Urban Planning
The planning, design, and development of urban spaces, neighborhoods, and cities at multiple scales.
An Urban Social Network: Urban Design for a Greener, More Connected Barcelona
An urban social network reimagines Barcelona’s superblocks with biophilic design, shared spaces, accessibility and stronger community lives.
HYPERBLOCK: Flexible Urban Design for Barcelona’s Future City
HYPERBLOCK reimagines Barcelona as flexible urban design, layering density, daylight, public space and adaptable housing above Cerdà’s grid.
SYNERGIZE: Urban Design Reimagining Barcelona’s Cerdà Blocks for 2050
SYNERGIZE reimagines Barcelona’s Cerdà blocks through urban design, connecting people, nature, mobility and adaptable public life for 2050+.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
ECOTent: Turning Shanghai's Balconies into a Living Agricultural Network
A modular retrofit system attaches greenhouse modules to existing residential balconies in Pudong, weaving food production and social life into the facade.
Manzana Morphosis: Stretching Barcelona's Grid into a Living Landscape for 2050
A radical reworking of the Eixample manzana turns density into a tool for generous public space, vertical ecology, and environmental performance.
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.
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.
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.
Thu Thiem Banks Market: A Canal Carved into Public Life
Nicolas Eberle's winning Street City Vietnam entry transforms Ho Chi Minh City's waterfront into a layered marketplace woven around water.
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.
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COMMU[C]ITY: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Barcelona’s Hyperblock for 2050
COMMU[C]ITY reimagines Barcelona through sustainable architecture, mixing green towers, shared streets, mobility and urban biodiversity hub.
