"Today, as global challenges demand more adaptive and human-centered responses, architects are rethinking what infrastructure can be: not just a framework for movement and utility, but a catalyst for ecological restoration, cultural continuity, and civic imagination. The following unbuilt projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community, explore this expanded role of infrastructure, where airports, bridges, industrial parks, and pedestrian networks become architectural"
"From Albania's Vlora International Airport by XPLAN Studio and Lithuania's Vilnius Airport Terminal by Aplan, where flight becomes a metaphor for national identity and global exchange, to China's Binhai Water Plant Industrial Park by POA Architects, which fuses traditional symbolism with sustainable innovation, these proposals reveal a new architectural language for utility and progress. In Jeddah, VOW Urban Pedestrian Hub envisions a multi-level bridge reinterpreting public space in the post-pandemic city, while Iran's Blue Health Station transforms river regeneration into a spatial act of healing."
Architectural infrastructure is being reimagined as a tool for ecological restoration, cultural continuity, and civic imagination rather than solely for movement and utility. Designers propose unbuilt projects that recast airports, bridges, industrial parks, and pedestrian networks as embodiments of connection and care. Specific projects include Vlora International Airport and Vilnius Airport Terminal, which frame flight as national identity and exchange; Binhai Water Plant Industrial Park, combining traditional symbolism with sustainable innovation; VOW Urban Pedestrian Hub, a multi-level public bridge; Blue Health Station, a river-regeneration healing space; Glass Bridge, material experimentation; and Nuovo Bernasconi, an off-grid mountain refuge.
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