Urban Planning

Explore 39 award-winning designs tagged Urban Planning on A Design News.

Designer: David Chen Work: Urban Park Tag: Urban Planning

Heito 1909

Buildings and lands have been constantly removing and rebuild in this era, every project is a bit of “Tabula Rasa”. Transformation of Heito 1909 is a rare project of adaptive reuse, instead of being obsessed with iconic buildings, everything in the park is designed inside out as the extension of the ruins. The unique design creatively incorporates the ruins and damaged structures into the urban facilities for citizens to experience. Significantly, the park provides a place for people to engage in quality natural environments within a metropolitan city.

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Designer: Innovation Design Studio Work: Downtown Tag: Urban Planning

MTown Makadi Heights

Mtown design revolves around a central spine, incorporating building blocks to connect the project with the main node. Intimate piazzas between clusters offer diverse experiences. Creating a green spine overlooking the central park, promotes a deeper connection with nature. The design prioritizes well being, considering social, physical, mental, and emotional effects on occupants and communities. The design reflects a holistic approach focusing on well being centric space and walkability. Making it an enjoyable walk all yearlong is one of the main goal by adding shaded spots along the spine.

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Designer: Liu Jinrui Work: Industrial Park Tag: Urban Planning

Fibonacci Spiral

Fibonacci Spiral is an industrial park planned for intelligent medicine in Shanghai. The site is surrounded by rivers that divide it into several islands, with the Dynamic Island at the center. Spiral sequences replace the central radial structure and link all the islands through boulevards. Circular podiums hold a testing center, an exhibition center, offices and social spaces. Most points lie within 300 meters of the Dynamic Island, where restaurants, shops, cafeterias and fitness rooms are placed. The islands create varied waterfront public spaces.

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Designer: Quincy Li Work: International Resort Center Tag: Urban Planning

La Cadiere Garden City

La Cadiere Garden City is an urban planning project for an international resort center in the Tianfu New District of Chengdu. The planning area covers 200 hectares. Towers between 100 and 250 meters tall combine neoclassical and modern facades to shape a new skyline. The plan also includes a lake park of 12 hectares, a mountain park of 11 hectares and 28 hectares of green landscape. A lakeside commercial street, a hotel and an international conference center are arranged along a folded landscape spine, linking the buildings with the lake and the parks.

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Designer: ZUP Work: Office and Residence Tag: Urban Planning

Future Headquarters Community

Future Headquarters Community is an urban design for a mixed-use district in Hangzhou, China. The plan combines office and residential functions to serve companies and their staff. High-rise buildings surround a central park, recalling the mountains around the West Lake. Water features connect the main public spaces, referring to the Grand Canal. Vertical public spaces on several levels link the buildings and support contact between people. The design hosts both large companies and start-ups in one shared setting.

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Designer: HOS Work: Demonstration Park Tag: Urban Planning

Smart Agriculture

Smart Agriculture is an agricultural demonstration park planned for a rural site in Pizhou, China. The park is positioned as a smart countryside and future field, with intelligence applied across the agricultural chain. Four core buildings recall seeds, the walkways suggest sprouting vines and the flower beds suggest new leaves. 5G technology, big data and machine technology support intelligent planting and processing. Digitization, prefabrication and 3D printing guide design and construction. Functions include an agricultural museum, a cultural exchange center and a smart farm.

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Designer: Yun Du Work: Waterfront Park Tag: Urban Planning

Riverside Pearl

Waterfront Pearl is a waterfront park located along the Jialing River in Nanchong, China. The park covers about 1,200,000 square meters and includes both landscape design and architecture design. The existing water and dam topography of the site is used to form a shoal shape to the west of Bashan Mountain. The terrain is reshaped and planted to strengthen the natural setting. The layout refers to the local Yuji culture and to the story of Da Yu controlling the floods. The result is a public space for leisure, cultural display and festival events.

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Designer: Yun Du Work: Industrial Park Tag: Urban Planning

Smart Ecology

Smart Ecology is an urban planning project for the Tus Park, a high technology industrial park in Nanning, China. The plan links the functional zones to create open space for communication. A scattered layout with enclosed courtyards balances openness with the privacy of each zone. A central landscape axis connects the individual units through sky corridors. The park covers 671,592 square metres and includes a science and technology museum, offices, housing and commercial streets. A passive building energy system supports energy saving and environmental protection.

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Designer: ZUP Work: Historical and Cultural Block Tag: Urban Planning

Renewal of Lu Xun's Hometown

Renewal of Lu Xun's Hometown is an urban design project for a historical and cultural block in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. The plan restores waterways for black awning boats, along with historical streets and alleys, bridges and old place names. The design is inspired by the texture of traditional Chinese waterfront towns. Restored buildings retell stories drawn from novels by the writer Lu Xun. The plan also protects the interests of local residents, supports social equity and preserves the local lifestyle.

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Designer: Samira Katebi Work: Tourism Recreation Zone Tag: Urban Planning

Biochal

Sand extraction in Tehran has created a pit with eight hundred sixty thousand square meters area and seventy meters height. Due to the city expansion, this region is now inside of it, a threat to the city and has caused environmental pollution. Biochal attempt has been made to turn this large pit into a tourist area and national park with urban attractive functions inside of Tehran metropolis that it is turn a threat into an opportunity.

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Designer: Olga Smirnova Work: Public space Tag: Urban Planning

The Northern River Terminal

The Northern River Terminal of Moscow is a public space and river transportation hub. The building dates from the 1930s and is an example of the Stalinist Empire style. The base is made of polished red granite and the main portals are made of gray-green diorite, contrasting with white gallery columns. The three-floor palace is 150 meters long and the steeple reaches 27 meters. A restoration preserved most original elements and interior details, while missing parts were remade following historical patterns. The terminal serves passenger vessels and a park for year-round recreation.

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Designer: Yuannan Xu Work: Scenic Spot Tag: Urban Planning

Fujian Countryside

Above the Clouds is a master plan for a mountain resort in Pucheng, Fujian, China. The site lies at a high altitude, close to the clouds, and the name of the plan refers to that setting. Soft, flowing lines taken from cloud forms guide the design. The plan first states development goals and positioning for the resort. The plan then defines the spatial layout and the distribution of land uses to form a single overall scheme. Standard urban planning methods and regulations were applied. The work was completed over one and a half years.

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