Nothing Left to Chance: Chicago’s Millennium Park
Parks brings out the best in cities, and Chicago is no exception. Millennium Park, which was opened to the public...
Build & Destroy
Planning, design & decay
Building Cultural Symbols: Battling for Creative Status
TPAC and M+: creativity under construction In the heart of Taipei’s vibrant neighborhood Shilin a new theatre – the Taipei...
Sunny Beach: The resort dream on the Bulgarian seaside
Behind the former Iron Curtain, on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, lies the legendary resort of Sunny Beach....
New Era, New Station: Design in Birmingham and Rotterdam
New Street, Birmingham’s central railway station, is currently experiencing its second radical redevelopment. Its first redevelopment was in the 1960s...
Photo Essay: Helsinki Rising
Helsinki is not a mega-city. Far from it: in early 2015, just over 620,000 people lived in the capital of...
Uniting a Divided City: A Case Study in Silwan
The Jerusalem Master plan 2000 is the first urban planning project for Jerusalem that covers both the Israeli west and...
25 Years of Post-Wall Change in Berlin
Kollwitzplatz, Berlin revisited My first Berlin experience was in October 1989. Only a month before the borders between East and...
Ponte Tower: Pipe Dream of Johannesburg
It happens quite often that buildings end up not fulfilling the functions that they were originally designed to fulfil. Think...
Life and Death of Shopping Streets in Vienna
A walk through Vienna’s small neighborhood shopping streets. Shopping streets are lifelines of cities and their neighborhoods, providing the surroundings with...
Konza Technology City: Between Vision and Reality
In recent years, numerous plans for New Towns have been developed throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Ambitious initiatives include Hope City in Ghana,...
