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Zuidpark

Antwerp (Belgium), 2024

Zuidpark turns a car-parking space on Antwerp’s old docks into a metropolitan green lung, with a design that integrates biodiversity, recovers the water cycle and creates new neighbourhood spaces where local people can sit and spend time.

Developer: AG Vespa and Water-Link
Authors: Tractebel

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Catalan Glories Square

Barcelona (Spain), 2025

With this transformation of the plaza, the cloverleaf interchange becomes a plaza-cum-park, consolidating a new urban ecosystem that integrates urban-scale mobility at a lower level to prioritize nature on the surface, offering a climate refuge and accessible green space for neighbourhood life.

Developer: BIMSA (Barcelona d'Infraestructures Municipals SA)
Authors: AgenceTER, Ana Coello Paisatge i Arquitectura, Meta Engineering - Quadrante

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Winkelried Square

Basel (Switzerland), 2023

The Winkelriedplatz project preserves the main green public space of Basel-Gundeldingen, respecting its historical heritage and reinforcing its role as a neighbourhood centre, strategically situated near the railway station.

Developer: Kanton Basel-Stadt
Authors: Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur

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The Nieuwe Mark

Breda (Netherlands), 2025

The project to restore the river Mark revitalizes its course through the centre of the city, replacing the old hard canals with naturalized jetties, new bridges and a system of accessible public spaces to restore urban connection with the riverside environment.

Developer: Gemeente Breda
Authors: ingenieursbureau Breda, studio mars, ODC architecture

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Waller Sand Bremen

Bremen (Germany), 2023

The Beach Park project transforms the port’s flood defences into a new public space with a system of dunes, a bench and an urban beach that connects the neighbourhood of Überseestadt with the adjoining districts, bringing together climate adaptation, biodiversity and social fabric.

Developer: A24 LANDSCHAFT Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH
Authors: A24 LANDSCHAFT

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Greening of Flagey and Sainte-Croix Squares

Brussels (Belgium), 2025

This project for two squares effects a subtle green transformation that respects the original design principles and keeps the central space open as a tribute to the old ponds of the Maalbeek valley, integrating the memory of water into the urban landscape.

Developer: Municipality of Ixelles – Brussels Mobility
Authors: Kollektif landscape

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Microdams

Chora, Ios (Greece), 2025

The Souvales project revitalizes the seasonal streams of the island of Ios using traditional dry-stone micro-dams and interlinking ecological restoration, heritage preservation, and the active involvement of the community and municipal technicians.

Developer: Dimitris Chiou, Michalis Roussos, Socratis Socratous
Authors: Boulouki

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Grønningen-Bispeparken (Bishop's Park)

Copenhagen (Denmark), 2024

The project recovers 20,000 m² of wasteland to create a biodiversity-rich public park that is shaped by nature itself, generating an inclusive space that respects its surroundings and aims to promote local wellbeing.

Developer: Kobenhavns Kommune, HOFOR
Authors: SLA, NIRAS, Kerstin Bergendal

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Public Courtyard

Inca (Spain), 2024

This project to create pedestrian connectivity in Inca involved purchasing and demolishing a ruined house and an unplanned building to link the Jewish quarter with the commercial area, creating a new urban passage for social gatherings and rest.

Developer: Ajuntament d'Inca
Authors: Flexo Arquitectura

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Therapeutic garden at the Expocenter

Kiev (Ukraine), 2025

The therapeutic garden in the Expocenter park in Kyiv is a nature-based space designed for war veterans and the general public, hybridizing clinical rehabilitation and urban leisure to offer a green refuge that accompanies social reintegration and mental health.

Developer: Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, National Complex “Expocenter of Ukraine” (VDNG), The Office of the First Lady of Ukraine (Olena Zelenska)
Authors: Big City Lab, PUPA

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South Harbor in Køge Kyst

Køge (Denmark), 2022

The project transforms an old industrial port into a resilient public landscape that brings together climate protection, everyday life and coastal nature to create a new place for people to meet beside the sea.

Developer: Køge Kyst P/S
Authors: SLA

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Graça Funicular

Lisbon (Portugal), 2024

This project to create access to the Castle addresses the site’s complex orography within Lisbon’s inclusive mobility network, connecting the Miradouro da Graça with Mouraria to incentivize the use of public transport and ensure equal access to the city.

Developer: LIFTECH, TECNOPLANO, RIOBOCO, BETAR, TRIBATO, BLUE HORIZON, CAMPO D’ÁGUA, ARQUEOHOJE
Authors: Pedro Domingos, Atelier Bugio, João Favila Menezes, João Simões

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Round About Baths

Logroño (Spain), 2025

>Housed in an obsolete roundabout, Roundabout Baths proposes the installation of temporary public baths and a climate refuge for cases of extreme heat, challenging the meaning of road infrastructures to turn vehicle space into a place for people to meet and share at a human scale.

Developer: Festival Concéntrico
Authors: Leopold Banchini

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U-Hall

Mannheim (Germany), 2023

The conversion of this former military warehouse transforms the building into an inclusive public space by means of an open participatory process to encourage neighbourhood involvement and activate the urban revitalization of Mannheim.

Developer: BUGA Mannheim 2023 gGmbH
Authors: Hütten & Paläste

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Leça Green Corridor

Matosinhos (Portugal), 2024

The Corridor stretches for 48 kilometres and connects four municipalities, providing 22 hectares of linear public space as an important landscape infrastructure for environmental regeneration, water resilience and sustainable mobility.

Developer: Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, Câmara Municipal da Maia
Authors: Laura Roldão LR

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Public Thermal Bath

Methana (Greece), 2025

With an ephemeral installation that enhances local natural resources, this project transforms the Methana spring into a public bath that harnesses thermal water by means of simple, local architecture that creates a social space.

Developer: Municipality of Troizinia-Methana
Authors: Lydia Xynogala, Charlotte Arn, Pascal Bertschi, Elon Rachamin, Friends of the 750 Mineral Springs of Greece

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El Plà de l'Italià

Olvan (Spain), 2025

The project turns an urban void into a non-hierarchical space where indeterminacy becomes a value, shunning defined uses to provide a flexible support that adapts to the changing needs of the community.

Developer: Ajuntament d'Olvan
Authors: Guillem Bigas Comas, Guillem Canudas Gorgas, Miquel Arias Costa, Xavier Martin Fontbote

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Wild square - Petite ceinture

Paris (France), 2021

The square reversibly transforms an old railway site in the east of Paris into a public square with an urban garden that is modelled by the spontaneous dynamics of vegetation and minimal landscaping intervention.

Developer: Ville de Paris
Authors: Wagon Landscaping, City of Paris, Anne Labroille, Le Bruit du Frigo

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Urban forest of the City Hall esplanade

Paris (France), 2025

The project turns around the esplanade in front of the Council of Paris to turn it into an urban forest, integrating nature into the ground, underground structures and existing fountains to lower urban temperatures and create an accessible and biodiverse green space.

Developer: Council of Paris, Amélie Astruc, Anne-Gaëlle Baptiste, Laurence Lejeune, Frédérique Martin-Bassi, Raphaël Delory, Amélie Farcette, Pascal Marette and Xavier Janc.
Authors: Council of Paris, Benjamin Le Masson, Sophie Mourthe and Eric Rousseau

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Square and Tourism Office

Piódão (Portugal), 2022

This project converts an old car into the main square of Piódão, using stone and local construction systems to enhance the only accessible space in the village, prioritizing pedestrians and collective use.

Developer: Câmara Municipal de Arganil
Authors: João Branco, Paula del Río

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Bolhão Market Rehabilitation

Porto (Portugal), 2022

The project reopens the historical market to the city and returns its galleries and inner streets to everyday dynamics in an intervention that preserves traditional commerce, reinforces the building as a public infrastructure and reactivates the city centre.

Developer: Câmara Municipal do Porto
Authors: Nuno Valentim, Arquitectura, Lda

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Žnjan 3.0

Split (Croatia), 2025

The regeneration of this 12-hectare coastal wasteland turns the site into a continuous public landscape that improves access to the sea, combining climate infrastructure and public space in a park that is open year round, promoting biodiversity and life.

Developer: Žnjan d.o.o. / Grad Split
Authors: Ivan Jurić, Marin Kaliterna, Mirjana Radoš, Arhitektonski biro Ante Kuzmanić

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Peace Park

Vicenza (Italy), 2025

Vicenza Airport Ecological Park transforms the old airport into a 65-hectare landscape that uses nature-based solutions to organize water management, recover biodiversity and create new collective spaces.

Developer: Comune di Vicenza
Authors: EMF - Estudi Martí Franch, PAN Associati, ITS Engineering Company, Studio Franco Zagari

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Free Center: Versatile Edge, Vienna North Station

Vienna (Austria), 2025

The transformation of the former railway site turns the space into a green island that brings new life to the adjoining neighbourhoods, creating a biological connector that introduces urban nature into the heart of the existing fabric.

Developer: Stadt Wien
Authors: Team StudioVlayStreeruwitz / Agence Ter

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Żerański Park

Warsaw (Poland), 2025

The Park transforms the old river port into a large municipal green space for sport and leisure, using the industrial past of the embankment to generate a fourth-nature landscape where ruderal vegetation has spontaneously colonized the existing structures.

Developer: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa
Authors: topoScape, Archigrest