New Museum Garden Copenhagen

New Museum Garden in 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.

Cirkelbroen Copenhagen: Olafur Eliasson Bridge

Cirkelbroen Copenhagen

This Copenhagen bridge project design by Olafur Eliasson celebrates pedestrians. It reflects the daily life and intimacy that you find around the canal in the Christianshavn neighbourhood, its houseboats and sailing boats, the unique life on the ramparts

The Labyrinth: Limburg Public Structural Sculpture

The Labyrinth in Genk

Design: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. The installation invites the spectator to walk through one kilometre of steel corridors. A series of Boolean transformations create spaces and perspectives that reinterpret the traditional labyrinth

Origin of Everything in Guangdong

Origin of Everything in Guangdong

Design: C.DD, architects

This is a cubic architectural installation of 3m x 3m x 3m. This is not a large space; however, it carries the designers’ great affection and thinking for their hometown Foshan.

Chetian Tourist Center in Guizhou

Chetian Tourist Center

Architects: West-line studio. The Chetian Village runs parallel to a river and the local traditional architectural style is characterized by stone houses with open air courtyards repeated in a parallel way. Each unit is linked to the others and all these parallel bands form separated groups

Major figures from the world of design

Jan Gehl - 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.

Transparent Shell in Guangzhou, China

Transparent Shell

Design: PONE Architecture. In answering the question on how to integrate architecture to further interact and blend cities, environments, human beings and space, PONE Architecture created the architectural sculpture “Transparent Shell”.

Giant Illuminated Wheels Montreal: Loop installation

Giant Illuminated Wheels Montreal: Loop installation

Design: Quartier des spectacles partnership. This winter the Quartier des spectacles Partnership invites Montrealers and visitors to discover and have fun with Loop, an original installation on the Place des Festivals, on the Quartier des spectacles.

Zhangjiajie Viewing Platform in China

Zhangjiajie Viewing Platform

Design: Martin Duplantier Architectes

The platforms are opportunities, each in their own respect, to create a physical relationship with this rock face. The illusion of a mirror for the one, the fear of the void for the next, and lastly the setting in abyss for the final.

Danxia Exhibition Center in Guizhou

Danxia Exhibition Center

Architects: West-line studio. Danxia landform is a unique red rock landscape located in southern China. Chishui Danxia, in the north of Guizhou province, can be classified as ‘young Danxia’, which is one of the most impressive phases.

Bing’an Red Memorial Guizhou

Bing'an Red Memorial

Architects: West-line studio. The Red Army Memorial Museum is situated in the rural Bing’an Warf, a shoal in the middle of the Chishui river, on the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China.

Concrete Memorial Guizhou Landscape

Guizhou Concrete Memorial

Architects: West-line studio. The Huangpi Dong combat site, located in Tiantai Town, not far from Chishui City. This area is a well known “red tourism” spot in south-west China.

Chetian Cultural Center Guizhou

Chetian Cultural Center

Architects: West-line studio. The cultural center is located in Chetian Village, in the Guizhou province, in South-West China. The village has more than 400 years of history and is famous for its ‘stone houses’ built with local materials.

Cultural Plaza and Digital Port Namur

Cultural Plaza and Digital Port

Architects: 3XN. The Digital Port will be a cultural building with a range of activities, where modern technologies will be made available to citizens and visitors to the Smart City project