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Domplein, Utrecht, Allemagne, par Okra // The heart of the city of Utrecht is built on top of a castellum. The potential of the Domplein is to revitalize the significance of the origin of the city. The Castellum wall, at 4 metres underground, acquires a reference in the street and on the square. The dramatic potential of the Domplein is intensified with a clearly recognisable and mysterious dividing line. The marking is just as silent as the quiet archaeological witness underground.
A Swiss Village, Laboratory for Contemporary Art
Every summer the small Swiss town of Vercorin offers up its public spaces and buildings to artists to make do with them what they will. R&Art, the association behind the initiative, commissions contemporary works that seek to engage the village as a whole in an effort to reconcile Vercorin's history and traditions with contemporary culture. Lang/Baumann's "Street Painting #5" is a stunning testament to the strength of the villagers' goal to create "spaces for dialogues in synch with our times.
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Arena Boulevard / Amsterdamse Poort, Amsterdam South East, The Netherlands by Karres en Brands Landscape Architecture. The current central area has two different faces. The Arena Boulevard is everything that historic city centres are not. The emphasis in the design for the Arena Boulevard is on breaking up its linear character, and creating a space that is pleasant for a group of ten people, but also for a crowd of fifty thousand
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Iidabashi Plano, Japan by Earthscape. Time Tree In the lobby of the main entrance to the residences, there is a plaque and a symbolic camphor tree named the “Time Tree.” On the plaque, various histories have been carved as words and images. The information mostly traces the history of the samurai houses in the area from the Edo period to the present, and is largely divided into three categories: “History of Fujimi Ni-Chome,” “History of Edo/Tokyo,” and “Natural History.”
Univ.Texas at Dallas- TOD-Urban Design/Streetscape
Univ.Texas at Dallas, by OSDA Studios. The DART rail line was proposed to connect the University of Texas at Dallas with a new station. As well, a high density mixed-use development was planned around the station and adjacent to the university. Phillips team worked on urban design and station
éco-quartier de Riesefeld, à l’ouest de Fribourg, en Allemagne. L’ancien champ d’épandage de 80 ha, qui a donné son nom au quartier, a laissé place à 4 800 logements qui accueillent aujourd’hui 10 000 personnes. Si les promoteurs ne se sont pas bousculés au début des travaux, le projet est achevé et presque entièrement occupé grâce aux « Baugruppen », ces collectifs de futurs habitants qui s’associent pour construire leur propre immeuble et qui ont permis de donner l’impulsion.
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