City on the Loop Mixed use
Ruxuan Zheng
Urban Planning and Urban Design City on the Loop Mixed use by Ruxuan Zheng City on the Loop reimagines a flood prone coastline in Brooklyn as a continuous urban edge that adapts to rising sea levels. Built over existing infrastructure, the design introduces elevated housing, light rail, and flood resilient public programs in three phases. A land sea gradient replaces hard boundaries, enabling architecture, ecology, and community life to interact. The loop acts as both a spatial structure and an adaptive system, evolving with environmental shifts and offering a framework for future intelligent, climate-responsive governance.
Silver A' Design Award Winner
City on the Loop Mixed use by Ruxuan Zheng is a distinguished winner of the A' City Planning and Urban Design Award. City on the Loop Mixed use earned the Silver A' Design Award in 2026 and is showcased on Awarded Designs & Architecture among other outstanding designs. Explore the details of the project, discover other works by Ruxuan Zheng and see why City on the Loop Mixed use design rises above its competition.
About City on the Loop
Urban Planning and Urban Design City on the Loop Mixed use by Ruxuan Zheng City on the Loop reimagines a flood prone coastline in Brooklyn as a continuous urban edge that adapts to rising sea levels. Built over existing infrastructure, the design introduces elevated housing, light rail, and flood resilient public programs in three phases. A land sea gradient replaces hard boundaries, enabling architecture, ecology, and community life to interact. The loop acts as both a spatial structure and an adaptive system, evolving with environmental shifts and offering a framework for future intelligent, climate-responsive governance. City on the Loop earned the Silver A' Design Award, a distinguished level of recognition in the A' Design Award & Competition. Silver A' Design Award designs combine creativity with professional design, and are selected by a grand jury, as high-quality entries in their respective categories, after fair, ethical, meritocratic and independent academic review, where nominated projects are voted via blind peer-review process on pre-established, publicly-available evaluation criteria.
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