Urbicus: As a real hub for the western Greater Paris region, Rueil station suffered from a lack of clear layout: RER users had to navigate through bus corridors and a large number of parked bikes with the various traffic flows colliding in a chaotic setting. The station needed to be redesigned to clarify travel and […]
Urbicus: As a real hub for the western Greater Paris region, Rueil station suffered from a lack of clear layout: RER users had to navigate through bus corridors and a large number of parked bikes with the various traffic flows colliding in a chaotic setting. The station needed to be redesigned to clarify travel and […]
BO Landscape Architecture: Back in the 1930s, avenues inspired by the luxurious boulevards of Europe became the model leading the planning of Israel’s urban communities and new neighbourhoods. Building these broad avenues was designed for residents’ well-being, avenues characterised by rows of shade trees, which in recent years were interspersed with seating areas as part […]
Square One Landscape Architects: The Towers development sought to link two towers with a new building partially covering an unused plaza in the Foreshore area of Cape Town’s central business district. The Foreshore is located between the modern port of Cape Town and the historic city centre. This area was reclaimed from the sea in […]
WallaceLiu: London based design studio WallaceLiu have re-imagined a 20 m wide, 1 km long highway in the South Western Chinese city of Chongqing as a shared surface ‘livable street’ by replacing the delineation and monolithic character of the highway with the language and scale of a public space. The site represents the typical periphery […]
B|D landscape architects: London South Bank University: Student Centre project represents the first ‘anchor’ within London South Bank University’s Estate Strategy to revitalise the campus with enhanced public realm improving connections and legibility between campus and urban fabric of the area. The site comprises the northern and eastern corner of the London South Bank University […]
A reminisces of a historic brick promenade was the starting point of the revitalizing of Fanø Bad MASU Planning: With a small budget, you may not be able to transform everything at once, but by making a few well-informed changes, you can set the direction for the future. Fanø Bad has a glamorous past of […]
scape Landschaftsarchitekten: The inner city of Bad Salzuflen has an important regional significance as a shopping, gastronomy and service location. The city centre is essentially characterised by its historical buildings and its exciting spatial sequence. The open space design creates the missing identity and readability, as a positive impulse for the image of the city. […]
Instinct Fabrication: VANKE Wangjing Garden is a landscape renovation project for a linear space between a parking lot and an office building in Wangjing, a vivid contemporary district in northeast corner of Beijing metropolitan area. After being highly used for almost two decades, this 0.6-acre hardscape-only site is now malfunctioning in poor pedestrian experience, outdated […]
From non-space to a timeless pocket square MASU Planning: Sct Olai went from being a non-space to providing Roskilde with a calm and timeless urban space. Here, the subtle use of new and re-used materials of high quality gives identity and atmosphere to the quiet square and passage that runs parallel to the busy pedestrian […]
Yazgan: Odunpazarı Municipality, the biggest municipality in the city of Eskişehir in Turkey, requested a project for the regeneration of the Hamamyolu Street interpreting its socio-cultural, historical and visual identity, to reintegrate it into the city. While being a ‘town center’ until the end of 20th century, the street lost its public value and this […]
Undulating Garden – Landscape Design for Congregate Housing – Forward Yuanmei MOTIF: Forward Yuanmei (FY), for its proximity to Fuzhou Station, is on the commuting route of student commuters of National Taiwan University of Arts. Before it was built, Daguan Road was only 6 meter-wide without sidewalks. Students who commute and local residents had no […]
LAND arkitektur: An approximately 170-meter-long and two-meter-high noise screen of corten steel filled with flowering plants has replaced a regular wooden board along Östermalm’s Idrottsplats (sports ground) on Lidingövägen in Stockholm. The initiative is part of Stockholms city’s action program against noise, which includes noise-protecting one recreation area per year. With the new screen, the […]
Macgregor Smith Landscape Architects: Located in the centre of the World Heritage City of Bath, the public realm enhancements at SouthGate provide a high-quality flexible space with increased capacity to accommodate the activities of daily civic life as well as larger events. Extensive public realm enhancement project in the centre of the city, with an […]
Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur: During the renovation of the historic concert hall, the Tonhalle Society Zurich finds temporary accommodation in the Maag Halls. For this reason, the outdoor spaces around Maag square have been temporarily landscaped. Three large maple trees emerge from a large, 9-meter diameter planter which now gives the square a new identity. […]
Plant Architect: This project is the first component of a larger scheme to provide interpretation, accessibility, and environmental control for the Lower Don Recreational Trail in Toronto. Pressured by its urban location, the site’s heavy usage by cyclists and pedestrians had resulted in numerous unplanned and unsustainable trails, including a widely used but extremely unsafe […]
The Rise of Public Realm and Pedestrian Mobility from Traffic Studies Grain Collective: Throughout the country of Mexico, people are fighting for traffic safety from the ground up. According to the World Health Organization, Mexico has the 7th deadliest streets in the world. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among residents aged 5 to […]
“An impressive icon of urban design that has added much to the urban architecture, setting new benchmarks in central urban design and positively effecting and directing social fabric of the community. The wonderful urban renewal possibilities inherent in this site have been successfully realised. The unique qualities of the existing built form and fabric of […]
PLANT Architect: The City of Toronto’s ‘Everyone is King’ Design Build Competition was launched in 2018 to improve place-making and support economic prosperity within the King Street Transit Pilot’s boundaries. Initiated in November 2017, the King Street Transit Pilot aims to improve streetcar transit between Bathurst Street and Jarvis Street along one of downtown Toronto’s […]
A major transport hub OKRA: Rouen Rive Droite station is a major regional transport hub with over 6 million annual passengers, located in the densely built-up historic city centre of Rouen in Normandy. The station area today operates as the most important gateway to the urban region, but with its many carriageways and disorganised public […]
LandLAB: The project enhances access to water. It brings the spirit and ecology of the river (fluid) into a dialogue with the city (grid) where the interwoven ecologies of nature, culture, infrastructure and commerce come together at the edge of the Avon – Ōtākaro in Christchurch. The design of the Terraces river edge precinct – […]