Urban Park
Public green spaces and parks designed to enhance urban environments and community life.
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
Juguemos en el Parque and Alcaldía de Medellín Stitch Climate-Aware Playgrounds into Hillside Barrios
Across Medellín's peripheral neighborhoods, Tejiendo Hogares turns leftover corners into permeable, color-coded play spaces that also manage stormwater.
Studio NOR Revives Beijing's 798·751 Train Street with a Modular Kit of Steel Frames and Converted Carriages
In Beijing's 798·751 Park, a former coal yard and rail terminus regains public life through lightweight steel pavilions and retrofitted train carriages.
EW PARK: A Timber Parking Tower That Sorts Cars by How Often They Move
Gabriele Filippi's Electric Wood Park stacks human-driven, driverless and mechanized parking in a braced timber tower that also harvests solar energy.
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.
CASE-REAL Designs a Minimal Landscape to Let 1.6-Million-Year-Old Basalt Speak for Itself
At Genbudo Park in Toyooka, Japan, sandblasted concrete and restrained interventions defer to volcanic columnar joints formed in the Pleistocene.
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.
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.
VIASCAPE Design Transforms the Underside of a Shanghai Light Rail into a Technicolor Public Park
A formerly blighted stretch beneath Metro Line 3 in Shanghai becomes a vibrant, color-coded landscape of sport, play, and repose.
Shanghai New Horizon High Land Park and Civic Center: Urban Renewal Meets Public Engagement
Shanghai’s New Horizon High Land Park transforms an abandoned railway site into a vibrant civic center with rooftop park, public paths, and cultural integration.
Hop Park: Transforming Urban Spaces with Green Pop-Ups in Bangkok
Hop Park is a mobile, low-maintenance green pop-up in Bangkok, offering diverse zones for wellness, biodiversity, urban farming, and air purification.
Vertical Park with Iranian Garden Approach: Stacking Garden Terraces into the Urban Infill Plot
Pourya Meshkati stacks timber garden platforms into an urban infill plot, turning the Iranian garden's terraces and shade into a vertical public park.
