Planning for Protest: CAIRO

CLUSTER has documented how individuals and communities are redefining trough protest and “slow encroachment” the meaning and the structure of Cairo public spaces.

CLUSTER has documented how individuals and communities are redefining trough protest and “slow encroachment” the meaning and the structure of Cairo public spaces.

12 architectural offices in 12 world cities examine the role of architecture in shaping, defining, or limiting the flow of protests.

Problem solving on a budget is already in action: check out the CRISIS BUSTER projects for civic-minded solutions at CLOSE, CLOSER, Lisbon Architecture Triennale!

For three months until december 15 CLOSE, CLOSER, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale put forward an alternative reading of contemporary spatial practice.

Middle & Far East Architecture: Foster & Partners, KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and SOM worked on these new urban areas that will most probably define our future way of living the present.
It has got the aerodynamic lines of a power-boat and the flashy colours of a sport-car that rockets through urban space… But it was designed to stun in its motionless state. ICON is VESTRE’s brand new bench that won this year the Red Dot Design Award.

It’s high time for the world’s first underground park. New York City is working on the LOWLINE, the haedan sister of the worldwide famous HighLine.