Urban Landscape
Design and architecture projects exploring cities, landscapes, and the relationship between urban environments and natural systems.
prOpencity: Treating the Dense City as Open-Source Code That Its Citizens Can Edit
A collage-driven urban experiment that swaps the masterplan for a repeatable loop of listening, prototyping and revising with the people on the street.
Vari Architects Turns an Abandoned Show-Villa Island in Chengdu into a Lakeside Retail Village
On Luxe Lakes in Chengdu, a field of abandoned show villas becomes a loose cluster of shops, terraces and gray spaces that soften into the landscape.
ULTRA STUDIO Rescales Tokyo's Tiled Towers and Retaining Walls into a Terraced Apartment Block in Uehara
In Tokyo's sloping Uehara district, a 899 m² apartment block turns overlooked street habits, tile, plinths and hanging gardens, into architecture.
E PLUS DESIGN Stacks a Chongqing Shopping Complex into a Terraced Hillside Beside Green Heart Park
At LUXERIVERS in Chongqing, a 22,535 m² retail and art complex steps down toward Luxi Lake as planted terraces, open atriums and public stairs.
Natura Futura Turns a Vacant Babahoyo Lot into a Family Restaurant Built Around a Double-Height Vertical Garden
In Babahoyo, Ecuador, a 160 m² family restaurant of local wood, brick and river stone reactivates a vacant plot around a double-height planted courtyard.
Archiland Shapes a Sprawling New City Center for Tianjin Around the Promise of Vibrant Public Space
In Tianjin, Archiland frames a new urban center as a sprawling field of activity, testing whether large scale and everyday vibrancy can coexist.
Faces of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Turning Moscow's Street Names into an Open-Air Museum
A network of sculptural installations across a Moscow residential district transforms forgotten architect names into spatial encounters with cultural memor
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.
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.
Machine Made Landscapes: Turning a Closed Bengaluru Quarry into a Public Ecological Park
Karan Anand treats the cliffs, pits and flooded voids of the 152-acre Betthalasuru quarry as ground to build on, not scars to erase.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
Urban Oasis: Turning a Former Spandau Barracks into a Dense District That Grows Its Own Green
Varlygin and Soshnikova recast Berlin's garden culture as an urban typology, weaving greenhouses and shared plots into a densified former barracks site.
