Urban Design
You have a city block, or a stretch of waterfront, or a district that has been added to incrementally over decades and no longer reads as one place. The brief is to restitch it. To find the connections that were never made, the gaps that should be filled, the moments that deserve emphasis. Urban design is the work of repairing a piece of city without pretending it was never broken.
Urban design at Lex te Loo Architects starts from the city as it is, not from the city as a plan would have it. Read the existing use patterns, find the spatial gaps, propose connections that hold. Concept and АГО stages, fixed scope, fixed timeline.
The problem we solve
Most urban design fails by mistaking a plan for a city. The consultants produce a diagram of how the district should work, present it to the municipality, and discover six months later that nothing has changed because no one in the district recognised themselves in the proposal. The diagram was correct on paper and irrelevant on the ground.
The alternative is to begin from what the city is already doing. Where people walk, where they avoid, what shops thrive, what entrances are used, what corners are dead. Only then can a proposal land. The plan that gets built is the one that names what residents and businesses already feel but cannot articulate.
What you get
Concept
Urban concept booklet, 60 to 80 pages. Existing-use analysis, spatial-gap reading, proposed network of connections, public-space framework, density and program strategy, plans at 1:2000 or 1:1000, integration with municipal planning documents (ПЗЗ, генплан города), ТЭП.
АГО
АГО package adapted for district-scale work. Urban views from key approaches, street profiles, integration into municipal regulatory framework, materials for public hearings where required.
Авторское сопровождение
10% of fee through delivery. Quarterly reviews. The right to intervene when the territorial logic is being diluted. A retained authority over the concept until the project meets the territory.
Timeline
| Phase | Duration | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Concept | 8 to 12 weeks | urban concept booklet, network diagram, plans, public-space framework, ТЭП |
| АГО | 10 to 16 weeks | the package the city's chief architect can sign |
| Авторское сопровождение | project lifetime, 10% | design supervision, quarterly reviews, right to intervene |
We quote a fixed price within five working days of the first call. No estimates, no time-and-materials.
Recent work
- Breath of the Forest — Grodno, Belarus (2024)
- Moscow Passage — Moscow, Russia (2018)
- The Gate — Moscow, Russia (2023)
- City Park of Nizhny Novgorod — Sovetsky district, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (2025)
- BARCODE Architects: Station Groningen — Groningen, The Netherlands (2018)