Design by: SeARCH

Year: 2009

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An alternative space for the landscape and new ways of appreciating and experiencing the lush landscape to the fullest. > Read more...

Design by: 2by4-architects

Year: 2007

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By introducing housing to industrial areas 2by4-architects utilise the existing qualities. > Read more...

Design by: Van Bergen Kolpa Architects

Year: 2009

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Park Supermarket is a spatial development model for a supermarket landscape located in the metropolitan parks of the Randstad. > Read more...

Design by: STEALTH.unlimited

Year: 2006

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Cut for Purpose arose from the question of how a museum space can respond to the dynamics of a group show presenting radically different Rotterdam-based artists. > Read more...

Design by: Powerhouse Company

Year: 2005

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This proposal combines new emerging living qualities with the Danish landscape yet preserving it. > Read more...

Design by: Onix

Year: 2008 - 2009

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Local circumstances, traditions, crafts – especially woodworking – and even folklore are exposed to today’s global influences and production methods in the project Egenes Park, Stavanger (NO). > Read more...

Design by: Anne Holtrop

Year: 2009

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With the project ‘Floating Gardens’ a floating landscape will be realised, providing space for a sustainable Wellness Spa in Amsterdam. > Read more...

Design by: Rietveld Landscape

Year: 2009

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Generating Dune Scapes makes the most of the opportunities offered by bringing together natural forces, current urban developments and industrial waste. > Read more...

Design by: West 8

Year: 2006

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Happy Isles affords a new perspective of the densely populated areas the Randstad and Vlaamse Ruit: new land in the form of a series of sand-sprayed islands just off the Flemish, Zeeuwse and Dutch coast. > Read more...

Design by: Atelier Kempe Thill

Year: 2008

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Based on the conviction that architecture need not be an elitist product but should be accessible for people with a low income, Atelier Kempe Thill aims at the optimization of social housing design. > Read more...

Design by: biq stadsontwerp

Year: 2009

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Instead of assessing existing buildings solely for their real estate value, biq stadsontwerp focuses on their value to society. With carefully chosen interventions the buildings are redeployed to better serve local social structures, contributing to sustainable urban renewal. > Read more...

Design by: Studio Marco Vermeulen / Urban Affairs in collaboration with De Urbanisten / VHP

Year: 2010

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Klavertje 4 (4-Leaf Clover) effectively and aesthetically combines production and consumption; by doing so the project connects multiple cycles. > Read more...

Design by: Rietveld Landscape

Year: 2007

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New Amsterdam Park (NAP) is a manifesto for a new Amsterdam public domain on the water. > Read more...

Design by: MVRDV

Year: 2001

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Pig City is a high-rise landscape that offers solutions to problems relating to space, mobility and the bio-industry. > Read more...

Design by: CONCEPT0031

Year: 2009

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In the publication ‘The Mosque. Political, Architectural and Social Transformations’ the mosque is placed on the political agenda both as architectural, cultural and social phenomenon. > Read more...

Design by: VenhoevenCS

Year: 2006

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Sportplaza Mercator is a building which serves as a connector for the multicultural Baarsjes district of Amsterdam. > Read more...

Design by: 2012Architecten

Year: 2009

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Villa Welpeloo is built in 2012’s Superuse principal: short-circuiting material flows by connecting demand with local supply. Using a harvest chart to make an inventory of all the material at hand in the near vicinity. > Read more...

Design by: AMO / OMA

Year: 2008 - 2009

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Zeekracht, a master plan for the North Sea, maps out a massive renewable energy infrastructure engaging all its surrounding countries. > Read more...

Design by: Platform M3

Year: 2011

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A team of volunteers is building an eco-friendly structure - the House of Abundance - out of waste materials. The project is irrefutable proof that sustainable collaboration is a more powerful resource than money. > Read more...

Design by: WHIM architecture

Year: 2009 - 2011

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A habitable floating island made out of garbage to tackle the problem of the vast quantities of plastic waste choking our oceans. The design for Recycled Island is an innovative approach to refuse – why not reinvent it as a building material?
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Design by: Derk van der Velden

Year: 2008

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Derk van der Velden’s design ‘The Resonator’ is inspired by Cornelis Lely’s 1892 plan for the Afsluitdijk: a new dam in the IJsselmeer which solves the problem of rising sea levels by reinforcing the tides of the Waddenzee.
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Design by: Massa

Year: 2006 - 2010

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What if house-buyers could have a say in the kind of house they wanted? Well, now they can. Flex-Living (Flex-wonen) is a strategy that capitalises on the diversity of the market, and takes the needs of target groups into account.
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Design by: Hugon Kowalski / H3AR

Year: 2010

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Hugon Kowalski of the Polish agency H3AR designed a water tower for Darfur to alleviate Sudan’s water problems. His design also creates opportunities for developing the region’s economic and social potential.
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Design by: Lama Sfeir, M. Nassib el Solh, Ghassan Maasri, Marwan Rechmaoui

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A self-sufficient eco-village for the disabled in Arnoun, South of Lebanon.
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Design by: Darine Choueiri, Sara Hage, Lama Sfeir, Christian Zahr

Year: 2010

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An inter-village path to form a network linking the various villages in the region.
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Design by: Meili & Peter with Ymere

Year: 2008

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The wooden pavilion designed by Swiss architects Meili & Peter was given a new identity in Amsterdam’s Noorderpark. It has become a cultural ‘living room’ in the midst of a public park and everyone is welcome.
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Design by: Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten (Stortplaats van Dromen)

Year: 2010 - 2011

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Foundation is about collecting waste material and old furniture from the neighbourhood, moving it to a waste container, reusing it to turn it into a small house (with the container as the foundation), to become a temporary meeting place for neighbours and passers-by. > Read more...

Design by: OKRA landschapsarchitecten bv

Year: 2005

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The design of the Afrikaanderplein demonstrates the strengths of the open plan process. By making residents part of the square’s transformation process, it has become a place for all kinds of groups to relax and have fun without getting under each other’s feet. > Read more...

Design by: OKRA landschapsarchitecten and Zwarts & Jansma

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Landshape, an eco-duct designed by Zwarts & Jansma in collaboration with OKRA, is an answer to the ‘clash’ between nature and infrastructure in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. The design is a fusion of natural and artificial forms. > Read more...

Design by: Stichting Broedstraten

Year: 2011

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Working on specific themes together with local residents and schools, Stichting Broedstraten nurtures social ties and creative talent in communities. > Read more...

Design by: Karo* with Architektur+Netzwerk

Year: 2009

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A free library, constructed over years of community input, has stabilized a declining area in East Germany, looking toward the future of the area and providing a model for future projects in post-industrial areas. > Read more...

Design by: Studio Schuim

Year: 2011

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Old bicycle frames are salvaged and, with the help of local youngsters, given a new lease of life when recycled to create eyecatching decorative fencing dividing the communal gardens from the public street. > Read more...

Design by: Patrizia Di Monte and Ignacio Grávalos Lacambra

Year: 2006 - 2010

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Through a series of urban interventions, the estonoesunsolar program created usable spaces out of abandoned vacant lots in the city of Zaragoza. The low-cost project shows how small changes can transform the city landscape through imagination and community involvement. > Read more...

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In the heart of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the Dutch artist duo Haas & Hahn have fostered pride and created jobs by painting enormous murals on concrete structures and residential facades. Through color and imagery, the neighborhood have been given a fresh face and a point of media contact from which to present themselves anew. > Read more...

Design by: Raumlabor Berlin

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The raumlaborberlin team realized the seemingly impossible goal of converting a metro station into an opera house. Through educational programs and cultural interventions, the previously unsavory area become a thriving point of dialog and exchange. > Read more...

Design by: Alejandro Echeverri Arquitetos

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Parque Explora, the crowning glory of Medellín’s new architectural and urban development plan helmed by Sergio Farjado and Alejandro Echeverri, highlights education in the sciences while stimulating economic growth and tourism. > Read more...

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Beginning with the renovation of a row of shotgun-style houses in Houston’s Third Ward, Rick Lowe, along with the neighborhood community and hundreds of visiting creative people have transformed the street into a vibrant cultural hub, and in turn developed a long list of social programs to provide assistance to the underprivileged through art and education. > Read more...

Year: 2010

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A renovated and reconstructed cinema, supported by a non-profit organization consisting of film makers, cultural advocates and investors, inspires hope and provides a space for education and cultural production in an isolated and war-torn area of Palestine. > Read more...

Design by: AT103

Year: 2006 - 2009

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A modular, affordable, and attractive apartment building adjacent to Mexico City’s economic center of Avenue Reforma takes the city a step closer to socio-economic integration and the reduction of commuter traffic and pollution. > Read more...

Design by: Zecc Architecten

Year: 2009 - 2010

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Zecc Architecten successfully renovated a historical monument in Driebergen to be completely energy-neutral, fulfilling both the requirements for historical preservation and the standards for energy efficiency. The attractive house is currently lived-in, and all of its renovations are entirely reversible, according with standards of historical preservation. The architectural planning process will serve as an example for countless future initiatives of its kind. > Read more...

Design by: Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA)

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An urban garden blossoms in Paris’ St. Blaise neighborhood, bringing community together in cooperation with professionals and the local government. City walls in the dense urban area become an opportunity for growth and a new environmental awareness. > Read more...

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Afghanistan’s – and the world’s – first skateboarding school empowers Kabul’s youth to take their futures into their own hands, giving Afghani children a rare opportunity for learning and fun, and in the process teaching so much more than a sport. Students at Skateistan can also take classes in subjects like art and environmental health, and many are involved in a back-to-school initiative program. > Read more...

Design by: Urban Think Tank

Year: 2007 - 2010

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With the Metro Cable Urban Think Tank has helped to empower and enrich mountain communities in San Agustin (Caracas, Venezuela). > Read more...

Design by: Li Xiaodong Atelier

Year: 2009

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A bridge connecting two ancient fortresses in rural Japanese village houses a school and rejuvenates the local economy, whilst carefully considering the link between past and future architecture and harmonizing with its environment. > Read more...

Design by: 2A+P, IAN+ and MA0/Emmeazero with Mario Cutuli

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Inside these colorful school buildings surrounded by gardens, teachers will begin to combat Afghanistan’s staggering rates of illiteracy. The project was inspired by Maria Grazia Cutuli, an Italian journalist who was killed in 2001 in Afghanistan, and was supported by the foundation named after her with the understanding that lack of knowledge begets violence. > Read more...

Design by: Studio Gang Architects

Year: 2009

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One of America’s only SOS Children’s Villages, a community of foster families that create a loving environment for foster children, has been given a new community center with the help of Studio Gang. A lack of resources in fact allowed the architects to come up with novel approaches and creatively incorporate material donations, resulting in a beautiful structure that openly addresses the circumstances of its own creation. > Read more...

Design by: Noero Wolff Architects

Year: 2007

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Through intelligently-planned architecture with the aid of governmental and international support, a school in a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Cape Town has become a safe place and a hub for youth from all over the Cape to escape the traps of poverty through education. > Read more...

Design by: Tyin Tegnestue with Kasama Yamtree

Year: 2009

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This project explores local involvement through the building of a public library in Thailand, attempting to address social and climate issues while using local materials and labor. Long-term community involvement has lead to community management and appropriation for various uses. > Read more...

Design by: Hiroshi Sambuichi Architects

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An energy-neutral art museum in a converted copper refinery flourishes on an isolated island in Japan’s Seto Sea, meshing with its environment and inviting visitors to gain a new awareness about the natural world around us. > Read more...

Design by: DHK Architects and Two Think

Year: 2009

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A sophisticated archive library in the center of Timbuktu’s historic district provides a place for the preservation of long-neglected manuscripts and invites a re-examination of African history. > Read more...