Foster + Partners has won the competition to design a new center for Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province. At the heart of the Yuhang District the masterplan creates a mixed-use urban quarter that is green and sustainable, establishing
The team formed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Luis Machica Arquitectos, and DJ Arquitectura has won the competition to design Málaga’s new Plaza de la Marina and connect Parque de Málaga to the seafront. This park and the palm-lined port promen
A tract of land measuring 1.3 million square meters, between Qatar University and the new city of Lusail, is the site of Doha’s Al Dayaan project, an opportunity to rethink hospital architecture in a context of exponentially advancing medical innovat
Vinival is an urban sector that takes its name from the old winery, whose main building is still preserved. Occupying twelve hectares, it displays enough entity to become a model fragment of a city. It is connected both with Alboraya and the city of
Yuzi Paradise is envisioned as a vacation resort in the midst of twenty-two mountains that make up the singular landscape of Guilin. The site extends over 540 hectares of undeveloped land which already has the ideal natural features to become a parad
The Huanggang Port Area in the city of Shenzhen’s Futian District services 300,000 people crossing over to Hong Kong daily. The new masterplan, focused around two large public squares, marks out three interconnected parts: the harbor hub including of
New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden. The design seeks to create a dynamic urban quarter, responding to its historic context and transforming the labyrinth of traffic in the new city center. New public spaces and
In contrast with urban plans where the structure is rigid and predictable, the proposal for the development of Almere Oosterwold is based on freedom of both individual and collective initiatives. The area of 43 square kilometers, located at the edge
The city of Almere, within the metropolitan area of Amsterdam, is on the verge of experiencing a large population growth geered by urban plans like that of Oosterwold or Almere 2030, which foresees the construction of 60,000 new homes. In this contex
On a huge block in Tianjin, the TEDA plan is designed to densify a fragment of urban fabric combining horizontal and vertical construction. In Chinese cities, a significant part of the traditional neighborhoods have been replaced with urban developme
West Kowloon Cultural District will establish a major centre for music, performing and visual arts on a harbour-front site in Hong Kong. The seventeen new cultural venues will support everything from traditional Chinese theatre to pop concerts and op
Lyon is distinctive for its strong relationship between the natural and the built environment. Two rivers form a peninsula before they converge, and a chain of hills offers both a beautiful backdrop to the city and panoramic views overlooking it. Ear
The project places the gardens above road traffic, increasing threefold the current green area, and proposes raising four new buildings with a cultural and commercial program...
The project proposes a gardened layer that makes the most of the level changes to generated multiple pedestrian connections and to insert the required program amid the vegetal mass...
The proposal lifts a gardened platform that covers the railway tracks and the highway, thus eliminating the barriers that isolate the largest green area in the historic center of the city. Beneath the new green layer and by taking advantage of the bu
The valley generated by the strong relief of the site is filled with the cultural and civic program defined in the competition brief, and is covered with a glass structure, evening out the terrain...
The proposal addresses the site’s level changes establishing gentle gradation, and places, over the road and the railway, a glass building that has a resonance with the National Museum of Scotland...
The project to refurbish the historic center of Aberdeen, in Scotland, has been the object of controversy ever since it was proposed in 2010. The City Council wanted to revitalize the Union Terrace Gardens, open to the public in 1879 and currently un
In the project three systems overlap: circulation (replacing the straight line of the road with a zigzag), landscape (linking both sides of the avenue), and urban (with blocks in a sequence of loops)...
The historic ‘Real Camino Nuevo’, a promenade dating from the 18th century, is recovered to create a large green boulevard that branches out and brings the gardens into the project...
En el paisaje urbano propuesto se levantan torres circulares con una altura de 16 a 24 plantas, densificando así la trama sobre un manto geométrico, natural y discontinuo de huertas productivas...
Aiming to restructure, both functionally and formally, the access to the city through El Palmar Avenue, the City Council of Murcia and the city’s Institute of Architects called a competition for the design of an urban space around the three-kilometer
Miquel Adriá. Un conjunto de singulares piezas diseñadas por artistas y arquitectos, que ordenan y pautan simbólicamente el territorio, se desperdigan a lo largo de los 117 kilómetros de la Ruta del Peregrino, en México.
As many as 300,000 people crossing the border between continental China and Hong Kong on a daily basis are served by Huanggang Port Area, a strategic enclave for which the London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects has drawn up a highly ambitious regene
«Tres arquitecturas diferentes, pero una sola conexión urbana.» Tal es el lema con el que el estudio de Bjarke Ingels resume su propuesta ganadora para el diseño de un plan director en la ciudad finlandesa de Tampere, la tercera más grande del país.
El centro de la histórica Aberdeen, la tercera ciudad de Escocia, será transformado en los próximos años según el plan director de un equipo formado por los neoyorquinos Diller Scofidio + Renfro junto a los locales Keppie Design y OLIN, que ha result
