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Chengdu Hyperlane Park Retail Architecture by Aedas
Chengdu Hyperlane Park Retail Architecture
Hyperlane Park consists of 12 plots, spanned across the sky garden corridor, overlooking the city and project entrances. Designed as a 2.4 km continuous urban landscaped corridor, the sky walkway is a leisure space that cultivates a live-work dynamic. The project is proximal to a music conservatory. Inspired by syllabic rhythms and sounds, the design fosters this musical motif through six different groups of architectural forms. The fluid layout ⥅
Chengdu Hyperlane Park
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1.38M
Impression of Railway Park by Ching-I Wu
Impression of Railway Park
The designers integrated areas around Taichung Railway Station with urban environment, land utilization, industries development, urban image and cityscapes. The integration reorganizes the resources, reforms the surrounding environment and improves the quality of public facilities with the cultural and pedestrian-friendly urban corridor, which enriches the cultural development of the city centre.
Impression of Railway
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105.39K
Lougang City CBD for Taihu by gad
Lougang City CBD for Taihu
The project aims to design a new central business district for Huzhou. Its design is inspired and well integrated with local traditional ecological system. On the southern bank of taihu lake, The new internal lake provides quality waterfront public spaces. At the heart of the district, there are two pedestrian skywalks connecting the new railway station, the skyscraper and the exhibition park, while separating the vehicular traffic from pedestria ⥅
Lougang City
38.5K
770.02K
Scenic Path Landscape Recovery by BATLLE I ROIG ARQUITECTURA
Scenic Path Landscape Recovery
The project, of which 800m are already complete, is set within a broader intervention for the city of Igualada that seeks to generate paths and cycle lanes in the form of a green belt around the edge of the city. This new green mobility crosses a very run-down site where gypsum used to be mined, a place later used as a waste transfer station, with problems of runoff damage and landslips. The proposal has two main objectives: connectivity, continu ⥅
Scenic Path
BATLLE I ROIG ARQUITECTURA
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33.83K
Light Portal Future Rail City  by QUAD studio
Light Portal Future Rail City
Light Portal is masterplan of Yibin Highspeed Rail City. A reform of lifestyle recommends to all age all year round. Next to Yibin High Speed Rail Station which operated since June 2019, Yibin Greenland Centre comprises of 160m tall mixed-use Twin Towers integrate architecture and nature with the 1km long landscape boulevard. Yibin has a history for more than 4000 years, accumulating wisdom and culture just like the sediment in the river marked t ⥅
Light Portal
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Yong Quan  Public Park by Hsu Fu Chu
Yong Quan Public Park
Travelling though the river of time, and discovering the history of an old sugar factory. Walking on the shore trail left with traces of the previous sugar factory railway, people can feel the historical atmosphere where the scenery of the circular trail surrounding the lake fascinatingly resembles a ring on lake telling everyone the history of the sugar factory. From the tour to Taichyu Factory of Teikoku Seitou K.K., people see not only the cha ⥅
Yong Quan
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38.46K
City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area by Hang Chen
City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area
The project site is known as the Waterfront Rural Gallery, Leisure Vacation Paradise, and National Unity and Progress Demonstration Zone, and the city's unique characteristics are the inspiration for the design. The designer integrates natural spaces such as farmland, mountains, and water into the urban design of the high-speed rail station area, combining the needs of industrial development and the requirements of the comprehensive transpor ⥅
City Fields
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702.99K
Heito 1909 Urban Park by David Chen
Heito 1909 Urban Park
Buildings and lands have been constantly removing and rebuild in this era, every project is a bit of “Tabula Rasa”. Transformation of Heito 1909 is a rare project of adaptive reuse, instead of being obsessed with iconic buildings, everything in the park is designed inside out as the extension of the ruins. The unique design creatively incorporates the ruins and damaged structures into the urban facilities for citizens to experience. Significantly ⥅
Heito 1909
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25.12K
Fibonacci Spiral Industrial Park by Liu Jinrui
Fibonacci Spiral Industrial Park
The design inspiration comes from the Fibonacci Spiral, a combination of order and elegance to the natural beauty of life as the intelligent medicine to the realm of life science. The site is surrounded by rivers that separate it into several islands with the most appealing "Dynamic island" in the center. Spiral sequences break the monotonous central-radial structure and connect all the islands through boulevards. The islands diversify ⥅
Fibonacci Spiral
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29K
Lixian Future Community of Quzhou Mixed Use Development  by gad
Lixian Future Community of Quzhou Mixed Use Development
Lixian community takes cosmopolitism as the design theme to explore an ideal community. This project attempts to construct a platform above the traditional transportation level, function as various garden landscapes. All community groups would be arranged in rhythmic orderings of low density, small block and abundant landscape to create a pleasant spatial scale. gad creates a neighborhood center and complete TOD system that connects all the nodes ⥅
Lixian Future Community of Quzhou
1.09K
21.88K
Sanjiao Eco Island  Resort Masterplanning by NDA Group
Sanjiao Eco Island Resort Masterplanning
As China's first uninhabited island to be developed into an integrated tourism destination, Sanjiao aims to set innovative and pioneering standards for the sustainable development of maritime tourism resources. The island's untamed natural resources offer a unique opportunity to position it as an ultimate marine educament venue; the entertainment and leisure elements (four seasons water park, sailing school, nature preserve, etc) will t ⥅
Sanjiao Eco Island
1.08K
21.62K
Smart Ecology Industrial Park by Yun Du
Smart Ecology Industrial Park
After studying the relationship between openness and privacy in the project from both two-dimensional and three-dimensional perspectives, designers proposed the concept of yard and aisle. The scattered dot layout ensures the openness of the Tus Park, while guaranteeing the independency and privacy of each functional zone with enclosed courtyard. And the central axis of the landscape is designed to connect the individual units through sky corridor ⥅
Smart Ecology
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22.14K
Riverside Pearl Waterfront Park  by Yun Du
Riverside Pearl Waterfront Park
The design uses the existing topography of “water” and “dam” in the site to create a shoal shape with shocking impact force in the west of Bashan Mountain. Strengthening the natural context, and striving to form a secluded Southern painting scene by combing the terrain of the earth landscape and planting plants. The site construction of modern landscape improves the quality of the city, and finally creates a special space for Nanbu, which integra ⥅
Riverside Pearl
1.17K
23.41K
Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture by Gao Shanxing
Pearl River Wenjiang Block B Urban Architecture
The local block is located in the Pearl River New Town Project in the east of Wenjiang District, Chengdu. Plot B is positioned as the third living space of citizens in western Chengdu with high functional compound, high industrial agglomeration, high comfort, high quality and high density. Juli will create an urban industrial cluster concept that fully embodies the standards of park cities, the new height of the integration of people, city and en ⥅
Pearl River Wenjiang Block B
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7.51K
Urban Re-Public Place Making by Aecom Ltd.
Urban Re-Public Place Making
Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone embraces innovative, historical, technological, and cultural properties. This proposal aims to pursue differentiated advantage of competitiveness capitalizing on productive public spaces, offering a design framework with effective actions to enhance and transform passive urban assets into vibrant places. It delivers an implementation framework with a clear roadmap leading the area to an urban center of enriched cultural asset ⥅
Urban Re-Public
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7.56K
Yan'an Tourist Service Center Urban Renovation by Hongjun Tang
Yan'an Tourist Service Center Urban Renovation
The project is located in the core urban area of Yan'an. Due to the lack of holistic planning over the years, lots of cave dwellings were disorderly built on the hillside of Baota Mountain by local residents, which severely damaged the mountain's ecology. The architects proposed to approach the project based on the core concept of integrating site memories into design, including: integrating mountain and river and restoring natural ecol ⥅
Yan'an Tourist Service Center
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105.38K
NYC 2050 City Masterplan by Walmir Luz
NYC 2050 City Masterplan
Sea-level rise is a major concern for most coastal cities around the world. Thirty percent of Lower Manhattan is expected to sink below sea level by 2050 while also becoming more vulnerable to storm surges. This masterplan aims to use the flood as a tool to transform the city, redefine the future urban life, and manipulate the city's edge once again as one embraces the imminent threat. In this vision for a future city, the problem becomes th ⥅
NYC 2050
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51.34K
Shantang Street Phase IV  Renewal Planning by YI JIAN ARCHITECTS
Shantang Street Phase IV Renewal Planning
Shantang Street is a cultural street with a history of 1200 years. It has a rich history, while today the neighborhood is dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, with few people, and lacks of vitality. The project is an overall renovation and renewal of the fourth phase of Shantang Street. By the renewal of the old buildings, implanting new commercial activities, and designing public spaces, the neighborhood will be revitalized, and injected with vita ⥅
Shantang Street Phase IV
YI JIAN ARCHITECTS
550
11K
Artisan Echoes Culture Street by Hang Chen
Artisan Echoes Culture Street
This project is based on the coordination of the needs of tourists visiting the Purple Pottery Industrial Park and the residents living nearby. The designer observes the production facilities of Purple Pottery and uses artistic creativity to incorporate their appearance into the modern design of the buildings. At the same time, the design respects the natural environment and arranges the buildings according to the original topography, creating a ⥅
Artisan Echoes
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10.67K
Nanxi National Park Oriental Landscapes by ZUP
Nanxi National Park Oriental Landscapes
Nanxi River is an organic whole with oriental life scenes in ancient towns on mysterious valley landscapes, which has been included in the Tentative List of World Mixed Cultural and Natural Heritage. Focused on ecological and humanistic care, the design fully protects and revives the aesthetic landscape featured with interaction between local people and the nature, moreover, a music events park was set up between town and river, to inspire the tr ⥅
Nanxi National Park
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9.34K
City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks by Ning ZHANG
City Archipelago Biophilic Creative Blocks
Shanghai Zhenru Subcenter has shifted from a railyard into a future-oriented biophilic creation center under an ambitious plan. Polluted soil is now removed, rivers can store and regulate rainwater, and islands coexist concordantly with green buildings. Jolly eco-space merged with dynamic functions is alluring to digital enterprises and makers, thus enlivening the region. This space in urban intensive construction areas is of continued charm to n ⥅
City Archipelago
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10.95K
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort  Master Plan by RTDA
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan
The Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort is situated in a truly unique environment with incredible landscapes, so the development is designed to ensure the preservation of natural diversity. Much attention is paid to the hiking eco-tourism and acquaintance with the local culture and ethnicity. The concept inspired by the mix of gorgeous nature and rich culture of the Adyghes provides for the construction of hotels, a cable car station and related public ⥅
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort
576
11.52K
CR Hope Town Masterplan by Dongzhu Chu
CR Hope Town Masterplan
As one of the Chinese poverty alleviation programs, the project is a welfare exploration and practice which fulfills the social responsibility and rural revitalization strategy. The urban planning design includes the comprehensive upgrading of the village, reshaping the ancient village impression, continuing the red memory, and advocating the farming and reading culture. It aims to realize the reconstruction of rural management organization and l ⥅
CR Hope Town
491
9.82K
Smart Agriculture Demonstration Park by HOS
Smart Agriculture Demonstration Park
The design team proposed the positioning of smart countryside, future field, with intelligence as the core theme throughout the whole industrial chain and development process. 5G technology, big data and machine technology are adopted to achieve intelligent planting and processing. The application of digitization, parameterization and prefabrication, and 3D printing technology realizes smart design and construction. Immersive and interactive expe ⥅
Smart Agriculture
620
12.42K
Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence by ZUP
Future Headquarters Community Office and Residence
Hangzhou is a leading city in China's digital economy. After 20 years of development, CBD needs new space to attract enterprises and talents. This project is the first headquarters community in Zhejiang Province, with an open and inclusive industrial ecology to attract both leading enterprises and start-ups for common development and communication; Vertical multi-level public space with high quality landscape links buildings and enhances the ⥅
Future Headquarters Community
588
11.76K
La Cadiere Garden City International Resort Center by Quincy Li
La Cadiere Garden City International Resort Center
La Cadiere Garden City International Resort Center located at the core of the Tianfu New District, the total Planning area is 200 hectares. This program is focused on building a world top class garden city with diverse types of architectural spaces. The towers range from 100 to 250 meters, combined with the neoclassical and modern facade redefine the new skyline. The whole program also includes a 12 hectares lake park, 11 hectares mountain park a ⥅
La Cadiere Garden City
584
11.69K
Biochal Tourism Recreation Zone by Samira Katebi
Biochal Tourism Recreation Zone
Sand extraction in Tehran has created a pit with eight hundred sixty thousand square meters area and seventy meters height. Due to the city expansion, this region is now inside of it, a threat to the city and has caused environmental pollution. Biochal attempt has been made to turn this large pit into a tourist area and national park with urban attractive functions inside of Tehran metropolis that it is turn a threat into an opportunity. ⥅
Biochal
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The Northern River Terminal Public space by Olga Smirnova
The Northern River Terminal Public space
The Northern River Terminal known as the Five Seas’ port is a Moscow landmark public space and transportation hub. The River Terminal was built in the Stalinist Empire style in 1937. Its characteristic features include a spire decorated with a star from the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower and a wide central staircase. In 2020 the North River Terminal has been reinaugurated after 2 years of reconstruction. During the reconstruction most of the original ⥅
The Northern River Terminal
516
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Fujian Countryside Scenic Spot by Yuannan Xu
Fujian Countryside Scenic Spot
The project is located in Pucheng City, Fujian Province, a mountainous area with a high altitude, as if it could touch the clouds at any time. Therefore, it was named 'Above the Clouds', and the softness and streamline of the clouds also became the inspiration for the design. The overall layout plan of the resort is based on the current situation, the planning background, the development goals, its positioning, spatial layout, land usa ⥅
Fujian Countryside
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8.15K
MTown Makadi Heights Downtown  by Innovation Design Studio
MTown Makadi Heights Downtown
Mtown design revolves around a central spine, incorporating building blocks to connect the project with the main node. Intimate piazzas between clusters offer diverse experiences. Creating a green spine overlooking the central park, promotes a deeper connection with nature. The design prioritizes well being, considering social, physical, mental, and emotional effects on occupants and communities. The design reflects a holistic approach focusing o ⥅
MTown Makadi Heights
Innovation Design Studio
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Renewal of Lu Xun's Hometown  Historical and Cultural Block by ZUP
Renewal of Lu Xun's Hometown Historical and Cultural Block
Lu Xun, known as Mark Twain of China, was a great humanitarian writer advocating intellectual liberation and spiritual freedom. The renewal of his hometown not only refines the design of spaces but also cares about the interests of multiple groups, ensures social equity, and preserves the local lifestyle. The design is inspired by the texture of traditional Chinese waterfront towns and cities. It restores the traditional scenes by restoring water ⥅
Renewal of Lu Xun's Hometown
412
8.25K
Jinan Key Areas Urban Color Design by Guo Hongyu
Jinan Key Areas Urban Color Design
Jinan city key area urban color design is an urban planning and design work. The designer team analyzed the characteristics of Jinan's history, culture and natural environment, studied its urban color characteristics, extracted the it‘s recommended urban color spectrum, and designed the urban color space and the architectural color image of the central axis combined with the characteristics of urban spatial structure. The designer team also ⥅
Jinan Key Areas
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5.73K
Nanjing Hi-Tech Zone Industrial Park Planning by Yuannan Xu
Nanjing Hi-Tech Zone Industrial Park Planning
The overall design of the industrial park is thoroughly considered in terms of functionality and convenience. There are many planning limitations according to Nanjing city regulation and law. The design successfully integrates the surrounding landscape and the industrial park design, making the industrial park and the surroundings an whole and creating a harmonious whole.
Nanjing Hi-Tech Zone
476
9.54K

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