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Richard Meier & Partners has completed its first pedestrian and vehicular bridge. The new Cittadella Bridge is a precast-concrete and painted-steel modern structure which connect the city of Alessandria, Italy with the citadel across the Tanaro River in Italy.
Zaha Hadid Architects and their team of contributors have created the ‘Behaviour Morphe’: An art installation where light is projected onto the façade of the city’s Baroque castle mapping the building for the 2017 Schlosslichtspiele Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany.
A simple architectural gesture by peris+toral.arquitectes removes fencing around a children’s playground. A subtle architectural solution meets the needs of shelter and protection. Two dunes were formed, planted with grass, creepers and shrubs, plus a gentle hollow that delineates the play space.
The Neobio Family Park in Shanghai was designed by X+Living. It is divided into Reading Area, Dinning Area, Sims City, Climbing Area and Party Room. On entering the main entrance, you are surrounded by wavy forests and rolling hills, these are the book shelves of the reading area and a great place for kids to play hide-and-seek.
Design: Ross Barney Architects – winner of Outstanding Achievement in Exterior Lighting award ; shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 American Architecture Awards: The Riverwalk offers a variety of opportunities to find the beauty and spirit of the Chicago River. Visitors get an unexpected perspective on the city’s buildings.
Over $400,000 in grants to organizations around the world for 41 innovative projects creating original architecture. Selected from 220 submissions the projects include Eco Pavilion Mexico City and El Helicoide, Caracas.
Crowdfunding campaign raises £64k, almost double its initial target. Transformation of a 0.8km disused Camden railway line into a new public park. Inspired by New York’s iconic High Line it will provide pedestrian and cycle routes to world-famous Camden Market.
A design by Matter Design & FR|SCH Projects aiming to encourage inventiveness and playful exploration, located in an area designed by The Architects Collaborative in the 1950s. The small building in the woods has ‘no purpose’, but in reality its intention is to facilitate discovery.
Architects: SHAU. With high illiteracy rate in Indonesia and lack of reading facilities, SHAU -a multi-awarded rising architecture practice- started a mission: to rekindle interest in books by offering a designed place for reading paired with multiple community activities.
The underground in Sweden’s capital (in Swedish tunnelbana) is world’s longest art gallery, 110 km (68 miles). With art in 90 out of its 100 stations, created by over hundred different artists this art display is something out of the ordinary.
Design: China northwest architecture design and research institute. Using the space transition and restriction of Okimichi, drawbridge and green within the principle of limited developing and utilization, the outer plaza of South Gate design captures the iconic gesture of Xi’an South Gate.
Design: Alison Brooks Architects / Arup, engineering. Using construction sized panels of hardwood CLT for the first time, this is a spectacular 34m long curved rectangular tube, the first ever hardwood mega-tube.
SO – IL and Laisné Roussel architects win international architecture competition for Place Mazas site in Paris. The competition is part of Reinventer La Seine, a call for innovative riverside proposals at the intersection of architecture, creative urbanism and development.
Design: Adam Nathaniel Furman. Gateways is a ceramic installation consisting of four gates that draw people to wander through and experience the various views at the center of the enfilade perspective.