UK-headquartered engineer Buro Happold has been appointed lead design consultant to masterplan and design the public realm, landscape, infrastructure and utilities for Expo 2030 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will…

UK architect Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 3.2-sq-km area masterplan in northern Shanghai’s Putuo district. The project is based around Shanghai West Railway Station and…

French engineer Egis has been hired by Qatar’s transport ministry to draw up a masterplan for the country’s public transport system. Egis says the Qatar Public Transport Masterplan will “bypass…

A group of investors and construction companies have put forward plans to build a new town on the site of a Tata Steel plant at IJmuiden, near the coastal village…

UK architect Foster + Partners has been selected to design the masterplan for the 1,045ha urban development in central Chile. The Maratué project aims to reconnect the existing town of…

UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its master plan for a section of Iași, a city in eastern Romania. Commissioned by real estate group Iulius, the plan centres on…

US-headquartered architect Sasaki has won a contract to masterplan “New City Salalah” in Oman, a mixed-use project in Dhofar province with a 6km-long public beach and residential units for 60,000…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won a competition to design a large-scale urban regeneration scheme in Naples. The masterplan for “Napoli Porta Est” (Naples East Gate) sets out a €700m…

UK architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its masterplan for Bilaj Al Jazayer Beach on Bahrain’s southwest coast. The mixed-use district has two hotels and branded residencies at either end…

Munich’s city government has approved a masterplan by Dutch architect KCAP and Denmark’s SLA for the regeneration of a 4.7ha former industrial site in Munich. Sugar Valley, which was once…

A team led by Danish consultants Henning Larsen and Ramboll will masterplan the street level of Singapore’s 22km North-South Corridor. The project, which will remodel a congested transport route, will…

Dutch-headquartered architect MVRDV has unveiled plans for a 34,000-sq-m leisure and culture district on Shanghai’s waterfront, which it designed with Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus. The “Gate M…

Japanese developer Mori Building Company has finished its 8.1-hectare district in Tokyo called Azabudai Hills. Under construction since August 2019, it has homes, retail, a school, two temples, art galleries,…

A consortium of 13 architects has been selected by the Türkiye Design Council to help plan the reconstruction of the southern province of Hatay after the earthquake that hit the…

Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its masterplan for a redevelopment of the Tour & Taxi industrial area on the banks of the Brussels canal in the north of the Belgian…

Steven Holl Architects has unveiled its masterplan for the town of Prati di Tivo in Italy’s eastern Abruzzo region. The plan, which is divided into three phases, involves a community…

UK architect Adjaye Associates has designed the Cuyahoga Riverfront Masterplan, a 15-20-year project involving renovation of 35 acres of waterfront in Cleveland, Ohio, for developer Bedrock Detroit. The development will…