Architecture & Urban Design
Exploration of architectural practice, urban environments, and design's role in shaping cities and communities.
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.
One Community: An Animal Shelter That Refuses to Hide from Its City
Bucharest's stray animal crisis becomes a catalyst for public space, memorial landscape, and social infrastructure in this layered proposal.
Faces of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Turning Moscow's Street Names into an Open-Air Museum
A network of sculptural installations across a Moscow residential district transforms forgotten architect names into spatial encounters with cultural memor
TOP-OF-ART'sy: An Opera Complex That Becomes Tallinn's Waterfront Public Ground
A shortlisted entry for Opera by the Sea distributes cultural programming across linear volumes, bridges, and a newly created island on Tallinn's shore.
GITONIA - DAFNIA
regional heritage harmonized with a refined modern architectural sensibility
Conexión: Twin Kowloon Towers Where a Planted Bridge Turns Density into Daily Contact with Nature
An 11-level mixed-use scheme in Kowloon splits into two vine-clad volumes joined by a bridge, weaving vegetation, light and air through a dense site.
An Urban Social Network: Reweaving Cerdà's Eixample Around Children, Seniors and Everyday Encounters
Ivette Caveli adds a distributed layer of plazas, canopies and green roofs to Barcelona's Eixample, treating benches and playgrounds as infrastructure.
DIGS: A Luxury Hotel Superimposed on a Shelter for Strays
Beth Blostein and Bart Overly fold a destination hotel into an animal shelter, turning kennels into cabanas and adoption into everyday encounter.
