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After its recent renovation, Alameda Shopping Mall in Porto introduces a new inhabitant: a 7-metre-tall mascot designed by Carve. Rising through multiple levels, the figure stands in bold contrast to the mall’s clean interior palette.
Constructed from steel, wood, and plexiglass, the form moves fluidly through space while remaining structurally precise. More than a visual landmark, it invites interaction: sitting, climbing, sliding, and play.
For Alameda, the mascot is not an art object alone, but a playful landmark—an anchor that brings imagination into the everyday experience of the mall.
Project Name: Alameda Shopping Mall
Location: Porto, Portugal
Project Year: 2024
In the heart of London’s business district, Aldgate could have been just another pass-through space. Instead, it’s become a place to pause, play, and gather — thanks to a bold intervention by Carve.
At its centre: a bright red ribbon twisting through the public realm. Part bench, part bridge, part playground — it shifts in use as much as in form. Sit, climb, meet, perform — no signs needed. It simply invites.
The structure blends bold form with precision engineering — smooth joints, crafted wood, and seamless curves. Beneath its surface runs a dense web of infrastructure, carefully navigated to bring the design to life.
Aldgate doesn’t separate work from play — it blends them. This is public space reimagined: open, surprising, and truly shared.
Project Name: Aldgate Shopping Mall
Location: London, United Kingdom
Project Year: 2024
High above the streets of Istanbul, cloud-like structures float on the rooftop of Marmara Forum. Designed by Carve, these shimmering play forms shift with daylight—part sculpture, part skyline landmark, and fully playable.
Children climb, slide, and lounge within glowing spheres up to 8 metres tall, creating a layered play experience from small domes to towering forms. Set 24 metres above the city, the clouds provide shade, shelter, and panoramic views, revealing interiors of nets, hammocks, and framed glimpses of Istanbul.
Delivered from sketch to site in just six months, the project transforms the rooftop into more than a playground—it becomes a new identity, where architecture and play meet the sky.
Project Name: Marmara Forum Clouds
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Project Year: 2020
In the heart of OliOli Children’s Museum in Qatar, Carve’s WonderSphere reimagines the climber as a space of exploration, science, and play.
This spherical structure houses three distinct play zones — from alley-like mazes to suspended net galaxies — encouraging kids to climb, crawl, and navigate through curved, cloud-like pathways. Inside, every turn sparks spatial awareness, collaboration, and curiosity.
Rooted in Qatari culture, the WonderSphere echoes the winding souqs and traditional birdhouse forms — transforming local references into a sensory-rich world of motion and imagination.
Built for modern museum experiences, the design blends education and adventure. It’s not just about play — it’s about learning how to move, think, and feel together in a shared, elevated space.
Project name: OliOli Children’s Museum
Location: Doha, Qatar
Project Year: 2022
What looked like an impossible brief—link two levels, keep visibility clear, welcome a crowd, and fit it all around bulky columns—became an invitation to imagine differently.
The result? A sculptural knot of tunnels, nets, and slides braided through the space, connecting floors and families in one seamless play experience. Structural columns became part of the story, not a problem to work around.
Below, a soft landscape blends seating and play. Above, light-filled tunnels spark curiosity and movement. It’s playful, safe, and striking—all in a compact footprint.
When space is tight, creativity expands. And sometimes, play is all it takes to unravel the toughest design knots.
Project name: L’aljub Shopping Mall
Location: Elche, Spain
Project Year: 2022
In this playground, Carve’s iconic playmound rises like a sculptural centrepiece — carved into the surface like a crater, then erupting into motion.
Children enter through tunnels, climb from the inside, and slide down on either side — all within a form that feels more like terrain than equipment. Surrounding it: swings, climbing nets, and play zones that invite movement in every direction.
Positioned at the core of the mall’s outdoor terrace, the playmound isn’t just play — it’s a magnet. Since opening, it’s drawn families, sparked curiosity, and boosted foot traffic to nearby restaurants.
This isn’t background landscape. It’s a bold gesture that proves: in commercial spaces, play can be a catalyst for connection, activation, and delight.
Project name: M1 Shopping Mall
Location: Adana, Türkiye
Project Year: 2017
Tucked between buildings in Stratford’s East Village, Plot 5 isn’t where you’d expect to find one of London’s most playful corners. But that’s exactly the point.
This shared space flows through the neighbourhood—open, accessible, and full of life. Inspired by the geometry of the surrounding architecture, it weaves together pedestrian paths, playful moments, and pockets of nature.
Children discover coral-red “Hills” for climbing, hiding and inventing stories, while older kids take to the sky-blue “Cloud”—a floating structure to explore, lounge in, and look out from. The semi-transparent design lets imagination thrive, without ever losing sight of safety.
With bold colour, layered textures, and trees stitched into the layout, Plot 5 is an unconventional invitation to play, pause, and connect—right in the seams of the city.
Project name: East Village, Plot 5
Location: London, United Kingdom
Project Year: 2023
In Istanbul’s newly revived Galataport district, Tophane Park bridges centuries—where Ottoman fountains meet modern museums, and tradition meets play.
This playground isn’t fenced or framed. It flows through the park like a sculpture that invites everyone in—climb it, lounge on it, or simply admire it. Inspired by the square base of the Mahmud Han fountain, the form was stretched, softened, and sculpted into something entirely new.
Locally carved stone, aged wood, and sand from the Aegean coast root the design in Turkish craft. Built with 3D digital techniques and shaped by human hands, the result is a playable object that blends history, culture, and curiosity.
More than a play space, it’s an open invitation—to explore, connect, and discover the unexpected in the everyday.
Project name: Tophane Park
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Project Year: 2022
Carve designed a bespoke world of imagination — a landscape of sculpted forms, colour, and ambitious play experiences designed exclusively for Zorlu.
The playground unfolds through distinct “worlds”: from low, colourful play islands for young children to deep valleys, bridges, giant nets and a dramatic mountain-range coulisse of tunnels, lookouts and hidden nests. Two iconic wooden towers rise above it all, offering panoramic views and long slides that dive back into the heart of the space.
Designed, engineered and built within a remarkably short timeframe, Zorlu succeeds in creating an immersive, otherworldly play universe while still blending beautifully into the surrounding landscape.
Project name: Zorlu Shopping Mall
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye
Project Year: 2013, renewed in 2025
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