Public space
Zaha Hadid Architects designs curving cultural district on Hangzhou waterfront
Images reveal Snøhetta’s Busan Opera House under construction in South Korea
“Celestial boulders” of woven bamboo shade eco-farm in China
Snøhetta designs Skamarken riverside development with mound-like theatre
BIG designs Hamburg State Opera as “landscape of concentric terraces”
Stallan-Brand and LDA Design revitalise Victorian garden in Aberdeen
Undulating wooden benches provide versatile public seating on London’s Strand
The Court Theatre completes following Christchurch earthquake
Central Park recreation facility designed as “ultimate fusion of landscape and architecture”
“The St George’s cross speaks of the power of design to transform public space”
Forma revives Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv “without erasing its character”
Pharrell and Nigo design “surprising and entertaining” district in Tokyo
Terracotta tones define community centre in Finland by Nervin Architecture
UTT Empower crowns community centre in South Africa with rooftop greenhouse
Hand-cleft oak shingles cloak wellbeing centre in Hertfordshire by Okra
DeRoche Projects encloses Accra tennis court with rammed-earth walls
Demountable timber structure reinvigorates Palais Rameau in Lille
AAN Architects creates indoor skatepark overlooking Shanghai
Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture’s first cultural project in Germany
POOR Collective completes colourful transformation of neglected south-London games area
Carlo Ratti and Höweler + Yoon’s floating AquaPraça plaza anchors in Venice
Spaced Agency references “iconographies of Chinatown” for New York social hub
MIT finds people walking faster and lingering less in public space
