The Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architects were recently announced and two of the winners had designed ideas based on urban green space.

Ecoboulevard by ECOSISTEMA URBANO ARQUITECTOS

These are "easily dismantled and energetically self-sufficient" mini-forests that provide temporary respite. The ideas is that these temporary installations are set up in suburban Madrid to create a cooling climate and meeting place for people. This attempts to counter-balance the effects of air conditioning, which heats the environment and tends to isolate people.

TAKETO SHIMOHIGOSHI/AAE

"Mid-air nature is as unexpected as it is effective."

This sky garden of moss covered beams is in Tokyo, very densely populated city. Here is what the judges had to say about it. "Vegetation handling in mid-air, where nature is not in its natural place, stirs up imagination and sensuality. This vegetation becomes a buffer where ground is connected to the sky."