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added to bookmark Home Cities Mobility Projects Sustainability Digitisation MAP added to bookmark Home Cities Mobility Projects Sustainability Digitisation MAP Shop E-Paper Bookmarks Follow us Premium Top Billboard Top Beat the Heat – Join us! Cities The cooling power of urban green: how green combat city heat Projects climate park in Prague: OMGEVING wins competition Issues public transport – topos 126 Events Paris 2024: Solidarity and Inclusivity Projects Poverty – topos 125 We recommend Cities Beat the Heat – Join us!Cities The cooling power of urban green: how green combat city heat As urban areas continue to expand, the “urban heat island” effect intensifies, making cities significantly warmer than their rural surroundings. This phenomenon, caused primarily by the absorption and retention of heat by buildings and asphalt, is exacerbated by the decrease in vegetative cover. But there is a solution…Issues public transport – topos 126Projects climate park in Prague: OMGEVING wins competitionSkyscrapper Halfpage Jorn Wemmenhove about Happy mobility It is my personal battle to not lose patience with those in power who can’t see that if we do things differently, we can create a more just world with opportunities for all. Read more... ADVERTISEMENT A new jewel for New York City The new Pier 55 by Heatherwick Studio will start construction this summer. The project is mainly privately funded by Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg.ADVERTISEMENT Brazilian Grota: Testing the Limits of Landscape Architecture In a Brazilian Grota: What can landscape architecture do to improve the lives of residents and the quality of water?Projects The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is currently under construction in Los Angeles and will open in 2025. Following the design of Ma Yansong of MAD Architects with Stantec as the executive architect, Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson founded the institution.Projects Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House” at the Vitra Design Museum The exhibition “Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House” explains the construction and history of this special building on the Vitra Campus. Vitra / ATTA, Photo: Julien LanooBillboard Halfpage Current Issue Poverty – topos 125 They are called slums, shanty towns or informal settlements. Clusters of buildings like these in India, seen from an impressive aerial perspective, represent poverty and precarious living conditions in this world like few other images. Photo: Aman Upadhyay READ MORE Projects Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles: Ribbon of LightProjects A linear, elevated green space: Hofbogenpark in Rotterdam The Hofbogenpark will connect several neighbourhoods in Rotterdam an offer space to humans and animals like. Image: De UrbanistenSociety Tuvalu: Climate asylum for the vulnerable island nation Australia will grant asylum to 280 Tuvaluans a year. Image: Lily-Anne Homasi/DFAT, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsProjects Poverty – topos 125 They are called slums, shanty towns or informal settlements. Clusters of buildings like these in India, seen from an impressive aerial perspective, represent poverty and precarious living conditions in this world like few other images. Photo: Aman UpadhyaySkyscrapper Halfpage Subscribe to our newsletter Join our newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter and we bring the hottest news and stories to you – once a week. Email* The sending of the newsletter is effected in accordance with our privacy policy. ADVERTISEMENT Reactivating Sarajevo Post-war Sarajevo missed the opportunity of reactivating its formerly green centre. An initiative by ETH Zurich`s Urban-Think Tank seeks to construct a conceptual framework to revitalize the Bosnian capital and produce lessons of global significance.ADVERTISEMENT Flying cars We spoke with Patrick Nathen, co-founder of the Urban Air Mobility company Lilium, about the chances local air mobility offers for people living in cities as well as in the countryside and what effects this could have on the structure of our cities.Events COP28: Long-awaited progress after 30 years H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President and H.E Simon Stiell, UNFCCC Executive Secretary during the end of the Closing Plenary at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled)Events COP28 in Dubai: Unite. Act. Deliver In Dubai, the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP), the world’s largest climate conference, is currently taking place.Billboard Halfpage Events Homeless World Cup: Ending homelessness with football In 2023, the annual Homeless World Cup took place in Sacramento, US.Cities Fastest train in the world Ever since the first steam locomotives, there have been efforts to build the fastest train in the world. Currently, German ICEs, for example, can travel at up to 330 km/h. Read here which trains are actually the fastest in the world.Events Save the Date: ASLA 2023Projects Genesis Collection: World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighbourhood The Genesis Collection at Wolf Ranch” in Texas will be the world’s largest 3D-printed neighbourhood by BIG, ICON and Lennar.Skyscrapper Halfpage No BOOKMARK WITHOUT COOKIES In order to benefit from our bookmark function, you must accept the cookies. In our privacy policy you will find all information about our data handling. stay updated ADVERTISEMENT Designing for the Post-fossil Era Designers are perfectly equipped to take on one of the greatest challenges of our time: the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.ADVERTISEMENT Adaptive Planning The new football stadium and the riverbank park are a direct result of the master plan for Bordeaux by Michel Designee Paysagiste. A Masterpiece of Adaptive Planning.Cities Greater London Is Now an Ultra Low Emission Zone The British capital has expanded its Ultra Low Emission Zone to encompass all boroughs. That means that in the future, almost 700,000 vehicles that are currently going into London will not be allowed into the city unless they comply with strict environmental standards. Read all about the zone expansion and the criticism accompanying it.Projects Youth – topos 124 Young people can be wild and provocative – and sometimes they can be prone to questionable wardrobe choices. This image captures these aspects in an unusual way and absolutely inspired us to select this issue’s design pattern.Billboard Halfpage Elected as the most livable city for the second time Metropolis Explained: Vienna Friedrich Passler, architect at AllesWirdGut, writes in topos 109 about Vienna: a city worth living in and loving, which continues to grow, but in a healthy way. READ MORE Cities Kutupalong – a photo seriesCities Swimming in the SeineProjects BiciBus: Bike bus for children and young people Following an idea from Spain, bicycle associations in Germany are now helping students get to school in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Cycling in a group of at least 16 people is the key.Cities Smallest country in the world Big cities get bigger, small towns stay small: this is how modern nomadism works in the 21st century between the metropolises and countries of our world. But the world’s smallest country benefits from being constantly overlooked – and only opens its doors to a handful of people.Skyscrapper Halfpage HAVE A LOOK AT OUR MAP to discover new articles Remember when printed maps were all the rage? Yeah, neither do we. But responsive maps are much cooler anyways: topos magazine presents ideas, projects and people from all over the world. If you are interested in a certain area, we are making research easy for you. Just navigate our map or do some old school typing and put your area of interest into the search bar. Read More ADVERTISEMENT Creating a Moscow Agora Khokhlovka Square by Strelka KB and the studio Djao-Rakitine is a...