Public Plaza
Design and planning of public gathering spaces that serve communities through architecture and landscape intervention.
PPAA Extends Rafael Moneo's Logroño City Hall into Its Plaza with a Lattice of Metal Frames
A temporary grid of slender poles and frames in Logroño's Plaza del Ayuntamiento borrows Moneo's rhythms and lets pedestrians complete the architecture.
Jaramillo Van Sluys Arquitectura and Urbanismo Turn a Demolished Registry Lot in Quito into an Orchard Plaza
In Quito's Centro Histórico, a 2,800 m² plaza exposes the San Agustín convent wall and redraws its lost Augustinian orchard in volcanic stone.
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.
Olik Studio Stacks a Guatemala City Shopping Center Around a Triple-Height Void and a Rooftop Garden Terrace
In Guatemala City's Zone 14, Etú Plaza fits 28 shops, a 12-meter cable-hung glass wall and a garden terrace onto an 1,816 m² corner lot.
Tarq Studio Rejects Air Conditioning and Builds Valledupar a Market That Breathes
On the periphery of a Colombian city where public space is scarce, a timber-trussed market plaza channels mountain air through its roof.
Edgar Mazo and CONNATURAL Build a Park in Medellín from the Ruins of the Houses It Replaced
In the Aranjuez district of Medellín, 80 percent of the materials for a new 5,500 square meter park came from the homes that once stood on the site.
gh3* Wraps a Barrel-Vaulted Strawberry-Red Pavilion Around Edmonton's Newest Park
O-day'min Park Pavilion transforms a former parking lot into a year-round public room clad in vivid red aluminum on the Canadian prairies.
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.
WORKac and ESTUDIO Ignacio Urquiza Stack a Blue Concrete Community Hub on a Mexico City Corner
A slender three-story center in Lomas de Becerra wraps robotics labs, workshops, and a cyberschool around a single staircase carved in light.
allmannwappner Liberates Cologne Cathedral from Decades of Urban Clutter Through Radical Subtraction
A 45,900 square meter reworking of Cologne's cathedral precinct strips away postwar infrastructure to let the Gothic icon breathe again.
Simplex Architecture Turns a 1970s Church in Chuncheon into an Intimate Black Box Theater
A corrugated metal skin and structural reinforcement give new life to a decommissioned church on a prominent civic axis in South Korea.
RA! Weaves a Boutique Hotel into the Pedestrian Streets of San José del Cabo
Laiva Plaza Hotel uses interwoven walls, Conkal red stucco, and a vertical courtyard to dissolve the threshold between town and hospitality.
