Civic Space
Design and architecture of shared public spaces that foster community interaction and cultural exchange.
Shell+Core Carve a Brutalist Coffee House and Concept Store from Raw Concrete in Dubai
Koncrete Space on Jumeirah's Dar Al Wasl road merges specialty coffee, curated retail, and a sunken majlis into 215 square meters of raw finishes.
CIVIC HEARTH
Designing Social Infrastructure for India's Industrial Landscapes
GRAFT Reassembles 35 Shipping Containers into a Temporary Cultural Hub on Kurfürstendamm
POP Kudamm turns a vacant Berlin lot into a Place of Participation, built from the recycled bones of an earlier cultural venue.
The Empty Space: Modular Units That Turn Plazas, Parks and Streets into Open Stages
Lianping Xia's runner-up Opera Truck entry reads Peter Brook's empty space as a modular framework that performers, audiences and cities keep redefining.
DIF Comitancillo Center: A Community Architecture Project in Oaxaca
Community center in Oaxaca uses vaulted concrete, lattice facades, patios, and flexible spaces to deliver dignified, climate-responsive social infrastructure community.
Reflection on Public Interfaces: A Municipal Headquarters Recast as Shared Civic Ground in Hubballi
Shreya Mahabalshetti's thesis opens a closed municipal compound to the city, pairing reused colonial blocks with porous new civic volumes.
Civic Engagement Centre, Ahmedabad: The Old City's Street Hierarchy Rebuilt as Civic Infrastructure
Vinay Agrawal reads Ahmedabad's pols, chowks and otlas as a civic grammar, grading street to courtyard so public life can unfold in steps.
A New Civic Threshold: Reconnecting Tehran's Divided Urban Geography
Transforming Tehran's Central Station from a hard infrastructural edge into a permeable civic landscape that bridges upper and lower city.
Kunshan City Square: Reclaiming Civic Space Through Human-Scaled Urban Landscape
Kunshan City Square transforms a monumental civic plaza into a lively, human-scaled public landscape through corridors, courtyards, and everyday urban activity.
Citizen Garden Park: A Transformative Urban Oasis by Práctica Arquitectura in Monterrey, Mexico
Citizen Garden Park in Monterrey transforms a former lot into a lush, flexible urban oasis, blending greenery, social spaces, and civic engagement.
The STREET: Reclaiming Community Spirit in India's Peripheral Developments
Meandering internal street recreates Indian by-lane culture within Pune community center, fostering spontaneous encounters through open, accessible, brick-and-concrete social spaces.
REVITALIZING COMMUNITY
Blurring the boundaries between private, semi-private, and public layers to create dynamic, engaging, and inclusive urban experiences
