Redevelopment of uncomfortable districts (Zhilkino). Project by Aya Magdy, International Baikal Winter University Of Urban Planning Design. Architects: Aya Magd Program: Urban Design
Bogotá is a city of great extension and with many inhabitants. Large cities, which tend to collapse in mobility, increasingly need housing solutions and services; This translates into an overflowing and absurd construction density over the territory. This construction density minimizes and completely strangles the percentage of optimal public space
The project for the requalification of the socio-environmental network of the biotic corridor of the Cali River in the section between Calle 26 and the mouth of the Cauca River understands and recognizes the structuring and landscape potentials for urban morphology as a new element of the construction of the
The hole and pilot sector developed at the time from spontaneous occupations on the banks of the Cali River as home to the working community of the city’s large industries. At present, with the “Partial Hole and Pilot Plan” the space is opened towards a new clear, responsible and sensitive
The project consists of two main elements – the “Ring” and the “Activity Band”. The “Ring” is the park’s large multifunctional event space and consists of a circular grass area with an elevated stone-paved stage at the centre, and sitting landscapes in the peripheral zone. This is the space for
3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS have released details of their competition entry for the design of a new aquarium in Schönbrunn Zoo, Vienna. Developed in collaboration with aquarium specialists ATT, “Poseidon’s Realm” was designed to be “elegant, simple and mysterious, lying across the landscape like a great veil.” The scheme was awarded second place in an international competition for the aquarium’s design, with the winner
Huadi has cultivated flowers for 1700 years, as well as flowers used for Buddhist and royal ceremonies. The plan of the Guangzhou government is to integrate the Huadi flower cultivation and agriculture resources into the new high standard Huadi ecological area. This area will be a distinctive new marker for
This vibrant park in the Southeast District of Washington, D.C. was once part of the Washington Canal system and, in recent history, a school bus depot. Designed by David Rubin while partner at Olin, the park is an economic driver for the burgeoning community of market-rate and worker housing, and
In the Lost Architecture – Envisioning New City Squares competition that took place during Tirana Architecture Week 2014, students and working architects under 40 got to send their ideas on how to improve Pyramid Square in Albania’s capital city, Tirana. The open competition sought design solutions that would both improve public space
The proposal is to reconnect the park to the urban, historical and environmental fabrics of the city, through a recreational-sports program as a transversal axis The complexity of the sector where the park is located requires a structure that adapts over time and that allows an articulation with different social
