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Ecosistema Urbano, design finalist of ‘Shore to Core’ competition in West Palm Beach

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Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach waterfront

West Palm Beach waterfront – Photo by Ecosistema Urbano

Today we are excited to share with you that we have been selected as finalists for the ‘Shore to Core‘ design competition in West Palm Beach, Florida.

This competition, commissioned by the West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency and organized by the Van Alen Institute, was launched in order to gather innovative visions and develop forward-looking proposals for the future of the city’s downtown and waterfront area. Participants were asked to address in their projects, general issues that affect the area, from social transformation to rising sea levels, but also to deliver site-specific proposals for several locations: Flagler Drive —the waterfront—, some of the narrow alleyways, the Great Lawn and the city’s Banyan parking garage building.

We are to be one of the 2 teams selected among 41 teams —comprising 159 participants from 13 countries— to further develop our proposals. For us this is another great opportunity to rethink the way urban environment is connected —and responds— to society, culture, economy and the environment.

You can read other news about it and have a look at the official website:

Shore to Core | Van Alen Institute

We are now focused and working for the second stage of the competition, looking deeper into the urban challenges the city faces and transforming them into unique opportunities of improvement of public space and social life.

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Aparcamiento vertical de bicicletas

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Cada vez son más habituales los carriles bici en las ciudades, pero también abundan cada vez más los robos de algunas de sus partes. Es por ello que a un joven diseñador de Bahrein se le ha ocurrido diseñar éste parking de bicicletas vertical


Abhinav Dapke ha sido el diseñador al que se le ha ocurrido ésta brillante idea para maximizar el espacio en las vías urbanas y permitir que los usuarios de bicicletas aparquen sus bicis de forma segura.
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