Waterfront development
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about waterfront development
Project • By Álvarez-Díaz & Villalón • Marinas
Waterfront Projec
The Waterfront Project will serve a variety of mixed uses including residential and commercial components, as well as office and civic uses. These are distributed in 1,730 residential units, 660 hotel rooms, 177,800 square feet of commercial area, 428,000 square feet of office area, a Marine with 245 dock berths and 4,229 parking spaces. The proposed Master Plan for the area will incorporate commercial and office uses at the street level, while the upper levels will be occupied with residential, office and hotel uses. This will be made up of a total of 384 housing units, 367 hotel rooms, 128,725 square feet of commercial area, 213,843 of office area and 1,959 parking spaces. This design of the project considers the scale of its surroundings... More
Project • By INK Architects • Apartments
Riviera Astana
Location: Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Type: Residential Complex
Scale: 236 200 m2
Stage: Concept
Concept: the base of any complex geometry lies in simple forms. The circle has the absolute symmetry in all axis. For the enhancement of stability, we have chosen the unity of 4 circles, which is often used in the design of luxury items and in fine arts.
One of the critical factors for buyers is the building’s stability. Therefore, the project aims to enhance the feel of stability by using the 4-circles composition concept.
Riversides are the most cinematic and attractive areas for living. They attract investment and generally have a higher cost per square meter. For example Governor’s Island in New... More
Project • By EDGE • Apartments
Business Bay Tower
The 70-Storey tower is integrated with Dubai Canal’s promenade on the ground plane. Great care has been taken to ensure continuity of pedestrian flows and activate the waterfront with activities, dining, and focal features. More
Project • By Brook McIlroy • Parks/Gardens
PRINCE ARTHUR’S LANDING
Thunder Bay’s revitalized waterfront, which opened in December 2011 and was designed by Brook McIlroy as lead consultant, has been recognized through ten national and international design excellence awards.
The Prince Arthur’s Landing project has transformed the City of Thunder Bay’s waterfront into a mixed-use village and highly animated waterfront park that reconnects the downtown to the shores of Lake Superior. The waterfront officially opened to the public on December 16th, 2011, and has since seen record attendance and continues to be met with overwhelming industry acclaim and community support. To-date, the project has received ten design awards from architecture, landscape architecture and urban design industries, including the R... More
Project • By Oppenheim Architecture + Design LLP • Masterplans
aI-wakrah water front development
This is both a master planning and urban design project for the AI-Wakrah Waterfront Development. AI-Wakrah is to be a high-end community that includes superior-level projects of special nature and of interest to certain governmental and civic entities of the state, as well as containing other social projects of interest and benefit to the Qatari society. The AI-Wakrah Waterfront City is located on the east coast of Qatar to the south of Doha city. The area is currently undergoing a renovation from the old traditional town next to AI-Wakrah jetty. This project is in its final stage.
The vision of the master plan and urban design is to redevelop the waterfront of AI-Wakrah City, which is approximately five (5) kilometers long from end... More
The CityDeck
The CityDeck is the heart of a multi-phase redevelopment project along Green Bay's Fox Riverfront, whose aim is to allow for significantly increased access to the river and to diversify social and ecological life along it.
Phase 1 of the project, which includes major portions of the upland as well as one over-river structure, opened to the public in 2009/2010 and has become a new center of civic activity, with a full schedule of dining and arts events, performances, and parades—as well as new restaurants, the Children's Museum, and both living and work spaces.
Phase 2 of the project opened in October 2012, essentially completing the project and establishing the full-on connections down to the river as originally designed. Two new ove... More
Project • By Sou Fujimoto Architects • Promenades
Beton Hala Water Front Centre
Beton Hala Water Front Centre- The Concept:
CLOUD
21st century hub is akin to a cloud where continuity and totality co-exist.
Our proposal, Beton Hala Water Front Centre is a cloud-like hub, which connects Beton Hala, Fortress, Kalemegden Park, Sava river, the ferry terminal, tram, bus and urban district, unifying commercial and exhibition spaces as a whole
The centre plaza shaped by the bridge connects the surroundings. It marks in a historical moment, as cloud of the future, regenerating from the border of white castle wall (past), to a new relation interrelating with the surroundings.
RING BRIDGES – Cloud connected to the surrounding environment
The bridge, expanding to the surroundings is a continuity from the historical buildi... More
Peoria Riverfront Development
The Peoria Riverfront Master Plan is an exercise in urban design, developing a 6 acre, under-utilized portion of valuable riverfront property into an ecological center with recreational, commercial, and mixed-use, multifamily and student housing.
The project includes a marina, public pavilion, ecological preservation, beach, amphitheater, and monumental pier. These elements are seamlessly connected South along the river to an existing community center and daycare, then further South to Peoria’s downtown riverwalk, and finally westward to establish a connection with Bradley University.
The residential tower encompasses a distinct monumentality in order to create an identity for the citizens of Peoria. Additionally, the recreation, ent... More
Project • By NL Architects • Cultural Centres
Multi Mill
Competition entry for a cultural facility in Houthavens West, Amsterdam: 1st prize
Cultural Stage
The Port of Amsterdam commissioned Roos Burger & Yvon Yzermans, two collaborating art historians, to develop a cultural facility in Houthavens West. The Port wants to improve the attractiveness of the area to the public by realizing a cultural meeting place in the transforming area between city and port. The idea of NL Architects is to construct a flexible ‘base’ that can facilitate various art forms like: theater, film, fashion, sculpture, sound and light art, dance, video, music... Roos Burger & Yvon Yzermans will curate the outdoor events.
Haparandadam
The ‘object’ will be positioned on the Haparandadam on the banks of the IJ River.... More
Project • By Vincent Callebaut Architectures • Urban Green Spaces
THE PERFUMED JUNGLE
The urban mesh of the Central Business District is surrounded by the green hills visible from the Victoria Peak in the South and by the sinuous bank of the Xī Jiāng, also called the Pearl River in the North. On the horizontal stratum compressed along the curves of the levels of the precipitous relief, the city structured itself vertically through a field of more or less frayed towers of glass and steel. Hong Kong is one of the more populated territorry in the world with a density of 30 000 inhabitants/km². To answer to this overpopulation, the project «Urban Jungle» proposes to re-tame the nature and to widen the territory of the ultra-contemporary city. In the heart of the South China Sea, this «perfumed harbour» will abound in an urban j... More
Project • By W Architecture & Landscape Architecture • Waterways/Wetlands
Tide Point
Credited with turning a 15 acre derelict old industrial site into the epicenter of Baltimore’s Digital Harbor, this project is about transformation. Tide Point was the site of one of Procter & Gamble’s main soap producing plants. Now the renovated buildings house high tech companies and institutions. Once, its boardwalk was off-limits to the public--- now the site opens to the water and views beyond. Our role in the project included master planning and coordinating public easement through the site, designing new construction for site amenities, and landscape architecture.
The landscape of the site seeks create an environment that both draws neighborhood residents to the waterfront and also serves the needs of the office campus—creating f... More
Project • By W Architecture & Landscape Architecture • Waterways/Wetlands
The Edge Park Williamsburg
The Williamsburg waterfront has been dominated by industry and its relics for over a century--making it largely off limits to the public. New zoning is changing the public interface with the water’s edge by increasing density and emphasizing waterfront access. The “Edge” park seeks to bring people to the river and link the ecosystem with the fabric of the community. As landscape architect for both the new residential towers and the public waterfront park, we have the challenge of ensuring that the towers act not as symbolic fences blocking public access and views of the East River and Manhattan but as gateways to the river with corridors providing visual connection to the iconic skyline.
Our plan unites both sides of the river by using... More
Project • By gOOi project • Cities
Modular riverbank (Prague, Czech Republic)
The Vltava riverbank is presented without appealing features, thereby excluding the human presence of the riverbed. On its southern shore, the river boundary and the city are separated by retaining walls, becoming, then, an uncomfortable element that splits those two levels.
From the city center´s side, the access exists only in half of the length of the riverfront, where, at the other half, a direct contact with the river isn´t established. Also the type of use of the margins doesn´t increase this relationship, since is defined by a continuous platform, parallel to the retaining walls and mostly occupied by car parking and limited activity to boats and ships. This proposal aims to develop a flexible system for the riverbanks. With a modul... More
Project • By Klingmann Architects + Brand Consultants • Heritages
AL KHOBAR WATERFRONT
Al Khobar Waterfront is located on Amir Turki Street in the public parks of the Prime Corniche area of Al Khobar, a vibrant commercial district, surrounded by five star hotels, restaurants and shopping centers. Defining a new dimension in tourism and recreational services, it is the first mixed leisure entertainment and recreational development in the oil rich Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, providing over 1 million sq ft of mixed-use space and comprise the following components: A Shopping Center in front of a Traditional Souk , a Sports Complex , and a Marina & Club located near the waterfront.
While the project’s three components provided a unique blend of activities that appealed to a wide tar¬get audience, the chal... More
Project • By A*PT Architecture (Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani) • Waterways/Wetlands
Westside Waterfront Design Competition
Cities across the United States are actively reclaiming their waterfronts for public use.
APT was awarded First Prize in this international design competition for the re-conceptualization of the Westside waterfront in Manhattan, from Battery Park City to 44th Street.
The studio’s premise for the project: “Every city has its own logical urban structure, generated and shaped by its design, history, and geography. Every site has its own morphological character, shaped by its relationship with nature as well as with the built environment. Any urban intervention should recognize and understand both the urban structure and the site character as the starting points for architectural ideas.”
Our design concept was for streets t... More