Tagged infrastructure

Following the completion of cable car designs for the cities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam, UNStudio was recently selected as the winner in the competition for the first ever cross border cable car, which will ca...

COBE has unveiled the first of 48 ultra-fast charging stations for electric vehicle (EVs) in Scandinavia. Built in cooperation with Powered by E.ON Drive & Clever, the stations not only promise to recharg...

Cepezed architects has recently opened the first self-sufficient bus station in The Netherlands. The new bus station is a part of the large-scale revitalization of the Tilburg public transport hub. Fully tail...

Following the deadly collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge this past August, Italian architect Renzo Piano had announced plans to donate a replacement design. In a statement, Piano said it was a "great honor" t...

Zaha Hadid Architects and A_Lab have won the architectural competition to design the Fornbuporten and Fornebu Senter stations, two of the six stations planned for the new Fornebubanen metro line in Oslo. One o...

Chinese studio Meta-project has completed a viewing platform in Jilin, China, featuring a deep cantilever and rough materials. The site is surrounded by luscious greenery in summer and covered by an overwhelmi...

Dutch office UNStudio has designed a cable car system for the Swedish city of Gothenburg that will be supported by a network of latticed towers based on shipyard cranes. The design was chosen ahead of rival pro...

Portuguese architecture studio M2 Senos has completed a new public toilet for a cemetery in Portugal's Ílhavo municipality. The local practice, which is led by brothers Sofia and Ricardo Senos, was asked by th...

Dutch practice MVRDV has completed Seoullo 7017, a 983-metre botanical floating walkway, which utilizes a formerly abandoned highway in the center of the South Korean capital. Seoullo, the Korean name for Skyg...

Thomas Heatherwick is bringing a new public monument to New York City. Due for completion in Autumn 2018, Vessel has been commissioned as the centrepiece for the largest development in New York City since the R...

Architect Lina Toro has transformed an existing car wash named "Burbucar" to reveal the cleaning processes to its customers. Located at Costa Rica street in Madrid, the car wash occupies the ground floor o...

An eye-catching structure that blurs the distinction between a tower and a stairway floats high above the famous Kabouterbos (fairy tale forest) and draws the curiosity of many Tielt residents and passers-by. T...

The longest treetop walkway in the UK has opened to the public in the National Arboretum at Westonbirt, designed by Glenn Howells Architects with engineers Buro Happold. The STIHL Treetop Walkway starts and fin...

In the breathtaking lansdcape along the Paiva river in Portugal, Lisboa-based engineering firm Trimérica has designed a walkway that offers a unique experience for nature lovers. Paiva Walkways provides a ...

Cuyperspassage is the name of the new tunnel at Amsterdam Central Station designed by local practice Benthem Crouwel Architects that connects the city and the waters of the IJ-river. Since the end of 2015 it ...

New York City plans to turn its public payphone network into the biggest and fastest free municipal Wi-Fi network in the world. The five-borough LinkNYC network, which will be funded through advertising revenue...

In the heart of Lower Manhattan, Grimshaw‘s Fulton Center transit hub has officially opened to the public, connecting eleven New York City Transit subway lines. The Fulton Center is organized around a large-s...

The Kings Cross Pedestrian Tunnel has been designed by Allies & Morrison architects to form a link between Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations; a route which 100,000 people take per day. The light wall is ...