22@Barcelona project, Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
22@Barcelona project transforms two hundred hectares of industrial land of Poblenou into an innovative district offering modern spaces for the strategic concentration of intensive knowledge-based activities. This initiative is also a project of urban refurbishment and a new model of city providing a response to the challenges posed by the knowledge-based society.
It is the most important project of urban transformation of Barcelona city of the last years and one of the most ambitious of Europe of these characteristics, with a high real state potential and a 180 million Euros public investment of infrastructure plan. -- Official web site
Innovation District, Boston, USA
The urban lab component of the Innovation District is at the heart of achieving a new level of metropolitan livability. The current underdeveloped landscape will allow for the testing of groundbreaking technologies in clean energy, citizen participation, transportation, and city infrastructure. The South Boston waterfront is a proving ground for collaborative efforts between the City and its partners, scaling up the successes to benefit all neighborhoods.
The 1,000 acres of iconic waterfront property poses an opportunity to shape the future of environmental leadership. -- Official web site
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Berlin’s Startup Innovators Create A Factory To Call Their Own By Mike Butcher on April 25, 2012
JMES Investments, a Berlin based Angel and Seed Investor has partnered with a large property company, s+p Real Estate, and together with private investors, have have acquired and begun to develop an 8,500 square-meter office building. It stands on the site of the former Oswald Brauerei building in Berlin’s central Mitte district (on Rheinsberger Strasse, at the corner with Brunnenstrasse,here). The space will become a new tech hub comprising a startup incubator and accelerator programs with office space for Berlin’s ‘most successful’ – as they call it – startups. -- techcrunch
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The Tech City Map, the web of connections linking East London's vibrant technology and creative ecosystem.
Located in an easily accessible and hip neighborhood of artists, fashionistas, and tech companies in East London, Tech City is more than just a physical area – it’s a web of interactions. Just take a look at the Tech City Map (a visual representation of Twitter mentions and conversations between Tech City companies), and you can see that Tech City is all about community. -- ArchDaily
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SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) has been selected as winner of an international design competition with its Beijing Bohai Innovation City master plan that illustrates a new model of compact, environmentally enhanced urban design.
The winning proposal centers a new environmentally friendly district along the high-speed rail line, linking the national capital to the port city of Tianjin while leveraging the economic and lifestyle assets of the Beijing-Tianjin corridor. The city expansion will bring 17.6 million square meters of mixed-use development, with a focus on providing a premier headquarters location for advanced industries in the dynamically growing Bohai Rim, a region that already accounts for more than a quarter of China’s GDP. -- ArchDaily
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Masterplan for National Creative Cluster, Beijing, China designed by Sasaki Associates
The masterplan for the National Creative Cluster by Sasaki Associates integrates the urban form with the surrounding landscape by creating a series of green wedges, interspersed within the urban clusters and forming a series of community parks.
A unique opportunity exists to create a new urban district dedicated entirely to the cultivation of new ideas. The National Creative Cluster (NCC) is envisioned as China’s preeminent knowledge hub, making the district a center for the country’s innovative home-grown talent and a destination for the world’s most creative thinkers. -- ArchDaily
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