Mandaworks

Happy Chinese New Year! 新春快乐!

23-01-2020

China is a country of wide possibilities and ambitious planning projects that reach far beyond our imagination. For many years, Mandaworks has been present in China, participating in invited competitions and working on direct commissions, establishing new collaborations and relationships and meeting old and new friends. The year 2020 won't be any different! We will take part in a couple of big competitions and compete with some of the best offices in the world, sharing our ideas and tackling all aspects of sustainability in the rapidly changing world. To elevate our Chinese spirit, we are celebrating Chinese New Year at the office today. We want to wish you all a successful year of a Metal Rat! 新春快乐!

Since last autumn we have been involved in an exciting project on the outskirts of Bratislava. We are working with developers Lucron to transform 41 hectares of land on the border between Slovakia and Austria into a creative urban district. Built around a new train station within the historical context of the Danube Delta and a World War II defence system, the development will form an important local and regional centre for Bratislava's eastern extension. We have been busy creating a vision and

Reykjavik is the world’s most northern capital city. The city’s ‘sub-polar oceanic climate’ combined with its northern latitude results in frequent windy, rainy days, unpredictable snow events and months of darkness. How should you design public space in those conditions? Since early 2018 we have been on a fascinating journey together with Dagný Land Design and the Municipality of Reykjavik to redesign one of Reykjavik’s central urban spaces - Hlemmur Square, and investigate how spatial design

Proposal for Hlemmur Square moving further!

19-12-2019

MW in Slovakia!

14-01-2020

We are very proud to share the news that one of our Mandaworkers, Emeline Lex, and her teammates have received a Special Mention for their proposal RE:MEDIATE in Europan 15! The team has proposed a synthesis between living, working, nature, and recreation for the site in Borås, Sweden, with the vision that the site will become 'its own kind of ecosystem, in which a symbiosis between the green, built, and the living can support the needs of people and nature on the same level. This will create a

We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected for the final round of the prestigious Grasbrook urban planning competition in Hamburg. The six finalists are paired up to form three teams of urban planning and landscape architecture duos. The last leg of the competition wraps up in April 2020. We are looking forward to develop and deepen our proposal together with our assigned second round teammates, Karres en Brands, and wish best of luck to the other finalists! Check the entries of the

On Tuesday, Manon Otto will join Supercoordinator Richard Sommer for final reviews of the T.O. Superstudio “Urban Commons: metropolitan actors, metropolitan stages” at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. To discover the program and the great minds behind it, visit the faculty’s website here!

Photo source: Claire McFarlane