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.

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. The steel reflects the surrounding nature between reality and illusion

Within No sunrise, no sunset, Yaisa is the symbol of love and waiting. She is waiting for someone she loves who has left her in order to look for the ultimate truth and make a promise that he will return to her when he finds it. Every day, she stands in the same spot waiting for him

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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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Lounge at Washington International Airport. Warm and welcoming space for all

Lounge at Washington International Airport. Warm and welcoming space for all

The Alaska Airlines Flagship Lounge, at SeaTac International Airport is designed by Graham Baba Architects as a warm and welcoming space of refuge for all its guests to relax, work and refuel.

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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

Rotterdam Central Station: an architectural wave in the urban heart

Designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, the Rotterdam Central Station is a masterpiece of connection that combines logistical efficiency and fluid design, integrating into the urban fabric and becoming a European landmark, as well as a meeting point for the city and its inhabitants.

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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 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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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.