News: urban improvements such as cycle paths, parks and public transport could transform Brooklyn and help turn New York City into the USA's leading location for technology firms, according to plans unveiled this week. More »
Landscape and urbanism
New York "can overtake
Thomas Heatherwick reveals garden
bridge designed for River Thames
Green promenade to provide London's
answer to New York's High Line
Cultural landscape path in the
Lower Mincio by Archiplan
Italian design studio Archiplan has installed a series of Corten steel, wood and concrete rest areas and information points along the banks of a river in Italy to enhance views of the surrounding countryside (+ slideshow). More »
"The High Line's responsible for New
York's best upcoming architecture"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from New York, designer Stephen Burks takes us to the High Line and explains how the elevated park is helping to transform the surrounding areas of the city. More »
Schmidt Hammer Lassen breaks ground
on former Shanghai Expo site
News: construction has started on a mixed-use development by Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen on the former site of the 2010 Shanghai Expo. More »
Farrells develops £1 billion Chinese
business hub in London docklands
Tudela-Culip Restoration Project in
Cap de Creus by EMF and Ardèvol
Landscape architects EMF teamed up with architecture firm Ardèvol to remove over 400 buildings from a former holiday village in eastern Spain and transform the landscape into a series of meandering pathways and coastal viewpoints (+ movie). More »
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 »
