Outdoor and urban design projects

Explore the different facets of outdoor space design through an overview of the most iconic projects that integrate aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability. From the choice of durable materials, to suggestions for optimal urban furniture arrangement, as well as cutting-edge technologies for lighting and irrigation. Discover the innovations in urban planning with a focus on mobility, connectivity, and environment.

All outdoor space and urban redevelopment projects

Exterior design, building recovery, and urban redevelopment are the keywords for delving into the most captivating international projects. Arkitectureonweb has selected for you the most emblematic projects of architectural exteriors, urban redevelopment, and architectural reuse in recent years. Discover them all, read the articles.

Koper Central Park's innovative layout: a seed of virtuous development against the degradation of Slovenian coast

Koper Central Park's innovative layout: a seed of virtuous development against the degradation of Slovenian coast

The Koper Central Park, in Capodistria, is located between Piranska Road and the promenade, between the Grand Canal and the area just beyond the city's market. Piranska Road represents a new stage in the development of the city's infrastructure, while the promenade is one of the most important urban features that has acted as a link between the island city and the mainland

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Volumes and materials that dialogue with the urban fabric for the Nuevo Quilmes Plaza Shopping Center

Volumes and materials that dialogue with the urban fabric for the Nuevo Quilmes Plaza Shopping Center

The design for the Nuevo Quilmes Plaza Shopping Center is the result of a private competition for which the first prize was awarded. It is located in a distinct urban area, between the gated community of Nuevo Quilmes and a sector of the city with low-density housing in the province of Buenos Aires

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Engineering City in Armenia for innovation, the foundation for a prosperous and sustainable future

Engineering City in Armenia for innovation, the foundation for a prosperous and sustainable future

Engineering City is part of the "Trade Promotion Quality Infrastructure" project funded by the World Bank to address the lack of social spaces surrounding Bagrevand, in Yerevan, Armenia, focusing on both public and private areas of the city

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Projet "Types d'espace" pour le Festival International d'Architecture CONCENTRICO

The "Types of Space" project is located in the passageway of the ancient Tobacco Factory of La Rioja, a narrow and elongated urban space, filled with a monumental red brick chimney

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Hikes above the Horní Bečva quarry in order to encompass the drama of the surroundings

Hikes above the Horní Bečva quarry in order to encompass the drama of the surroundings

Three new scenic walks above the Horní Bečva quarry take visitors to the slopes and to the top of the quarry hill, together forming a walking circuit that connects all the major viewpoints, a nearby road, and a parking lot

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San Siro 2.0 - Monument for life transforms the stadium into a Memorial for COVID-19 victims

San Siro 2.0 - Monument for life transforms the stadium into a Memorial for COVID-19 victims

San Siro 2.0 - Monument for Life is a proposal to save the legendary San Siro stadium from demolition, by converting the entire structure into a memorial for the victims of COVID-19. Officially known as the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, it is one of the largest and most important stadiums in the world, with nearly 80,000 seats, and is located in the suburbs of Milan

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Restyling of Piazza Leon Battista Alberti in Mantua. A new unified perception to read the signs of time

Restyling of Piazza Leon Battista Alberti in Mantua. A new unified perception to read the signs of time

Piazza Leon Battista Alberti in Mantua acquired its current configuration only at the beginning of the 20th century. Previously, the space was used as a courtyard or monastery cloister. The recent demolitions have defined the urban void, distorting the space and depriving it of its regular shape.

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Completion of a ski resort in Ponte di Legno. Revisitation of the architectural tradition of the Italian mountains

Completion of a ski resort in Ponte di Legno. Revisitation of the architectural tradition of the Italian mountains

The private competition announced for the completion of the ski resort in Ponte di Legno, a tourist location between Lombardy and Trentino, required three new cable cars, articulated by the presence of architectural interventions, refuges, refreshment points, and an exhibition hall dedicated to the conservation of the site's cultural, historical, and landscape heritage

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Sweep Island supports biodiversity and cleanses the seas

Sweep Island supports biodiversity and cleanses the seas

Sweep Island is a research project on an artificial island capable of supporting marine life and collecting microplastics in the Pelagos Sanctuary, a special protected marine area in the North-West Mediterranean established in 1999: the point with the most biodiversity in the Mediterranean

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Alun-alun Kejaksan Square: a gathering place between worldly and spiritual needs

Alun-alun Kejaksan Square: a gathering place between worldly and spiritual needs

Alun-alun Kejaksan is a 1.2 hectare open-air square located in the Indonesian, multicultural city of Cirebon: its area encloses a palace, a government center, a mosque, and a marketplace

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The Growing Pavilion and the new aesthetic of organic materials applied to design

The Growing Pavilion and the new aesthetic of organic materials applied to design

The future is "biobased," and more than 75,000 people were able to see it in The Growing Pavilion during Dutch Design Week 2019

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Three New Books on Chinese Urbanization, Large-Scale Design, and Contemporary Architectural Trends

The China Room of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, has recently published three books that study landscape changes caused by urbanization in China, explore processes and hierarchical decisions related to large-scale design, and illustrate the impact of urban creative transformation on contemporary architectural trends

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Aldilonda,

Aldilonda, "above the sea". Path at the foot of a historic citadel

Aldilonda, the path that becomes the destination. In Bastia, the second largest city in Corsica on the northeast coast of the island, Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes created a promenade on the sea, a path suspended between the sky and the sea at the foot of the citadel

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Campagnola Square in the municipality of Rosà: Redevelopment for a better viability

Campagnola Square in the municipality of Rosà: Redevelopment for a better viability

The project proposal aims to redevelop the area around Piazza Campagnola where there is currently a bottleneck at the capitol on the intersection with Via San Marco

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An entrance to the Eriksberg Nature Reserve. A blend of traditional materials and whimsical shapes designed in order to stand out to visitors

An entrance to the Eriksberg Nature Reserve. A blend of traditional materials and whimsical shapes designed in order to stand out to visitors

An eye-catching entrance building to the Eriksberg Nature Reserve, with an unexpectedly shaped facade decorated in the traditional Swedish "Falu copper red" paint, is the first in a series of interventions for the Eriksberg Hotel & Nature Reserve

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Urban redevelopment as an opportunity for growth and sustainability

Renovation and redevelopment projects demonstrate that the balance between urban design and green area design significantly contributes to building more resilient and well-being-oriented cities. Urban redevelopment projects play a central role as a social and environmental act that improves the quality of life and promotes the progress and well-being of people.
 

Urban artistic installations and street art, the dynamic urban fabric.


Explore how street art projects have the ability to transform urban spaces into living and accessible works of art. Building facades, disused areas, underpasses, or stations become canvases for creative expression. With murals, graffiti, and artistic installations, street art turns urban environments into open-air art galleries. Discover how outdoor artistic installations often serve as spokespeople for local culture and identity and how contemporary art installations can be considered powerful tools for social denunciation.