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Case studies

Read more about award-winning schemes and the best of international housing design.  See who won Building for Life Awards in 2009.

International case studies

  • Borneo Sporenburg

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Borneo Sporenburg represents about one third of an enormous redevelopment of Amsterdam's Eastern Docklands area.

  • Garrison Woods

    Calgary, Canada

    Garrison Woods illustrates a new type of development in the highly suburban Canadian city of Calgary and makes use of the regeneration of a decommissioned military base to help meet a growing demand for an urban lifestyle with an eclectic and integrated mix of housing types and services.

  • GWL-terrein

    Amsterdam

    GWL-terrein illustrates that a car-free development can be a viable way of creating excellent public spaces and a liveable community.

  • Hegianwandweg

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Hegianwandweg is located only 11 minutes away from Zurich city centre by tram, yet the site has a distinctively suburban flavour. It is situated between an area of 1930s blocks of flats, arranged in parallel, and a 1970s high rise home for elderly people.

  • Im Raiser

    Stuttgart, Germany

    Im Raiser provided the opportunity to focus a considerable amount of family friendly housing on a brownfield site in close proximity to existing workplaces, infrastructure and amenities.

  • Kabelwerk

    Vienna

    A brownfield site with a mix of accommodation types and densities that was redeveloped as a result of an excellent consultation and plenty of community participation.

  • Langerak 2

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Leidsche Rijn is a large city extension plan of more than 30,000 dwellings to house 80,000 residents to be built on the edge of the city of Utrecht by 2015.

  • Mecanoo Housing at Nieuw Terbregge

    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    A sustainable housing development within the Nieuw-Terbregge neighbourhood uses terraces and communal decks to foster a strong sense of community. Designed by Mecanoo Architects.

  • Neu-Oerlikon

    Zurich, Switzerland

    The 55 hectares of Neu-Oerlikon (previously "Zentrum Zürich Nord"), are being developed on one of the largest inner-urban brownfield sites in Switzerland, occupied by heavy industry until the 1980s.

  • Paris Rive Gauche

    Paris, France

    Paris Rive Gauche is built on the site of former railway sidings and represents a major redevelopment of industrial land on the left bank of the Seine in Paris’s 13th Arrondissement. It is focused around the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library) and the relocated Denis Diderot University.

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