Urban Design
Design and planning of urban spaces, infrastructure, and communities that shape how people live and interact in cities.
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.
PÄRT OPERA: A Monumental Stone Platform That Turns an Opera House into Public Infrastructure
Raised above the waterfront on stepped terraces and rhythmic colonnades, this opera house invites the city in before the curtain rises.
Urban Retrofit: Turning Mass Housing Facades into Fields of Individual Expression
A modular balcony framework grafted onto Venezuelan public housing lets residents reshape their own domestic edge, unit by unit.
The School Beyond Its Walls: Enrico Panzacchi School by Archisbang and Areaprogetti
A pavilion school for 485 students in Ozzano dell'Emilia opens its gymnasium, auditorium and a new public square to the city.
Hudson Yards: A Green Ray and Vertical Ecosystem for Manhattan's Dense Future
A shortlisted New Dencities entry organizes towers, courtyards, and a continuous landscape axis into one interconnected urban framework.
Opera by the Sea: A Layered Waterfront Cultural Building for Tallinn's Baltic Coast
A sustainable opera house proposal connects marine cooling systems, stepped massing, and civic landscape on Tallinn's shoreline near Linnahall.
Garden: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines the Urban Void Beneath Leaside Bridge
Garden transforms the void beneath Leaside Bridge through sustainable architecture, greenery, social spaces, and circular stormwater design.
Barcelona in 2050: Recovering the Courtyard as Climate and Civic Infrastructure
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry reimagines Barcelona's Cerdà grid as a network of courtyards, water channels, and layered public spaces for 2050.
Opera House in Tallinn: Two Overlapping Circles That Dissolve the Stage Door
Paweł Gala's shortlisted proposal for Opera by the Sea uses a dual-circle diagram to merge public life and performance on Tallinn's waterfront.
SAMBACOR: Immersive Architecture Design Reimagining Rio’s Carnival Beyond the Parade
SAMBACOR transforms Rio’s Sambadrome into interactive architecture where carnival, technology, public space and social memory move together.
GREEN GRID: Reconnecting Barcelona's Blocks Through a Continuous Public Landscape
A nine-block urban strategy that opens, terraces, and links Cerdà's courtyards into a climate-responsive green network across the city.
NON GRAMME: Futuristic Architecture That Dissolves the Boundary Between Cinema and Reality
NON GRAMME turns futuristic architecture into holographic cinema, dissolving boundaries between audience, image, architecture and city life.
