• 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.
  • Sara kulturhus, Skellefteå

One of world’s tallest timber buildings is carbon-negative

Sara kulturhus is a multifunctional centre with cultural facilities and an attached hotel in Skellefteå, Sweden, and one of the tallest timber structures in the world that is also carbon-negative.
  • 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.
  • BRAC University

WOHA’s floating university campus integrates ecology and social space

BRAC University’s new inner-city campus aims to transform a polluted lake in Bangladesh’s capital into a bio-retention pond surrounded by accessible urban green spaces to unite local communities.
  • UVA de La Imaginación

Creating fountains of hope in Medellín through urban intervention

UVA de La Imaginación is one of 20 obsolete water reservoirs turned into parks by Colectivo 720 in Medellín, Colombia. The goal is to create quality public amenities in low-income neighbourhoods grappling with crime.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Punggol Digital District

Nature and density merge in upcoming smart business district

Punggol Digital District (PDD) is a large business park developed in the northeast part of Singapore in which architecture, nature and are all integrated assets of the masterplan.

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