

City Square
Public squares and plazas that serve as civic gathering spaces and urban focal points.
City squares function as the social and commercial heart of urban environments, bringing together diverse programs and communities. These spaces range from historic plazas to newly reimagined public areas that balance pedestrian activity with cultural significance.
The community explores how squares are designed and revitalized through contemporary interventions, from eco-conscious shopping districts and heritage site restoration to infrastructure integration and landscape transformation that reconnects cities with their public spaces.
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View all 23 journalsTchoban 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.
EMBT and TJAD Turn Shanghai's Century Square into a Green Stage Anchored by a Mirrored Kaleidoscope Pavilion
On East Nanjing Road in Shanghai, a renewed Century Square trades open hardscape for planted hills, sea-blue paving and a pavilion that reflects it all.
WilkinsonEyre Bridges Toronto's Rail Corridor with a Diagrid Twin-Tower Campus
CIBC Square stitches Toronto's financial district to its waterfront with 330,000 square meters of office space and an elevated public park.
MZ Studio Architecture Gives a Serbian City Park Its Own Sun, Built from Steel, Water, and Pebbles
A 1,235-square-meter circular plaza in Šabac reimagines a 1970s park extension as the radiant center of an astronomical landscape narrative.