Urban commons
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about urban commons
Project • By superspace • Parks/Gardens
peak
celebrates a lifetime of dedication to architecture by contouring the new grounds of the city!are you ready to explore a new angle every day?
even though Istanbul and Bosphorus have this extraordinary charming effect on people especially, at first sight, we can easily say that it could not be compared to any epic fairy-tale-land illustrations of Bosphorus from the last two centuries. “the peak” aims to greet this, to commemorate a unique person of history, “great architect Sinan” who has designed a magnificent amount of buildings around the world, and especially in Istanbul, that has changed the way of understanding and maintaining the city and its culture. even today, architects are learning from his wo... More
Project • By superspace • Masterplans
taksim for all
an old square that has forgotten how to be one, traumatized long before with unintentional wrongdoings; an old park haunted by a ghost of a long-gone barrack, once its trees had the courage standing for their rights. are they going to help each other heal, holding intoa grid behaving as a regenerative terraphy?
Taksim district has had numerous interferences, through the years by the needs and desires of the community and space. every revision in recent years shivered the integrity of the physical space. especially the last move that took almost all the motorized circulation under the ground, although a positive development, erased all the borders, history, and memory of the space. the main problems of the space are the l... More