Public parks

Known as Austin’s first park, this 84-acre public green space has a rich history spanning from ancestral native civilizations to the city’s founding mothers and fathers; its popularity endures with Austinites today. The first phase of the park’s rehabilitation, preservation, and enhancement, completed in collaboration with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects and Mell Lawrence Architects, affects the park’s southernmost tip, affectionately referred to as its “recreational heart and cultural soul” and is the first phase to be implemented from the Master Plan. Casey Dunn Built in the 1920s, the Tudor Cottage is one of the earliest park facility buildings constructed in Austin and sits on a bluff overlooking... More

A new concept by ODA envisions a new typography of inner courtyards that break up a typical NYC block and expands the public realm ODA’s new concept for urban renewal in New York City blends existing infrastructure with a proposed new zoning regulation that would maximize the public realm and increase green spaces in our city. Coronavirus has only heightened the need and demand for a greener urban existence. Our new video, Beyond the Street proposes breaking open existing city blocks, creating interior courtyards and pathways that will over time, through a mix of adaptive reuse, new development and landscape design, create a more walkable experience filled with culture, leisure, affordable retail and community spaces.  Captio... More

At the request of the City of Vantaa our competition winner of Housing reform 2018 “Lähiäsinfonia” / “Suburban Symphony” has been further developed in this spacial plan. The Hakunila City Center II spacial plan is based on public transport, especially the planned Vantaa tram, a functional and attractive network for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as diverse blue and green surroundings. A strategy that we defined “forest-urbanism”. Existing recreational areas have been preserved as much as possible, and a special attention is paid to stormwater management. A central theme of the housing reform competition was the development of downtown Hakunila through “suburban parks”. These... More

Nomad Concept is a design office that specialises in architectural sails and shade technology and has meanwhile developed into the benchmark for tensile structures and architectural sails. Both at home and abroad, Nomad Concept built up a solid reputation with its ultralight, translucent sails, inspired by Tibetan nomadic tents. Here we give some examples of sails covering public spaces in parks or squares. In al those examples, the covered space can be used by the public for barbeques, festivities, weddings or simply gatherings of the youth. Is there anything more beautiful than a free covered place in a nice park that people can reserve for their wedding? Is there anything more nice than a free place you can reserve for your family p... More

The first phase of the Antalya Konyaalti coastline rehabilitation project, which covers an area of approximately 100 hectares has been opened to the public on 15th of June, 2018. This area was the subject of a national architectural competition opened in 2014 and Ozer\Urger Architects’ proposal was the winning design to be implemented in collaboration with Tugay Architects.The Mediterranean Avenue was the first executed phase of the Antalya Konyaalti coastline rehabilitation project that also includes the Museum Square and Variant, Beachpark and Olbia Square as four different characteristic areas.The main drive of the project was to reduce the domination of the highway dividing the coast and settlement behind it. For this purpose, a series... More

Project Details: - Client is a giant construction company headquartered in Chicago. - The project was to create Architectural, Structural & MEP BIM Models for their new upcoming park to be build up in California. - Scope of work was to provide client BIM Models with LOD-300 for a Public Park Challenges: - The client provided us inputs like hand drawn sketches, conceptual sketches, pdf files etc. First thing to do was to understand inputs in different forms through proper & effective client communication. - The important task was to add on the creativity to the project to give it an excellent architectural look. - So to build new architectural models & to coordinate it with other disciplines like structural & MEP was difficult someti... More