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.

Solar Quartz, an enigmatic and dreamlike installation designed on the island of Tenerife

Solar Quartz, an enigmatic and dreamlike installation designed on the island of Tenerife

Vincent Leroy envisages Solar Quartz as a unique stone, different from all others in the volcanic desert of the island of Tenerife and made of perforated stainless steel. The light reflecting on a geodesic structure plays with the installation and passes through it and is reflected in it at the same time

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Intangible Sound, the Manifest Platform from which to observe the sea

Intangible Sound, the Manifest Platform from which to observe the sea

Why are traditional sea-viewing platforms filled with numerous fences and railings which block the scenery and limit the possibility of activity? Intangible Sound opens up completely new scenarios 

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A pavilion of orange threads. United but separate to reflect on the historical moment we are living in

A pavilion of orange threads. United but separate to reflect on the historical moment we are living in

Installed in a community building in Denmark during Trekanfest, this pavilion has been the location for many events, exhibitions and meetings. An installation that stems from Behin Ha studio's desire to make people reflect on the conflict between the human desire to come together on one hand and the epidemiological need to maintain separation on the other

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Are we alone or united in the city? Urban design as a spark of spontaneous interaction

Are we alone or united in the city? Urban design as a spark of spontaneous interaction

The experience of urban public space should be a response to the human need for relationship. "Dialogue" is the urban furniture designed by designers and artists Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik with the intent to bring back the social function of public urban space: to create shared physical experiences

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Montreal Pavilion Park glass and corten

Corten Pavilion in Montreal. The Geometric Volume is created from the union of wood and metal.

Les Architect Labontè Marcil designed the Clémentine-de-la-Rousselière pavilion in Montreal. The project goes beyond the preconceived idea that a chalet in the park should only meet functional needs, becoming instead a strong element within it.

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Artistic mural. Poetic and fantastic view of New York's cloud scape.

Artistic mural. Poetic and fantastic view of New York's cloud scape

The Mural at the Max is a 28,000 square foot mural for a new luxury building located on West 57th Street in New York City.  The creation of this artwork stemmed from the need to give a beautiful view to approximately 100 apartment units that faced a blank wall

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Colman Dock Ferry Terminal in Seattle

Colman Dock Ferry Terminal in Seattle

A multidisciplinary team redesigns Seattle's waterfront, where a ferry terminal that provides passenger-only public transit service becomes a part of it

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londra urban graphic

Architecture and Urban Graphics in London. The city becomes an open-air gallery

For Adam Nathaniel Furman the city around us is the largest gallery in the world, of life, of materials, of compositions. He creates an urban graphic composition inviting us to "look up and look down". Look Down To Look Up

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No sunrise, no sunset pavilion. The steel reflects the surrounding nature between reality and illusion

No sunrise, no sunset pavilion. Love and waiting in a tension towards infinity.

Inside No sunrise, no sunset, Yaisa is the symbol of love and waiting. She is waiting for someone she loves and who left her to seek the ultimate truth, promising to return after finding it. Every day, she is here, in the same spot, waiting for love.

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PRONAOS, an installation symbolizing the exciting and maze-like transition from the academic to the professional dimension

PRONAOS, an installation symbolizing the exciting and maze-like transition from the academic to the professional dimension

With the completion of exams, the delivery of the last papers and the arrival of grades, students are about to leave the academic world and enter the world of work. For this transition, the International University of Catalonia has prepared some surprises. This is how PRONAOS was born

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Parasite Urban Furniture for a city that has lived both creatively and spontaneously, just like a home

Parasite Urban Furniture for a city that has lived both creatively and spontaneously, just like a home

As inhabitants, we have gradually lost the impulse to experience the city areas as a community "external house", where we can live expressing the subjectivity of perception and use of public urban space

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Installation of lights in a glazed skyscraper

Artistic Lights in Turin. 100 luminous flecks become a unique form and structure

The installation created by Migliore+Servetto Architects for the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper in Turin on the occasion of " Artistic Lights " is a dynamic work in which light and reflections expand, making it a pulsating structure.

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"A New Now" post Covid. Art and imagination daily stimulus for our well-being

Artist Morag Myerscough's communicative joy encourages the construction of an "after" the Covid crisis, stimulating the imagination through a colourful work that rises 8 metres high, in a poetic and popular way

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Playground with colourful flooring

Copenhagen playground. Urban space for social integrity

The Danish Big studio designs an urban space to integrate the ethnic groups of a neighborhood, using objects from all over the world as furnishings, symbols that reflect the true nature of the local neighborhood.

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Sponge Mountain in Turin. Artificial mountain absorbs air pollution

Sponge Mountain in Turin. Artificial mountain absorbs air pollution

Sponge Mountain is architect Angelo Renna's project for an artificial mountain which, by re-using soil excavated from the construction of the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway would be able to absorb the city's pollution

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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.