Taikoo Place Public Space Development
Swire Properties HK$15 billion redevelopment project in Quarry Bay, with international architecture firms including Hugh Dutton Associés, Gustafson Porter and Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
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Pinedo Stealth in San Marino
Design: JFAK Architects. Comprised of three new architectural elements, this project by JFAK is located in the backyard of a typical Mediterranean house in San Marino.
Tropical Pool House in Gravataí, Brasil
Architects: Br3 arquitetos. Built in Gravataí, southern Brazil, this project was developed as s leisure area for an existing villa. This project includes the following: a pool, a deck and a bar.
Sky Garden in Istanbul Ortaköy Square
Design: SO? Architecture and Ideas. Interactive suspended garden in Ortaköy Square, one of the most touristic spaces in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground in such a congested area would reduce the walkable surface and make the square even more dense.
ReForm of Garden in Nara, Japan
Architect: SPACESPACE. Located in a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara: the architects stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot.
New Museum Garden Copenhagen
The new landscape in front of The National Gallery of Denmark is designed as a melting pot – where art can mix with urban life. The urban space is created by Danish POLYFORM Architects and Dutch landscape architects Karres en Brands.
Major figures from the world of design
The World Design Summit Organization is proud to announce its first keynote speakers, for their event in 2017, two major figures in the design world and, more specifically, of urban design and architecture – Belinda Tato and Jan Gehl.
Antwerp Ring Cover, Belgium: Design Teams
Design terams call: a cover over the Ring is a historic opportunity that can fundamentally transform the city through a large park element around the city.
Metamorphous Seawall on the BC coastline
Design: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture. The abstracted shape of the corten, in conjunction with strategic boulder placement along the foreshore played an integral role in dissipating wave energy and ultimately, facilitating the deposition of sand to enhance foreshore and create habitat for flora and fauna.
Oamsterdam Development in Amsterdam
Architects: HofmanDujardin
Oamsterdam Sustainable Urban Strategy will create new connections within the urban fabric, leading to a larger city-centre. The bridges, already under discussion, will be rooted in a more extensive plan for the city.
The Place des Gens de Mer on Magdalen Islands
Design: Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes. This public place is located at the heart of Cap-aux-Meules, a village in the Magdalen Islands, on the ruins of a fish processing plant that was destroyed in a fire.
Eden Soestdijk Gardens in Utrecht, Netherlands
Design: Mecanoo architecten. The redevelopment of the Soestijk estate has a social purpose in creating a more sustainable society. An educative journey will touch all the visitors’ senses, triggering them to become more aware and conscious of the earth’s fragility.
Sunset Parklet, San Francisco Streetscape
Design: INTERSTICE Architects. Public amenity designed for two local community-oriented businesses in the Outer Sunset district on the Judah light-rail transit line. The architects took on the controversial 50 ft long site as a pro-bono project.
Project Neden, Heden Gothenburg
Architects: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture – KKA. Can Heden continue to be a open space dominated by connecting people and sport, and at the same time make preconditions for densifying and development of the city?