Explore public architecture that enhances urban spaces with innovative design, sustainability, and community-focused solutions. This category features a variety of projects, from public buildings to parks and plazas, emphasizing functionality, accessibility, and environmental responsibility. Ideal for architects, planners, and anyone interested in transformative public spaces.
Architects: Sasaki Associates Project: Chicago Riverwalk Location: Chicago, IL Size 3.5 acres Status: Phase 1 completed 2009 (by others); Phase 2 completed May 2015; Phase 3 in progress Team: Ross Barney Architects Photos ©Christian Philips, ©Kate Joyce The Main Branch of the Chicago River has a long and storied history that in many ways mirrors […]
For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016 (weather permitting) – Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes
Paiva Walkways embraces the Paiva river with an extension of 8km, providing a walking path with a breathtaking natural beauty, with picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species. This project is by Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Check out these birds-eye view photos.
Located in Ecuador, Quilotoa Overlook is a project that has resulted from collaboration between Javier Jorge Andrade BenÃtez, Javier Mera Luna and Daniel Moreno Flores.
The recently completed project by Cumulus Studio, Devil’s Corner Cellar Door and Lookout are beautifully situated on the Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, with views of the Hazards overlooking Great Oyster Bay.
Heatherwick Studio is collaborating with the landscape architect Mathews Nielsen to design Pier 55, a new 2.4 acre public park and performance space in the Hudson River. Pier 55 will be a new pier, located between the pile fields of Piers 54 and 56. Conceived as a leaf floating in the water, the new pier contains unexpected
MVRDV in collaboration with Studio Bouwhaven designed a club house for IJburg Tennis Club, Amsterdam, which provides both a viewing platform and a club overlooking the water. Description by MVRDV: IJburg is a new district to the east of Amsterdam. On its six artificial islands, 18,000 homes will be eventually be built for 45,000 residents.
Plans for a breath-taking, suspended swimming pool named ‘Sky Pool’ have been unveiled for Embassy Gardens – the residential heart of London’s newest neighbourhood, Nine Elms on the South Bank. Ballymore are responsible for the development of Embassy Gardens with their development partners Eco World.
BUS is a bus stop in Baltimore, USA, in which we find the letters B, U and S as some large sized sculptures. Each letter has 14 meters high and 7 meters wide. These huge letters are actually the space where you expect the bus to arrive, but also, they are a mean of recreation
