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Urban Landmark: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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An urban landmark is a building, structure or public work that gives a city a recognizable identity and anchors how people orient themselves in it. Designers working on landmarks must balance visual presence with daily function, public access and the long lifespan of infrastructure. The form is often shaped as much by how it is crossed, approached or seen from a distance as by its internal program.

Community work under this topic includes pedestrian and cycle bridges, transport links, research and educational campuses, and public shelters. Recurring concerns are how a single structure can connect districts, how light and water can be built into a crossing, and how a sculptural roof or dome can turn an ordinary route into shared public space.

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THE BRANCH BRIDGE

The design of the project is inspired by the clash of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea on top of Skagen, Grenen, which translates to ¨the branch¨ due to its long and narrow appearance; a phenomenon that is not seen in many parts of the world and that is possible to observe in Denmark.

Mustafa

The City Link

Discovering a public space on a cycling bridge

Kinga and 2 others

Iceberg Bridge

The great glaciers of our world in Greenland and Antarctica are slowly disappearing. Enormous parts of Netherlands, Florida and other lowlands are predicted to be flooded by 2050. The bridge is a constant reminder of the world which we will loose if we don't change. It could begin with the choice of cycling over driving.

Nikita

The Urban Link (T.U.L.)

We have moved away from the standard vision of the bridge and decided to use parametric form. It seems that the shape of our bridge directly links with nature, because only perfect, smooth and streamlined shape appears in the natural environment. The shape of our bridge can brighten up the urban environment and remind people where we came from.

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THE SHELTER

The bridge as a space-building game that provides shelter for today's sustainable ways, as well as sea and urban birds.

Jumbo

AI ACADEMY

Our world is evolving into an Artificial intelligence-based system and students will be the leader of their own learning, just like the program behind AI – self-initiated and knowledge without boundary. Together with the pedagogy trend of self-regulated learning, AI Academy Scarborough can be a model for other new-built educational institutions.

the LINE and the NET

The LINE processes the transition of the original wall into a path that reverses the meaning of separation and exclusion, and transforms the character of the wholw towards an idea of connection. The NETWORK proposes the seam between two disparate worlds (formal and informal) and culture is the nexus that, with its transforming capacity, links them.

ismail

VERANDAH EXTENDS

Verandah Extends an urban intervention proposal that re-branding the icon of Medan Pasar, Kuala Lumpur. It’s translated as a seamless climbable verandah-way structure that parasite to the existing host of Medan Pasar’s Clock-tower that serves the function for the social-cultural activities to resolve the crisis of lack of space in the dense urban context.

MANUEL ANDRES and 2 others

"G" PEDESTRIAN & BICYCLE BRIDGE

The Bridge is divided into three separate paths: on the upper-level A and B paths for bicycles which are accessible by means of ramps - and a pedestrian path (path C) on a lower level accessible by elevator. This allows pedestrians - who simply want to cross the bridge quickly - do so on the lower level, and allow cyclists to enjoy the upper levels

XIAO and 2 others

Telling Bridge

The design of the Telling bridge celebrates one of Denmark and Copenhagen’s most renown culture symbol H.C. Andersen and is a anecdote of his beloved fairy tales. The appearance of the bridge is designed to resemble papers from a storybook floating on the waster surface. Page corners are rolled up in natural curves as if someone is flipping through stories.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

A Pedestrian Bridge That Choreographs Light and Water

Hoshino Architects' Reimei Kobashi footbridge in Tokyo's waterfront district turns infrastructure into a luminous urban landmark.

Pedestrian Bridge

Cycling Bridge

UNI Editorial

publishedNews6 months ago

Hsinchu Biotechnology Research and Incubation Center Phase III by JJP Architects & Planners

Hsinchu Biotechnology Research Center Phase III combines biomimetic design, sustainable energy, flexible labs, and collaborative spaces within Taiwan’s Zhubei Biomedical Park.

Educational Building

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

School Group Samuel Paty in Béziers: A Contemporary Educational Campus by Ateliers O-S Architectes and NAS Architecture

Samuel Paty School in Béziers features concrete massing, porous courtyards, metal structures, and landscaped playgrounds, creating a child-scaled, light-filled learning environment.

Pont-Aven School

School Building

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago