Vertical Streets
Urban design and architecture that activates vertical and underutilized spaces within city streets and neighborhoods.
Gardiner Architects Stacks Thirteen Unique CLT Apartments on a Melbourne High Street
In Thornbury, a cross-laminated timber apartment building treats every unit as an individual home with its own identity and orientation.
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.
Food Street: A Contemporary Urban Food Market Architecture Connecting City, Culture, and Riverfront
A modular urban food market architecture in New York that connects chefs, visitors, and the waterfront through flexible dining spaces and vibrant public streets.
Transforming Ljubljana’s Urban Void: Skatepark Under Fabiani Bridge by Scapelab
Skatepark under Fabiani Bridge in Ljubljana transforms neglected urban space into a 24/7 covered skate hub, blending concrete, steel, and community.
Jade Alley: Transforming a Hidden Alley into Miami’s Vibrant Public Space
Jade Alley transforms a neglected Miami Design District alley into a vibrant public space with parabolic arches, greenery, art, and community engagement.
Floors of Culture: Public Architecture as a Generator of Social Integration
Floors of Culture reimagines public architecture as stacked urban space, reviving social life, creativity, and entrepreneurship within the city fabric.
Transitional Linkage: Pedestrian-Oriented Transit Architecture Bridging Urban Mobility
A people-first transit-oriented development architecture that transforms invisible pedestrian paths into a central urban connector.
Highway Urban Box
Transforming overlooked highway edges into human-scaled waiting spaces that reconnect mobility, safety, and urban life.
Passing Pleasure: A Pedestrian Bridge Designed to Make You Stay
Hani Mansurnejad reimagines the urban bridge as a layered civic stage for cycling, pausing, and social life along a Copenhagen canal.
The STREET: Reclaiming Community Spirit in India's Peripheral Developments
Meandering internal street recreates Indian by-lane culture within Pune community center, fostering spontaneous encounters through open, accessible, brick-and-concrete social spaces.
SPIDER-NET: Parametric Multilayered Mobility Woven into Shanghai's Historic Core
A five-layer vertical circulation system fuses spider web geometry with traditional Chinese joinery at a congested Shanghai intersection.
Meet-in-the-Middle: A Pedestrian-First Mobility Network for Mumbai
Three interlocking systems of cable cars, elevated parks, and a central hub reimagine last-mile connectivity across one of the world's densest cities.
