The travelling architect

Superkilen by BIG, Topotek1 and Superflex Danish architecture firm BIG has scattered miscellaneous street furniture from 60 different nations across a brightly coloured carpet of grass and rubber at this park in Copenhagen. The architects worked alongside landscape architects Topotek1 and artistsSuperflex on the design of the Superkilen park, which stretches 750 metres through the Nørrebro neighbourhood in the north of the city. "Rather than plastering the urban area with Danish designs we decided to gather the local intelligence and global experience to create a display of global urban best practice comprising the best that each of the 60 different cultures and countries have to offer when it comes to urban furniture," said BIG project leader Nanna Gyldholm Møller.  The park is split into three colour-coded zones and different objects can be found in each one. Painted white lines run north to south across the ...

Festina Lente bridge by Adnan Alagić, Bojan Kanlić and Amila Hrustić A looping bridge by three Bosnian product design students has been completed outside the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. Adnan Alagić, Bojan Kanlić and Amila Hrustić won the competition for the design of the bridge five years ago while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. Called Festina Lente, which in Latin means "make haste, slowly", the looping bridge spans 38 metres over the Miljacka river and loops-the-loop in the middle to create a shelter with two seats. "The basic idea of the bridge is the union of the secular and spiritual," explain the designers, noting that the academy was formerly a church. "The loop on the bridge is a symbolic gate," they add. The steel bridge is paved with aluminium plates and fitted with benches made of smooth round logs. At night the bridge is lit by LEDs. We recently featured a temporary bridge held up by enormous helium-filled ba...