All Lost Sites
USA / Los Angeles // Team:

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Canada / Winnipeg // Team:

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Canada / Winnipeg // Team:

The site for my project is the University of Manitoba premises. The site includes Dafoe Road and South to Freedman Crescent, East to Maclean Crescent, and West to University Crescent. These are some pictures showing the present existing conditions on…
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Canada / Winnipeg // Team:

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Canada / Winnipeg // Team:

The site is located on the Fort Gary Campus at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The total area of the campus is 573 acres, while the site area is 28.88 acres. The site is enclosed by University Crescent on west, Dafoe Road on north, Freedman Cresc…
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Slovenia / Jesenice // Team:

The city originates in the medieval formation of settelements around ironworks. The parts that used to be separate towns form a continuous urban and industrially developed area today. This type of urban growth results in a fragmented structure today…
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Portugal / Porto // Team:

Relinking through Granite is a landscape architecture project proposed for a forgotten plot of land in the center of the Massarelos Valley of the northern Portuguese metropolitan city of Porto. The site has its list of challenges as being a massive g…
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Portugal / Porto // Team:

The campus of the University of Porto – Portugal consists of three polos scattered across the city. The Campo Alegre polo receives thousands of students every day and is divided by high-traffic roads that causes mobility and safety issues for t…
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Portugal / Porto // Team:

When analyzing mobility, it is possible to perceive the ease of access to the space from the car, due to its location adjacent to Avenida da Boavista. It is also easy to access by public transport, with stops in both directions, along the entire Aven…
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Ireland / Dublin // Team:

A healthy vibrancy and dynamism can be achieved by offering a comfortable place for people to meet and to stay, by hosting exciting activities, with great local stories, or with something distinct and memorable. A great place can be flexibly occupied…
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USA / Yonkers // Team:

The city of Yonkers at the present moment, like many former industrial cities across the US, is in the process of undergoing widespread gentrification. In this gentrification process is the redevelopment of many forgotten spaces into high-rise apartm…
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The Netherlands / The Hague // Team:

Gas station network plays an important role in nowadays urban structure. They were designed to be reachable rapidly by car, and form a complete network with a certain distance in between. You can see them anywhere throughout the country: At the side…
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France // Team:

A lost object entails that it was in possession before… Similarly, a lost site could mean that it used to have a social existence before. In losing, there is marginalizing and neglecting, there is letting go of and abandoning, not paying attent…
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Germany / Berlin // Team:

After the reunification in 1989, Berlin’s development was increasingly finding itself dealing with the impact of gentrification. Our position on gentrification is to develop an inclusive urbanity that brings vibrancy and potential to a broader…
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United Kingdom / London // Team:

As Londoners, we’ve always wondered where tourists go after visiting Tower Bridge. Crossing the river to south London can be confusing for someone who doesn’t know the Borough and/or Bermondsey area. Apart from the historic Borough Market, the rich l…
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Germany / Berlin // Team:

The site is located in Berlin Charlottenburg. Next to the former exhibition centre „Messe ICC“ is the underpass under a big street intersection. The underpass is accessible from five entries with stairsets and escalators. The flat is around 500 squar…
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USA / Riverside // Team:

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Germany / Berlin // Team:

The „Mettmannplatz“ in the district of Wedding in Berlin sits in the delta of a vivid residential area, a 12.5 hectar sized industrial area and a shipping canal. On the other river bench, a commercial area and an abandoned construction site make up t…
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Germany / Berlin // Team:

Alexanderplatz doesn ́t function as an urban public space as we imagine it. It lacks quality of stay and possibilities to rest. The traditional image of a stony and dense Mediterranean square doesn’t translate well in places like this because t…
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Sweden / Stockholm // Team:

The six northern arches of Gamla Årstabron is the lost site we aim to improve. At a distance, it fulfils its vision as an architectural design but when experienced close by it can be read as a lost site. A border between the cozy, woody park Tantolu…
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United Kingdom / Manchester // Team:

What about this site deems it LOST?…. Is it a loss of access? A site deemed unfit and unsafe for public consumption. Is it a loss of profit? A site lost to the speculating landowners who wait to gentrify it into an urban ‘lifestyle’ complex. Or…
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The Netherlands / Utrecht // Team:

The ruin of the historic brick factory ‘De Liesbosch’ reminds the visitor of the large-scale brick production from the 17th century. Utrecht was an important city for trade because of its central location in the Netherlands and its location along the…
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USA / Brooklyn // Team:

The civic center of downtown Brooklyn is located at the crossroads of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Just south of this cluster of courthouses, administrative buildings, and formal plazas lies Brooklyn Heights, a designated historic district kno…
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United Kingdom / Sheffield // Team:

With a view to inform the local community about sustainable cooking and food, we’re re-purposing a disused petrol station at the heart of London Road, Sheffield. THE FUELLING STATION presence will highlight the negative impact of emissions and non-re…
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/ Charlotte // Team:

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United Kingdom // Team:

The lost site is a publicly accessible water meadow in northwest Monmouth, West of river Monnow. The site is located in a high-risk flood zone as shown in the section and plan. The Fields are significantly lower than the rest of Monmouth’s urban fabr…
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Romania / Alba Iulia // Team:

The main problem in this square is the car-centric design with no infrastructure for alternative mobility. Iuliu Maniu square is located in the central focus point of the city, and by the scheme of 15 minutes cities we can acknowledge that the area i…
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Norway / Lillestrøm // Team:

Kjeller, much like many Norwegian landscapes, is named after the farm that once operated in the area. The old farmhouse overlooking the airport and its grass fields still stands today as a proud reminder of the history and development of the site. At…
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Spain / Madrid // Team:

It‘s a hot summer day in Madrid. I walk south along a street, a big building of gray concrete to my right, the municipal hospital. The city vibrates with heat. I gaze to my left where, between two old buildings, I notice a green space. My feet are ta…
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USA / Portland // Team:

The site, as it stands, is an empty lot that rests between two parking lots. The site has been reused a myriad of times, from industrial materials storage/dumping to event parking to its current use – a space for unhoused individuals to commune…
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Ukraine / Kharkiv // Team:

The reconstruction of Ukraine will be one of the major societal challenges for the upcoming decades. At the same time as it’s difficult to think and talk about, considering the war still is going on, it also important to show the world that we and ou…
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Italy / Rome // Team:

The site we are introducing is located in Rome, Italy. It is just outside of the historic city, right after the historical ‘Aurelian Walls’.Like the majority of forgotten sites, it is today defined more by the elements that surround it than by its ow…
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United Kingdom / London // Team:

The city of London owes its prosperity to the river Thames, being this waterway, famous for its tidal changes and urban extension, the primary source of supplies and communication that has supported human settlements throughout millennia. However, si…
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Italy / Rome // Team:

The Tiber River is at the heart of Rome but is hidden by tall flood walls. The Rhythm of the walk connects the river with the historical city in a vibrating way celebrating the river and improving the ecology of the site. The new landscape absorbs wa…
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United Kingdom // Team:

On the 28th of July 2021, the slate landscapes of north Wales were awarded the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This designation, as well as recent social and environmental changes to the area as a result of mass tourism and a housing crisis…
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Sweden / Solna // Team:

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United Kingdom / Bradford // Team:

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England which boomed during the industrial revolution as a result of its vibrant textile industry. The natural resources of coal and stone in the region enabled the city to build and run mills (Photo 2), which le…
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Norway / Oslo // Team:

Connecting study programmes, institutions and their students to engage in local material processes and possibilities for creative circularity…
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United Kingdom / Leicester // Team:

Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, with a history going back at least two millennia. It is also a city of diversity. From the Roman times until today, Leicester has become home for people who have emigrated from all over the world. A v…
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USA / Boston // Team:

Neptune Road once was a residential street and the entrance to Frederick Law Olmsted’s Wood Island Park, a 47-acre waterfront park designed in the 19th Century and located in East Boston. When Logan Airport expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s…
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/ Charlottesville // Team:

Thousands of students and faculty pass through McCormick Road, the central core of the University of Virginia (UVA), every day on their way to and from classes. Whether arriving on foot, bicycle, scooter or UTS bus, they move through one of the most…
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Germany / Hanover // Team:

The selected planning perimeter is located in the district of Linden-Mitte, on the northern border to Linden-Nord. It is a former industrial district with dense development and a high number of inhabitants per square kilometer. As the climate map Lin…
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Finland / Helsinki // Team:

Although rocks are related to permenance and solidity, it’s possible to see change over time in them. Rock layers have stored information about the climate and living condititions for millions of years. Humans have always lived side by side with ston…
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/ Charlottesville // Team:

Our lost site lives in the Star Hill Neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia. The community received its name from a group of wealthy Black families (the Stars’) that called the small neighborhood home (O’Hare). In the past decade, Star Hill has fa…
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Germany / Kassel // Team:

Ever since Kassel was founded around 913, „die Schlagd“ has existed on the banks of the Fulda. The name is derived from the Saxon word „slachten“ and stands for river structures that provide a docking place for ships and a transshipment point for goo…
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Austria / Vienna // Team:

We picked Vienna as the setting of our lost site! Vienna is a city with high standards, yet here and there you can find room for improvement. We are an international team and three of us call Vienna home. So why not start at the front door…
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USA // Team:

Located along the Mexico-United States border, “Las Colonias” emerged as areas where peri-urban subdivisions of substandard housings cluster. Occupied by poverty-stricken communities that are self-labeled as “the forgotten Americans”, these informal…
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USA / Brooklyn // Team:

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ridgewood Reservoir was built to supply Brooklyn, New York with fresh drinking water. Decommissioned in 1958, Ridgewood Reservoir is now 50 acres of naturalized area with overgrown vegetation, closed off to the public…
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United Kingdom / Petersfield // Team:

Urbanisation by definition is an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. This process leads to more built-up areas in the town centre when people move closer for better employability and convenience. Petersfield like many other pl…
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Ireland / Dublin // Team:

Tall multi-story buildings can feel like oppressing towers that can evoke unplesent emotions such as confusion, fear and disorientation but non the less more and more people are moving into cities and such development is essencial to facilitatate the…
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France / Bordeaux // Team:

Graduates in Landscape, Design, Art and Architecture, we chose to work together to cross our knowledge and lead this project through different perspectives. Our reflection focuses on the openness and development of the practice of our professions, th…
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USA // Team:

The social experience within a cul-de-sac is deliberately individualistic. The Cul-De-Sac is meant to separate the haves from the have not’s. There is an inherent level of embedded competition within neighbors. Without the presence of a neutral socia…
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United Kingdom / Truro // Team:

The aim is to introduce a more natural space into Truro’s centre which is currently dominated by concrete and lacks plants or water. At one time the heart of Truro was centred around the River Kenwyn for trade purposes. The river has been covered by…
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Czech Republic / Brno // Team:

Our model lost site is on Křenová street, in Brno, Czech Republic. The site is separated from the city organism. It is a brownfield of a former timber factory. Thorough the site, three streets connect. There are several social facilities for people…
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Czech Republic / Brno // Team:

Lost fragment of wild nature in the heart of vibrant city center captivated us with its uniqueness and peculiar atmosphere. The majority of visitors perceives this obscure jungle from the outside, they do not enter, except for a couple of unhoused pe…
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Czech Republic / Brno // Team:

Little America = a historical industrial building near the main train station in Brno, a former transshipment point for commodities imported from different parts of the world (mainly from the Western Europe and America – that’s where the buildi…
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Slovenia / Ljubljana // Team:

The area of the old Rižarna in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is located in the city quarter of Bežigrad. On the eastern side, it borders the Sports Park Savsko naselje, and on the southern and western sides, it borders the intersection of Linhartova cesta a…
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United Kingdom / London // Team:

Comparing maps of cities during time shows how green spaces in our cities become separated by construction of highways, houses and etc. For preserving the remaining vegetation in urban areas, we need to regenerate the connections between different gr…
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Slovenia / Ljubljana // Team:

Our chosen lost site is located in the northwestern part of the capital city of Slovenia – Ljubljana. The Šiška district is one of the oldest parts of the city. This part is also known as The Old Church and is placed between the Šiška Hill…
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Germany / Hamburg // Team:

Our lost site, ‘Löschplatz am Billhafen’ is located in the vicinity of the Elbe bridges at Billhafen, which has been an unused space for a long time. Once used as a harbor zone, where the transfer of goods between land and water took place. The site…
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Belgium / Brussels // Team:

Once upon a time, the city of Brussels used to be a legendary economic centre with big industry. Our story started in the 19th century when the industry and particularly metallurgy, grew up rapidly with a cheap source of coal from the Meuse valley. A…
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