• Toyota Woven City

Toyota envisions world’s first living laboratory for mobility innovations

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Toyota Motor Corporation joined hands in 2020 to create a carbon-neutral smart city with an innovative multi-modal mobility system in Susono, Japan.
  • CopenHill

BIG’s CopenHill integrates recreational space with energy infrastructure

CopenHill is a waste-to-energy power plant by Bjarke Ingels Group that doubles up as an urban landmark. It serves as a recreational space for Copenhageners and a habitat for flora and fauna in the region.
  • Lieu de vie Paris-Saclay University campus

Low-cost flexible university campus hub serves as urban shelf close to Paris

Lieu de vie is a multifunctional public facility on the new university campus of Paris-Saclay, France. This low-cost building is designed to encourage interactions of diverse communities living near one another, but rarely meeting.
  • Framework

Framework broke new ground with mass timber high-rise in Portland

Framework was one of the first tall buildings designed in timber to receive approval for construction in the USA. The project by LEVER Architecture resolved many technical challenges associated with the material.
  • Platforms for Life

Platforms for Life is a modular system for net-zero affordable housing

Platforms for Life is an innovative design-to-delivery system that tackles pressing issues in the North American housing sector — cost, performance, urban sprawl — while producing accessible and high-quality homes.
  • Housing Infill

A modular, incremental model for urban housing

Housing Infill is a dwelling prototype with a compact, flexible and adaptable construction model proposed for the city of Córdoba in Argentina where housing demand is constantly challenged by the scarcity and high cost of land.
  • Liyumen Waterway Park

Turenscape uses nature-based scheme to turn grey riverbanks green

The Liyumen Waterway Park is a pilot project in Shenzen (Guangdong, China) that aims to transform a polluted greywater channel into a popular community resource by banking on symbiotic nature-based solutions.
  • Shajing Ancient Fair

‘Acupuncture therapy’ saves Shenzhen’s district from demolition

To preserve the cultural heritage of the largest surviving historical district in Shenzhen (China), ARCity Office has drawn on a model of ‘acupuncture therapy’ to rejuvenate a 70-kilometre stretch along the Longjin River.
  • Puyangjiang River Corridor

Turenscape restores river ecosystem and creates immersive landscape

Beijing firm Turenscape has restored the heavily polluted Puyangjiang River in eastern China and turned its banks into an alluring park, crisscrossed by an elevated network of colourful sinuous boardwalks.

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