
A former coal mine will become an eco-tourism hotspot in Scotland
The Barony NP (UK) Ltd. has tapped British architectural practice Scott Brownrigg to transform the site of an ex-coal...

MVRDV’s Mission Rock tower breaks ground in San Francisco
Construction has broken ground on an MVRDV-designed building at San Francisco’s Mission Rock, a multi-phase masterplan...

2022 Asian Games Park in Hangzhou is sustainably designed for legacy use
When New York-based architecture firm Archi-Tectonics won an international design competition to masterplan the...

A new LEED Gold civic center will reinvigorate downtown Long Beach
As part of Long Beach’s largest public-private partnership effort to date, international architecture firm SOM...

Foster + Partners wins bid to design the nature-filled Guangming Hub
Foster + Partners has unveiled its competition-winning designs for Guangming Hub, a new, lushly landscaped Transport...

TAMassociati envisions a zero-emissions, future-proof urban development
Venice-based architecture firm TAMassociati has teamed up with sa_partners and Franco Giorgetta Landscape Architect...

MVRDV unveils sustainable Chengdu Sky Valley masterplan
MVRDV has revealed designs for Chengdu Sky Valley, a competition entry for the Future Science and Technology City,...

Sunderland’s riverfront to house UK’s first carbon-neutral community
Northern England’s post-industrial port city of Sunderland will soon welcome a major riverside regeneration as...

SOM designs a low-carbon waterfront community for China’s “most livable city”
Global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled designs for Jiuzhou Bay, a new 5.6 million-square-foot...

NBBJ to design Tencent’s futuristic “Net City” in Shenzhen
Global design firm NBBJ has won an international competition to design Net City, a 2-million-square-meter masterplanned...

UNStudio to transform Gyeongdo Island into a sustainable tourism destination
UNStudio has unveiled a masterplan to transform South Korea’s Gyeongdo Island into a new, 470,000-square-meter...

ODA designs an “urban experiment” masterplan for Chengdu
On the invitation of the Chengdu government, New York-based architecture firm ODA has created a visionary new masterplan...

PAU unveils carbon-neutral Sunnyside Yard masterplan in NYC
Global architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has revealed a masterplan for transforming...

Carbon-neutral, prefab development targets sustainable urbanism for Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven area
In a bid to revitalize the area of Rijnhaven, a Rotterdam port dating back to 1895, Blueroom and Urban Crossovers...

Net-zero community planned for Hamburg will rely on geothermal and solar energy
The formerly industrial borough of Harbugh in Hamburg, Germany will soon get a strikingly modern and eco-conscious...