Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the process of implementing a plaza, parklet, outdoor cafe, or street mural.
Barcelona is turning into a giant superblock, and the world is rooting for it... taking inspiration from Barcelona’s ‘Superblock’ concept.
100 creatives have had a hand in shaping K11 MUSEA. The new retail, art gallery, public realm, leisure and office complex attempts to fuse creativity, culture and consumption.
RailRoad seating and integrated planters were used to extend a pavement into a parklet solution at Goding Street in Vauxhall as part of a major regeneration project. All metalwork was powder-coated green to match with the vibrancy of the surrounding art, and central tablet rests were added to provide a flat surface for coffee cups, laptops or books
Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the process of implementing a plaza, parklet, outdoor cafe, or street mural.
Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existin…
Public Realm Concept We are working on conceptual designs for two town “gateway” sites, with an aspiration to transform existing vehicle-dominated areas of public realm into joyous and functional community spaces.
More and more people are appreciating that architecture and urban design of streets and public spaces have the power to connect, engage, and inspire all of us.
Publica is a London-based urban design and public realm practice that works to make our cities more successful, functional and beautiful. Publica brings research and intelligence to the process of urban change.
Public squares can be a source of entertainment, provide solace, a platform and serve as an arena for political discourse and dissent, writes landscape architect Freddie Ribeiro.
Barcelona is turning into a giant superblock, and the world is rooting for it... taking inspiration from Barcelona’s ‘Superblock’ concept.
HASSELL: The transformation of Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia, is the city’s most significant urban renewal initiative in 20 years – a once in a generation opportunity to remake a critical, central neighbourhood. The harbour-side precinct is now home to the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) comprising three exceptional new venues, a luxury hotel […]
Image 19 of 23 from gallery of TechTown District Plan / Sasaki Associates. overall public realm strategy diagram
Barcelona is turning into a giant superblock, and the world is rooting for it... taking inspiration from Barcelona’s ‘Superblock’ concept.
Image 2 of 4 from gallery of Public Realm Plan Proposal / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios + Grant Associates. plan diagram 01
A reconfigured public space for a North London town centre.
Built by Perkins+Will in , Singapore with date 2013. Images by Tim Griffith. The campus for the Singapore National Research Foundation, is a precedent-setting global research university, compris...
MNLA and their partners have completed the four key projects in the Hudson Square BID’s ten-year, $27M public realm master plan, marked by the recent..
The London Borough of Southwark relaunched their Area Action Plan for the Old Kent Road in December 2020 and we are delighted to see that they have used one of our proposals to illustrate the Action Plan’s section on play and inclusive design.Illustrative view of play and inclusive design at the Old Kent RoadWe believe that one of the most important things to consider in landscape and public realm design is the variety of ways that people use spaces – ensuring designs are inclusive and engaging
In America we have an escalating crisis of housing affordability — yet we are overlooking one of the best and most basic solutions.
Designed by architect Peter Eisenman of Eisenman Architects this Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is a memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe.
We’re thinking about the public realm the wrong way.
Image 2 of 11 from gallery of Urban Acupuncture: Regenerating Public Space Through Hyper-Local Interventions. Photograph by Raphael Thibodeau
Bespoke outdoor bench made from oak or iroko timber. A universal design suitable for public realm or more residential settings.
About Journal Of Landscape Architecture The only professional publication exploring the practice of landscape architecture and its allied fields in India. The publication provides a forum for information flow, exchange of ideas and viewpoints, and showcases breadth and variety of works and research in the field of landscape architecture in context of Indian region. Since its inception in 2001, it has been attempting to widen the visibility of landscape design, and bring the profession of landscape architecture closer to public realm.
