issue we're going to have to contend with as climate
change turns our fertile land into dry, sandy, windswept dunes. In...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Energy
Jerusalem Railway Park | Tichnun-Nof Landscape Architects
The city of Jerusalem has a wealth of sites and spectacular places
packed with history and interest. However, at the same time the city has...
Landscape Architecture, Parks & Open Space
Shared Spaces: Woonerf/Homezones
More than two years ago, I read an article by LA based journalist Sam Kaplan talking about what he called "woonerfern," a Dutch concept of...
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Norwegan Turbine City Could Be The Next Big Eco-Tourist Attraction
What if we could combine turbines with tourism – turbism? Tourbines? That’s what one design firm, On Office, wants to do on Norway’s coast. Their...
Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Sustainable Energy
Pixilated PoroCity - India
The massive structure is based on 3×9 meter blocks that connect
to make ever-escalating
triangular structural elements. The basic habitation has a north
facing terrace...
Community, Architecture, Sustainable Designs
Police Station in Barcelona / MIZIEN
Like many towns in El Vallès, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona,
Palau-solità has tripled its population since the 1980s and extended by
means of...
Architecture, Planning
Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights
Architect Named The Freelon Group, a Research Triangle, N.C.-based architecture and design firm, has been selected as the winner of a design competition for the...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Heatherwick unwraps foil-clad Aberystwyth arts centre
AJ have reveal the first pictures of Heatherwick Studio’s Aberystwyth Arts Centre, which will be officially opened later today (21 May)
The competition-winning project features...
Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering
Reburbia
In a competition dedication to the re-envisioning of the suburb sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat, Reburbia starts today with entries seeking innovation in suburban housing....
Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Winners of London Bridge 800: Design an Inhabited Bridge Competition
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the London Bridge 800 Ideas Competition:
Organized on behalf of the Worshipful Company...
Urban Design, Architecture, Planning, Future & Visionary
Blackfriars Ramp - The UK
This project forms a vital part of the Riverside Walk Enhancement
Strategy, which aims to improve pedestrian accessibility and safety
between the riverside walkway Blackfriars...
Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Designs
E8 Building / Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
The E8 building is the result of a design competition called with the
intention of highlight an ambitious expansion of Alava Technology Park,
an institutional...
Architecture
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