Paris-based Explorations Architecture, together with engineering firms Flint & Neill and Arup Lighting have won the international competition to design the Negrellisteg crossing, a pedestrian bridge, over the Hauptbahnhof railways in downtown Zurich, Switzerland. The competition was held by the City of Zurich…

The Four Mile Run Bridge Competition has announced its winning entries, awarding Team Arup/Grimshaw/Scape with the First Prize. For years, Northern Virginia’s Four Mile Run has functioned as a flood control channel and a border between the City of Alexandria and Arlington County. More…

Just a few days ago, we posted the fascinating entry for a footbridge by Family as part of the ‘EPK - DRAVA RIVER 2012’ competition in Maribor, Slovenia. Following is another very exciting bridge proposal by Toronto-based Ja Studio in collaboration…

We just posted Family‘s second prize-winning entry for the new Art Gallery in Maribor, Slovenia. Part of the larger ideas competition ‘EPK - DRAVA RIVER 2012’ was also to design a footbridge across the river…

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Buildings Commissioner Robert D. LiMandri and President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Anthony Schirripa today unveiled a new design for sidewalk sheds - the wood and steel structures built to protect pedestrians walking alongside buildings…

On October 7, a jury of nine esteemed design, engineering, and construction professionals met at AIANY/Center for Architecture to select the Stage I finalists of the urbanSHED International Design Competition. The competition challenges designers to conceptualize a cutting-edge sidewalk shed to protect pedestrians, improve the…

With this proposal for a border crossing for pedestrians between Mexico and the United States, Belgian firm OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, in collaboration with Wonne Ickx, won the first prize in an international design competition back in 2005. Not necessarily the…

NEX, with engineering support from AKT, has won an open international design competition for a bridge across the River Dodder in central Dublin. The pedestrian bridge is being commissioned by the Mountbrook Group as part of their major redevelopment of the site of the existing Jury’s/Berkeley Court Hotels in Ballsbridge,…