Urban Installation
Temporary and permanent structures that activate, transform, or engage urban public spaces and communities.
Studio Weave Builds a Maida Hill Public Toilet from Reclaimed City of London Office Granite
In North Paddington, a 17 m² toilet pavilion turns salvaged Broadgate office cladding into load-bearing stone walls built to be taken apart again.
Moradavaga Wires Timber Frames and Red Hoses into an Eavesdropping Machine in Udine
An interactive installation in Udine, Italy, where inverted buckets and looping red hoses turn listening across a room into a shared, playful ritual.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
Gustavo Utrabo Suspends a Fabric Threshold Between the Trees of a São Paulo Park
Fourteen wooden props and white cloth create a waypoint on the winding paths of Praça Adolpho Bloch in Jardim America, Brazil.
Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
Opera Truck: A Modular Steel Chassis That Turns Madrid's Street Map into Stage, Seat and Playground
A shortlisted Opera Truck entry where interchangeable bentwood, net and light fillings slot into steel cubes, letting Madrid plazas host art every day.
Karim + Elias Stack 150 Rammed-Earth Spheres into an Open-Air Landscape for Dubai Design
A grand installation of hand-pressed sand and clay spheres transforms a Dubai plaza into an earthen terrain at Downtown Design 2022.
Instant City: Archigram's Roaming Metropolis Rebuilt as a Fleet of Unfolding Cultural Modules
A fleet of autonomous modules unfolds from compact transport forms into stages, markets and cinemas, turning plazas into temporary cultural venues.
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.
Down in the Clouds by Practice on Earth + Increments Studio
An experimental inflatable and container installation in rural Ningbo, transforming abandoned structures into playful cultural spaces through poetic, lightweight architecture.
