Tag Squares

12-08-2022

Place Saint Sernin, reorganisation of public space in Toulouse

In Toulouse, the Place Saint Sernin reorganisation project by Barcelona-based BAU brings public space back into the historic centre of the French city. This intervention, begun in 2015 and completed in 2020, where cars give way to trees and benches, is among the finalists for the European Prize for Public Space 2022.

30-05-2022

Arrival by Wutopia Lab with Roboticplus.AI, an urban sculpture

An artistic gesture to transform an anonymous square into an enticing place for passersby. This is Arrival, a 3D-printed magic realism-inspired installation in the Star Plaza of The MixC Shopping Mall in Shanghai. The intervention was commissioned by TOPYS and carried out by Wutopia Lab in collaboration with Roboticplus.AI.

04-03-2022

Roland Baldi Architects redesigns the Collalbo station square in Bolzano

The Roland Bald Architects studio has redeveloped the Collalbo station square in Bolzano. The intervention is an integral part of the new Collalbo Mobility Centre, also designed by the same studio, offering a welcoming square as a new showcase for the popular tourist resort in the Dolomites.

31-12-2021

Zaha Hadid Architects’ Eleftheria Square inaugurated in Nicosia

Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was inaugurated recently: a project of great symbolic value in a divided city. The new square is not just a space uniting the community but the initial step in a proposed urban development plan for reunification of the entire city.

01-11-2021

Kärdla City Pavilion designed by the Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter and Mareld Landscape Studios

Swedish architecture firm Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter, together with Swedish landscape architects from the Mareld Landscape studio have recently renovated the central square of the town of Kärdla, in Estonia. The intervention is one of several projects launched to celebrate the centenary of the nation’s declaration of independence.

29-07-2021

"Prossima Apertura", an urban regeneration project in Aprilia

Prossima Apertura is an urban regeneration project led by Orizzontale, NOEO and ADML Architetti, recently completed in Aprilia, in the Lazio region of central Italy. Through skills and strategies complementary to the architectural project, the multidisciplinary group experimented with a methodology that can be replicated and adapted in other places and contexts. The team was thus able to develop what can be considered the prototype of a new way of designing and understanding public space.

10-11-2020

Moving Dunes, an installation by NÓS in Montreal

With Moving Dunes, the Canadian studio NÓS has designed an urban project in the centre of Montreal based on the concept of anamorphosis. This method revolves around a distorted projection requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices or both to view a recognizable image and here it animated their installation that they propose as an experiential mirage.

07-10-2020

DAP studio, via Monviso Square Garden, Garbagnate

The recent urban regeneration project designed by the DAP studio transformed an abandoned area, on the outskirt of Milan's Garbagnate district, into a square-garden that has become a point of reference for an entire neighbourhood. Whatâ's more, the space became the protagonist of a short film selected among the 20 finalists of the first edition of the Venice Architecture Short Film Festival, an event organised by the ArchiTuned cultural association and dubbed "Living Together Again".

16-07-2020

V-Plaza by 3deluxe in Kaunas, Lithuania, an urban living room

V-Plaza, the work of the German architecture studio 3deluxe stands amid a newly designed set of buildings in Kaunas, Lithuania. This visionary plaza celebrates contemporary mobility and technology of the future—a joyful combination of skate park, playground and urban living room for the community.