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El Palmeral of Surprises, Málaga, Spain, 2011 designed by Junquera Arquitectos

EL PALMERAL OF SURPRISES, events, varied and changing, permanent or temporary, a new space for Malaga with the aim of becoming the benchmark public space that the city needs a place of peaceful coexistence. -- ArchDaily

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Tagus Linear Park, 2625-039 Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal, 2013 designed by Topiaris Landscape Architecture

The Tagus Linear Park is an area of 15 000 sq m that was conquered by the surrounding communities of the industrial private sector and was felt as a democratic intervention by those forever deprived of access to the River. -- ArchDaily

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Community Rowing Boathouse, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008 designed by Anmahian Winton Architects

For inspiration for the wood Community Rowing Boathouse, the architects looked to regional vernacular linear buildings, such as covered bridges and tobacco sheds. Tobacco sheds provided a particularly compelling model because sculls and shells, like tobacco leaves, need proper ventilation. This observation led the architects to the idea of a kinetic building. -- Architectural Record

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Sports Technification Centre For Rowing And Canoeing, Orio, Basque Country, Spain, 2012 designed by U.T.E. Atristain Begiristain

The new steel columns hold the light plane corresponding to the cover. Thanks to these supports the cover can be a thin sheet giving a light character to the cover. The ceiling lights created from different glass folds on the cover sheet, add natural lighting to the building. -- ArchDaily

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WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013 designed by Studio Gang Architects

The boathouse’s design translates the time-lapse motion of rowing into an architectural roof form, providing visual interest while also offering spatial and environmental advantages that allow the boathouse to adapt to Chicago’s distinctive seasonal changes. With structural truss shapes alternating between an inverted “V” and an “M,” the roof achieves a rhythmic modulation that lets in southern light through the building’s upper clerestory. -- ArchDaily

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Hudson River Education Center And Pavilion, Beacon, New York, USA designed by Architecture Research Office

While the Education Center is an iconic destination, the boat pavilion is conceived as a threshold in deference to the expansive Hudson River. The roof is a horizontal plane of corrugated steel that parallels a large wood deck from which boats launch. The painted steel structure is economical and sturdy. Secure storage for up to sixty-four kayaks or canoes, a changing room and storage area are enclosed by aluminum bar grating panels. The textures, patterns, orientation and details of the corrugated steel, wood deck and bar grating bring these ordinary elements into an elegant composition.  -- ArchDaily

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Sotogrande’s Sailing School, Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, 2013 designed by Héctor Fernández Elorza/HFE Arch + Carlos García Fernández

The pergola, constructed in front of the school, unifies all the project elements while also creating a shaded threshold, covering the exterior from direct sun exposure, stretching towards the southern end of the building. Seen from a distance, the school becomes a landmark near the port entrance. -- ArchDaily

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Yacht Club de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2014 designed by Foster + Partners

The yacht club is the symbolic centrepiece of the Monaco’s remodelled harbour front. It celebrates the principality’s spectacular coastline and its nautical heritage, creating a series of deck-like terraces that step up along the harbour to offer unrivalled views out to races at sea or inland over the course of the renowned Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. --  ArchDaily

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A Modern Boathouse in a Canadian Landscape, Parry Sound District, ON, Canada, 2014 designed by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited

Through careful form-making and the use of rustic materials, the project responds gently both to the natural and cultural context of the area, where historically built-form yields to the power of the landscape with its exposed and glacially carved granite and wind swept jack pines. -- ArchDaily

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Portsoy Boatshed, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, UK, 2015 designed by Brown + Brown Architects

The job essentially comprises a modern timber building, which has been slipped inside a reconstructed stone skin. Due to the setting of an historic harbour, no new openings were permitted in the stone walls, resulting in most of the natural light coming via a ridge rooflight, which runs the length of the building. -- ArchDaily

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Vancouver Convention Centre West, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2009 designed by LMN + DA with MCM

Situated on Vancouver’s waterfront with spectacular views of mountains, ocean, and parks, the Vancouver Convention Centre West is designed to bring together the natural ecology, vibrant local culture, and built environment, accentuating their interrelationships through the architecture. The project achieved LEED® Canada Platinum certification, the first convention center to gain such recognition in the world, and recently received a COTE 2011 Top Ten Green Project Award. -- ArchDaily

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Stockholm Waterfront, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010 designed by White arkitekter ab

Stockholm Waterfront lies adjacent to Stockholm’s Central Station. The site has the best public exposure in Stockholm, with thousands of train passengers passing by every day – its position on the Riddarfjärden bay and its proximity to Stockholm’s City Hall also make it an ideal location.

The project consists of three separate buildings with a lower congress and concert section closest to the water, an office building, and a 400-room hotel directly connected to the congress building. -- ArchDaily

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Redevelopment of the New Coast of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009 designed by Prodromos Nikiforidis – Bernard Cuomo

The design, the choice of materials, the choice of plantation, the lighting, they all have to contribute not only to the construction of a high quality public space but mainly to the organization of a space that is “inscribed” smoothly to the existing urban landscape and its management and maintenance do not demand the waste of valuable resources. -- ArchDaily

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Toronto Central Waterfront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2011 designed by West 8 and DTAH

The Central Waterfront, 3.5 km of Lake Ontario shoreline immediately adjacent to the downtown business district, is one of Toronto’s most valuable assets. Yet, despite decades of planning and patchwork development projects, there is no coherent vision for linking the pieces into a greater whole – visually or physically. In this context, the fundamental objective of the project is to address this deficiency by creating a consistent and legible image for the Central Waterfront, in both architectural and functional terms. -- ArchDaily

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Sherbourne Common Pavilion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2011 designed by Teeple Architects

The sculptural form of the pavilion was generated through extensive collaboration with landscape architects, artists and civil engineers who designed the storm water purification for the entire waterfront. The structure is a physical embodiment of the overall vision for the park that focuses on public interaction and connection to water, specifically Lake Ontario. The pavilion plays a significant role in the water purification process, while inter-connecting the various elements of the park. -- ArchDaily

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Jellicoe Harbour and Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011 designed by Taylor Cullity Lethl​ean, Wraight + Associates

Working waterfronts are constantly in flux; crusty, utilitarian, muscular and dissolving, with temporal qualities that engage all of our senses. Yet contemporary waterfront redevelopments are often characterised by the removal of the very qualities that attract us to these places. At Auckland’s Wynyard Point redevelopment these conventions are challenged in a development that anticipates transforming a forlorn industrial and maritime precinct into a layered, mixed-use precinct. -- ArchDaily

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Wilmington Waterfront Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2011 designed by Sasaki Associates

The Wilmington Waterfront Park is the first project to be fully implemented. Built on a 30-acre brownfield site, the new urban park revitalizes the community and visually reconnects it to the waterfront. The park integrates a variety of active and passive uses—informal play, public gathering, community events, picnicking, sitting, strolling, and observation—determined through an extensive community outreach process. The open space serves as a public amenity by doubling the current community open space while also buffering the Wilmington community from the extensive port operations to the south. -- ArchDaily

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Las Negras Waterfront, Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata, Nijar, Spain designed by Jesús Torres García

The example of Las Negras elicits a considerate approach to the public element; the choice of materials has been decisive in consolidating the work within its urban interaction: the wood of the structure and the coverings of perimeter benches encourage a pleasant treatment favouring its consolidation. There is a symmetrical psychology in the human treatment that is here applied to the use and the form of the material as a means of the object’s expression. This reflection refers to the natural element, the sound of the sea, the material and shape of natural elements, the vegetation, the geological configurations, as well as the settings of interest. -- ArchDaily

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New Waterfront of Thessaloniki, Aggelaki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014 designed by Nikiforidis-Cuomo Architects

The total length of the New Waterfront is 3km. There are 2.353 new trees, 118.432 new plants, 58,75 acres of green spaces and 11.557m2 of playgrounds. 

....at the inner side of the coast, 13 green spaces were formed, as a succession of “green rooms – gardens”, each with a special thematic characteristic. -- ArchDaily

Urban Spaces: Esplanades

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Lifting Wave, Resting Wave, Lighting Wave, Dover, UK designed by Tonkin Liu

Lifting Wave, Resting Wave, Lighting Wave harnesses the architectural language of Doverʼs identity, evoking the gentle nature of waves on the sheltered beach, the rhythmical sweep of the Georgian seafront terrace and the topography of the White Cliffs. -- Architecture Today

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Benidorm Seafront, Benidorm, Spain designed by OAB

The artifical landscape elegantly resolves the problem of the required width of a seaside promenade by having the form expand to larger areas with benches and places to relax.   The design also includes a variety of access points to the sand. In this way, the design serves different levels, as the upper level is fit for any city-goer to meander along the path, and the bottom curves pour into a wooded board walk for runners and beach-goers. On the upper level, the colored promenade has a passive relationship with the Mediterranean, and the curves of the form provide a shaded perimeter for the lower path. The design truly fits the location as the seaside is filled with people enjoying their holiday.  Its upbeat color selection and dynamic form have made it a success for those from or visiting Benidorm. -- ArchDaily

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Copacabana Beach Boardwalk, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil designed by Roberto Burle Marx

famous mosaic sidewalks of the Copacabana Beach Boardwalk designed by the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx -- ArchDaily

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Promenade Samuel-de Champlain, Quebec, Canada, 2008 designed by Daoust Lestage, Williams Asselin Ackaoui, and Option Aménagement

.... what had once been a largely industrial landscape dotted with petroleum storage tanks is now a leafy linear park filled with pedestrians, runners, and cyclists. This 1.5-mile-long, $63 million (U.S.) section of the Promenade Samuel-de Champlain is part of a vision for a continuous emerald swath that will eventually extend another 6 miles to an area of shoreline near the fortified walls of the Old City.

.... By introducing gradual curves and pulling the four-lane artery away from the shore at a few key spots, the team was able to recover significant stretches of the waterfront for public use -- Architectural Record

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Leça Swimming Pools, Leça de Palmeira, Portugal, 1966 designed by Alvaro Siza

By sinking the building behind the road Siza promotes a disconnect between his pools and the infrastructure of the city.  He is also considerate of the ocean views from the roadway. Siza was careful to preserve a large portion of the existing rock formations when planning his modern interventions into the landscape. The pools he created reach out into the ocean and blend easily with the natural pool formations along the coast of the Atlantic. -- ArchDaily

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Copenhagen Harbour Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2003 designed by BIG/PLOT, JDS

The Harbour Bath design has emerged out of the desire of extending the surrounding park onto the water and the practical needs for accessibility, safety and programmatic demand. The Harbour Bath realises the transition from land to water as a terassed landscape. -- architect's web site

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Kastrup Sea Bath, Kastrup, Denmark, 2004 designed by White arkitekter AB

Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integral part of the new sea front.

The project consists of the main building on the water, the new beach and an ajoining service building with lavatories and a handicap changing room. -- ArchDaily

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Public Swimming Pool, New York City, New York, USA

In New York the most obvious example of crowd-funded urbanism is the public swimming pool floating in the Hudson River. So many New Yorkers (and not New Yorkers) liked the idea so much that they wanted to be part of the process of making it possible. And now it’s there, thanks to the 41,647 dollar that was collected by 1,203 backers at Kickstarter. -- The Pop-Up City

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Badeschiff, Berlin, Germany, 2013 designed by Wilk-Salinas Architekten

The winter-roofs base area is limited to the existing arrangement and consists of three lengthwise airy  parts of a structure constructed with membrans, which are divorcing the interior into three functional areas: lounge, sauna- area and finally the pool ship. These areas are connected via added boxes where the sanitarian  rooms are included. -- ArchDaily

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The Building on the Water, Huai’an, Jiangsu, China, 2014 designed by Álvaro Siza + Carlos Castanheira

Meticulously built in white exposed concrete, the building’s pristine curvilinear form measures over 300m in length, comprising two levels above water and a total built floor area of approximately 11,000 sqm. As if evoking a life-like dragon, elegantly poised over water, the contours of this building gently undulates. -- ArchDaily