As Auckland, the City of Sails, makes its move towards becoming Tāmaki Makaurau, what could and what should a uniquely modern Māori and Polynesian city on the edge of the world look like?
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The Thomas Heatherwick designed Pier 55 in Manhattan, New York, is back on track to be completed in 2021. After being appointed following a design competition in 2013, the architecture studio envisioned a new pier on Manhattan’s southwest riverside that resembles a leaf floating in the water.
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Year 2519 — navigators and the new artisans. Robots everywhere, advanced alien species live on earth, some humans occupy new colonies in space.
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A small town near Toronto in Canada is setting out to become a futuristic city - based on a European layout and influenced by the garden city movement. Architecture studio Partisans have masterminded a plan for The Orbit, an Innisfil Next Generation Community that will centre around a new transit link and cultural centre.
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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed a modernisation and reinforcement of Neiderhafen’s flood protection system on the Elbe River, as well as a 625 metre river promenade.
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As a tribute to Danish author Karen Blixen, the architecture firm COBE has created a new public square and university plaza for Copenhagen.
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Design work on an area of tight alleyways and small lanes won Wellington City Council’s urban design team an Excellence Award in the small projects category of the 2019 Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards.
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A vertical landscaped hotel by Sheppard Robson is coming to the Holborn Viaduct, “setting the standard for urban greening in London.”
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Landscape architect OLIN’s winning design for Washington D.C.’s 11th Street Bridge Park will connect two historically disparate sides of the Anacostia River.
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MVRDV has come up with a plan to revive the historic centre of The Hague, reopening many of its 17th Century canals through a neighbourhood participation project, and improving, “the sustainability, economy, traffic and water management of the area.”
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On familiar streets and roads many of us think, “it would be so much better here if the street was set up like this instead”. Then we redesign them in our minds, placemaking here, or traffic calming there, maybe injecting some green infrastructure throughout.
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Almost 10 years after the first section of Manhattan’s High Line opened to the public, the Spur has been completed, an addition that continues the park’s tradition of planting with native wildflowers and including pieces of its former railway.
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Thanks to an upgrade by Gillespies last year, London’s iconic BBC Television Centre is open to the public for the first time in the landmark’s history.
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Henriquez Partners Architects, along with PFS Landscape Architects, have designed a mixed-use development for Vancouver, featuring sprawling green space and 10 tree-topped towers.
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Work’s due to begin next year on revitalising Ashburton’s central business district.
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Zhangjiang Art Park in Shanghai was originally two separate sites built in different eras and given completely different landscape styles.
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Isthmus CEO Ralph Johns says the current New Zealand condition is we are increasingly physical and mentally unwell, our communities are disconnected, access to good housing is inequitable and our environment is suffering.
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A key piece of Auckland city centre public realm development underway right now is the Downtown Programme, which will be delivered in time for the America’s Cup in 2021. It involves the reset of the larger part of the Quay Street corridor and adjacent Ferry Basin space.
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The statistics don’t lie: the bulk of the those that are designing living and urban spaces in New Zealand cities are men – but the times are changing. Globally, there is a conversation taking place on what cities would look like if equal weighting was given to all of its citizens in the design process. Co-founder of Women in Urbanism, a New Zealand organisation formed to push for more feminist cities, Emma McInnes makes a case for how New Zealand’s cities can be made to be more inclusive through urban design.
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Yagan Square in Perth is getting set to mark its first birthday next month. The 1.1-hectare tourist destination is located at the heart of one of the city’s busiest pedestrian locations, and within a major transit hub.
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