A partnership between the Rudy Bruner Award and Northeastern University, recent “Inspiring Design” sessions examined how inclusive places and practices build social capital to drive systemic change.
A partnership with Northeastern University, "Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America" draws on the award organization's national network.
Upon the release of her book The Invention of Public Space, the architectural historian discusses a little-known but pivotal chapter of urban history.
A partnership with Northeastern University, "Inspiring Design: Creating Beautiful, Just, and Resilient Places in America" draws on the award organization's national network.
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Starlight Square serves as an ideal community center in the age of social-distancing.
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.
Making public space unwelcome is a perversion of its purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.
With a new urban crisis surfacing, designers from around the world propose radical changes to transportation, cooperative living, and public space.
Even in the age of social distancing, the brand’s iconic French Bistro chair can teach us about coming together in public space.
855 Brannan, a mixed-use complex by David Baker Architects, generously makes the most of outdoor living for tenants and the public alike.
In Oberhausen, Germany, a new government center is topped by a greenhouse and thoughtfully extends public space.
UAP is making an unmissable mark on public space in American cities, fabricating outdoor art and installations from a buzzy foundry upstate.
In an opinion piece for Metropolis, Alexandra Hagen, CEO of Swedish firm White Arkitekter, explains why countering commercial forces is central to protecting urban space.
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.
The dance and performance center, designed by Barcelona architects Barozzi/Veiga, emphasizes public space, with no less than three terraces.
Designed with local firm Wowhaus, the park contains an amphitheater, circulation routes, and new entry points into the museum’s porous new basement.
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.
From public space installations to carnival costume displays, this year’s events ran the usual, unconstrained gamut.
The Netherlands, a country with more bikes than inhabitants, invested over €30 million in the multistory structure.
