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.

Facade of a parking lot like an origami

Building in Miami. Five designers design the façade of a parking lot like an "origami"

Within the Miami Design District, the façade of a seven-storey building is redesigned by the five Designers, WORKac, J. Mayer H., Clavel Arquitectos, Nicolas Buffe, Riley K / R (Keenen / Riley), under the guidance of Riley: the Garage Museum is conceived as follows

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Rotterdam station night titanium cover

Station as an archetype of connection. An architecture in Rotterdam that dialogues with urban diversity

A square for the city, this is how the new Rotterdam station is designed by the Dutch studio BENTHEM CROUWEL ARCHITECTS. User-friendly, accessible and transparent, a meeting place and an important logistics hub that opens up to the city with an architectural gesture of multiple language

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towers and low buildings, top view

New paradigms of urban regeneration. In China between tradition and innovation

Colossal heights, dynamism and urban integration surprisingly manage to coexist in the new Konka complex in Shenzhen. Kang QiaoJia Cheng develops a design model with an iconic impact on the skyline, preserving a human and natural scale inspired by the urban tradition of historic Chinese cities

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paint color urban area

Drops of paint in a public space. Customers attracted by a colourful corridor

The architecture studio 100architects intervenes in a public space in Shanghai, China, created as a visual link between the main square and a new sales space, colouring it with drops and arches of paint that reach the floor

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urban furniture telephone booth restyling sitting wifi usb orange

Urban furniture in Shanghai. Old telephone booths are converted into "capsules" for stopovers

The Phone Booths, designed by 100architects Studio, is aurabano furniture project promoted by MINI China through its Urban Matters platform, whose aim was to convert old phone booths into resting places.

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landscapes photography composition

Landscapes composed as sculptural environments. Expression of the algorithm of popular taste

Photographer Anastasia Samoylova uses filterless research to create images of distant and evocative landscapes that she then composes, giving them an almost sculptural appearance. Each print evokes a certain sector of popular taste she interprets.

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Public gardens

Renewal of the Dante Square in Trento. Water games upgrade the urban garden

The garden south of Dante Square in Trento has been renovated by the Raro Studio, whose project enhances the presence of the pond with water games and by redesigning the surrounding areas as reception and gathering places

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Media design in an airport

Media Design in Singapore. Changi's Airport between optical illusions and cinematic storytelling

Moment Factory creates an incredible media experience that accompanies the passengers during inland navigation at Singapore's Changi Airport, voted the world's best airport for the sixth consecutive year.

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Airport with colored elevation

Communication Design in Trieste. Alternating colors for the new image of the Airport

The relaunch of Trieste airport continues through collaboration with Lombardini22 and particularly with FUD, a brand dedicated to Physical Branding and Communication Design, which had already designed the entire communication system

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Photography and Ecosystem in Miami. The transformation of the coast between natural and built landscapes

The photographer Anastasia Samoylova provides evidence of climate change through her work. The project, which began in Miami in 2016, generated a process of analysis through which the artist understood the dissonance between the real estate market and the invasion of the ocean

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Gallery in steel and glass

Galerie Europe in Lille. Steel and glass are used to facilitate lighting and opening

Galerie Europe, located in the New Mons district, near the town hall and metro station, in the city of Lille, France, was designed and built by Coldefy&Associés in 2015, in order to revive the new district

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Red public space

Innovative Public Space. The use of the color Red to attract and engage

The Chinese "Red Planet", in the city of Shanghai, is designed by the studio 100 architects to encourage interactions and the stopover of adults and children in a commercial street space previously intended only for circulation

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Playground as a set of pixels

Public Space as a combination of Pixels. Space organization and modular approach

The 100architects studio designs a public space project that combines different structures, spaces for children and adults, inspired by the digital concept of pixel, an independent unit that, combined with other pixels, creates an image

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University square stained glass

Stained glass square for the University in Rotterdam. Grid structure with the largest dimensions

The Medical Studies Center, in the academic section of Erasmus MC, was designed by KAAN Architecten Studio. The project is superimposed on a pre-existing building, with a large glazed roof whose beams are of the largest dimensions

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Relaxing in Montreal. Art, games and socializing in St-Denis Street

A refreshing, but also artistic, recreational and social experience realized by Arcadia Studio that respects the main objective of putting people at the centre of the project.

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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.