Roof produced a 10 percent decrease in building energy use over the winter months. The temperature on the green roof on the hottest summer days can be as much as 59 degrees cooler than conventional ...

Landscape architecture combines art and science. It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land. Landscape architecture has strong roots in the U.S., and early examples, such as ...

While progress has been made in identifying cultural landscapes during the past decade, much more work is needed to document these designed and vernacular places. Since 2010, landscape architecture ...

This historic Waterfront Park is located in an area formerly devoted to the mercantile and shipping activities from which Boston arose. The site was cleared to complete the open space and pedestrian ...

In The Huffington Post you wrote that twenty-five years ago few companies wanted to come to Oklahoma City because of the lack of amenities. The quality of life wasn't viewed as great, so you decided ...

Looking over the large ‘rock candy’ bedrock outcrop, with thermoplastic stripes in red and white to mask the quarry cut lines from the rock extraction process — autumn 2011. A scene showing one of the ...

Introduction: Making the case for Low Impact Development (LID) to achieve healthy watersheds.

The focus of your organization, the Majora Carter Group is "an asset-based development model," which has been defined as "a green-collar look at the assets comprised in a given municipality or region ...

ASLA invites educators to experience DREAM BIG with Design and learn how to introduce landscape architecture to students. Classroom teachers, afterschool leaders, homeschool educator, families, and ...

Section 1 of the High Line extends over nine city blocks from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street on the west side of Manhattan. View of the Gansevoort entry, looking north. The existing cut at the ...

Client: Shanghai Xuhui Waterfront Development Investment Construction Co.,Ltd.

The Tidal Basin, a designed water area of a little more than 100 acres, is the lovely setting for the world famous Japanese cherry trees and a number of memorials. The Basin is visually dominated by ...