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View of Superkilen, Nørrebro
A kilometre-long public park that winds its way through an area to the north of Copenhagen’s city centre, Superkilen is dotted with surreal follies – from a giant Japanese octopus slide to a star-shaped Moroccan fountain – inspired by the many different nationalities that live in this diverse district.
London’s Design Museum announces it’s designs of the year. More info:
http://guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/mar/19/designs-year-2013-in-pictures
Check Out Foreign Policy Magazine’s Cities Issue
This special issue dedicated to the cities of the future has its eye squarely toward China, because the cities of the future are increasingly going to be speaking Mandarin — even more than you realize. It’s no longer news that China has embarked on the largest mass urbanization in history, a monumental migration from country to city that will leave China with nearly a billion urbanites by 2025 and an astonishing 221 cities with populations over 1 million. But this isn’t just about size: It’s about global heft. And that’s where the scale of China’s transformation into a world leader is truly astonishing. In an exclusive index for FP, the McKinsey Global Institute has run the numbers to produce what we’re calling The 75 Most Dynamic Cities of 2025 — an extraordinary 29 of which are in China.
Fascinating Design Concept:
The Autonomous City :
Designed by Adams-Masoud
The Central Ideas of The City are:
1. Compact and self contained: The City is established with vision and in response to the physiology, hydrology and ecology of its context. Logical boundaries are formed and a whole vision worked toward without wanton, haphazard growth beyond the carry-capacity of the city-locale.
2. Self-Reliant: The City is a site of production and consumption with all waste, effluents and emissions are resources recovered and cycled to replenish and feed the closed-loop system.
3. From Core to Spine: The City’s dated notion of the ‘core’ is replaced by a looping spine that centralizes service and offers high order transport. In place of the voided core is ecologically-based waste reclamation areas and production sites that supplement neighborhood and home scaled agriculture.
4. Low Tech Meets High Tech Sustainability: passive and active systems work holistically on a joint landscape, city and building scale. These environments rely on orientation, self-shading, passive heating and cooling and courtyards of the mat-building fabric for great performance. The porosity enables lush garden courts of native planting where rainwater is reclaimed for use. This is enhanced by leading edge green technologies with the whole city powered by solar fields extending beyond the city.
(Source: weheartit.com)
More photos of eco-district Annedal in Sweden.
Pedestrian bridge over canal in Annedal, Sweden.
Open space and pedestrian connections in Annedal, Sweden.
(via Annedal | Landskapslaget)
Concepts for Annedal, Sweden.
Residential green architecture, housing of Annedal near Stockholm. (via illustrative plan)
A residential area including parks, cafes, schools etc is positioned to the northeast area of Stockholm. The masterplan is based on the winning proposal that Tovatt Architects and Planners submitted in 2003. We are presently designing three residential blocks for Svenska bostäder.
The U shaped building and ‘park’ blocks are placed between the areas central park and the small dock area at the northern extremity of the development. The buildings have a range of heights from 4 to 8 floor levels with a playful roofscape.
Two buildings within the block will be built as ‘passive house’, eg requiring no heating energy other than passive solar heating, and heat generated from lighting and household electrical equipment. This places a high demand on the buildings insulation efficiency.
(via Housing Annedal)
