Urban furniture

Location: Sarria-Sant Gervasi District, Barcelona Area: 300 m² Built: 2018 Promoter: AEFE – Liceo Francés Barcelona Architecture: COMA Arquitectura Collaborators: Juanjo Puig Disseny d’Espais and Mirla Studio Photographs: José Hevia José Hevia Transformation of an exterior residual area into an area for use as a terrace-dining room use area, through the construction of a set of wooden pergolas that create a controlled space, with a domestic scale that invites enjoyment as an exterior dining room for the teachers of the Liceu French School in Barcelona. José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia Caption More

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

The new pavement in Corso Trento e Trieste in Lanciano stems from a partnership between the Municipality of Lanciano, RicciSpaini Architetti Associati and the Department of Architecture and Design of Sapienza University of Rome. The redevelopment project aims to return an accessible urban space to citizens. The pavement along the street was redesigned taking inspiration from a number of traditional Abruzzo decorative motifs and turning them into the foundation of urban life. The large geometric ‘carpet’, which extends over the entire carriageway, where possible reconnecting with the existing floor of basalt tiles, was made from Marazzi double loading 20 mm SistemN porcelain stoneware in the nuances Sabbia and Grafite, cut ad hoc... More

In spring 2016, the European Parliament (EP) commissioned a design for temporary creative street furniture and greenery that would be installed on the Esplanade Solidarność 1980, the main thoroughfare that links the different buildings of the Parliament campus in Brussels.   With Constellations, instead of designing temporary furniture, the architects however proposed the EP to invest in a set of 100 chairs, 10 tables and 50 plants. While the actual design project consisted of arranging and testing these solid and sustainable objects during one year in various configurations.   A group of circles, a long line, several small clusters, a series of stars : throughout one year, the chairs, tables and plants, in a variety of colour... More

In 2018, the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust commissioned Pieter Mathews, of Mathews + Associates Architects, to design a bicycle stand. This piece of urban furniture was originally designed to stand in front of the historic Skuinshuis in Stellenbosch. The concept of the bicycle stand was to celebrate the centenary of the Department of Afrikaans/Nederland of the University of Stellenbosch.Afrikaans poetry is represented by three renowned South African poets who graduated from the University of Stellenbosch. These poets are Lina Spies, DJ Opperman and Adam Small (D Liit Hon Causa).An abstracted profile of each poet is arranged around a central axis, creating spaces for bicycles to be suspended from. The poetic stand serves to activat... More

The installation and the signage of “Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara”, property of Trento Municipality, have been commissioned by a tendering procedure. The project includes the exterior and interior parts of a medieval former convent, partially protected by “Sovrintendenza dei Beni architettonici” (cultural heritage committee). The “Centro Servizi”, thanks to the adjoining urban park, links different parts of the city and, together with the two theatres, attracts people of all ages and different cultures. Part of the complex, uninhabited for ages, is in a severe state of disrepair and except from a few graffiti of a modest artistic level, there are offensive and xenophobic writings on the walls, evidence not only of urban but also ci... More

The Santander Bank, from an ideas competition, selected the project by Estúdio HAA! in a partnership with Soul Urbansimo, to accomplish the urban interventions around São Paulo city, in parklet format. The restaurants at the heart of Itaim (São Paulo district), and also nearby universities, gain a new face with the new parklets installed, giving a new function to the city’s parking spaces. The initial idea was to bring a moving and illuminated atmosphere of the automobiles that circulate around the city to inside theses smalls public spaces of permanence and recreation, through a illumination project attached to the small urban intervention. With more comfort e much more to offer, the new parklets promise to make the streets much more... More

Inaugurated on 25 April 2016, the new Salerno Maritime Terminal by Zaha Hadid Architects is integral to the city’s urban plan. Begun by Mayor Vincenzo De Luca, now Governor of the Campania Region, and continued under the city’s current Mayor Vincenzo Napoli, the 1993 plan for Salerno targeted the development of essential projects and programs for the social, economic and environmental regeneration of the city. As part of the 1993 plan, Zaha Hadid Architects won the international competition in 2000 to design the new terminal. Located on the public quay that extends into Salerno’s working harbor and marina, the new maritime terminal continues the city’s relationship with the sea and establishes new links; connecting Salerno’s rich maritim... More

Presidente Masaryk Avenue is located in the central area of Mexico City, in Polanco, a neighborhood that was designed in the third decade of the XXth century as a middle income residential area, and has become the more exclusive commercial avenue in Mexico and probably the most important in Latin America. In the last years it has had to compete commercially with the mall’s system: horizontal vs vertical development, open vs close space, parking in the street vs parking building, open to anyone 24 hours vs restricted access, besides of the usual city problems (security, traffic, informal commerce, etcetera). The project for Masaryk focused on: recuperation of public space, widening the sidewalk and removing cars from it. Allowing car dro... More