DROM’s redesign of the 7.8-hectare Azatlyk Square in Russia has transformed it into, “a captivating, dynamic public space with multi-character environments and qualities that are inclusive of different groups of people.”
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Downtown Brooklyn, the 100 hectare central business district stretching from Columbus Park to the Barclay’s Centre in New York City, is about to be upgraded by architecture firms Bjarke Ingels Group and WXY, in conjunction with landscape firm MNLA.
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A two tower development with sky bridges and green terraces is tipped to bring new vibrancy to an important Buenos Aires business precinct.
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Public space is a city’s literal common ground - the spaces where people come together as friends, neighbours and citizens.
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Place Laboratory has created a new gateway linking the Perth CBD, Perth Zoo and greater South Perth area which fulfils “the city’s vision for the creation of a revitalised foreshore with high quality spaces to host civic and ceremonial events.”
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Two years ago we brought you the story of the stunning ‘parkipelago’ of floating islands designed for the centre of Copenhagen by Marshall Blecher and Studio Fokstrot. This year the concept is set to expand.
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As Auckland, the City of Sails, makes its move towards becoming Tāmaki Makaurau, what could and what should a uniquely modern Māori and Polynesian city on the edge of the world look like?
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The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021. After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside that resembles a leaf floating in the water.
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Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new colonies in space.
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A small town near Toronto in Canada is setting out to become a futuristic city - based on a European layout and influenced by the garden city movement. Architecture studio Partisans have masterminded a plan for The Orbit, an Innisfil Next Generation Community that will centre around a new transit link and cultural centre.
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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a modernisation and reinforcement of Neiderhafen’s flood protection system on the Elbe River, as well as a 625 metre river promenade.
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As a tribute to Danish author Karen Blixen, the architecture firm COBE has created a new public square and university plaza for Copenhagen.
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Design work on an area of tight alleyways and small lanes won Wellington City Council’s urban design team an Excellence Award in the small projects category of the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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A vertical landscaped hotel by Sheppard Robson is coming to the Holborn Viaduct, “setting the standard for urban greening in London.”
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Landscape architect OLIN’s winning design for Washington D.C.’s 11th Street Bridge Park will connect two historically disparate sides of the Anacostia River.
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MVRDV has come up with a plan to revive the historic centre of The Hague, reopening many of its 17th Century canals through a neighbourhood participation project, and improving, “the sustainability, economy, traffic and water management of the area.”
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On familiar streets and roads many of us think, “it would be so much better here if the street was set up like this instead”. Then we redesign them in our minds, placemaking here, or traffic calming there, maybe injecting some green infrastructure throughout.
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Almost 10 years after the first section of Manhattan’s High Line opened to the public, the Spur has been completed, an addition that continues the park’s tradition of planting with native wildflowers and including pieces of its former railway.
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Thanks to an upgrade by Gillespies last year, London’s iconic BBC Television Centre is open to the public for the first time in the landmark’s history.
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Henriquez Partners Architects, along with PFS Landscape Architects, have designed a mixed-use development for Vancouver, featuring sprawling green space and 10 tree-topped towers.
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