The Sønderborg Harbor Masterplan proposes to transform the former industrial waterfront into a vibrant urban development by creating a sense of density and activity, focused around an Urban Square. The development extends along the waterfront and incorporates landscape parks, mixed-use areas, residential and office buildings, a hotel, recreation facilities, and cultural buildings.



The focal point of the revitalized urban waterfront is the four buildings at the corners of the Urban… Continue

SPRINGFIELD - Should a courthouse be as delightful as a garden pavilion? As white, as bright, as sun-filled?



Isn't a courthouse supposed to celebrate the dignity and discipline of the law by means of architecture that is sober and, well, maybe even a little grim, a little frowning?



A new federal courthouse here breaks all those rules. Designed by the well-known architect Moshe Safdie, who operates out of Somerville and Cambridge, it's one of the most inviting public… Continue

Facing steep population decline, Youngstown, Ohio, is repositioning itself.

When the mills shut down in the 1970s and ’80s, the smokestacks and foundries that symbolized steel belt manufacturing cities gave way to factory shells and rust. First unemployed, workers then began to move away for good. Unlike former steel powerhouses, such… Continue

Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University, hopes to spread his vision for "vertical farms" -- 30-story towers that could feed thousands of people. He created the concept in 1999 with his graduate students, and it has since captured the imagination of architects and various city planners. The following images are artistic renderings of what some of these farms of the future might look like.



1) A vertical farm design modeled after the Capitol Records… Continue

As the world has entered a decade within which the majority of the world’s population will live in urban areas, the ‘right to the city’ for the world’s 3.5 billion urbanites has never been a more contested political, social and geopolitical issue. As well as the more familiar debates about migration, multiculturalism, and inequality, the unprecedented scale of global urbanization is also directing intellectual attention in the humanities and social sciences to focus on the role of cities as… Continue