Landscape architects EMF teamed up with architecture firm Ardèvol to remove over 400 buildings from a former holiday village in north-east Spain and transform the landscape into a series of meandering pathways and coastal viewpoints (+ movie). More »
Landscape and urbanism
Tudela-Culip Restoration Project in
Thula Fort Restoration
by Abdullah Al-Hadrami
The watchtowers, walls and pathways of a historic fort were repaired and rebuilt as part of this restoration project in the 2000-year-old city of Thula, Yemen, one of 20 projects shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award. More »
Reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared
Refugee Camp
The homes of 27,000 Palestinian refugees will be replaced as part of this reconstruction project underway at Nahr el-Bared, 16 kilometres outside of Tripoli, Lebanon (+ slideshow). More »
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas to redesign
central railway area of Bari, Italy
Broadway Malyan to masterplan new
district for Kuala Lumpur
Central Business District at Shanghai
Hongqiao Airport by MVRDV with Aedas
Dutch firm MVRDV has won a design competition for a new business district in Shanghai, which is already under construction near the city's Hongqiao Airport. More »
BIG to design leisure district
on Paris outskirts
OMA hired for Bordeaux masterplan
Roy Lichtenstein residence and studio
by Caliper Studio
Brooklyn-based Caliper Studio has renovated the former home and studio of the late American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, adding a rooftop sculpture garden and a pair of "eyebrow-shaped" skylights. More »
Asian Cairns by
Vincent Callebaut
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has developed a concept to introduce natural ecosystems into cities with designs for "farmscrapers" made from piles of giant glass pebbles for a site in Shenzhen, China (+ slideshow). More »
The Beam by MVRDV
and de Alzua+
Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. More »
"This is a village with no facilities
beyond raw security"
OMA chosen to masterplan
Airport City in Qatar
Bratislava Culenova New City Centre
by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled designs for a complex of towers in Bratislava's city centre (+ slideshow). More »





