Landscape Architecture Has a Labor Acknowledgement Problem
To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.
To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.
Abel Bainnson Butz led the expansive $30 million redesign of Brownsville’s biggest park, with a focus on serving diverse abilities and activities.
Sasaki harnesses the linearity of a disused riverfront airport to create a new sustainable park.
A greenway project outside Shenzhen reflects complementary considerations of nature, health, and technology.
Upon the release of his new book, Walter Hood conceives a landscape architecture rooted in a sense of place, justice, and historical truth.
The landscape architect discusses transforming New York, designing for resilience, and creating places for the people and the planet.
The founding principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects discusses how soil can advance both ecological and social justice.
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Claire Weisz of WXY and David Seiter of Future Green discuss the complexities of designing within New York's diverse biomes and histories.
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.
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.
The urban crisis brings many challenges, but also presents opportunities for landscape architects to help build more equitable green spaces and cities.
Among the resilient features of Clippership Wharf is a “living shoreline” of marsh and native fauna.
At the North Carolina Museum of Art's popular park, careful changes in color temperature follow the progression of outdoor spaces.
SWA Group and Oldner Lighting designed Pacific Park Plaza so that the lighting scheme responded to all-day conditions.
A part of Rhode Island's extensive Iway project, the infrastructure supports a pedestrian pathway, gardens, and occupiable spaces.
Raised in the South and schooled in the Northeast, Sara Zewde relies on firsthand research, archives, and public engagement to produce experiential landscapes.
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.
Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.
Designed with local firm Wowhaus, the park contains an amphitheater, circulation routes, and new entry points into the museum’s porous new basement.
Designed by American firm SWA, the area includes plantings and pedestrian routes that envelop buildings by the likes of Tadao Ando.