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Conceived as a paradigm for urban living, Heatherwick Studio’s Azabudai Hills is constructed as a city-in-a-city after over three decades of planning

Situated in the Minato City of Tokyo, Azabudai Hills is Thomas Heatherwick’s first district and a culmination of a thirty-year-long regeneration process commissioned by Mori Building Company.

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Resulting from a process of community participation to create a safe environment, this urban renewal project by Ahmed Hossam Saafan transforms the street into a vibrant environment

Transforming the streets of the Magdy El Khouly neighborhood in Cairo, Magdy El Khouly Street Rehab is a community-driven urban renewal project coordinated by Ahmed Hossam Saafan for Dawar for Arts and Development and the Dutch Embassy in Cairo.

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The ‘beginning of a new city’ and a paradigm for what urban space can become, Mario Cucinella Architect’s urban development project for Milan proposes new ways of living together, working, gathering, and moving

Situated between Rho and Milan, MIND is an urban development project designed by MCA-Mario Cucinella Architects together with LAND for Lendlease that will become a new paradigm of urban space that gives precedence to pedestrians and slower movement, dissolves the boundary between indoor and outdoor, and gives space for innovation, living, and working to coexist.

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Yibin High-Speed Rail Station Gateway Development

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Pelli Clarke & Partners to design a new master plan in Yibin that gives rise to a dynamic urban destination well integrated into its urban context while respecting history and local culture

Led by David P. Chen, Pelli Clarke & Partners, in collaboration with Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, have won an international design competition for the comprehensive master plan of the new Yibin High-Speed Rail Station Gateway Development in China.

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Elkus Manfredi Architects designs a bike park pavillion as a part of a greater urban development establishing a new, community focal point

Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and landscape architecture firm Offshoots, the Hood Bike Park Pavillion is the centerpiece of future development, master-planned by Elkus Manfredi, which will transform H.P. Hood Dairy Company’s historic production facility into a mixed-use district encompassing offices, labs, residences, retail space, and a hotel.

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Tonkin Liu builds a lacey, gothic-like ‘Tower of Light’—a new low-carbon energy center in Manchester—inspired by nature becoming the largest built shell lace structure to date

Tonkin Liu has completed the Tower of Light—a 40-metre tall tower supporting and enclosing flues for a new low-carbon energy centre in Manchester’s city centre.

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VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism completes an underground bike parking facility in the center of Amsterdam

VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism and DS Landschapsarchitecten have joined forces and have created a new underwater bike parking facility in the heart of Amsterdam that has changed the city center providing new public space and improving the city’s infrastructure offering more than 4000 bike parking spaces.

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Mecanoo and Meng Architects to design a new scientific center that includes a public circuit, a research center and a natural perimeter layer

European Prize for Architecture Laureate Mecanoo and Meng Architects, in collaboration with Lola Landscape Architects, have won the highly competitive international design competition for the Shenzhen Guangming Science Valley, located in China.

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Henning Larsen Architects and White Arkitekter to design the world’s largest mass-timber development in Stockholm

Named Stockholm Wood City by Henning Larsen Architects and White Arkitekter is the largest wood-building project in the world and is now in progress, covering an impressive 250,000 square meters, and is set to become a turning point in sustainable architecture and urban planning.

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C.F. Møller Architects unveils their plans for the transformation of the Lake Mjøsa’s waterfront

C.F. Møller Architects have presented recently the masterplan and the first visualizations for Mjøsfronten in Hamar, with the aim of strengthening the city center as a meeting place and connecting the city closer to Norway’s largest lake, Mjøsa.

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Conceived as a paradigm for urban living, Heatherwick Studio’s Azabudai Hills is constructed as a city-in-a-city after over three decades of planning

Resulting from a process of community participation to create a safe environment, this urban renewal project by Ahmed Hossam Saafan transforms the street into a vibrant environment

The ‘beginning of a new city’ and a paradigm for what urban space can become, Mario Cucinella Architect’s urban development project for Milan proposes new ways of living together, working, gathering, and moving

Pelli Clarke & Partners to design a new master plan in Yibin that gives rise to a dynamic urban destination well integrated into its urban context while respecting history and local culture

Elkus Manfredi Architects designs a bike park pavillion as a part of a greater urban development establishing a new, community focal point

Tonkin Liu builds a lacey, gothic-like ‘Tower of Light’—a new low-carbon energy center in Manchester—inspired by nature becoming the largest built shell lace structure to date

VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism completes an underground bike parking facility in the center of Amsterdam

Mecanoo and Meng Architects to design a new scientific center that includes a public circuit, a research center and a natural perimeter layer

Henning Larsen Architects and White Arkitekter to design the world’s largest mass-timber development in Stockholm

C.F. Møller Architects unveils their plans for the transformation of the Lake Mjøsa’s waterfront

Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

UNITEDLAB Associates and Vtrilloarquitectos design a sustainable, commemorative cultural park to honor all 416 MV Sewol Ferry victims, most of them schoolchildren

Encapsulating the suburban American dream, Roger Ferris + Partners offers an unusual take on cottages and contemporary swimming pools via their Pink Pool House

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Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

UNITEDLAB Associates and Vtrilloarquitectos design a sustainable, commemorative cultural park to honor all 416 MV Sewol Ferry victims, most of them schoolchildren

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