BruumRuum! Barcelona Plaça de les Glòries
The ongoing development to transform Glories square from a transportation hub into a social and economic center will advance significantly when the elevated junction is demolished by the end of 2013.
Public realm building designs
Public realm building designs and architects
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Demolition of the central park in Taksim
This is about protecting city spaces for local communities (and for all of us), so I feel we should publish, but we do welcome comments on the architectural aspects, we aren’t a newspaper!
Habima Square – Tel Aviv Public Realm
HaBima Square (also known as The Orchestra Plaza) is a public space in the center of the city. It is home to a number of cultural institutions such as the Habima Theatre, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art.
Interstitial Found Space and Memory
Interstitial Found Space and Memory – architectural article by architect Bruce Allen, Melbourne, Australia – increased density and better use of space.
Bialik Square Tel Aviv Buildings & Landscape
The Museum of the History of Tel Aviv-Yafo opened in 2009 in what was the old Tel Aviv Municipality building in Bialik Square. This is an elegant piece of city planning, humble, axial and successful as a place where people like to linger.
Pormetxeta Square – Spanish Urban Plan
The Pormetxeta Square, was the result of the “Europan VI” competition of 2001. The project was selected to take part in the Spanish Architecture Exhibition “On Site”.
Radical Architecture: Architectural Tension
The Queens Museum of Art (NY) opens its extension, which will double its size. It is an interesting venture because it highlights the issues relating to the tensions between traditional and more radical art and architecture.
Eduard Wallnoefer Platz: Landhausplatz Innsbruck
Eduard Wallnoefer Platz is the largest public square of Innsbruck, located in the city center. Before the transformation, the square was dominated by the facade of the province of Tyrol’s governmental building from the period of National Socialism
Commodity, Firmness and Delight in Architecture
The announcement of the architect and a design for the annual Serpentine Pavilion is now almost as much of an established feature of London’s summer social calendar as Wimbledon and Ascot.
Unsung Architect Heroes, Pre Critical Regionalism
Lindsay Johnston, who ‘did’ architecture in Dundee in the early 1960’s and then worked in Ireland before emigrating to Australia, looks back at two architects who have had a major influence on his life and work
Sculptural Architecture: Nigel Henbury
The Sikamino, house in Greece by the Tense Architectural Network features bold concrete forms of dynamic geometries orchestrating shelter, transitional areas and key horizon lines, blending with the immediate topography.
Vieux Port Pavilion Marseille building
Vieux Port Pavilion, Marseille, France design by Foster + Partners – Marseille Harbour Transformation, France Building, French Architecture
Invisible Buildings, Architectural Impact Design
Sputnik’s proposed Great Fen visitors’ centre in Cambridgeshire is practically invisible. The Fens, naturally marshy, were first drained in the 17th century so that the land could be used for farming
Seville Plaza, Metropol Parasol Building
Metropol Parasol Building: Seville Plaza, Spain, by J. MAYER H., Architect – Seville architecture images, Metropol Parasol building: finalists for 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.