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World Architecture Day 2024: Mobilizing the Next Generation for Urban Transformation

Maria-Cristina Florian — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:30:00 +0000

On the first Monday of October, World Architecture Day offers an opportunity to reflect on the role that architecture plays in shaping our world and our communities. Established by the International Union of Architects (UIA) in 1986, this day was designated as a basis for the ongoing discussions on innovations in architectural practice, new approaches to the ever-changing role of architects and designers, and the varied responses to emerging concerns.

Revitalizing Urban Spaces: 10 Interventions for Transforming Unused Areas

Paula Pintos — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Cities constantly undergo infinite changes, leaving many spaces within the urban fabric forgotten and unused. Historic buildings are refurbished, and adaptive reuse explores new possibilities, but what happens with public spaces? Small interventions using simple resources and innovative solutions are the perfect way to bring these neglected alleys, plazas, and highways back to life and reincorporate them into the city.

Cultivating Non-Violent Cities: 10 Examples of Friendly Public Spaces

Giovana Martino — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Violent cities result from social and economic inequality, which also affects the urban landscape and the way we live. In honor of International Cities Day, we have selected a series of projects to reflect on non-violent ways of using public space.

From Tiny Squares to Urban Parks: 100 Public Spaces From All Around the World

María Francisca González — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The key to successfully designing or recovering public spaces is to achieve a series of ingredients that enhance their use as meeting places. Regardless of their scale, some important tips are designing for people's needs, the human scale, a mix of uses, multifunctionality and flexibility, comfort and safety, and integration to the urban fabric.

To give you some ideas on how to design urban furniture, bus stops, lookouts, bridges, playgrounds, squares, sports spaces, small parks, and urban parks, check out these 100 notable public spaces.

Designed to Disassemble: How Architecture Informs Exhibition Design and Temporary Installations

Jullia Joson — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture in its broadest sense concerns itself with the uprooting of structures that are permanent, cementing themselves within the greater cultural context and history of its humanity, however, where do we place the creation of structures that are designed with the intention to be disassembled. How much meaning and value can these structures hold, knowing they were never designed to last, but to simply take up space for a moment?

World Architecture Day: Designing for the Future of the Human Habitat

ArchDaily Team — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:30:00 +0000

World Architecture Day, celebrated on the first Monday of every October, was set up by the Union International des Architects (UIA) back in 2005 to “remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future of the human habitat”, coinciding with UN-Habitat's World Habitat Day.

The Challenges and Opportunities of Urban Regeneration in Gentrified Areas of China

Scarlett Miao — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:30:00 +0000

Since the 1990s, copious amounts of cities in China have been undergoing urban renewal. Prompted by this state-facilitated urban redevelopment, skyscrapers are being built rapidly in major cities to attract affluent middle-classes, resulting in countless relocation and displacement of the working-class population. Such process is known as “gentrification”.

Crystal Pool / 100 Architects

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Crystal Pool is a creative public space intervention designed for the grand opening of a new mixed-use complex located in the New Bund, the emerging international business center in Pudong (Shanghai), with the aim of fostering entertainment & social interactions among new visitors, appealing to kids, youngsters & adults alike.

Miyuan Boutique Hotel / JAXDA

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Miyuan hotel is a 22 room boutique hotel pretends visitors could feel the passage of time and the contact with nature. The site is located hidden in the mountains of Anhui, adjacent to the mouth of a dam and its river, surrounded by hiking tracks for exploration of the bamboo forest. The project adapts the unused buildings around giving them different functions to fill the needs of the hotel needs.

Architecture Has Limits to Achieve Urban Equity. What Should We Do?

Cem Kayatekin — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:45:00 +0000

Accessibility and mobility. When perceived through the architectural lens, these terms often evoke a range capped by two extremes. On the one end, the flexibility of circulation systems; the universality of egress networks; and the technicalities of minimums and maximums. On the other end, a project’s capacity to support broad ranges of socioeconomic narratives; its malleability in the face of rapid fluctuations of program and function; and its reactivity in maintaining a productive role amidst the ebbs and flows of societal dynamics.

Temporary Plazas: 13 Public Spaces that Activate the City

María Francisca González — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Normally the efforts of the construction industry are aimed to design permanent and durable spaces. However, on some occasions creating temporary spaces can be of great help, not only when providing fast assembly infrastructure after the effects of a natural disaster, but also when activating residual or abandoned spaces in our cities. To exemplify the potential of these interventions, we present thirteen successful temporary public spaces.

Amey Kandalgaonkar Explores the Architectural Possibilities of Combining Desert Rocks and Geometric Forms

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 17 May 2019 04:30:00 +0000

Although architecture has been constantly evolving, past builders have laid out a huge amount architectural heritage for us to learn from and get inspired by, and integrating natural elements with man-made structures is no exception.

Amey Kandalgaonkar Reimagines Traditional Chinese Pagodas for a Modernist Era

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 07 May 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Amey Kandalgaonkar has unveiled a project which reimagines the traditional Chinese pagoda in a modernist style. The Shanghai-based designer created the fictional reinterpretation as a homage to a building form largely untouched by Modernism, featuring raw brut concrete, minimal ornamentation, and bold geometric moves.

PIXELAND / 100architects

Collin Chen — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0000

PIXELAND is a public space beautification comprising a combination of different outdoor facilities in a single space, such as landscape features, playscape features for kids and leisure features for adults.

Red Planet / 100architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The Red Planet is a public space intervention designed to foster interactions, attract customers and enhance the experience in the privately-owned public space within an open-air Retail Street. Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed-use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest shopping centers in Shanghai, due to its condition of the open-air retail street.