
Beautiful Washington bridge with lace-like metal walls shimmers at night
When Seattle-based LMN Architects and KPFF Consulting Engineers were tapped to design the Grand Avenue Park Bridge...

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...

West 8 and Studio 44 win Tuchkov Buyan Park competition in St. Petersburg
Rotterdam-based West 8 and Saint Petersburg-based Studio 44 have won an international competition with their design...

Architects want to turn the Tiber River banks into a thriving piazza
In its ongoing efforts to introduce imaginative public spaces into cities, New York-based Ballman Khapalova has...

Hood River’s mixed-use Outpost achieves industrial chic with mass timber
About an hour west of Portland, Oregon, a stretch of post-industrial waterfront along the Hood River has been revitalized...

New metro stations extend sustainable, site-sensitive transit in Denmark
Copenhagen-based architecture firm Cobe teamed up with Arup on the recently completed Orientkaj and Nordhavn —...

Babylon Bridge features hanging gardens over the Seine
Paris-based design studio Rescubika has unveiled a fantastical proposal for the Babylon Bridge, a pedestrian-only...

LEED Platinum high-rise in Toronto promotes sustainable living
Aqualina at Bayside, a new multistory residence in Toronto, has just earned LEED Platinum certification — a first...

CRA proposes “reconfigurable” roads and a floating garden to revitalize Lugano’s waterfront
Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Mobility in Chain (MiC) have unveiled a technologically savvy plan to better connect...

Green-roofed sports center adds sculptural appeal to the Augustow riverfront
Polish architecture firms PSBA and INOONI have recently completed a strikingly angular water sports center in the...

MVRDV to transform Seoul’s concrete-dominated waterfront into a vibrant, green oasis
Seoul has announced yet another inspiring eco-oriented urban project — a waterfront revitalization scheme designed...

This Dark Beacon warns of the dangers of sea level rise
On the Greek island of Spetses, Irish designer Kieran Donnellan and a group of participants from the 2019 international...

Taiga launches Orca, a 100% electric jet ski with a two-hour battery
Canadian company Taiga Motors, the creators of the world’s first electric snowmobiles, makes yet another splash...

Zaha Hadid Architects’ undulating riverside promenade doubles as a flood barrier in Hamburg
Zaha Hadid Architects has raised both the cultural cachet and the storm surge barriers in the German city of Hamburg...

Curvaceous bicycle bridge brings new life to Copenhagen’s harbor
Copenhagen has once again cemented its title as the best bicycle city in the world with the completion of the Lille...