City on the Loop
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 Mixed use by Ruxuan Zheng has been selected as an exceptional example of architectural design by the A' Design Award. City on the Loop Mixed use won the Silver A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design in 2026. The A' City Planning and Urban Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design award which celebrates outstanding design of masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts, urban renewal projects, transit oriented developments, sustainable city designs and more.
