Category: Transportation

Urban planning, landscape, Masterplanning, competition, urban design
Transportation

Inviting Londoners to better air quality streets | Gehl Architects

A major threat to public health, air pollution contributes to the death of over 9,000 Londoners a year. With Lambeth, one of the most polluted London councils, Gehl initiated, managed and piloted ‘Thrive Zones’ that both reduce people’s exposure to poor air quality and invite to areas of better air

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urban policy, physical planning, urban and regional planning, urban development, urban design
Transportation

Preserving the heritage of the past for the people of today | Gehl

Istanbul is a vibrant, creative city with millennia of human history. The historical peninsula at the heart of the city has a stunning skyline silhouetting the architectural masterpieces perching atop the hilltops, making it one of UNESCO’s world heritage sites of Outstanding Universal Value. But Istanbul is also one of

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Transport, Township Master¬plan, metro system, road network, pedestrian network
Transportation

Alliance pour Sainte-Catherine | PFE (2010)

Tremblay, as a typical case, works on the scale of the Parisian metropolis, for commuting as well as for those concerning leisure or services, despite the importance of the city’s employment area. Is there a real continuity between all these journeys, these routes, which allows us to feel the metropolis

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Transport, Township Master¬plan, metro system, road network, pedestrian network
Urban Planning

Foshan New City Mass Transit Center | Tianjin, China

The design has a core concept of “cloud”, showing avant-garde architectural form and language. It also indicates the company’s future positioning. The architecture resembles floating clouds, the idea behind which is the Cloud Space concept of the virtual digital age. The concept of “cloud” is consistent with the company’s future

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Architecture, Urbanism, Residential, Masterplan, Mixed use, Sustainable Design
Transportation

Chicago Lakeside Master Plan – Sustainable Design

Lakeside will serve as a model for future development within the City of Chicago and will be part of the LEED® for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program. The plan entails transforming the abandoned South Works steel mill, a 600-acre brownfield site, into an environmentally conscious, mixed-use district. The project emerged from a

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Transport, Township Master¬plan, metro system, road network, pedestrian network
Transportation

MRT Jakarta Transit-Oriented Development Master Plan

Jakarta MRT will be the first mass rapid transit rail system in the capital of Indonesia. SOM developed a master plan to leverage the city’s investment in this new transit system. The Jakarta Transit-Oriented Development Master Plan establishes the vision, principles, and framework to implement new infrastructure, public realm improvements,

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Urbanism, Landscape, Masterplan/Mobility, Architecture, Public space
Transportation

Scali Milano – Catalysts for sustainable living

What if we use the ‘scali’ – railway yards – and their connecting infrastructure to improve the mobility of Milan in order to generate new opportunities for the city as a whole? This is the main question guiding Mecanoo’s vision for the seven scali of Milan. As multi-modal hubs, the

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Transport, Township Master¬plan, metro system, road network, pedestrian network
Transportation

Transport Concept Riyadh Township Master­plan

Based on its successful contribution in the framework of the inter­national urban planning competition which launched in 2018, AS+P was commissioned with the detailed planning for a roughly 2,500-hectare large area in Riyadh. The entry was elaborated to create a design plan with an emphasis on urban planning, landscape architecture

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Urbanism, Landscape, Masterplan, urban mobility, walkability
Landscape

Requalification of rue du Molinel | The Landscape Company

The rue du Molinel does not reveal at first glance the hidden, hidden or forgotten secrets that it possesses. Its sinuous layout, the variable geometry of its grip as well as its evolving architectural spreading, nevertheless give it a singular identity.The rue du Molinel stands out as a structuring segment

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