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From former deposit area to neighborhood resource MASU Planning: Activity Landscape Kastrup is a former deposit area of excess soil and building materials, which was turned into a new neighborhood park. The long left-over patch of land in between the 80ies residential area Vægterparken and the metro tracks was transformed into a neighborhood resource, by […]

Nyréns Arkitektkontor: Årstabergsparken in Årstadal is located just south of the central district of Södermalm in Stockholm. The area has come into focus in the debate over lack of space dedicated to children in the dense city. The project is a hill-top park created from the undeveloped areas that have been left over after the […]

The conversion of a former croft cemetery into a park with playground equipment for children transforms a half-forgotten walk-through garden into a site of active fun where people of all ages will find ways to wind down. The design works with three basic principles – activating the park boundary, enabling free movement within, and introducing new […]

The 4,000 m² public playground is the centerpiece of the large housing settlement Springsiedlung in the heart of Berlin. It is designed not only as a play area for children, but also an inclusive place for social interaction for all residents and users from the adjacent neighborhoods. The design of the playground not only fits […]

Transformation of the Rems Valley and Rems – from the source of the river to its mouth In 2019 the first intercommunal garden show took place in Baden-Württemberg, and 16 municipalities used the event to develop in a sustainable and contemporary way more than 80 km of the Rems Valley from the source of the […]

A worn-down ‘non-place’, absent on the locals’ mental city map has been transformed into a modern urban space with a luminous landmark. Smedetoften is a residential area in the centre of Copenhagens Nordvest district with almost no outdoor meeting places. 1:1 Landskab help change that. As part of a municipality led urban renewal project 1:1 […]

The dull, old playground has been replaced by a playful universe where the children can play, move and learn new skills. At the same time, the new outdoor area offers the opportunity to take the teaching outside and create an untraditional, dynamic framework for learning. Sports court and birdhouses In the centre of the playground, […]

Interacting Fences is a ‘social distance’-inspired sculpture on display in Perth, Australia. It is the debut artwork by artists Georgia Taylor-Berry and Jesse Taylor. The sculpture is a part of the annual outdoor exhibition, Sculpture by the Sea, Cotteslo

Olympia on Tour is a remake of our playful urban intervention “Olympia”, done back in 2017, inspired by sports for the activation of different public spaces. This time, driven by a “plug & play” strategy, it is intended to be itinerant throughout seve

Competition - 1st prize

La Why Not Academy è una scuola ma soprattutto un centro multifuzionale per la comunità di Mabatini, uno dei quartieri più poveri dello slum Mathare a Nairobi. I progetto della costruzione della scuola avviene in più fasi.

Library and Community Center

Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses with few or no tenure rights or support from the government. The area h

A plot in the row is being built on for the first time. In a street with mostly monotonous houses from the 1950s and 1960s, the rare bay windows are the only inspiring elements. The design makes an interpretation of the typical aspects: the neutral red br

Low carbon, local waste brick developed for use at the Design Museum Gent

House in Ayameike designed by Ippei Komatsu Architects is an "unpredictable and open house to the future" located in Nara, Japan.

El proyecto se inicia a raíz de una convocatoria pública del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona para la cesión de uso del solar ubicado en el barrio de la Marina del Prat Vermell calificado como VPO con derecho de superficie en favor de cooperativas de vivienda du

Located in the rural community of Mercendarbe in Latvia, House Pienenītes consists of a family house, a barn and a small sauna building, the latter of which will be built by the client later on. It was designed by Studio VĪKSNE, an emerging London based

Twelve houses is a block with town houses in Sorgenfri, the oldest industrial area in Malmö. The neighbourhood grew out of old farming areas along the railroad leading south – eight blocks the size of Malmös city centre. Today the area is characterised by

Photo essay by Mary Gaudin

The new cemetery Each community of the City of Ingelheim has its own small cemetery. Prospective there is a significant extension necessary. The intended new main cemetery of Ingelheim will be at the city quarter Frei-Weinheim near the river Rhine. A rede

The microhouse is called as “Seroro”, which means ‘vertically’ as the house is built vertically, rooms stacked vertically and its residents live in vertically. Seroro is located at the heart of Seoul where the price of land is excruciatingly high. However

For 4Rooms, an artist residency on the island of Kastellorizo, Silvia Fiorucci tapped five up-and-coming designers to make over one room each of a house.

Moriyama House situated in Tokyo, Japan, and designed by Ryue Nishizawa is one of the most influential private houses in Japanese contemporary architecture.

Villa corresponds in volume with its surroundings by hiding about a third of its program in an underground level. The house itself consists of three floors, each representing a different spatial organization (open common floor, a grid of private rooms, a

La Balma is a project promoted by Sostre Cívic, which was the winner to develop a plot in the Poblenou neighborhood in the first public tender for leasehold of land for cooperative housing. The project seeks to expand the stock of non-speculative and aff

1-1 Architects - ST House, Anjo Aichi 2021. Photos © the architects. [[MORE]]

House & Restaurant designed by Junya Ishigami are contained within this mud-covered building, which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground.

On the edge of the historic city centre of Utrecht, tucked away between the railway tracks and the Tweede Daalsebuurt, the former Werkspoor terrain can be found. The Wisselspoor neighbourhood is part of the larger transformation of the Werkspoor area into