Vertical Streets
Urban design and architecture that activates vertical and underutilized spaces within city streets and neighborhoods.
PEEL B: A Street Market That Peels the Ground Back to Narrate Thu Thiem's Urban Rise
A lifted green layer and a grid of skyscraper-like stalls turn a market into a compact story of land becoming city.
JVST Wraps a Raised Public Garden in Brick and Green Block for 118 Social Homes in The Hague
In The Hague's post-war Zichten district, Steenzicht 1A trades open slab planning for a courtyard block lifted over parking and opened to the street.
Barcelonas Vein: A Landscaped Spine That Bends Cerdà's Grid Toward a Pedestrian Barcelona of 2050
A green diagonal cuts through Barcelona's octagonal blocks, opening chamfered corners into courtyards and the hyperblock interior into civic ground.
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 Timber-Canopied Market Street That Leads Diners from Open Kitchens to the Riverfront
Modular restaurant units line a pedestrian street under a glazed timber canopy, then step down to the water at Newton Creek in New York.
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: Stacking Public Terraces to Rebuild the City's Social Ground
Ela Szymańska's hybrid of building and public space lifts the urban ground into open terraces for working, learning, making and gathering together.
Transitional Linkage: An Elevated Pedestrian Spine That Formalizes a City's Most Dangerous Shortcut
Zillur Rahman turns an informal crossing over rail and highway into a raised civic spine that ties six transport modes together at a single shared level.
Highway Urban Box: A House-Shaped Waiting Room for the City's Forgotten Highway Edges
A replicable, colour-coded house archetype claims highway shoulders and residual voids as public waiting spaces for emergencies and everyday pauses.
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.
