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- Valet proposes a prefab parklet system for Milans roads Tue, 4 May 21, 1:30amIn a bid to rethink public spaces, Milan-based architecture studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners has collaborated with PRR Architetti and Lorenzo Noe to develop Valet, a city development strategy to turn parking spots into...
- Architects want to turn the Tiber River banks into a thriving piazza Wed, 7 Oct 20, 5:30amIn its ongoing efforts to introduce imaginative public spaces into cities, New York-based Ballman Khapalova has unveiled a proposal to turn a section of the Tiber River into a new vital center for public life in Rome dubbed...
- Tartu turns a major street into a car-free haven for a month Fri, 2 Oct 20, 1:30amFor the entire month of July, the Estonian city of Tartu transformed one of its main streets in the heart of the city into the Autovabaduse (Car-Free) Avenue, a popular pedestrian-friendly paradise...
- A small Swedish town becomes home to urban development experiments Sat, 19 Sep 20, 1:30amStockholm-based architecture firm Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled designs for the Tibro Train Tracks, an ongoing urban development project to transform an abandoned track area in the Swedish town of Tibro into an...
- Solar-powered POP-UP Park takes over underused Budapest square Sat, 1 Sep 18, 5:00amHungarian design studio Hello Wood has teamed up with the Municipality of Budapest City yet again to revive a forgotten public space with a dazzling summer haven that’s free and open to everyone, 24 hours a day...
- Whimsical park built of recycled materials pops up in Shanghai Thu, 5 Apr 18, 6:30pmShanghai’s hip Anfu Road recently found itself home to a whimsical urban intervention showing how one man’s trash could be turned into public space treasure...
- Basurama transforms landfill trash into playgrounds in Taipei Tue, 2 Aug 16, 6:54pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFs4FqOuI58 Founded in 2001, the Basurama artist collective has worked around the world developing innovative uses for waste to raise awareness about the benefits of reuse and the ills of a...
- Simple but smart design transforms a concrete plaza into a lively urban park Mon, 11 Jul 16, 6:00pm“The project springs from the need to create a welcoming place for the citizens of Favara while simultaneously donating to the city an innovative public space shaped from the perfect combination of wood and vegetation,”...
- Mini Gabion Parklet pops up in a Brazilian neighborhood Thu, 3 Mar 16, 7:30amParklets are hands down one of our most favorite types of urban interventions, and they’ve started to catch on down south in Brazil as well. Brazilian architecture studio Quadra Estúdio recently installed the Gabion Parklet,...
- Guerrilla art in Jerusalem breathes new and colorful life into street benches Wed, 10 Feb 16, 8:00pmThe director of the Baka community commissioned Tomer-Schlesinger’s colorful interventions for an upcoming arts festival. The bench art went viral on Facebook after a user posted a picture, setting off a search for the...
- Repurposed traffic barrels reactivate a forgotten public space in El Paso Wed, 23 Dec 15, 9:00amArchitects Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, partners at AGENCY, have teamed up with a group of Texas Tech University architecture students to design FLASH INSTALLATION, a pop-up architectural installation made from repurposed...
- Aether & Hemera’s interactive mixed-media installation raises awareness of pollinators Thu, 10 Dec 15, 9:00amArt and design studio Aether & Hemera have created Pollinators, an interactive installation that uses mixed media to raise awareness about the belief that pollinator populations are in continual decline...
- Look for thoughtful notes hidden throughout London Wed, 9 Dec 15, 9:00amHow do you get people to slow down in a bustling city like London? This kind and charming urban intervention may do the trick. Online magazine and creative studio Thoughtful has planted small origami envelopes all over the...
- Portable ParkedBench parklet injects a breath of fresh air in London Tue, 1 Dec 15, 1:00amSupported by the Transport for London Future Streets incubator fund, ParkedBench was installed at Tooley Street near the London Bridge, where it was unveiled November 20, 2015...
- Jerusalem’s giant red poppies bloom when you walk by Sat, 31 Oct 15, 12:00amThe sculptures are divided into two pairs, with one located at the entrance of the city’s market square and the other at the nearby tram station. The black “stems” culminate into downward facing “seed heads” imbedded...