Bubble Shade for New York City Parks

Bubble Shade

Designed by Valerie Schweitzer Architects Bubble Shade are clear-stained aluminum pods with wide openings and oculi at their roofs provide a sequence of refuges for a park, urban plaza or backyard. They are modules that may increase in number depending on the size of the site and the need for shade.

Jakarta Jaya: the Green Manhattan Smart City

Jakarta Jaya: the Green Manhattan

Jakarta Jaya: the Green Manhattan, a green master plan proposal by SHAU Architects, has won a Smart Cities prize at the World Architecture Festival 2017. Residents will enjoy access to plenty of lush tropical parks, beaches, lakes and canals.

Urban SOS 2017: hOUR City Competition

The Holding Project, Belfast, Northern Ireland

AECOM and Van Alen Institute, with 100 Resilient Cities announce finalists for global student ideas competition. It challenges multidisciplinary teams to help bridge the divide between thriving and struggling communities in regions around the world.

Crosstown Concourse Memphis Tennessee

Crosstown Concourse in Memphis

DIALOG Design’s redevelopment of the ancient Sears building has now been finished. Renamed Crosstown Concourse, the building has become an “urban magnet” and a true success story for regenerative design.

WE NEW DO Beef Hot Pot Restaurant Shenzhen

We New Do Beef Hot Pot Restaurant

Following the “slight flavor of beef” the architects Design: Middle Interior Design Shenzhen Ltd. developed an “urban ranch” design theme. Integrated red brick, granite and wood shapes an interior reflecting in the British Industrial Revolution.

Casa SFA Torreón, Residence

Casa SFA

The SFA house is a refurbishment project. Architects Arqmov Workshop initially advised a new project, given previous unfortunate refurbishment work on the home, which was 30 years old. The property was stripped its original structure.

Bao’an Urban Design Competition Shenzhen

Bao’an Urban Design Competition in Shenzhen China

Design: MLA+ and Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners. First prize project in the design competition for the regeneration of the area along the G107 highway in Bao’an district in Shenzhen.

New York public realm: Manhattan landscape

Rockefeller New York plaza dining

New York public realm, NY, USA – Manhattan urban landscape images, New York commercial architecture + architects – Manhattan public realm: NYC urban landscape design

European Prize for Urban Public Space Finalists

Nørreport Station Copenhagen Building

25 finalists selected from 276 entries, 2 awarded joint First Prize with 4 Special Mentions. The European Prize for Urban Public Space – a biennial architectural competition – recognizes and encourages recovery projects and defense of public space in cities.

Dynamic Oasis Chengdu, China

Dynamic Oasis

SWA announces the landscape design for the new Performing Arts and Entertainment Center, located in the heart of Chengdu, the largest city in southwest China

Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, No. 7: Urban Planning

Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each and every place, and especially of the city in which we live