Philippe Rahm: Climate as Architecture
Architects tackling the unseen will shape the future of their profession.
Architects tackling the unseen will shape the future of their profession.
Ingels and co. recently released details of the $2 billion plan.
The final stretch of New York's elevated park is a satisfying conclusion.
The landscape architect has spent nearly two decades helping transform a mammoth drainage canal into a true urban amenity.
Combining traditional Korean elements in an unusual setting, Olson Kundig Architects creates a family retreat.
Often the designer of choice for mega events, David Rockwell imagines the ideal design of a stadium.
Embracing the city by transforming industrial blight into urban amenity
Lessons learned from restoring Olmsted’s urban park system in the Boston area, and other historic sites.
Central Park is lauded as one of New York's greatest urban achievements, but whom does it actually serve?
Ecorium in South Korea is a new ecological park that recreates all of the world's major ecosystems.
Urban citizens get a break in tiny public parks
As cities become nature-friendly, green spaces sprout everywhere
A new addition at a North Carolina museum will pull double duty to accommodate the work inside and out.
A groundswell of play advocacy in Philadelphia
A salute to those special places—some humble, some utterly utilitarian—that give a city its unique personality and collective soul.
Midtown section of the plan with building labels Freeways have sliced through the hearts of many communities, creating derelict wastelands that destroy neighborhoods and sever connections. Our cities have buried, covered, or dismantled the massive structures required for high-speed…
What makes a place memorable? How does it connect to its community? Why do people visit—and what makes them come back? We instinctively seek authenticity of locale. Landscape provides a logical instrument for creating authentic regional expressions of place. While…
Valencia’s Green River, Photography by Brian Phelps. Bold ideas are easy, implementing them is hard. This is particularly true as cities around the world want to use their landscape infrastructure to address the issues they face. How can interventions…
“The [in]-closure project goes far beyond a plain “public space”…it is the place where urban micro-events happen…conveying a social and interdependent economy based on time – a new type of commodity money to chat, debate, help ideas to germinate, be…
Richard A. Glaser is an urban planner and landscape architect. He's worked on everything from a landscaped backyard swimming pool to entire cities in the Middle East. He worked for large Philadelphia offices like Lou Kahn's and for Marcel Breuer…