Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park in London. The final design will be unveiled in April 2026 to coincide with the centenary of the monarch, who died in 2022 following

Flexoarquitectura   Spain   The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improv

Estudio Acta   Spain   For decades the bank of the river Guadalete as it passes through the municipality of El Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cádiz, was a chaotic degrading space. But an ambitious urban and landscaping project sought to reverse the situation and

Colectivo C733    Mexico   With the fast-paced growth of the city of Tulum, a well-known tourist destination on the Caribbean, and the threat this poses to the landscape, Jaguar Park emerges as an inter-institutional initiative whose main objective is to protect the ecosystems

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The site assigned for the center was occupied by an old movie theater: an enclosed gray concrete structure, detached from the context and with its back to the river, next to a half-empty plaza and quiet streets. The answer to these conditions was a h

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Integral part of a set of five urban projects oriented towards dignifying the public spaces, the plaza is conceived as a large green sponge capable of capturing and filtering water runoff. Through a network of rain gardens and wetlands arranged by gr

Trahan Architects   United States   Luther George Park – in the heart of Springdale, beside Spring Creek – is a new public space created by the New Orleans architecture office of Trey Trahan, in collaboration with Landscape Architects Spackman Mossop Michaels. Along the park’s central

h3o architects   Spain   Barcelona-based h3o architects – headed by Adrià Orriols, Joan Gener, and Miquel Ruiz – has transformed an abandoned parking lot in Castell d’Aro, in Girona province, into a public plaza. Covering 1,700 square meters, the intervention sought to revit

Heatherwick Studio   China   A new district, designed by Heatherwick Studio, has opened in Xi’an, honoring the Chinese city’s legacy of craftsmanship and ceramics. The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is south of the historic core, between the ruins of the Temple of

3ME Arquitectura   Mexico   Located on the outskirts of the city, on the banks of the Lerma River, this project revitalizes a natural recreational space in Salvatierra, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, and brings out the 17th-century Batanes Bridge in all its glory. This bri

Liu Jiakun   China   The declining environs of two temples have been revitalized through the insertion of new community programs, which punctuate a picturesque succession of courtyards and covered galleries. A museum, a hotel, a café, and a bookstore fit themselves into

Puerto & Sánchez Arquitectos   Spain   The viewing point of Farrapona or of the valley of Saliencia, in the Somiedo Natural Park, is part of a series of projects seeking to give importance to the ethnographic elements and the landscaping and geological points of interest of the zone. The

Emac Arquitectura   Spain   Located in the heart of San Javier, the 31,949-square-meter Almansa Park is the result of an idea competition organized with the Murcia Institute of Architects (COAMU). The project carried out by Emac Arquitectura – Miguel Martínez Castillejo and Pau

archigrest Toposcape   Poland   The Warsaw we know today looks like, but is not, the one that Bernardo Bellotto portrayed almost three centuries ago. That city which the vedute painter immortalized is heaped up on the outskirts, where the debris to which the Polish capital’s histor

Turenscape Arsomsilp   Thailand   The environs of a dismantled tobacco factory have been reconditioned as a green expanse of land that serves as much to accumulate rainwater during the typhoon season as to curb flooding. The pattern of paths and resting spots is based on traditional

Topia landskapsarkitekter   Sweden   A composition of six concatenated swamps form a recreational space that also functions as a natural cleanser of the waters of an urban stream before they flow into a large lake. In what until recently was a field of single crop farming, the water cur

Entorno y Contexto   Mexico   A comprehensive plan has cut short the city’s alienation from its river course, formerly a polluted and unsafe environment where other attempts to fix it had failed for lack of an all-round view. At a comfortable distance from the river’s course, a s

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Form, color, and movement are the most obvious of many outstanding aspects in the art of Alexander Calder, maxims that are most visible in his kinetic sculptures. But when beginning to conceive an architecture for the presentation of his work, the pr

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The city of Sion is planning for future growth by transforming predominantly industrial lands south of the historic center into a sustainable, mixed, and green ‘City of the 21st Century.’ The primary focus is the Ronquoz district, ideally located in

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Although Portugal is mainly a maritime country, its inland is traversed by mighty mountains, largely unknown of but whose beauty will not be unfamiliar to those who have read authors like Eça de Queirós or Miguel Torga. In one of those ranges, on a m

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The lack of facilities and trees had turned Parco dei Salici into a run-down place in disuse. Communication with the neighbors’ association now in charge of its management was an essential part in the redevelopment of the space, where now all so

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Though it is a pleasant green space, Parco XXII Aprile is in Crocetta, one of the most conflictive neighborhoods in Modena. This intervention aims to redefine small new spaces for leisure and for reunion that can gradually reactivate social life in t

Enrique Morillo   With the debates on the importance of preserving heritage over and done with, disputes on what was worthy of that pedigree status began. Grand monuments easily made the cut as historical treasures, and then with more effort industrial, modern, and la

Alberto Ballesteros   The past is destroyed, not transformed. Despite efforts to manicure the changes it is undergoing, downtown Madrid is becoming generic, a neighborhood sans neighbors where the only memory worth keeping is that which attracts tourists: walking its stre

Juan Miró Sardá   The encounter of Europe and America since 1492 can be considered one of the most significant events in universal history. Europeans perceived it as a ‘discovery’ and claimed authority to colonize the vast territories, but the colonists were immediate

Iñaki Alday   The relationship between cities and their rivers has been tense and conflictive since time inmemorial. Rivers – access to fresh water to drink or to irrigate the fields with – are the primary raison d’être of human settlements. But while an essential

Edoardo Narne   “You cannot change the world, but you can do small things that can change someone’s life.” This is one of Renzo Piano’s maxims, so when in 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life by the then Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, he did not hesitate t

The international jury, chaired by the architect, urban planner, and landscape designer Beth Galí, has given the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, in the General Category, to ‘Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound,’ a work of the firms topoScap

The French architect Dominique Perrault drew up the masterplan for the complex where the athletes competing in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be billeted. Located in Seine-Saint-Denis, north of the center of Paris, it provides 2,400 lodgi

Carlos Sambricio   Unlike texts penned from the plane of erudition, this book is testimony of wisdom acquired over decades of practical experience. Urban legend has it that in the late 1960s, Terán tried to publish maps and plans he had been collecting for years, but t

Alejandro Bernabeu   At his induction into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in January, Miguel Aguiló gave a discourse titled ‘Caring for Earth, Recreating the World,’ in which he tackled heritage, the landscape, and the planet. Three spheres of civil engineering that expl

The Economist   In northern Egypt sits a city that officials expect to one day house 6.5m people. For now, though, it is mostly empty—like the desert that came before it. Egypt’s “New Administrative Capital” is part of a rush of city-building. Firms and governments

La Cultural Landscape Foundation has bestowed the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (Oberlander Prize), which comes with a US$100,000 award, to the Chinese architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the firm Turenscape.

Eduardo Prieto   Lumpen people wander the streets of the Quartiere Tuscolano; bicycles wheel from the borgate to the new working-class districts; a helicopter flies over the empty grounds of the Aqua Claudia transporting a Christ statue to St. Peter’s… Such scenes fr

Enrique Morillo   “Our cities are ill.” From Mesopotamian settlements to the medieval city, and especially after the Industrial Revolution, urban cores have altered to accommodate demographic growth and adapt to social advances. But with the exacerbated neoliberal mod

Pablo Canga   Spain takes an ugly turn. The systemic corruption and intellectual anemia of the Franco dictatorship sowed the seed of a story of ambition and abandon that was only reinforced, when the regime ended, by a mediocre political class, and which has led t

The fitting out of a space for holding events has transformed El Jaral de la Mira, a peaceful estate located up in the sierra of Madrid, once upon a time used by King Philip II as a hunting ground. Although a large part of the property is still taken

The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wished death to find him planting his cabbages, and it is a similar devotion to gardening that we find in Íñigo Segurola, a Basque agricultural engineer and landscapist who for a time was also the presenter

Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif

The 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Grand Paris Express, a large-scale transit project currently being built in and around the Paris metropolitan area. With 68 new stations and 200 kilometers of additional trac

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From Antiquity to the avant-gardes, the imagined or dreamed cities of the West have drawn from biblical narratives, as explained in a seminar held at the Prado Museum.

Curbed   Alissa Walker   Davis, who died of complications from esophageal cancer yesterday at 76, served as both the reluctant prognosticator-in-chief for L.A. and a guide to the overlapping urban crises that now cascade across U.S. cities with alarming frequency. In his imm

Anyone driving northwestward from Las Vegas for three hours, into the Nevada desert, will find the torrid plain giving rise, like a mirage, to some geoglyphic formations with pyramid-like constructions at the center. They resemble the remains of an e

José María Ezquiaga   Recent Spanish urban planning is sullied by the fact that political debate, professional criticism, and academic analysis have given way to the judicialization of urban problems, dragging into the sphere of legality all matters that really ought to s

Norman Foster   In October 2020, as UN Patron for Cities, I launched the Forum of Mayors in Geneva. Nineteen months later, the world’s population has increased by 151 million. Most have ended up in cities. Why? Because cities offer more opportunities, wealth, libera

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