Tag Urban Interventions

13-02-2017

Santiago Calatrava transforms London’s Greenwich Peninsula

The most ambitious project currently underway in the United Kingdom is architect Santiago Calatrava’s transformation of the Greenwich Peninsula. The emerging new district is about to get a new skyline.

27-01-2017

An urban sculpture by schneider+schumacher in Frankfurt

The office complex “die welle” (the wave) in Frankfurt, Germany not far from the Alte Oper (opera house) also extends outdoors thanks to an integrated project of landscaping and art, the former by KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten and the latter by architecture firm schneider+schumacher “Die Welle” or the “The Wave” in Frankfurt's West End district is a complex of buildings constructed in the late 1990s in the city centre, mainly used by the services sector.

23-01-2017

The Soul of Nørrebro wins the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Awards

Can excess precipitation be transformed from a problem into a resource? A positive answer comes from The Soul of Nørrebro, a project by a multidisciplinary team led by SLA architectural studio which has won the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Awards.

11-01-2017

Co-Living a trend that's on the rise, not just in New York

Irene Pereyra and Anton Repponen from New York-based design studio Anton & Irene have been exploring co-living for two years, with “One Shared House”, a self-funded and interactive documentary.

15-12-2016

Isthmus' Kopupaka Reserve in New Zealand named World Landscape of the Year 2016

Isthmus' Kopupaka Reserve in Auckland, New Zealand was named World Landscape of the Year 2016 at the 2016 World Architecture Festival. The judges particularly appreciated the way the architects managed to capture the soul and the nature of the place in the creation of the landscape, translating a traditional Maori construction technique into architectural elements.

26-11-2016

Oslo Architecture Triennale: Closing Week

OAT, Oslo Architecture Triennale is in its final stages.

26-11-2016

Stupid Borders. Visual project by Rubén Martín de Lucas

The project called “Stupid Borders – Fronteras estúpidas” by Spanish visual artist Rubén Martín de Lucas explores one of the major issues of our times - borders - from the visual and aesthetic perspective, using performance and land art as the media and recording it all with photographs.

25-07-2012

Costa-Fierros: Music Park in Seville

Following construction of Cocheras underground station in Seville, Agencia de Obra Pública de la Junta de Andalucía appointed architects Costa-Fierros to come up with a masterplan for redevelopment of the whole area. With its ceramic, limestone and granite pavement, the new Music Park becomes a big plaza linking two residential neighbourhoods.