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Category Archives: Aesthetics
OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you the best subway maps in the world, a children’s playground in an industrial park in Madrid, Vancouver’s … Read More
Posted in Accessibility, Aesthetics, News
Tagged Adaptive Reuse, BC Place, Children's Playground, Madrid, Parks, Subway Maps, Tokyo, Vancouver
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Paris Plage Brings the Beach to the City
For a month every summer, Paris central is transformed into a beach. Now in its tenth year, Paris Plages is a haven in the city with streets along the Seine closed to traffic and lined with white sand. This year, the … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Health, Paris, Social Cohesion, Sustainability
Tagged beach, Disneyland Paris, High Line, Paris, Paris Plage, right bank, sand, Seine, Sleeping Beauty, summer
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Vacant Stores Turned Art Galleries in Brooklyn
Walking down a pretty barren stretch of downtown Brooklyn, I noticed something strange in the windows of the shops lining Willoughby Street. Although the stores seemed to be closed, the windows displayed eye-catching and colourful displays. Closer inspection revealed that … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Economics, New York
Tagged Art, Brooklyn, business, Graffiti, New York, Street Art
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Living on the edge at Mercatorplein
When your city contains such complex people, ideas, streets, buildings—when it contains so many neighbourhoods, areas and grey areas—why dwell on the city centre as a focus for design discussion? In Amsterdam, there’s a public space called Mercator Square (Mercatorplein … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Amsterdam, Diversity, Social Cohesion
Tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands, Public square
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Brazillians Transform Trash and the City
This summer Pado and Rodrigo Machado, artists who use urban refuse found in public spaces as their raw materials, left their Sao Paulo homes to pay Toronto, Canada a visit. While they were in town, creating under their collective name … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Sao Paulo, Social Cohesion, Sustainability, Toronto
Tagged Brazil, Brazilian, Canada, garbage, Jordy Gold, Kensington, lemon bucket orekestra, overconsumption, Pado, Rodrigo Machado, Sao Paulo, Toronto, Urban Trash Art, waste
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Lovers Lock Up in Paris
The Pont De L’Archevêché crosses the Seine behind Notre Dame, on Ile De la Cité, to the 5th Arrondissement in Paris. The bridge is covered with colourful ribbons and, close up, you can see there are thousands of locks.
Posted in Aesthetics, Identity, Paris
Tagged 5th Arrondissement, City Hall, heritage, Ile De la Cite, love locks, Paris, Pont De L’Archevêché, Pont Des Arts, Seine
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It’s All in the Details For Vancouver’s Sea Wall
Vancouver has always been good at paying attention to the smaller design details that work to make up the larger picture. A walk along the lengthy, winding and continuous seawall that envelopes the downtown core and parts of False Creek … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, Vancouver
Tagged benches, cyclists, design, False Creek, landscape architecture, Olympic, pedestrians, sea wall, seawall, street furniture, The Village, urban, urban design, Vancouver, walking, wave deck
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. Backyard For Rent If you live in New York City the High Line and Central Park are no longer your only options … Read More
Posted in Aesthetics, News, Sustainability
Tagged backyard, density, etgar keret, Freiberg, Germany, High Line, landscape architecture, Lower East Side, New York City, poland, sustainable, warsaw
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Bringing the Street to Life
We love creative uses of old infrastructure. In Lyon, France, a glass and metal phone booth is transformed into an aquarium and literally brings the street to life.
Posted in Aesthetics, Lyon, Sustainability
Tagged aquarium, Benedetto Bufalino, Benoit Deseille, Festival of Light, fish, France, Lyon, phone box, telephone booth
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OpenCity Weekly Review
Editors note: Starting today OpenCity Projects brings you a weekly column every Monday morning, rounding up the best in public spaces from around the world. Innovative Park Creates Unusual Combination Sherbourne Common, a newly completed park in Toronto, combines sculpture, … Read More
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