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When you get right down to it, all any space needs to provide is a little shelter, light and comfort. The Air Square by KOGAA and Kubíček Visionair creates a safe environment anywhere it gets set up. This is a portable...

After completing cable car designs in Gothenburg and Amsterdam, UNStudio has won a competition to design the Blagoveshchensk Cable Terminal for the world’s first cross-border cable car that will connect Russia and China...

In collaboration with Kristin Jarmund Architects and Rodeo Architects, C.F. Møller Architects has unveiled designs for a new urban space—comprising a square, a hotel and a high-rise tower—at Oslo Central Station. Located...

Despite its complex appearance, AMAZE was easily and quickly constructed using an affordable and secure scaffolding system for its base. The prefabricated and modular system of metal pipes lent itself to a linear grid-like...

This past Friday parking spots across the States and around the world turned over a green leaf as pop-up public parks for Park(ing) Day 2014! This annual celebration of public space is one of our favorite events of the year...

Happy Park(ing) Day everyone! Today's the day when parking spots across the States and around the world turn over a green leaf as pop-up public parks. This annual celebration of public space is one of our favorite events...

Some people still criticize the urban agriculture movement as a cute idea with little potential to feed urban populations, or as an unnecessary intrusion on valuable city real estate...

Namba Parks was conceived when Osaka Stadium closed down, presenting a great redevelopment opportunity for a new commercial district right next to the Namba Train Station, which is just one stop away from Kansai Airport...

Reforma Towers is a two tower mixed-used project planned for Mexico City that will be located on Paseo de la Reforma. Designed by Richard Meier & Partners and developed by Diametro Arquitectos, the project consists of...

San Francisco, CA -- Interstice Architects go big every Park(ing) Day - and this year's park was no disappointment! The Park-a-licious Public Bubble is a huge inflatable structure filled with balloons and bubble gum...

Read the rest of San Francisco’s Parklets Transform Parking Spaces Into Urban Oases Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable architecture", eco design, green design,...

Read the rest of Baidu’s Science and Technology Campus is a Circular Green Haven in Beijing Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Baidu Science and Technology Campus, Beijing, china, eco design,...

Read the rest of Saint-Étienne Residents Transform Wasteland Into Public Square and Garden Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: collectif etc, eco design, france, green architecture, green design, Landscape...

This past weekend Spanish architecture firm Ecosistema Urbano teamed up with the VEA school of gardening to launch Greenhamar – a 24-hour event focused on greening a public square in Hamar, Norway...

Read the rest of San Francisco’s Waterfront To Get Green Makeover In Lead-Up To America’s Cup Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aecom, america's cup, boat race, green buidling, green design,...