Urban Renewal
Projects that revitalize urban spaces through architectural intervention, adaptive reuse, and community-centered design.
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.
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.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
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.
Monument : Landscape : Cityscape: A Timber Urban Institute to Mend Subotica's Unfinished Modernist Axis
Desire Tilinger turns a stalled socialist boulevard in Subotica into a porous timber institute where wartime memory, play and civic research share a roof.
Waterfront Redevelopment and Urban Revitalization in Mumbai: Forging a New Dawn for Darukhana
A transformative waterfront redevelopment project reimagining Darukhana’s shipbreaking heritage into an inclusive urban future.
Centro Habana Urban Regeneration, Desde Adentro: Rebuilding Havana's Dragones One Street at a Time
A five-phase, street-led strategy for Havana's Dragones district that turns vacant lots and decaying buildings into cultural and public space.
Restoring a Krasnoyarsk Microdistrict: A Nest for Intergenerational Living
A Soviet-era housing block in Siberia is reimagined through vertical extension, shared courtyards, and the protective metaphor of a bird's nest.
Harlem Ustopia: Synthetic Regrowth on the Ruins of Public Housing
A regenerative urban network in East Harlem transforms demolished public housing sites into layered ecosystems of memory, ecology, and modular living.
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
Theatre Lane: Vertical Dwelling Carved from Sydney's Forgotten Alleyways
A multi-generational micro dwelling reclaims a narrow service lane in inner-city Sydney by building upward between existing party walls.
Compact Houseive: Turning a Kuala Lumpur Shoplot into a Multi-Generational Vertical Home
An abandoned shoplot on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman becomes a split-level family dwelling that stacks private retreats, shared living, and a ground-floor bus
