‘Sky Forest Scape’ is a new type of public space on the roof of Bangkok. It is a part of the new mixed-use development called “SIAMSCAPE” which is located at the heart of ‘Siam Square’ – a vibrant young-gen commercial district. This project is a part of the bigger master plan that aims to revamp ‘Siam Square’ with more people-centric urban spaces including walking streets, gathering places, and greenery.
Mega-projects such as The Line should be avoided in favour of improving urban design within existing cities, Gehl Architects CEO Helle Søholt says in this interview. Speaking to Dezeen ahead of the UIA World Congress of Architects conference, Danish urban planning and design expert Søholt argued that it is more important for cities to focus
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The project for the conservative restoration of Portello Colmarion, in Asolo, in the Veneto region, takes place in a landscape context straddling the anthropized part of the city village on one side and the thick vegetation of the hilly forest on the other. The portal, belonging to the medieval walls dating back to the fourteenth century of the city, is positioned in a panoramic hilly area at 379m above sea level which allows you to dominate the plain below, consolidating the meaning that the poet Giosuè Carducci gave to the village: the city of a hundred horizons.
Between 1880 and the early 1950s, the Bonnet Springs Park site was home to the Lakeland Railyard, which served as a major hub for the movement of freight up and down the east coast. In 1952 the railyard closed, leaving the land in an abandoned state and Lake Bonnet all but forgotten. In 2017 the Bonnet Springs Park board hired Sasaki to create a master plan for the park. Sasaki took input from the public during a six-month outreach period and incorporated ideas and desires into an approved design and park mission: to become an ecological jewel, a cultural magnet, and a connected community asset.
Using AI to help design cities of the future risks creating a regressive world like The Jetsons unless we recognise the technology’s susceptibility to stigma and bias, write MIT scientist Fábio Duarte and Washington Fajardo. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly changing how we investigate and imagine the world and the urban environment. They can
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Paris has reimposed a height limit for new buildings in the city, following the controversial construction of Tour Triangle tower designed by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron. The height limit, announced yesterday, will limit new buildings in the French capital to a height of 37 metres or 12 storeys. It reinstates the same Parisian
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Reclaim space. reclaim safety. reclaim rights
Refurbishment of the area on which the first safety measures had been carried out following the exceptional flood of 2011 which almost indelibly erased the complex that persisted in the area, consisting of a fountain, a covered washhouse, and a stairway which connected to the public park above.
Twenty-four thousand plastic caps donated by residents of the Morro do Quadro neighborhood in Vitória-ES served as the basis for socio-spatial improvements in a lookout point in the region. The project, which involved community agency, creation, and execution, was developed by Cidade Quintal and was part of the actions of the MC Festival – favela edition, held by the Cidade Movement.
PosadMaxwan, an urban design firm from The Hague, The Netherlands, has designed the unique main entrance to the underground bicycle parking area located beneath the city of Zwolle’s train station square. For the first time ever, the greenery of a station square has been extended to meet up with an underground parking garage, creating a seamless connection between the indoors and the outdoors. Cyclists are guided down the ramps by a sloping green garden with plants that change with the seasons.
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