News: work is about to start on a high-density, car-free "satellite city" for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. More »
Tag: urban design
Great City by Adrian Smith +
The Zebra Crossing Project
by Eduard Čehovin
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More »
Landhausplatz by LAAC Architekten
and Stiefel Kramer Architecture

Austrian design studio LAAC Architekten and Stiefel Kramer Architecture have completed this public plaza in Innsbruck, Austria, with an undulating concrete surface. More »
Golden Hills Masterplan by SOM

Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have produced these images to illustrate their masterplan for a 375 hectare site in Danang, Vietnam, that is prone to frequent flooding. More »
Stockholmsporten masterplan by BIG

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways. More »
A Rolling Masterplan by Jagnefalt Milton

Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Masdar Institute campus by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of buildings entirely powered by solar energy at Masdar City, a sustainable urban quarter in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. More »
Ready. Steady. Go! by Sandra Janser
and Elisabeth Koller

Austrian architects Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller have painted streets in Graz, Austria to resemble a running track as part of a regeneration project More »
Central Business District Wenzhou
by Henn Architekten

Henn StudioB, the Berlin design and research studio of Henn Architekten, have won a competition to design a new business district in Wenzhou, China. More »
West Kowloon Cultural District by
Foster + Partners

UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More »
Masdar City Centre by LAVA
Vision 2030 by MVRDV
The Tolerant City by Schønherr Landskab
and Adept Architects

Danish landscape architects Schønherr Landskab and Adept Architects have won the H+ competition to masterplan a 100 hectare site in Helsinborg, Sweden. More »
Slussen Masterplan, Stockholm
by Foster + Partners

UK architects Foster + Partners have been appointed to masterplan the Slussen waterfront in central Stockholm, Sweden. More »
Proposals for Florence by Gruppo Giovani
Architetti Firenze

A new inhabited bridge over the River Arno in Florence is among proposals by Gruppo Giovani Architetti Firenze (Young Achitect Group of Florence) designed to provoke debate about architecture in the historic city. More »


