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The adjective “artificial” is normally used to indicate something negative. Its semantic area is vast and complex, with countless meanings that may however be retraced to the fundamental sense of the un-true. One only needs to consider that “artifice” …

There are places which are part of our everyday life, which dominate it in the forms and manners required by our society. There are places for consumption, transit, amusement which redesign the townscape of our city outskirts, the sense and the map of …

“Island City” is a large, roughly 400 ha artificial island on the eastern side of Hakata Bay. The client, Fukuoka City, planned to create a new nature on this stark and flat artificial island and proposed a central park with a total area of 15.3 ha and …

The Meydan retail development performs not just a as a efficient retail complex but as a true urban centre in one of the fastest growing areas of Istanbul. Located in a suburban area on the Asian sector of Istanbul, the site borders an IKEA as well res …

The project comes out of the creation of a new topography that indexes and qualifies this zone of expansion in Torre Pacheco, on a plot of public equipments; a urban, cultural and enjoyment alternative for the citizens. The folded plans of the area cha …

More than an isolated school, the aim is to develop an urban project that encourages new sectorial centralities with the equipments that are already being used by the school such as the library, the auditorium, the cafeteria, the support rooms for neig …

In 2001 the city of Roosendaal (a provincial town in the southwest of the Netherlands) decided to ban cars from the New Market in the centre of town by building a huge two storey underground parking. In order to create a new public square the city of R …

Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a café building to replace a seafront kiosk in Littlehampton, a traditional seaside town on England‘s south coast. Exposed to weather and vandalism, the narrow site sits between the sea and a parade of hous …

This is not (only) a bridge. The bridge is architecture over the water, a room of the city floating over the river, full of activity, instead of a mere jump across. The interpretation of the context, composed by references to the Chinese tradition and …

Located in east-central Denver, City Park is the largest and most notable park in Denver. This historic 1.3 kmq park has large open grass fields with Ferril Lake in its center, with a ring of trees all around the lake and the park’s perimeter. There is …