Infrastructure

Christian Bauer suspends pedestrian and cycle path beneath Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg

May 24, 2019 Anna Winston 0

A four-metre-wide path now hangs underneath the Pont Adolphe bridge in Luxembourg, with a lightweight steel system that acts like a “well-controlled spider’s web”. Local studio CBA Architects, led by Christian Bauer, designed the Passerelle Pont Adolphe. It creates a pedestrian and cycle path beneath the 153-metre-long bridge, which was built in 1903 and is

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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab proposes new way of growing islands and coastlines

May 13, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Growing Islands by MIT

Researchers at MIT and in the Maldives have come up with a solution to help coastal communities threatened by climate change: submersible objects carefully placed to promote the growth of beaches and islands. The Growing Islands project is the work of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Self-Assembly Lab and Maldivian organisation Invena, who came together to

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Plans unveiled for temporary UK Parliament designed by AHMM

May 8, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Temporary House of Commons for the UK Parliament by AHMM

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has designed a temporary replacement for the House of Commons, to be used by UK Parliament while the Palace of Westminster is restored. AHMM has planned the temporary structure for within the Grade II-listed Richmond House in London’s Whitehall. The images were revealed as part of a consultation on the plans for the relocation. The “substantially redeveloped”

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Albisola Superiore / 3S studio

May 4, 2019 Megan Jett 0

The architects decided to rehabilitate an inoperative railway through environmentally aware means, thereby transforming the area into a promenade that adheres to its area’s environmental constraints. This project would focus on the safety of the tunnel works on the reef slope, including hydraulics.

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Bicycle Parking Main Station Karlsruhe / TAFKAL

April 24, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Winds of change – turning a parking garage into a biking garage. Re-use of a carparking garage at the main station of Karlsruhe, Germany, into a garage for biking commuters. The Area south of the main station of Karlsruhe has been abandoned for many years now. In the early nineties, Rem Koolhaas had the commission for his first mayor building, the to-be-internationally-renowned ZKM, a museum for digital art and media. But, after years of discussing and arguing, the city of Karlsruhe pulled back from the project and opened the ZKM at another spot – without Rem. For the past 25 years, the area was reserved for cars and busses, adding the needed infrastructure for individuals coming to the main station.

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Bicycle Parking Main Station Karlsruhe / TAFKAL

April 24, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Winds of change – turning a parking garage into a biking garage. Re-use of a carparking garage at the main station of Karlsruhe, Germany, into a garage for biking commuters. The Area south of the main station of Karlsruhe has been abandoned for many years now. In the early nineties, Rem Koolhaas had the commission for his first mayor building, the to-be-internationally-renowned ZKM, a museum for digital art and media. But, after years of discussing and arguing, the city of Karlsruhe pulled back from the project and opened the ZKM at another spot – without Rem. For the past 25 years, the area was reserved for cars and busses, adding the needed infrastructure for individuals coming to the main station.

Brexit deadlock could be broken with parliament redesign says Axiom Architects

April 5, 2019 India Block 0
Brexit deadlock could be broken by re-designing UK's Palace of Westminster for parliament says Axiom Architects

Axiom Architects have proposed a tongue-in-cheek solution to the UK parliament’s Brexit deadlock, which sees the Palace of Westminster transformed into a more open forum for debate. With the House of Commons unable to agree on a deal for the UK leaving the EU, despite numerous votes, British practice Axiom Architects has redesigned the parliamentary building to

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Faceted aluminium panelling wraps Ramon Airport in Israeli desert

April 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Ramon Airport by Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Moshe Zur Architects in Negev desert, Israel

Panels of white aluminium envelop the exterior of this airport, designed by Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Moshe Zur Architects in the Negev desert. Located 12 miles north of the city of Eilat, Israel, Ramon Airport is expected to become a “major game changer for local and international tourism” to Israel, Jordan and Egypt’s Sinai desert, according to the

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Nicole Moyo’s waste-to-energy system will “mobilise communities in informal settlements”

April 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Ukubutha waste-to-energy infrastructure concept by Nicole Moyo

Nicole Moyo’s sustainable waste-to-energy infrastructure Ukubutha can be constructed by slum communities to enable them to live self-sufficiently. Presented at this year’s Design Indaba, Ukubutha is a concept system of dome-shaped huts that collect biogas from human waste to turn into energy, and fertiliser for community gardens. South African urban designer Moyo developed the system to empower

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