News US-Chinese team to masterplan a science district in Hangzhou US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…
News $1.1bn ‘anti-ageing utopia’ gets green light in Melbourne The Australian state of Victoria has approved the first phase of a $1.1bn “anti-ageing utopia” in Melbourne’s Docklands, the Urban Developer website reports. The 2.7ha Elysium Fields project, which is…
News ZHA designs Qatar seafront neighbourhood Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled the design for The Grove, a seafront neighbourhood and marina on Qatar’s Qetaifan Bay. Developed by JMJ Group Holding and Qetaifan Projects, The Grove…
News Schmidt Hammer Lassen designs 15-minute neighbourhood for Luxembourg City A team made up of Denmark’s Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Luxembourg’s Assar Universum Architects has won a competition to design a neighbourhood in Luxembourg where homes, jobs and shops are…
News 10 Design reveals plans for new South Bay waterfront in Shenzhen Architect 10 Design has revealed its regeneration plan for a waterfront site to the east of Shenzhen. The Yantian Old Market Town is an industrial suburb experiencing rapid growth. The…
News Kohn Pedersen Fox designs 50ha Seoul neighbourhood on former US military base New York architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has unveiled its design for Parkside Seoul, a 50ha mixed-use neighbourhood located on a former US military headquarters in the centre of the…