The attempt to rebuild the lower ninth ward in New Orleans, just where the levees broke, is one of a highly courageous level. Since the height and quality of the levees as the connection with surrounding levees is not sufficient…
The noise reducing effect of reshaping the ground’s surface was the inspiration for a landscape strategy and design for an area of approximately 330 hectares to reduce the groundlevel noise of starting planes on the runway ‘Polderbaan’ of the airport.…
Into the heart of downtown Detroit, a productive vegetable garden that also functions as an engaging public space is a tangible expression of the possibilities for integrating urban agriculture into city spaces and city life.
On invitation of the association of the Incompiuto Siciliano and the collective Alterations Video, Coloco office has realized a performance to rehabilitate an incomplete and abandoned theater from more than thirty years.
In 1990 the city of Hannover is selected to host the EXPO 2000. The project started in 1993 with the aim to realize the new residential district of Kronsberg in the south of the city of Hannover, at the foot…
From 2000 to 2010 the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-Land took place in Lusatia (Brandenburg). Through 30 exemplary projects and EU-projects IBA gave economical, creative and ecological impulses for the required structural change in the mining region.
Human Ecosystems is a technological platform which was built to observe the digital lives of cities in real time, as it emerges from social networks, through the information that people constantly publish during their daily lives.
Located in a lowland area, the urban watershed of the Clear Creek Basin that sits at the heart of Atlanta’s historic Fourth Ward is subject to intermittent flooding and sewer overflows during storm events. To address this problem, the city…
HafenCity, Hamburg’s first urban district built outside the official dike ring and hence the flood protection line was built on the 155 ha large site of the former free port south of the listed warehouse district and the town centre.…
Transitions in industrial land uses, and ongoing efforts to revitalize existing neighborhoods and districts bordering the Mississippi River corridor, prompted the city of Saint Paul to prepare a comprehensive revitalization master plan for the 17-mile long corridor.