What landscape architects need to know. Gravel paths, wildflowers, and landform barriers in Watts provide much-needed green ...

What landscape architects need to know. The winner will be honored as part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape ...

What landscape architects need to know. The World's Fair that made Forest Park famous also marred its natural beauty. HOK's restoration won this year's Landmark Award. By Bradford McKee The genesis ...

For most kids growing up in Watts, nature is a distant fantasy. This densely populated South Los Angeles neighborhood has roughly half as much tree canopy as the citywide average, and what few parks ...

Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...

Claude Cormier, ASLA, designed bridges, which double as romantic viewing platforms, over the entrances to a pair of underground parking decks. Photo by Jean-François Savaria. When Claude Cormier, ASLA ...

Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...

The “pond” in Lake County, Illinois, shown in May 2021, is subject to a complex legal and regulatory system. Photo by Practice Landscape. At first glance, it was just a pond. Dammed with earth at the ...

White characters in What Are We Going to Do, Michael? (1973) tell the story of African American activist Hattie Carthan’s fight to save a southern magnolia tree. In the 1973 children’s story What Are ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...

The interim landscape recalled both Harrelson Hall and the Piedmont’s ecology. Courtesy Kimley-Horn. Bricks are so ubiquitous on the campus of North Carolina State University (NC State) that it is a ...

Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and Lauren Stimson, ASLA, built a new house and utility building on property Steve’s family has long farmed. Photo by Ngoc Doan. Outside the kitchen door of the Massachusetts ...