BIG’s CopenHill integrates recreational space with energy infrastructure

Jerry Elengical
1 February 2024

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.

Temperate

Lieu de vie Paris-Saclay University campus

France
2016

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

Kruti Choksi Kothari
18 January 2024

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.

Tropical

UVA de La Imaginación

Creating fountains of hope in Medellín through urban intervention

Mrinmayee Bhoot
2 November 2023

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.

Tropical

Green Lungs Hanoi

Vietnam
2020

Hanoi breathes new life into eroded island landscape

Kruti Choksi Kothari
9 October 2023

ODDO Architects is spearheading an ambitious project to restore part of the subtropical alluvial forests of Hanoi’s Bãi Giữa island, boost air quality and give the battered site a new lease on life.