From a Complicated Present, Urban Reuse Parks Look to the Future
Metropolis catches up with the High Line Network, a consortium of North American reuse projects that has been sharing notes and best practices through the pandemic.
Landscape
A New Landscape in Albuquerque Puts Accessibility Front and Center
The University of New Mexico's recently completed plaza—in some ways, 50 years in the making—has "shorelines," which help visually impaired people navigate the expanse.
After COVID-19, What’s Next for Landscape Architecture?
The urban crisis brings many challenges, but also presents opportunities for landscape architects to help build more equitable green spaces and cities.
In Boston, a Development’s Approach to a Changing Coastline Is to Embrace It
Among the resilient features of Clippership Wharf is a “living shoreline” of marsh and native fauna.
To Illuminate Raleigh's Museum Park, Less is More
At the North Carolina Museum of Art's popular park, careful changes in color temperature follow the progression of outdoor spaces.
Lighting For Fun: This Public Park in Dallas Makes the Most of the Night
SWA Group and Oldner Lighting designed Pacific Park Plaza so that the lighting scheme responded to all-day conditions.
This Bridge in Providence Was Designed as Public Space
A part of Rhode Island's extensive Iway project, the infrastructure supports a pedestrian pathway, gardens, and occupiable spaces.
New Talent: Sara Zewde Explores How Narrative and Context Produce Landscape
Raised in the South and schooled in the Northeast, Sara Zewde relies on firsthand research, archives, and public engagement to produce experiential landscapes.
A Russian Parks Program Creates Over 350 Public Spaces and Nurtures Local Design Talent
Costing less than glitzier parks in Moscow, the Tatarstan initiative is revivifying the local design and manufacturing bases with a "teach a man to fish" approach.
Long-Term Plans: To Build for Resilience, We'll Need to Design With—Not Against—Nature
Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.
Junya Ishigami’s New Park Turns Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum into a Public Offering
Designed with local firm Wowhaus, the park contains an amphitheater, circulation routes, and new entry points into the museum’s porous new basement.
The University of Monterrey’s Newly Landscaped Campus is a Departure for the Car-Centered City
Designed by American firm SWA, the area includes plantings and pedestrian routes that envelop buildings by the likes of Tadao Ando.
A New Landscape in Montreal Weaves Together Icons of the City’s Expo 67
Encompassing a Buckminster Fuller–designed geodesic dome and an Alexander Calder sculpture, the intervention shows how the city is rethinking its world’s fair treasures.
At Washington University, A Cluster of New Buildings Enlivens a Neglected Part of Campus
The east side of the Washington University campus in St. Louis is undergoing a massive transformation, with buildings by KieranTimberlake.
Can a Soccer Stadium Full of Trees Change How We See Nature?
"For Forest: The Unending Attraction of Nature" is a temporary art intervention by Klaus Littmann that turns a stadium into a living forest.
Getting Into the Weeds of Topiary Design
An exhibition at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan reveals topiary as a dynamic and overlooked spatial practice.
How Landscape Architecture Hoped to Save the City
An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.
4 Innovative Urban Landscape Projects From Around the World
From embassy grounds in London to a neighborhood park in Detroit, these projects highlight how landscape projects are now tackling myriad social and spatial challenges.
In Detroit, Empty Lots Become Parks, Helping to Rebuild Lost Social Equity
An ongoing plan by landscape architects Spackman Mossop Michaels (SMM) is tying together the neighborhood of Fitzgerald, which has been atomized by vacancy and foreclosure.
50 Years After Design With Nature, Ian McHarg's Ideas Still Define Landscape Architecture
McHarg's faith in science and rationality may seem quaint, but his political activism has never been more timely.
