An ambitious public realm scheme has recently been completed in Watford Town Centre. The £4.3m scheme for Watford Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council has transformed the area known as The Parade into a key civic space with the flexibility and capacity to accommodate a variety of outdoor events, and attract a wide range of visitors throughout the day and evening ...
An ambitious public realm scheme has recently been completed in Watford Town Centre. The £4.3m scheme for Watford Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council has transformed the area known as The Parade into a key civic space with the flexibility and capacity to accommodate a variety of outdoor events, and attract a wide range of visitors throughout the day and evening ...
This redesign for the historic promenade and plaza at 1111 Lincoln Road, developed concurrently with Herzog & de Meuron’s now-iconic parking garage, completely revitalized the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall. Native plants and hardscape elements are carefully placed to create various vantage points and visual corridors for pedestrians—one of the project’s main goals ...
"Linked only by small pathways at its entrances, the new retails appeared to be cut apart from public footpath by the ventilation void of the parking lots. Also, looking back from the street, from their eye level, pedestrians will only see the plinth of the building. Considering the mentioned conditions, we found that our main task should be the area outside the mall, and our main goal should be to improve the walking environment of the public instead."
Metro Arquitectos: The new design for Ladeira da Barroquinha in the centre of Salvador is an extension of the public space renovations for the Glauber Rocha Theatre and the Gregorio de Mattos Foundation cultural area based at Barroquinha Church. Apart from being the connection between these two institutions, the project organizes the entrances to the […]
Agence Babylone: Charenton-le-Pont is one of the smallest municipalities in the Department of Val-de-Marne (1.85km2). It is located 7km east of Paris, in the inner suburbs. Home to around 30,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most densely populated municipalities in the inner suburbs. Situated along the banks of the Seine, the town is divided […]
C.F. Møller Landscape: The master plan for Aalborg Waterfront links the city’s medieval centre with the adjacent fjord, which has previously been difficult for citizens to access due to the industrial harbour and the associated heavy traffic. By tying in with the openings in the urban fabric, a new relationship between city and fjord is […]
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: The urban fabric and social structure of Hamburg’s Wilhelmsburg quarter are currently in a state of flux. Because of this, it is especially important to create a sense of identity within this very urban space. The area surrounding the Wilhelmsburg train station and Berta Kröger Plaza only partially satisfies this requirement due to […]
bauchplan ).(: The Neue Meile Böblingen interprets a classical railway station street setting in a completely new way. Having started out with an external view in the cooperative workshop, our task was to create a new „system of measurement“, a public space of reference for the city of Böblingen. Hence, new qualities between a strip […]
GKMP Architects: The project comprises the reconfiguration of the urban spaces in the Waterford Viking Triangle one of the oldest and most significant urban quarters in the country. Its public buildings and historical monuments give a strong physical and symbolic importance to these urban spaces. However, the poor quality of the public domain in terms […]
Lab D+H: Located in Guangzhou, Vanke Cloud City Phase 2 is a pioneer mixed use development project in China. It is composed of four residential towers with over 5000 small apartments (8-35 sq.m) surrounded by fashionable commercial frontage. This project is one of the first small apartment projects in China, aiming to satisfy the young […]
Hetedik Műterem: The Castle District of Sopron is a 40-60 meter wide boulevard, which was formed on the outer skirt of the ditch running along the city walls that encircled the former historical core of the town, on the so called glacis slope. Consequently, from direction of the castle walls the row of houses, mostly […]
Turf Design Studio & Jeppe Aagaard Andersen: Kensington Street is the vision of Greencliff Executive Chairman Dr Stanley Quek and Frasers Property Australia; first defined in the Central Park public domain masterplan. The street offered immense possibilities – a built fabric comprised of some of Sydney’s oldest workers cottages, terraces and warehouses. As landscape architects […]
Scapelab: During the last ten years Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, has transformed itself from a sleepy post-socialist town into a contemporary European city, and an ever more popular tourist destination. The main street of the city is the Slovenska street, which crosses the city in the north-south direction. The street was always a […]
Gustafson Porter: At ground level, Gustafson Porter’s landscape design for the public realm at New Ludgate seeks to tie the new development seamlessly into the surrounding urban fabric and character. This is achieved by fine landscape details and finishes which reinforce the smooth transition and facilitate the use of this new public space in a […]
HASSELL: For 40 years, Rundle Mall in Adelaide, South Australia, has been a place for people to shop, dine and gather with friends. The Adelaide City Council commissioned HASSELL and ARUP to revitalise this much-loved civic space, creating an exciting destination and prosperous city precinct. Stimulating community engagement and the local economy Rundle Mall […]
JILA: In the 1912 competition winning scheme for Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin presented the potential power of streets, proposing a city of avenues that demonstrated a deep resonance with the site, sensitivity to nature and a clear and precise understanding of and vision for Australian democratic society. The crowning piece of […]
Lab D+H: This design for Yongqing Fang is related to one of the most important renovation projects of Guangzhou old Alleyways. Yongqing Fang sits in the heart of old town Guangzhou. It used to be the economic center of southern China until the recession in the 1950s. In recent years, Guangzhou has undergone a major […]
Snøhetta redesigns Times Square, doubling the amount of public space. The new plaza on Broadway radically carves out 2.5 acres of pedestrian-only space at Manhattan’s core, transforming a congested vehicular district into a world-class civic space. With an average of 45 million visitors each year, Times Square is the most visited destination in New York and […]
[traces of time]. Inspired by the multi-layered historic development of the city of Schmalkalden, dating back to the early middle ages, the design resembles the aesthetic qualities of different periods of growth. These specific characteristics are represented through a complex system of varying paving patterns and on ground interventions accentuating the city’s historic development. Special […]
The Francois Mitterrand Strip is a major historic site for the city of Rennes. Constructed in 1682, it came to being at the foot of ramparts and dominated the swampy confluence of the Ille and Vilaine Rivers. First flanked by canals and four rows of trees, it went from a place for strolling and being […]