Architecture & Urban Design
Exploration of architectural practice, urban environments, and design's role in shaping cities and communities.
Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
Martínez Arquitectura, MEC Arquitectura and Fiallo Atelier Raise a Bogotá School over a Public Ground Linking Two Parks
In Bogotá's Kennedy district, a long brick school opens its ground floor to the neighborhood and climbs toward the eastern hills in terraced stairs.
Hardel Le Bihan Architectes Houses 10,000 Dakar Students Behind Wind-Tuned Terracotta Moucharabieh Screens
At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, sixteen slim dormitory bars lean on orientation, night ventilation and patterned screens for comfort.
DARE – Design Arena + Research Wraps a 30-Year-Old Bangkok House in Curved Screens to Face a New Road
A three-decade-old suburban Bangkok home turns its back on a new public road, trading exposure for curved screens, a pond and a double-height core.
Shenzhen Huahui Design and iDEA Stack a Library and Youth Center Around a Hanging Garden in Luohu
In Shenzhen's dense Luohu District, two offset towers split reading and youth programs, then meet in a multi-level sky garden that frees the ground.
Atelier Meadow Inserts Red Stairs and Timber Volumes into a Young Chengdu Building to Create an Art Center
In Chengdu's Tianfu International Biotown, a 4,000 m² adaptive reuse treats a recently built frame as raw material for galleries, studios and a theatre.
Tchoban Voss Architekten and Barcode Architects Gather Dresden's Scattered City Offices into One Stadtforum
On Dresden's Ferdinandplatz, a stone-gridded civic block with a bronze-finned crown wraps offices around two green courtyards and opens a new square.
TJAD and DCA Arrange a Huizhou-Inspired Art Museum on a Triangular Grid Beside a Hefei Campus Lake
On the Anhui University of the Arts campus in Hefei, white render, slate and pitched roofs pinwheel around skylit courtyards on a triangular grid.
Kéré Architecture and HK Architekten Stack a Timber Daycare into a Vertical Playground on Munich's TU Campus
On a former parking lot at TU Munich, a five-level timber kindergarten for 60 children links its floors by slide and ends in a rooftop meadow.
Archiland Shapes a Sprawling New City Center for Tianjin Around the Promise of Vibrant Public Space
In Tianjin, Archiland frames a new urban center as a sprawling field of activity, testing whether large scale and everyday vibrancy can coexist.
HYPERBLOCK: A Catalogue of Strategies for Growing Barcelona Upward
Vicky Daroca's Editor's Choice entry layers nine flexible massing systems above Cerdà's 133-metre grid without erasing the city beneath.
Synergize: Rewiring Barcelona's Cerdà Grid into a Cooperative Urban Network
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry dissolves block boundaries to create 800-metre pedestrian districts within Barcelona's iconic grid.
