https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:47:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://landezine.com/sticks-stones-by-lu-la-studio/ https://landezine.com/sticks-stones-by-lu-la-studio/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126398 Nestled in a woodland at the edge of the sea, Sticks and Stones is a site-specific nature play experience that invites visitors to discover its secret spaces and precious materials. Tall oak, maple, and pine provide canopy over a soft forest floor, while mature laurels meander the path and define the playrooms. The garden offers […]]]> https://landezine.com/sticks-stones-by-lu-la-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/echoes-of-the-hill-by-studio-zewde/ https://landezine.com/echoes-of-the-hill-by-studio-zewde/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:44:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123949 Framing pasts, presents, and futures While 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the Mill Race Park designed by MVVA and Stanley Saitowitz, this milestone inspired Studio Zewde to explore the deep history of the site—from indigenous landscape technologies, to the River Rats, to the Mill Race Monster, and beyond. Studio Zewde also asked the Columbus […]]]> https://landezine.com/echoes-of-the-hill-by-studio-zewde/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/graffiti-pier-by-studio-zewde/ https://landezine.com/graffiti-pier-by-studio-zewde/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:44:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123856 The evolution of a cultural icon Graffiti Pier is a landmark in the street art scene, attracting graf writers and artists from clear across the eastern seaboard, proudly exhibiting why Philadelphia is a hotspot of cultural production. It’s also a place reflective of the culture of industry and the working class roots of Port Richmond […]]]> https://landezine.com/graffiti-pier-by-studio-zewde/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/watts-towers-art-center-campus-by-studio-zewde/ https://landezine.com/watts-towers-art-center-campus-by-studio-zewde/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:43:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123967 Assemblage in the Landscape The archival documents that memorialize the 1959 movement of the Committee for Simon Rodia’s Towers in Watts reflect the extraordinary synergy between the Watts Towers Arts Center Campus and its adjoining communities. So, too, does Tyrese Gibson’s 2001 album cover, staged at the Towers. So, too, do the daily rhythms of […]]]> https://landezine.com/watts-towers-art-center-campus-by-studio-zewde/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/springdale-green-urban-biodiversity-renewed-by-dwg/ https://landezine.com/springdale-green-urban-biodiversity-renewed-by-dwg/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:14:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124820 Springdale Green is a groundbreaking transformation of a 30-acre remediated brownfield into a thriving ecological workplace campus. The property was subject to regular localized flooding and was over-run with invasive species that resulted in an ecologically barren landscape. Through a highly innovative design process, it is now a biodiverse, resilient urban landscape, seamlessly integrating a […]]]> https://landezine.com/springdale-green-urban-biodiversity-renewed-by-dwg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/denver-17th-street-corner-plaza-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/denver-17th-street-corner-plaza-by-terremoto/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:59:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124253 The following are descriptions of an afternoon at a plaza in downtown Denver one year after install. The plaza is located on the corner of 17th and California. The city was moving. Live music played across the street. A bus stopped every ten or so minutes, ringing its bells, which made it seem like the […]]]> https://landezine.com/denver-17th-street-corner-plaza-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/porch-house-by-hillworks/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:02:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123692 The jury recognizes in Porch House a promising beginning—a careful act of reclamation that allows the site’s residual character to remain present while offering space for new life to gradually assert itself through a slow dialogue between the existing walls, new architecture and evolving plants, negotiating their space in the ruin. Situated within the remains of a former warehouse, the design accepts the given conditions—the weathered walls, industrial remnants, and raw materiality—as active participants in the emerging landscape. Porch House demonstrates a productive position for small-scale landscape interventions: embracing incompleteness, cultivating hybrid conditions, and staging the possibility for future ecological and spatial complexity to unfold. - from the award statements]]> https://landezine.com/raleigh-iron-works-by-future-green-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/raleigh-iron-works-by-future-green-landscape-architecture/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:32:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122845 Raleigh Iron Works: Restoring the Past and Forging the Future Raleigh Iron Works is deeply rooted in the city’s history, honoring its industrial past as a steel foundry and munitions manufacturer during both world wars. Through adaptive reuse, the site’s original buildings and salvaged materials have been repurposed to create a dynamic 26-acre district that […]]]> https://landezine.com/raleigh-iron-works-by-future-green-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hudson-river-parks-gansevoort-peninsula-by-field-operations/ https://landezine.com/hudson-river-parks-gansevoort-peninsula-by-field-operations/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:25:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122213 Gansevoort Peninsula exemplifies a sophisticated effort in programmatic stacking—a compositional strategy frequently employed in the design of American public parks in dense cities. The project assembles a complex sequence of functions: viewpoints, ecological zones, rain garden, an outdoor gym, a dog park, promenades, boardwalks, sports field, a beach, art installation, grove, and the obligatory nod to the picturesque. In dialogue with its flamboyant neighbor, Little Island, the Gansevoort Peninsula establishes itself as a rational, programme based group of high-resolution spaces, an urban interface for a long list of activities. Amidst this surgically orchestrated layering, one particular zone destabilizes the otherwise expected typologies and ambiences. It is by the southern edge, where the Upland Sandy Bluff meets a sequence of descending hardscape platforms—both steps and terraces—that slide into the Hudson River, allowing visitors to engage directly with the water’s edge. This gesture produces a more abstract encounter. As the tide advances and recedes, water interacts with the horizontal planes, generating an ever-shifting dialogue between solidity and liquidity, stability and flux. Suspended above this tidal choreography is David Hammons’ Whitney-commissioned sculpture »Day’s End«, where the presence of the artwork underlines the absence of its artistic and historic references – a demolished warehouse that hosted Gordon Matta-Clark’s artwork of the same name. Its minimal geometry enhances the surrounding emptiness, allowing history, interpretation, and meaning to remain unresolved. In this moment, Gansevoort Peninsula transcends its functional inventory and opens into a space of heightened ambiguity—a site where natural processes, bodily presence, and cultural memory are held in delicate suspension. - from the award statements]]> https://landezine.com/hudson-river-parks-gansevoort-peninsula-by-field-operations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/totem-lake-park-by-berger-partnership/ https://landezine.com/totem-lake-park-by-berger-partnership/#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:48:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121149 Berger Partnership: The vision for Totem Lake Park establishes a cooperative interaction between existing wetland habitat and recreational uses in this unique ecology and diverse habitat of an 18-acre depressional wetland complex. The lake itself becomes a centerpiece for a re-envisioned neighborhood that has residential units overlooking the site. A stroll on the new loop […]]]> https://landezine.com/totem-lake-park-by-berger-partnership/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/houston-botanic-garden-by-west8/ https://landezine.com/houston-botanic-garden-by-west8/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:50:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118721 Wets 8: Conceived over thirty years ago by a small constituency of local Houstonians, Houston Botanic Garden will be the first new Botanic Garden in the United States in recent memory. Taking its inspiration and structure from the best qualities of its location, West 8’s Master Plan for the garden articulates a phased, experimental, and […]]]> https://landezine.com/houston-botanic-garden-by-west8/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/de-young-museum-gardens-by-hood-design-studio/ https://landezine.com/de-young-museum-gardens-by-hood-design-studio/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:15:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118265 Hood Design Studio led the renovation of the de Young Museum Gardens in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, masterfully integrating the urban and constructed natural landscape within a previously reworked sand dune environment. This transformative project revitalizes a five-acre space surrounding the museum building, meticulously preserving existing landscape features while introducing new dynamic spaces. These innovatively […]]]> https://landezine.com/de-young-museum-gardens-by-hood-design-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/merriam-vineyards-by-munden-fry-landscape-associates/ https://landezine.com/merriam-vineyards-by-munden-fry-landscape-associates/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:05:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116495 MFLA began the collaboration with the Merriam’s in 2021. The 21-acre family estate, situated in the eastern Russian River Valley, is organically farmed and CCOF certified. The family’s sustainable farming and wine production practices formed the foundation of the renovation narrative and the selection of surface materials, finishes, plantings, and furnishings. Creating microclimates and comfortable […]]]> https://landezine.com/merriam-vineyards-by-munden-fry-landscape-associates/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-forms/ https://landezine.com/landscape-forms/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:34:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56410 Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated solutions of high-design site furniture, advanced LED lighting, structure, and custom environments. For more than 50 years we have developed and created solutions that help designers and other clients achieve beautiful, functional landscapes that enhance the experience of outdoor space. Our secret is simple. Design, Culture and […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-forms/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/international-african-american-museum-by-hood-design-studio/ https://landezine.com/international-african-american-museum-by-hood-design-studio/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:35:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113712 In 2016, Hood Design Studio began a collaborative journey for the African Ancestors Memorial Gardens in Charleston, bringing together a diverse group of artists, academics, historians, activists, architects, and civic leaders. Their discussions shaped the gardens, harmonizing voices while respecting the sacredness of Gadsden’s Wharf and supporting the emerging museum. The site’s historical significance is […]]]> https://landezine.com/international-african-american-museum-by-hood-design-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/bronx-greenway-masterplan-by-mnla/ https://landezine.com/bronx-greenway-masterplan-by-mnla/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:48:55 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112866 Addressing Sensitivities to Urban Development: Lessons from the South Bronx Greenway Master Plan Urban revitalization is inherently complex, and yet it is often viewed solely through the lens of economic growth and infrastructural development. Deeper underlying concerns, such as gentrification and community displacement, go unaddressed. Historically diverse neighborhoods like the South Bronx in New York […]]]> https://landezine.com/bronx-greenway-masterplan-by-mnla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/archatrak/ https://landezine.com/archatrak/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:59:53 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=82113 Archatrak offers a versatile range of aesthetic urban amenity products. The flagship of our urban amenities is StreetDeck, a modular system for building self-contained parklets or street eateries. Parklets foster vibrant urban areas by transforming street parking into highly functional business and leisure spaces. Encouraging sustainability and reducing energy use are the key drivers behind […]]]> https://landezine.com/archatrak/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/williams-crossing-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/williams-crossing-by-mvva/#respond Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:38:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110723 Tulsa Celebrates the Opening of a New Landmark Pedestrian Bridge
over the Arkansas River The new Williams Crossing connects pedestrians and cyclists with the Gathering Place In September, 2024, Williams Crossing welcomed its first public users across the Arkansas River. As part of the City of Tulsa’s vision for the improved Zink Dam area, schlaich bergermann […]]]> https://landezine.com/williams-crossing-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/northwoods-garden-by-practice-landscape/ https://landezine.com/northwoods-garden-by-practice-landscape/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:05:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110471 Northwoods Garden: Gathering Context in Collaboration Set beside a small lake 45 minutes from Duluth, Minnesota, the design is a pair of homes and garage buildings that create an open compound or exaggerated courtyard, resting on a high point that slopes gently towards a lakeshore on one side and a wet woodland on the other. […]]]> https://landezine.com/northwoods-garden-by-practice-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-pond-and-the-meadow-by-practice-landscape/ https://landezine.com/the-pond-and-the-meadow-by-practice-landscape/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:03:48 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110488 Alongside a steep dirt road in the southern mountains of Vermont, The Pond and the Meadow is a family retreat, a series of sunny openings in the otherwise dense canopy. The primary residence sits at the top of the slope and the pond at the bottom, held in a small valley. For many years a […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-pond-and-the-meadow-by-practice-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-croft-garden-by-practice-landscape/ https://landezine.com/the-croft-garden-by-practice-landscape/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:09:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110237 The term croft refers to a small agricultural unit, usually an enclosed field, and is part of a tradition in which gardening plays an essential role. The Croft Garden centers and champions manifold species through horticulture amid a sea of single-crop rotation fields, by transforming a pole-barn into a walled garden. The walls of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-croft-garden-by-practice-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/green-over-gray-the-land-bridge-and-prairie-in-memorial-park-by-nbwla/ https://landezine.com/green-over-gray-the-land-bridge-and-prairie-in-memorial-park-by-nbwla/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:27:29 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109525 Memorial Park is a 1,464-acre park — one of the largest in the United States and the largest urban wilderness area in Houston. In 1955, the six-lane Memorial Drive was built, dissecting the park into two and making it difficult, if not impossible, for pedestrians to traverse the park, decreasing ecological resiliency, and disrupting habitats […]]]> https://landezine.com/green-over-gray-the-land-bridge-and-prairie-in-memorial-park-by-nbwla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/brooklyn-bridge-park-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/brooklyn-bridge-park-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:19:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108009 Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1.3 miles long and more than 20 years in the making, has transformed an abandoned waterfront into a public landscape visited by 5 million people a year. MVVA has been involved in the project since its inception in 1999 through hundreds of public meetings, multiple master plans, and ultimately the design and […]]]> https://landezine.com/brooklyn-bridge-park-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/shirley-chisholm-state-park-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/shirley-chisholm-state-park-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:18:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108142 Located on the northern shore of Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay, Shirley Chisholm State Park covers two peninsulas totaling 407 acres, which makes it the largest state park in New York City. Sprawling across two former landfills capped with up to four feet of clean soil, the park helps reconnect the historically underserved neighborhood of East New […]]]> https://landezine.com/shirley-chisholm-state-park-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/max-family-garden-at-st-anns-warehouse-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/max-family-garden-at-st-anns-warehouse-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:18:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108034 The Max Family Garden transforms part of a nineteenth-century architectural relic into an intimate, verdant refuge on the Brooklyn waterfront. Commissioned by the innovative St. Ann’s Warehouse theater company, the garden occupies an 8,000-square-foot triangular brick shell, part of a historic tobacco warehouse. Adjoining that open-air triangle is the bulk of the warehouse building, transformed […]]]> https://landezine.com/max-family-garden-at-st-anns-warehouse-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-woodland-garden-at-brooklyn-botanic-garden-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/the-woodland-garden-at-brooklyn-botanic-garden-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:18:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108093 MVVA’s design of the Elizabeth Scholtz Woodland Garden transforms a little-known enclave in the northwest corner of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) into a surprising and delightful landscape that invites exploration beneath a canopy of tall oaks. MVVA began work on the Scholtz Garden after a request to redesign a non-ADA-compliant path connecting BBG’s northern […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-woodland-garden-at-brooklyn-botanic-garden-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lake-whitney-water-treatment-facility-by-mvva/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:17:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108174 Complementing architect Steven Holl’s striking steel water treatment facility, MVVA turned the 14 surrounding acres into a park and nature preserve on a limited budget of $5 per square foot. The finished landscape raises the bar for municipal infrastructure design. Located on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut, the facility draws water for the City […]]]> https://landezine.com/residence-on-horseshoe-lake-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/residence-on-horseshoe-lake-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:17:05 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108128 Set on a ridge in Maine, the Nomentana Residence was designed to frame and transform views of a pond and the dramatic hill behind it. The juxtaposition of house and landscape is the result of a close collaboration between Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and MVVA. Starting from a formal courtyard-like space at the front […]]]> https://landezine.com/residence-on-horseshoe-lake-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-monks-garden-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/the-monks-garden-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:16:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108058 The Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is modestly sized at just 7,500 square feet and surrounded on three sides by imposing brick walls. MVVA’s design of the Monk’s Garden responds to the museum’s meandering gallery layout, and the rich colors and textures of its idiosyncratic collection, in a contemporary landscape context. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-monks-garden-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/willow-street-garden-by-mvva/ https://landezine.com/willow-street-garden-by-mvva/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:15:32 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108116 Behind a five-story rowhouse in a residential Brooklyn neighborhood, MVVA created an escape within the city that evokes the feeling of wandering through nature. The existing space lacked privacy and was enclosed by a historic 12-foot brick wall. Moving away from the traditional notion of a backyard as an area for recreation or outdoor cooking […]]]> https://landezine.com/willow-street-garden-by-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/cedar-creek-by-hocker/ https://landezine.com/cedar-creek-by-hocker/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:10:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107898 Set in a wooded, 7-acre site above Cedar Creek Lake, this series of buildings are weaved discreetly below the tree line and take advantage of commanding views of the surrounding lake. The collaborative effort between design team and client transformed a long-held family property at into a legacy weekend destination where the harmony between built […]]]> https://landezine.com/cedar-creek-by-hocker/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/spruce-street-harbor-park-by-groundswell-design-group/ https://landezine.com/spruce-street-harbor-park-by-groundswell-design-group/#respond Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:26:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106249 Background In the last decade, Philadelphia has reversed a 60-year depopulation trend, with much of this growth focused in downtown; Greater Center City alone gained 17,000 residents since 2004, and now tops 180,000 people. Spruce Street Harbor Park (SSHP) is part of a citywide movement to increase and improve Philadelphians’ access to public space, in […]]]> https://landezine.com/spruce-street-harbor-park-by-groundswell-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/sculpture-garden-by-laguardia-design-group/ https://landezine.com/sculpture-garden-by-laguardia-design-group/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:26:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103387 Set on twelve acres, this residential property features a 1927 estate house set within towering groves of mature existing trees. The concept of the site design was to build a display setting for the owner’s expansive blue-chip sculpture collection. The Landscape Architect collaborated closely with the artists and their foundations to find or create the […]]]> https://landezine.com/sculpture-garden-by-laguardia-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/dune-meadow-by-laguardia-design-group/ https://landezine.com/dune-meadow-by-laguardia-design-group/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:26:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103517 PROJECT NARRATIVE Dune Meadow is an example of new development opening the door for the substantial improvement and restoration of long-neglected ecosystems. The designed framework serves as a prototype for the natural progression and recovery of sensitive, ecologically critical landscapes. Although initially seen as inherent challenges to the project, the environmental issues were re-defined by […]]]> https://landezine.com/dune-meadow-by-laguardia-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/cedar-crest-by-laguardia-design-group/ https://landezine.com/cedar-crest-by-laguardia-design-group/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:25:51 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103414 The creative reuse of existing landscape elements characterizes this project. In re-envisioning this eight-acre plot overlooking Peconic Bay, the landscape architect chose to honour and make use of the century-old cedar trees that gave the property its namesake. The existing trees were carefully dug and relocated to create a cedar grove, through which the new […]]]> https://landezine.com/cedar-crest-by-laguardia-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/oceanfront-by-laguardia-design-group/ https://landezine.com/oceanfront-by-laguardia-design-group/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:25:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103490 This original Norman Jaffe designed residence situated between a Sagaponack potato field and an oceanfront shoreline, is a minimalist natural environment set within the dunes. Rolling red fescue meadows connect the flat farm fields and the undulating dunes. The meadows hide the driveway and maintain the open views of land and sky. To generate the […]]]> https://landezine.com/oceanfront-by-laguardia-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/bridge-house-by-laguardia-design-group/ https://landezine.com/bridge-house-by-laguardia-design-group/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:24:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103465 Early collaboration between landscape architect and architect on Bridge House, was crucial on this four-acre, former agricultural site. Before locating the proposed house, the Landscape Architect studied the existing topography of the area, which revealed a natural rise in terrain adjacent to the freshwater pond, creating a tremendous watershed through the project site. The initial […]]]> https://landezine.com/bridge-house-by-laguardia-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-urban-green/ https://landezine.com/the-urban-green/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:41:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102961 A former Parking Lot Has Been Transformed Into a Two-Acre Public Green Serving as the Center of a New Community Central to the Reno Entertainment District (RED) is The Urban Green, a dynamic public space containing a variety of outdoor areas that facilitate community events, around which the modern urban district is arranged. Inspired by […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-urban-green/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/molaa-demonstration-garden-by-studio-one-eleven/ https://landezine.com/molaa-demonstration-garden-by-studio-one-eleven/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:40:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102930 The Corner Garden supports revitalization of its Long Beach neighborhood, in the heart of the East Village Arts District. The project site is a former vacant lot of approximately 3,000 square feet, at the intersection of two busy streets, and nestled between a small surface parking lot and an existing apartment complex. The urban site […]]]> https://landezine.com/molaa-demonstration-garden-by-studio-one-eleven/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/oaks-school-greenspace-by-studio-one-eleven/ https://landezine.com/oaks-school-greenspace-by-studio-one-eleven/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:40:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102865 The Oaks School is a progressive, independent K-6 school established in 1985 and located in the heart of Hollywood – adjacent to the historic Hollywood United Methodist Church. Since its creation, the school’s curriculum has successfully fostered the belief that joy of childhood and the joy of learning can go hand in hand. However, the […]]]> https://landezine.com/oaks-school-greenspace-by-studio-one-eleven/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/paramount-blvd-streetscape-by-studio-one-eleven/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:40:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102914 This $3.6 million streetscape renovation for the City of Paramount re-envisioned the character of their downtown district to create places for people, incorporate sustainable landscaping and engineering practices, modernize the local transit system, enhance lighting and wayfinding, and improve the safety of pedestrians. A half-mile stretch of Paramount Boulevard between Jackson Street and Alondra Boulevard […]]]> https://landezine.com/santa-ana-arts-collective-by-studio-one-eleven/ https://landezine.com/santa-ana-arts-collective-by-studio-one-eleven/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:39:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102946 The first project redeveloped under Santa Ana’s new adaptive reuse ordinance, Santa Ana Arts Collective (SAAC) repurposed a 1965 international style office building into 100% affordable, studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom live-work lofts. The project adds 10 new affordable two- and three-bedroom townhomes. Walkable to Santa Ana’s arts institutions, the redevelopment at 1666 N. Main […]]]> https://landezine.com/santa-ana-arts-collective-by-studio-one-eleven/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/overlook-at-rise-park-by-studio-one-eleven/ https://landezine.com/overlook-at-rise-park-by-studio-one-eleven/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:35:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103301 The Orange County Great Park is over 500-acres of public land located on the site of the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro in Irvine, California. The overall park area includes housing and open spaces that are linked together through a network of trails and greenbelts. The Overlook at Rise Park, designed by Studio […]]]> https://landezine.com/overlook-at-rise-park-by-studio-one-eleven/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/oakland-museum-of-california-by-hood-design-studio/ https://landezine.com/oakland-museum-of-california-by-hood-design-studio/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:27:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113736 The Oakland Museum of California was originally conceived by architect Kevin Roche in the 1960’s as a museum with a public garden for the city. Due to social fears at the time, the museum chose to wall off its perimeter.  HDS redesigned the gardens for the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) gardens by breaking the […]]]> https://landezine.com/oakland-museum-of-california-by-hood-design-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/panorama-park-by-hood-design-studio/ https://landezine.com/panorama-park-by-hood-design-studio/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:09:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113751 The approach to Hilltop Park, at the apex of Yerba Buena Island, is to create a new landscape, a cultural + ecological arboretum. The park will be a regional destination that also relates to adjacent planned development. The two high points of the park offer distinct landscape experiences in the middle of the San Francisco […]]]> https://landezine.com/panorama-park-by-hood-design-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/diamond-teague-park-by-mksk/ https://landezine.com/diamond-teague-park-by-mksk/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:50:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=98974 Diamond Teague Park, located in Southeast Washington DC near the Washington National’s baseball stadium, was one of the first completed sections of the well-used Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. MKSK designed an at-grade and elevated promenade, new piers and docks for a local non-profit organization—Earth Conservation Corps, a non-profit organization focused on youth development and environmental service, […]]]> https://landezine.com/diamond-teague-park-by-mksk/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-apollo-by-mksk/ https://landezine.com/the-apollo-by-mksk/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:49:55 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=98996 The Apollo is an 8-story, 435-unit apartment and retail building in Washington, DC’s H Street Corridor, a vibrant neighbourhood near Union Station. The building’s relatively large footprint presented an opportunity to create a diverse array of outdoor spaces including a large pool terrace, a generous outdoor grilling and lawn terrace, a dog run, a community […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-apollo-by-mksk/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/dorrian-green-by-mksk/ https://landezine.com/dorrian-green-by-mksk/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:46:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=98950 The original culture of the Dorrian Green site is broad-ranging beginning with indigenous peoples’ settlements along the high bluff on the west bank of the Scioto River, to the first European settlement in central Ohio known as Franklinton, to the centerpiece of the 1914 Columbus Plan calling for the construction of the “Central High School” […]]]> https://landezine.com/dorrian-green-by-mksk/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pacific-plaza-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/pacific-plaza-by-swa-group/#respond Wed, 24 May 2023 10:15:11 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=91393 The latest step in the renaissance of Downtown Dallas has arrived with Pacific Plaza, a 3.89-acre public park that serves the central business district’s burgeoning population and contributes substantially to the city’s outdoor experience. The first of an ambitious four-park initiative, Pacific Plaza complements adjacent urban greenspace with a varied program designed for intergenerational appeal, […]]]> https://landezine.com/pacific-plaza-by-swa-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ricardo-lara-park-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/ricardo-lara-park-by-swa-group/#respond Wed, 24 May 2023 10:13:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=92718 Ricardo Lara Park is a vibrant city park and a case study in landscape infrastructure. It demonstrates how a small investment and creative thinking about landscape can transform the very infrastructure that has long divided and isolated a community into an amenity that unites it, offering much-needed environmental and recreational benefits. Here, more than five […]]]> https://landezine.com/ricardo-lara-park-by-swa-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/culver-steps-and-main-plaza-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/culver-steps-and-main-plaza-by-swa-group/#comments Wed, 24 May 2023 10:11:36 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=91298 As cities consider the future of their streets in light of pandemic-inspired innovations and federal infrastructure investment, placemaking solutions can help communities achieve more value from public rights-of-way. In Culver City, California, landscape design born of public and private sector collaboration has resulted in a lively and accessible outdoor space, where creative paving enables streets […]]]> https://landezine.com/culver-steps-and-main-plaza-by-swa-group/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/palm-springs-downtown-park-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/palm-springs-downtown-park-by-rios/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:49:29 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=82908 Palm Springs Downtown Park is an inviting 1.5-acre urban oasis for residents and visitors to Palm Springs, a design-forward desert destination nestled along the base of the San Jacinto Mountains in the southwestern Coachella Valley in California’s Sonoran Desert. The park lies in the ancestral homeland of the Agua Caliente band of the Cahuilla people […]]]> https://landezine.com/palm-springs-downtown-park-by-rios/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/mariposa-gardens-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/mariposa-gardens-by-rios/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:49:04 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=82928 Mariposa Gardens is a 4-acre private residential multi-generational family estate designed for seamless indoor-outdoor living, the enjoyment of art, and the reverence of nature. Located in Montecito, Santa Barbara, California, the site is situated within a Coast-Live oak woodland on a gentle slope from the Santa Ynez Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The gardens celebrate […]]]> https://landezine.com/mariposa-gardens-by-rios/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/1-hotel-west-hollywood-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/1-hotel-west-hollywood-by-rios/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:48:25 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=82949 Our design expresses 1 Hotel’s nature-forward brand with an exuberant strategy that employs earth-conscious elegance and innovation. The tradition of blending indoor and outdoor environments stems from an appreciation of Southern California’s exceptional climate. Corresponding with the driving concept of the hotel brand, 1 Hotel West Hollywood represents the natural environment of its location with […]]]> https://landezine.com/1-hotel-west-hollywood-by-rios/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/downtown-commons-by-hdla/ https://landezine.com/downtown-commons-by-hdla/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:52:03 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=78133 The Downtown Commons is a dynamic public space that occupies an entire city block in the heart of historic downtown Clarksville featuring the Third Street Pavilion – an elegantly winged structure that forms a natural bandshell with its striking roofline to project sound across the central green of the Commons. The design of the Commons […]]]> https://landezine.com/downtown-commons-by-hdla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/602-taylor-by-hdla/ https://landezine.com/602-taylor-by-hdla/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:51:16 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=78107 HDLA was commissioned to work on the adaptive reuse of the warehouse building as the phase 2 implementation of our previously completed Master Plan for the Werthan industrial complex. A once thriving industrial complex, Werthan, was best known for the manufacturing of various types of industrial bags and the remnants of this manufacturing can be […]]]> https://landezine.com/602-taylor-by-hdla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tennessee-state-museum-by-hdla/ https://landezine.com/tennessee-state-museum-by-hdla/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:50:56 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=78121 HDLA was commissioned in 2015 to design the new Tennessee State Museum. The Tennessee State Museum stands at the corner of Rosa L Parks Boulevard and Jefferson Street at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. The roots of the museum can be traced back to 1817 with the opening of a museum on Nashville’s public […]]]> https://landezine.com/tennessee-state-museum-by-hdla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/centennial-park-by-hdla/ https://landezine.com/centennial-park-by-hdla/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:50:37 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=78076 In 2013 HDLA, working alongside Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) was commissioned by Nashville Parks and Recreation Department to update the Centennial Park Master Plan as well as complete construction documents for a $9 million dollar phase one, and subsequently a $7 million dollar phase two. The Master Plan revisited ideas from the 1897 Centennial Exposition […]]]> https://landezine.com/centennial-park-by-hdla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/one-nashville-place-renovation-by-hdla/ https://landezine.com/one-nashville-place-renovation-by-hdla/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:50:22 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=78096 HDLA, in collaboration with ESa, worked with Unico Properties to re-imagine the exterior public gathering spaces at One Nashville Place, an iconic 24-story, Class A high-rise in Downtown Nashville’s Central Business District. Using the space’s existing features, HDLA seeks to transform its dated, underutilized public plazas into vibrant places for the everyday office tenant and […]]]> https://landezine.com/one-nashville-place-renovation-by-hdla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/quarry-garden-by-ten-x-ten/ https://landezine.com/quarry-garden-by-ten-x-ten/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:19:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=84429 This tiny urban backyard was transformed into a rich and dense layering of atmospheres and uses. The design recycles already extracted but discarded granite blocks from a local quarry – a sustainable attitude of working with the land. The charcoal grey, or ‘Graveyard’ granite, as central feature, pays homage to the depths of the local strata. The design explores the conventional concept of extending the interior spaces into the garden, yet done by an interweaving and shifting of wild landscape, threshholds and architectural planes. So, the tiny garden space is experienced as much larger than it is. The sunken garden ‘quarry’ is embedded in a dense thicket of birches and hemlocks, creating a mysterious atmosphere which neither the body, mind nor spirit can tire of. For an American context, the Quarry garden is surprisingly modest, effortlessly disconnecting from the more traditional codes where a garden would often be dominated by an abundance of features, shapes and things.]]> https://landezine.com/quarry-garden-by-ten-x-ten/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/varda-landing-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/varda-landing-by-terremoto/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:45:55 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=72193 Varda Landing is both a remnant and emergent ad hoc creative waterfront community in Sausalito, California, adjacent to our sister site Marinship Studios. Historically, this area was known as the Gate 5 commune which saw some of the most seminal artists, creatives and thinkers of the 20th century pass through including Agnes Varda, Jack Kerouac, […]]]> https://landezine.com/varda-landing-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/nicasio-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/nicasio-by-terremoto/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:45:42 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=72071 This project is located in Nicasio in Northern California – a pastoral area near Point Reyes known for its wine and cheese, with miles upon miles of sheep and cows grazing along rolling hills. The climate there has a phenomenological quality – the kind of place where you would see what looks like rain moving […]]]> https://landezine.com/nicasio-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/test-plot-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/test-plot-by-terremoto/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:45:19 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=72089 Elysian park is both Los Angeles’ oldest park (originally set up in 1886) as well as one of it’s largest, covering 600 acres of meandering trails across an unruly and unfinished landscape just north of Downtown Los Angeles. But this beloved public space – in the Echo Park neighborhood that many of Terremoto’s designers call […]]]> https://landezine.com/test-plot-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/manola-court-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/manola-court-by-terremoto/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:44:58 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=72113 In the 1920s, the 16-unit Sachs Apartments were designed by Rudolph Schindler (who we consider to be the Michelangelo of Angeleno architecture) in the hills of Silverlake, Los Angeles for his friend Herman Sachs, a bon vivant, muralist, and designer who worked on Union Station and City Hall. Now known as Manola Court, the project […]]]> https://landezine.com/manola-court-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/university-of-new-mexico-smith-plaza-by-surfacedesign/ https://landezine.com/university-of-new-mexico-smith-plaza-by-surfacedesign/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:53:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=68110 The Smith Plaza & Union Square Renovation transforms 3.3 acres at the heart of UNM’s main campus into UNM’s signature social gathering space. Intensely occupied by students, faculty, staff and local community members, the central plaza redesign acts as a social space of equity, diversity and inclusion. Addressing the historic Zimmerman Library, Student Union Building, […]]]> https://landezine.com/university-of-new-mexico-smith-plaza-by-surfacedesign/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/uliveto-by-surfacedesign/ https://landezine.com/uliveto-by-surfacedesign/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2021 07:51:31 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=68252 Located on the vegetative gradient between the oak savannah of the Santa Cara Valley and the redwood forests of the of the Santa Cruz mountains, the Uliveto residence seamlessly nestles into its three-acre site. From its conception, the design aimed to blend into its natural surroundings and borrow the vistas of the adjacent mountains. Thus, […]]]> https://landezine.com/uliveto-by-surfacedesign/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hacienda-by-surfacedesign/ https://landezine.com/hacienda-by-surfacedesign/#respond Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:34:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=68096 This sculptural garden overlooking the San Francisco Bay reflects the vision of passionate art collectors whose personal artistic vision includes the idea of the landscape being experienced and enhanced through play and exploration. As a result, the garden incorporates distinct spaces that weave together architecture and landscape, providing places for reflection, play, and discovery. ]]> https://landezine.com/hacienda-by-surfacedesign/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-beach-at-expedia-group-by-surfacedesign/ https://landezine.com/the-beach-at-expedia-group-by-surfacedesign/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:37:21 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=68134 The Beach at Elliott Bay, located a mile north of downtown Seattle on a 40-acre waterfront site, was transformed from an under-used biotech campus and post-industrial site into a vibrant, lush, and sophisticated publicly accessible park with improved connectivity to trails for running and biking. Located at the site of a tech company’s international headquarters, […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-beach-at-expedia-group-by-surfacedesign/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/zinfandel-lane-by-surfacedesign/ https://landezine.com/zinfandel-lane-by-surfacedesign/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:37:06 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=68162 Set within one of the oldest Zinfandel vineyards in California, the St Helena residence floats above the surrounding vines, extending the landscape into the house and pulling life out into the garden. An olive-tree lined gravel driveway frames the entrance to the St Helena property, and culminates in the oak-lined property edge, where an existing […]]]> https://landezine.com/zinfandel-lane-by-surfacedesign/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/little-island-by-mnla/ https://landezine.com/little-island-by-mnla/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 07:09:19 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=64048 MNLA collaborated with Heatherwick Studio to design Little Island (formerly Pier 55), a dramatic 2.4-acre public park in the Hudson River that brings together art and nature in an immersive experience. Conceived as a leaf floating in the water, the pier is a topographic marvel that celebrates views, defines landscaped spaces, and provides resilience against […]]]> https://landezine.com/little-island-by-mnla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/grand-park-the-park-for-everyone-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/grand-park-the-park-for-everyone-by-rios/#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:22:18 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=58219 The design of Grand Park has no smaller aim than to express the multicultural diversity of Los Angeles through landscape design and architecture. The park transformed a 12-acre space filled with parking lots into “The Park for Everyone,” a community gathering place that has redefined Downtown Los Angeles. Grand Park creates an important link between […]]]> https://landezine.com/grand-park-the-park-for-everyone-by-rios/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-music-center-plaza-renovation-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/the-music-center-plaza-renovation-by-rios/#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:19:05 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=58286 The Music Center Plaza Renovation extends RIOS’ work shaping Los Angeles’ Civic Center along with Grand Park and the realignment of Grand Avenue. The new plaza serves to connect the local community with one primary goal — accessibility. This theme pervades the design from creating more welcoming outdoor urban spaces to establishing a greater ease […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-music-center-plaza-renovation-by-rios/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/row-dtla-refined-grit-by-rios/ https://landezine.com/row-dtla-refined-grit-by-rios/#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:22:54 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=58238 ROW DTLA incorporates 100 years of Los Angeles history into an ambitious commercial district linking downtown to the burgeoning arts district. A century ago, this site was the terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, where goods were unloaded and loaded onto trucks to be delivered across California. The 30-acre ROW DTLA campus was reenvisioned by […]]]> https://landezine.com/row-dtla-refined-grit-by-rios/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/vancouver-waterfront-park/ https://landezine.com/vancouver-waterfront-park/#respond Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:06:13 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=57791 On the north bank of the Columbia River, Vancouver, WA, is Vancouver’s newest waterfront development that brings the downtown to the river’s edge. In partnership with the City, Gramor, and a multi-disciplinary team, PWL Partnership created the detailed design for the public realm, parks, and open space plan along with the detailed waterfront park design […]]]> https://landezine.com/vancouver-waterfront-park/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/nowadays/ https://landezine.com/nowadays/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:45:42 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56539 Located In Ridgewood Queens, Nowadays is an outdoor beer garden founded by Brooklyn DJ Mister Saturday Night. Future Green Studio designed the garden to accommodate hundreds of adult and kid partygoers on Sunday afternoons, with a dance floor, DJ booth, picnic tables, and food vendors. Inspired by the existing post-industrial site and its weedy landscape, […]]]> https://landezine.com/nowadays/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/345-meat-packing/ https://landezine.com/345-meat-packing/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:45:37 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56589 Future Green’s Design for this dramatic residential building in Manhattan’s gritty-to-glamorous Meatpacking District inserts a colorful landscape into a highly-visible urban site, embracing future resiliency. Our design drew inspiration from the neighboring High Line and historic meatpacking loading canopies—robust industrial infrastructure that welcomed vines, wildflowers, “weed trees,” and a rugged vision of urban wilderness. For […]]]> https://landezine.com/345-meat-packing/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/brooklyn-childrens-museum-rooftop-terrace/ https://landezine.com/brooklyn-childrens-museum-rooftop-terrace/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:45:27 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56523 Our Design Approach for one of the world’s first Children’s Museums was simple – a natural landscape that rewards the curiosity of a child’s eyes and hands. In coordination with an innovative rooftop pavilion by acclaimed architect Toshiko Mori and engineers ARUP, we developed a 20,000-square foot rooftop plaza surrounded by architect Raphael Vinoly’s vibrant […]]]> https://landezine.com/brooklyn-childrens-museum-rooftop-terrace/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/sections-of-the-anthropocene/ https://landezine.com/sections-of-the-anthropocene/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:45:11 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56569 Sections of the Anthropocene explores the impact of human habitat on the earth’s surface through observation, extractions and imagined realities that expose the condition of the urban substrate. These anthropogenic “ecologies” – the hard, impervious surfaces of our roads, lots, and buildings, and the compacted soil beneath – have transformed our atmosphere, displaced plants, animals, […]]]> https://landezine.com/sections-of-the-anthropocene/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/empire-stores/ https://landezine.com/empire-stores/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:45:02 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56556 The 1869 coffee warehouse fronting along the wildly successful Brooklyn Bridge Park – is now home to retail stores, office space, restaurants, a beer garden, and an outpost of the Brooklyn Historical Society. Future Green’s landscape for the iconic structure comprises a 7,000-square-foot rooftop public park (the first of its kind in the landscape repertoire […]]]> https://landezine.com/empire-stores/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/uc-school-of-public-health-marty-and-joyce-griffin-terrace/ https://landezine.com/uc-school-of-public-health-marty-and-joyce-griffin-terrace/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:37:54 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56502 UC Berkeley School of Public Health commissioned Groundworks Office to design their new garden terrace. Despite the site’s technical challenges with building on a 5th floor structure and a tight budget, Groundworks Office designed a garden that channels the delicate ecology of west Marin. The site also memorializes the work of stalwart environmentalist, Marty Griffin. […]]]> https://landezine.com/uc-school-of-public-health-marty-and-joyce-griffin-terrace/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/albany-loop-by-groundworks-office/ https://landezine.com/albany-loop-by-groundworks-office/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:37:35 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56481 Along the idyllic eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay is Albany, California, a small hamlet with a penchant for renegade behaviors.  It all started in 1908 when two women with shotguns protested the dumping of trash in their community by Berkeley, its neighboring city.  Shortly thereafter, town folk voted to incorporate what we know […]]]> https://landezine.com/albany-loop-by-groundworks-office/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alice-chalmers-playground/ https://landezine.com/alice-chalmers-playground/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:37:09 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56470 Yep, those are the tinny screams of children you’re hearing at Alice Chalmers Playground — And no need to sound the alarm. You’d swear too that those were the smoothest slides you’ve ever ridden. Alice Chalmers Playground is a long-awaited overhaul for Longfellow Elementary, a public school in San Francisco’s Crocker-Amazon neighborhood. Tucked away from […]]]> https://landezine.com/alice-chalmers-playground/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/waterfront-plaza/ https://landezine.com/waterfront-plaza/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:37:04 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=56493 Groundworks Office’s challenge was to reimagine a technology campus situated along San Francisco’s historic Embarcadero. The existing campus was outdated and reminiscent of days when water was plentiful and Kentucky Bluegrass was en vogue. Our approach was two-fold — make spaces for people and deepen the site’s potential ecology. For Phase 1 of the project […]]]> https://landezine.com/waterfront-plaza/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/waller-park-by-msla/ https://landezine.com/waller-park-by-msla/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:11:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=50084 Meyer Studio Land Architects: Just steps from bustling Market Street, Alta Laguna is a six-acre complex located in the heart of San Francisco. The site plan stitches together an ambitious program of 330 market rate units, 110 LGBT-friendly senior units, various public spaces, a community garden and a series of private courts for residents. MSLA […]]]> https://landezine.com/waller-park-by-msla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/888-brannan-by-msla/ https://landezine.com/888-brannan-by-msla/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:01:32 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=50050 Meyer Studio Land Architects: The conversion of a utilitarian loading dock into an outdoor gem for San Francisco’s Airbnb Headquarters, serves as a provocative example of how residual slivers of the urban landscape can be radically transformed. The design creates a flexible social space that fosters new ways of working and invites collaboration. Advances in […]]]> https://landezine.com/888-brannan-by-msla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/newswalk-entry-garden-by-terrain-nyc/ https://landezine.com/newswalk-entry-garden-by-terrain-nyc/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:50:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=47881 terrain-nyc: The Newswalk Condominium is comprised of over 200 apartments converted from what was once a printing press for the Daily News newspaper. At the time terrain was commissioned to redesign the entry garden, it was little more than an oversized drop off circle, akin to a cul-de-sac and inappropriate for the building’s urban context. […]]]> https://landezine.com/newswalk-entry-garden-by-terrain-nyc/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/platform-park-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/platform-park-by-terremoto/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:30:41 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=47615 TERREMOTO: A vacant lot. An underpass in Culver City. A city amidst a city of cities. Nowhere, but also the center of the universe. The train rumbles past above us beating along like a stop-motion glacial retreat, in steady quarter notes of light and shadow, thumps and clicks. The muscular concrete columns that support the […]]]> https://landezine.com/platform-park-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/exelixis-by-creo/ https://landezine.com/exelixis-by-creo/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2019 07:45:01 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=47342 CREO: The recently renovated Exelixis executive headquarters and administrative building is the new home for the company’s expanding operations, which focus on genomics based drug discovery for several types of cancer. The existing office park, located in Alameda, California, is just feet away from the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The sound of planes taking off and […]]]> https://landezine.com/exelixis-by-creo/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ishihara-park-by-studio-mla/ https://landezine.com/ishihara-park-by-studio-mla/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:15:18 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=46928 Studio-MLA: Just three years ago, Ishihara Park was a parking lot. The long and narrow 2.35 acre (.95 hectare) site located in the City of Santa Monica was reimagined as a linear park to mitigate a planned Metro light rail maintenance facility built adjacent to a quiet residential neighbourhood. The park provides an important visual […]]]> https://landezine.com/ishihara-park-by-studio-mla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/erie-street-plaza-by-stoss/ https://landezine.com/erie-street-plaza-by-stoss/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2019 05:53:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=46859 Stoss: Milwaukee’s waterfront ecopark is one of a series of public space activators along the Milwaukee Riverwalk, a three-mile pedestrian and bicycle corridor that connects downtown Milwaukee to the emerging and redeveloping Third Ward and Beerline Districts, and to the lakefront beyond. The Erie Street project included extensive interface with the Wisconsin Department of Natural […]]]> https://landezine.com/erie-street-plaza-by-stoss/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ashes-diamonds-winery-by-creo/ https://landezine.com/ashes-diamonds-winery-by-creo/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:38:11 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=46399 CREO: Located in Napa California, Ashes & Diamonds Winery draws inspiration from mid-century modern architecture and the beauty of the surrounding California landscape. The 30-acre property is home to an upscale tasting room, a full-scale production facility, and vineyards. Working closely with the architect and winemakers, the landscape team helped bring the client’s vision to […]]]> https://landezine.com/ashes-diamonds-winery-by-creo/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/arroyo-seco-by-elysian-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/arroyo-seco-by-elysian-landscapes/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:45:44 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44598 Across the street from Lacey Park in San Marino, California, a sprawling wooded property with a number of buildings occupies one and a half acres, tucked away off a private road. The unique challenge and great opportunity was to transform the property into an authentically unified experience, driven by a strong role and vision for […]]]> https://landezine.com/arroyo-seco-by-elysian-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/marinship-studios-by-terremoto/ https://landezine.com/marinship-studios-by-terremoto/#respond Sat, 05 Jan 2019 10:59:13 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43102 We find ourselves at an intriguing, problematic site along the waterfront in Sausalito, presented with a series of unknowns. The long term future of the site is uncertain, as a new ground-up building may one day be constructed, but when this building arrives is a question, and the form it will take is still under […]]]> https://landezine.com/marinship-studios-by-terremoto/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-ohio-field-interpretive-signage-by-mksk/ https://landezine.com/the-ohio-field-interpretive-signage-by-mksk/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:46:47 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=42628 MKSK: The Ohio Field Interpretive Signage helps bring the site of The Ohio State University’s first football field to life. The signage works to further enhance the North High Street campus gateway by conveying the stories of the people and events that make this such an important place in Ohio State’s history. Through a collaborative […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-ohio-field-interpretive-signage-by-mksk/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/fareground-by-dwg/ https://landezine.com/fareground-by-dwg/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:05:27 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=41304 dwg. Fareground liberates a lost landscape in a bustling urban environment through the transformation of an underutilized office plaza. The project produced a new hub of urban life; fully embracing the downtown Austin community in an oasis to gather, socialize, relax, entertain and create. The resulting landscape performs through careful programming, vitality, social engagement and environmental […]]]> https://landezine.com/fareground-by-dwg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/industry-city-by-terrain-nyc/ https://landezine.com/industry-city-by-terrain-nyc/#respond Wed, 30 May 2018 08:46:16 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=40859 Terrain-NYC: Courtyard 5-6 at Industry City is a breath of new life for the defunct manufacturing complex formerly known as Bush Terminal. Today the complex is experiencing a rebirth as a large scale commons for over 600 creative businesses. The courtyard, a cargo loading dock until 1974, is transformed into a lush and varied landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/industry-city-by-terrain-nyc/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-dogpatch-ropewalk-by-fletcher-studio/ https://landezine.com/the-dogpatch-ropewalk-by-fletcher-studio/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2017 07:55:44 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39558 Fletcher Studio: There are many layers of contemporary history that one can experience in the Dogpatch, but few sites encapsulate this multiplicity like the intersection of Third and 23rd Streets. Here, the uncharacteristic angle of historic homes hint at the site’s heritage, the location of the Tubbs Cordage Company Ropewalk, whose slanted pier once pierced […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-dogpatch-ropewalk-by-fletcher-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/rivermark-by-fletcher-studio/ https://landezine.com/rivermark-by-fletcher-studio/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:10:42 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39407 Fletcher Studio: Rivermark is a 100% affordable housing project located near the Sacramento River in West Sacramento. The Landscape Architecture draws inspiration from the geology of the Sierra foothills and the perspectival geometry of pioneering video games, such as Tempest. The project is divided into a rigorous two-foot grid, oriented on the east-west axis. Forms […]]]> https://landezine.com/rivermark-by-fletcher-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/washington-fruit-produce-headquarters-yakima-by-berger-partnership/ https://landezine.com/washington-fruit-produce-headquarters-yakima-by-berger-partnership/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:59:11 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=38014 Berger Partnership: Located near the confluence of the Yakima and Naches Rivers, the site is part of a floodplain. Historic maps show the area cleared and regraded after the turn of century for agricultural use and as part of what was then the Northern Pacific Railroad line that still passes to the east of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/washington-fruit-produce-headquarters-yakima-by-berger-partnership/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/archipelago-courtyard-by-terrain-nyc/ https://landezine.com/archipelago-courtyard-by-terrain-nyc/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:23:27 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37935 Archipelago Courtyard was conceived based on a series of smart decisions. There are no unnecessary barriers to allow for activities of various age groups. Two (and a half) 'islands' were introduces covered with timber for a cozy seating each containing one or more Gleditsia Triacanthos trees, which (intentionally or not) reminds of Paley Park some 5 miles up north in Manhattan. ]]> https://landezine.com/archipelago-courtyard-by-terrain-nyc/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/south-park-san-francisco-by-fletcher-studio/ https://landezine.com/south-park-san-francisco-by-fletcher-studio/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:34:29 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37853 Fletcher Studio: Built in 1852 as an English picturesque strolling garden and opened to the public at the end of the 19th century, South Park is the oldest public space in San Francisco. Over 165 years of evolution, South Park has served the needs of diverse populations, including immigrants, refugees, designers, artists, and young professionals. […]]]> https://landezine.com/south-park-san-francisco-by-fletcher-studio/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/bethlehem-steelstacks-arts-culture-campus-by-wrt/ https://landezine.com/bethlehem-steelstacks-arts-culture-campus-by-wrt/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2017 07:41:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37819 WRT: The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was a 20th century industrial powerhouse that operated facilities around the globe. It was founded in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley in 1857, eventually occupying 1,800 acres along the Lehigh River. In 1995, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation stopped its steel-making operations in Bethlehem, closed the plant, and brought to an end a […]]]> https://landezine.com/bethlehem-steelstacks-arts-culture-campus-by-wrt/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/asla-news-roundup/ https://landezine.com/asla-news-roundup/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:41:26 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37721 2017 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO, October 20-23, Los Angeles / Celebrating the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture ]]> https://landezine.com/asla-news-roundup/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/roemer-plaza-by-klopfer-martin-design-group/ https://landezine.com/roemer-plaza-by-klopfer-martin-design-group/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:36:36 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37738 
Klopfer Martin Design Group: Suffolk University is an important institution in Boston, but it lacks a tangible presence as a campus, particularly when it comes to a recognizable landscape place. The purpose of this project was to overcome that deficit and create the university’s first landscape space as a part of the construction of a […]]]> https://landezine.com/roemer-plaza-by-klopfer-martin-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-court-square-press-by-landworks-studio/ https://landezine.com/the-court-square-press-by-landworks-studio/#respond Wed, 10 May 2017 06:32:35 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37177 Landworks Studio: The Court Square Press building was built in 1900 as a printing press on the edge of Boston’s Fort Point Channel district, an area historically used for manufacturing and shipping. The site itself was created during a series of early twentieth century fill operations in which the channel was transformed into rail yards. […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-court-square-press-by-landworks-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/ https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:33:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36994 photo: Stephanie Keith, Women hold a prayer ceremony on Backwater Bridge during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access Pipeline]]> https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-parklands-of-floyds-fork-by-wrt/ https://landezine.com/the-parklands-of-floyds-fork-by-wrt/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:46:34 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36909 WRT: The Parklands of Floyds Fork is a 20–mile, 4,000-acre, systemic world-class addition to the Louisville Park System. The Parklands includes four major parks—Beckley Creek Park, Pope Lick Park, Turkey Run Park, and Broad Run Park. These four parks are linked by a park drive, a first-rate urban trail system, and a remarkable water trail, […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-parklands-of-floyds-fork-by-wrt/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/times-square-redesign-by-snohetta-opens-today/ https://landezine.com/times-square-redesign-by-snohetta-opens-today/#respond Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:24:50 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36874 Judging by other media, doubling the amount of pedestrian space on Times Sq. is the crown achievement with this hyper-urban site. But Snøhetta went much deeper than merely mastering engineering pirouettes. The design (selection of the material, it's shape and colour) is full of references to past and contemporary culture connected to the Bowtie. The dark pavement complements the artificial light from above, giving it contrast like as found in black and white noir films. The benches were inspired by old cars from those noir times and from times of the establishment of Broadway's theatre culture. Furthermore the coin-sized metal discs inserted in the pavement reflect the light from above and emphasize a kind of a 'metropolis' or 'Blade Runner' like experience. Snøhetta's homage to artificial light also comes from the fact that the street was the first in US lit with electric lights. The lack of presence and recognition of this project in professional media and over-promoted doubling of the amount of pedestrian space are in my personal opinion problematic. It's about heritage, culture, artistry, experience and yes, also the quality and quantity of pedestrian space.]]> https://landezine.com/times-square-redesign-by-snohetta-opens-today/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-battery-park-new-york-by-quennell-rothschild-partners/ https://landezine.com/the-battery-park-new-york-by-quennell-rothschild-partners/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:55:33 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36822 Quennell, Rothschild & Partners: Sited on the historic southern tip of Manhattan, the Battery takes its name from the “battery” of cannons erected by Dutch settlers in the 1600s. Over the centuries, the park has hosted the first official immigrant receiving station, functioned as a pleasure ground and as a memorial landscape. What was a […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-battery-park-new-york-by-quennell-rothschild-partners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/surly-brewing-msp-by-hga/ https://landezine.com/surly-brewing-msp-by-hga/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:43:39 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=35152 HGA: The Surly Destination Brewery and Beer Gardens (SDBBG) combine a beer hall, brewery, and extensive gardens into an existing industrial area within Minneapolis’ Prospect Park neighborhood. The growing demand for their products led to the design of a 50,000 SF facility residing on 8.3 acres of redeveloped brown field. This state of the art […]]]> https://landezine.com/surly-brewing-msp-by-hga/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pacific-overlook-by-cmg-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/pacific-overlook-by-cmg-landscape-architecture/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:04:14 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=35090 Besides offering the epic view, this pocket social space is in fact also a community garden, plaza, skatepark and a monument. The latter comes from the fact that there was a development that slid down the bluff in 1930' and some remains are still visible today. It's interesting that the remains inspired the forms of this project and not the previous state of the architecture before the accident. So there is a great deal of abstraction rather than some naive memorabilia, which is sadly often the case. A Google Maps visit will show that the initial planting scheme did not survive. Maybe it was changed by the members of the community, in any case it's a pity since it was giving unique character to the place. As if the violet and yellow-ish plants would want to play with the sunset light and blue - pink hues of evening sky. It would be hard to believe that Sedum would not survive the climatic conditions of this site.]]> https://landezine.com/pacific-overlook-by-cmg-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/buhl-community-park-at-allegheny-square/ https://landezine.com/buhl-community-park-at-allegheny-square/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:36:17 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=35031 Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture: In June 2012, the revitalized Buhl Community Park at Allegheny Square opened to the public in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. Spearheaded by the adjacent Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the project transformed an underused, 1960s concrete plaza into a vital community space. The park design emerged through a highly collaborative process, beginning […]]]> https://landezine.com/buhl-community-park-at-allegheny-square/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/office-profile-groundswell-design-group/ https://landezine.com/office-profile-groundswell-design-group/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:02:59 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=34127 The Groundswell team is recognized for their ability to transform underutilized public spaces, into vibrantly activated, and often revenue producing social destinations. Projects range in scale from large public parks, to land art installations, to intimate gardens and cafes. The team moves from interior design to exterior landscape with ease, committed to creating a seamless […]]]> https://landezine.com/office-profile-groundswell-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/office-profile-ojb-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/office-profile-ojb-landscape-architecture/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:05:22 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33938 The Office of James Burnett focuses on creating landscapes that transform perspectives and evoke emotional responses. The firm’s work imaginatively unifies the relationship between landscape and architecture, ensuring unique compositions that satisfy the demands of both form and function. Creating unique and unforgettable sensory experiences that promote healthy living is core to OJB’s design ethos. […]]]> https://landezine.com/office-profile-ojb-landscape-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-lawn-on-d-by-sasaki/ https://landezine.com/the-lawn-on-d-by-sasaki/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:33:29 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33814 Sasaki: The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA), in partnership with a Sasaki-led design team (including HR&A Advisors), conceived of the Lawn on D—a flexible, vibrant, and temporary urban space—to be an early arrival on D Street, setting the tone for civic impact and expressing the ambitions of a new district. This new district, anchored by […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-lawn-on-d-by-sasaki/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/north-point-gateway-and-pocket-park-by-landworks-studio/ https://landezine.com/north-point-gateway-and-pocket-park-by-landworks-studio/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:20:41 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33372 Landworks Studio: The open space concept for NorthPoint Parcel N in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a 20 story residential tower, was to optimize synergies between private development and deficiencies in public realm connectivity surrounding the site. The project’s two major additions to the public realm – an elevated pedestrian park and stair and a half acre central green […]]]> https://landezine.com/north-point-gateway-and-pocket-park-by-landworks-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/chicago-riverwalk-expansion-by-sasaki/ https://landezine.com/chicago-riverwalk-expansion-by-sasaki/#respond Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:49:09 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33270 SASAKI: The Main Branch of the Chicago River has a long and storied history that in many ways mirrors the development of Chicago itself. Once a meandering marshy stream, the river first became an engineered channel to support the industrial transformation of the city. Following the famed reversal of the river, in which the city […]]]> https://landezine.com/chicago-riverwalk-expansion-by-sasaki/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/ https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:52:34 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33204 Governors Island, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Times Square and High Line - A few of New York's Landscape Architecture Flagship Projects - A Site Visit ]]> https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/opens-tomorrow-governors-island-phase-2-the-hills-by-west-8/ https://landezine.com/opens-tomorrow-governors-island-phase-2-the-hills-by-west-8/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:02:23 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33147 The hills are to be celebrated for the experience they offer - new views on Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Worth mentioning that they consist of the material from the buildings that had to be demolished for the new park to take the place. Especially interesting is the sculpture by Rachel Whiteread. A concrete cabin, that ads to the notion of distance - for a moment there the park seems abandoned and found which boosts the contrast between the concrete buzzing Lower Manhattan in the background and tranquil and softly shaped park, full of trees, grasses and shrubs moving with the wind.]]> https://landezine.com/opens-tomorrow-governors-island-phase-2-the-hills-by-west-8/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/centennial-plaza-by-ten-eyck-landscape-architects/ https://landezine.com/centennial-plaza-by-ten-eyck-landscape-architects/#respond Mon, 23 May 2016 09:51:08 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=32516 Ten Eyck Landscape Architects: The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is an internationally-recognized research and doctoral university uniquely situated in the foothills of Chihuahuan Desert Mountains at the U.S.-Mexico border. The 18-acre Campus Master Plan and 12-acre Campus Transformation Project seek to strengthen the connection between the city, the campus, and the land […]]]> https://landezine.com/centennial-plaza-by-ten-eyck-landscape-architects/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-park-las-vegas-nv-by-melk/ https://landezine.com/the-park-las-vegas-nv-by-melk/#respond Wed, 18 May 2016 08:55:12 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=32481 !melk: The notorious Las Vegas Strip, today, is the most visited tourist destination in the world. The Strip recently received its first-ever park, a spectacular public space designed by !melk, that is destined to become the most trafficked park in the world. What makes this project remarkable is the fact that private corporations, the owners […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-park-las-vegas-nv-by-melk/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/2175-market-street-by-gls-architecture/ https://landezine.com/2175-market-street-by-gls-architecture/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:16:45 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=32335 GLS Architecture: This project is representative of the new wave of housing which is being built in San Francisco to satisfy the demand created by young tech workers and families moving to the city in search of car-free urban culture. It consists of landscape design for an 88 unit, market rate apartment building located on […]]]> https://landezine.com/2175-market-street-by-gls-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-power-station-by-hocker-design-group/ https://landezine.com/the-power-station-by-hocker-design-group/#respond Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:48:19 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=30741 A small industrial site but quite a remarkable plan. Especially how the landscape communicates with the street; an area of Prickly Pear cactuses humorously reflects the electricity inside the power station, as something you should be careful about, otherwise you might get hurt ... ]]> https://landezine.com/the-power-station-by-hocker-design-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/atlantic-wharf-by-halvorson-design-partnership/ https://landezine.com/atlantic-wharf-by-halvorson-design-partnership/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:07:49 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=30811 Halvorson Design Partnership: Atlantic Wharf is located at a strategic point along Boston’s inner harbor. Facing the Fort Point Channel where the Congress Street Bridge connects Downtown Boston to the Seaport District, this revitalized waterfront has become one of the most popular destinations on Boston Harbor. Historically, the site among the city’s most active mercantile […]]]> https://landezine.com/atlantic-wharf-by-halvorson-design-partnership/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/green-varnish-by-nomad-studio/ https://landezine.com/green-varnish-by-nomad-studio/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:47:44 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=30285 Green Varnish, designed by landscape architecture firm nomad studio, is the first installation of its kind which is located in the courtyard of CAM in Saint Louis, with the aim of completely transforming and altering the space. A green fabric made up of thousands of plants floats in the space, symbolically covering the inconvenient facts […]]]> https://landezine.com/green-varnish-by-nomad-studio/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/buffalo-bayou-park-and-promenade-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/buffalo-bayou-park-and-promenade-by-swa-group/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:56:19 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27846 One of the largest investments in public parkland ever carried out by the City of Houston, this $15 million project was the result of an historic public/private partnership to revitalize Houston’s downtown urban waterfront. SWA was retained to create a master plan and subsequent full landscape architectural services through two miles of some of the most challenging urban conditions ...]]> https://landezine.com/buffalo-bayou-park-and-promenade-by-swa-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/1111-lincoln-road-by-raymond-jungles/ https://landezine.com/1111-lincoln-road-by-raymond-jungles/#respond Thu, 28 May 2015 06:34:51 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27623 This redesign for the historic promenade and plaza at 1111 Lincoln Road, developed concurrently with Herzog & de Meuron’s now-iconic parking garage, completely revitalized the westernmost block of Lincoln Road Mall. Native plants and hardscape elements are carefully placed to create various vantage points and visual corridors for pedestrians—one of the project’s main goals ...]]> https://landezine.com/1111-lincoln-road-by-raymond-jungles/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/west-point-foundry-preserve-by-mathews-nielsen-landscape-architects/ https://landezine.com/west-point-foundry-preserve-by-mathews-nielsen-landscape-architects/#respond Tue, 26 May 2015 07:02:09 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27553 West Point Foundry Preserve is the site of a former 19th-century foundry in the Village of Cold Spring, New York. The site occupies 87 acres of a dramatic, forested valley that opens up to the geologic expanse of the Hudson River. Scenic Hudson Land Trust selected Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects as prime designer to transform this post-industrial site into a park ...]]> https://landezine.com/west-point-foundry-preserve-by-mathews-nielsen-landscape-architects/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/campus-park-garden-office-of-james-burnett-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/campus-park-garden-office-of-james-burnett-landscape-architecture/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:27:58 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27142 The Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology provides a modern center for collaborative research and instruction in the disciplines of science and engineering. The facility represents the most recent of Caltech’s sustainability initiatives and is currently being evaluated for LEED Gold certification.]]> https://landezine.com/campus-park-garden-office-of-james-burnett-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/public-plaza-linear-garden-galvanized-steel-planters-california/ https://landezine.com/public-plaza-linear-garden-galvanized-steel-planters-california/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:34:29 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27054 The Hollister Courthouse is located in an agricultural area near California’s Central Valley. The landscape design was inspired by the long, linear patterns of the local vernacular landscape. These patterns seem at once to be the essence of the modern and of the archaic, as can be seen in the context photos. They call to mind the fascination that American agricultural structures held for early modern architects such as Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos.]]> https://landezine.com/public-plaza-linear-garden-galvanized-steel-planters-california/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/residential-garden-streetscape-fletcher-studio/ https://landezine.com/residential-garden-streetscape-fletcher-studio/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:55:27 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=27019 300 Ivy is a LEED Platinum mixed-use development situated in an area that that remains from the demolished San Francisco Central Freeway. The Landscape Architectural scope of work included an innovative Streetscape, on-structure patios, courtyards, and a large Protea garden with an outdoor kitchen. The project also included the design of custom furniture, stone paving, fencing and metal work, and site amenities. The main concept for the spatial design was one of " Mountain Climbing" ...]]> https://landezine.com/residential-garden-streetscape-fletcher-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/geometrical-designed-corporate-park-roof-garden-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/geometrical-designed-corporate-park-roof-garden-landscape-architecture/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:11:59 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=26911 The SUNY Simons Center for Geometry and Physics focuses on mathematical physics and the underlying geometry of nature. The institution required Dirtworks, PC to create a setting that enhances interdisciplinary cooperation among resident researchers (specifically between the departments of physics and mathematics) and deepen an appreciation of the center's work for the larger university community.]]> https://landezine.com/geometrical-designed-corporate-park-roof-garden-landscape-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/david-h-koch-plaza-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-olin-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/david-h-koch-plaza-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-olin-landscape-architecture/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:57:17 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=26859 Along the length of the landmarked Fifth Avenue façade, OLIN’s design for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s four-block-long plaza enhances one of New York City’s most significant public gathering spaces. OLIN led the design to prioritize the pedestrian experience and create a welcoming urban destination ...]]> https://landezine.com/david-h-koch-plaza-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-olin-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/steel-yard-post-industrial-landscape-redesign-klopfer-martin-design/ https://landezine.com/steel-yard-post-industrial-landscape-redesign-klopfer-martin-design/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:20:16 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=26748 Most cities with industrial pasts inherit problematic environmental futures. The Steel Yard’s cleanup is a showcase for regenerative design in a tough environment. Within industrial Providence, our project is a public intervention that upends commonly held notions of blighted neighbourhoods and shows the potential for real, actively engaged – not simply ‘adaptive’—re-use.]]> https://landezine.com/steel-yard-post-industrial-landscape-redesign-klopfer-martin-design/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/governors-island-ph-1-by-west8/ https://landezine.com/governors-island-ph-1-by-west8/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:46:22 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=25692 Governors Island offers a world apart from New York City, an extraordinary vantage point on New York Harbor, its icons, treasured historic landscape, and the chance to experience the sounds and smells of a green island surrounded by water. The first phase of Governors Island’s new park and public space project was opened to the public in May 2014.]]> https://landezine.com/governors-island-ph-1-by-west8/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/masonic-amphitheatre-and-smith-creek-pedestrian-bridge-by-designbuildlab/ https://landezine.com/masonic-amphitheatre-and-smith-creek-pedestrian-bridge-by-designbuildlab/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:52:30 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=25400 The design/buildLAB is a project-based experiential learning program focused on the research, development and implementation of innovative construction methods and architectural designs. Students collaborate with local communities and industry experts to conceive and realize built works ...]]> https://landezine.com/masonic-amphitheatre-and-smith-creek-pedestrian-bridge-by-designbuildlab/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/channel-center-park-and-iron-street-park-by-halvorson-design-partnership/ https://landezine.com/channel-center-park-and-iron-street-park-by-halvorson-design-partnership/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:44:47 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=25366 Channel Center is an imaginative mixed-use project in the historic “100 Acre district” of South Boston, adjacent to Fort Point Channel. Halvorson Design is providing design services for more than 3 acres of new public spaces, including the large two acre community park will be a neighborhood destination that will serve the growing Fort Point neighborhood. ]]> https://landezine.com/channel-center-park-and-iron-street-park-by-halvorson-design-partnership/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-west-harlem-piers-park-by-w-architecture/ https://landezine.com/the-west-harlem-piers-park-by-w-architecture/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:30:16 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=25095 The West Harlem Piers Park is a dramatic transformation of space that had been lost to the community for many years. Our design leadership over a nine year period terminated a 30 year struggle by the community to regain their waterfront and renew their connection to the river. A narrow 69,000 sf parking lot has been expanded through creative planning into a 105,526 sf park that re-imagines the threshold between the city and the Hudson in a sustainable and meaningful way. ]]> https://landezine.com/the-west-harlem-piers-park-by-w-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/klyde-warren-park-by-the-office-of-james-burnett/ https://landezine.com/klyde-warren-park-by-the-office-of-james-burnett/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:18:03 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24974 Urban Land Institute (ULI) has awarded Klyde Warren Park the 2014 Open Space Award, acknowledging the two-year-old park in Dallas, Texas as an outstanding achievement in urban placemaking. ULI’s annual competition recognizes successful public spaces that have socially and economically enriched and revitalized their communities.]]> https://landezine.com/klyde-warren-park-by-the-office-of-james-burnett/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/georgia-street-by-ratio/ https://landezine.com/georgia-street-by-ratio/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:31:56 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24932 Georgia Street, located at the heart of the historic Wholesale District and a spine that connected the new major venues, was identified at the time as an important corridor for future improvement. However, it would not see the impetus for its realization until 2009, when City leaders recognized the unique potential the street offered to their bid for hosting the 2012 Super Bowl. By bringing together the original hopes for Georgia Street with new aspirations of a green, pedestrian-centered, outdoor event venue, the city gained a contemporary public space that anchors the convention and entertainment district.]]> https://landezine.com/georgia-street-by-ratio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/xcel-energy-plaza-by-coen-partners/ https://landezine.com/xcel-energy-plaza-by-coen-partners/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:50:30 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24705 Xcel Energy Plaza is a flexible urban plaza constructed atop an electrical substation powering all of downtown Minneapolis. ]]> https://landezine.com/xcel-energy-plaza-by-coen-partners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-united-states-land-port-of-entry-by-coenpartners/ https://landezine.com/the-united-states-land-port-of-entry-by-coenpartners/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:09:35 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24471 The Warroad Land Port of Entry landscape design utilizes beautiful and economic materials to reflect the northern Minnesota vernacular and the dignity of the United States Government. The site is characterized by horizontal landscape interventions designed in response to the expansive horizon of the site and region. The project created a distinctive landscape that complements the architecture in a thoughtful and contextual manner, while addressing issues of sustainability and serving the Port’s security and operational needs.]]> https://landezine.com/the-united-states-land-port-of-entry-by-coenpartners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/urban-outfitters-headquarters-at-the-philadelphia-navy-yard-by-d-i-r-t-studio/ https://landezine.com/urban-outfitters-headquarters-at-the-philadelphia-navy-yard-by-d-i-r-t-studio/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:19:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24370 Respect for rich histories of the Navy Yard guides the design of a refashioned campus of creativity for retailer Urban Outfitters (URBN). Obsessively reworking traces of past productivity rebrands salvaged materials with an artistic vengeance, generating revitalizes community and ecological performance. ]]> https://landezine.com/urban-outfitters-headquarters-at-the-philadelphia-navy-yard-by-d-i-r-t-studio/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/hudson-river-park-segment-5-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/ https://landezine.com/hudson-river-park-segment-5-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/#respond Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:37:39 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24352 Unscathed by Superstorm Sandy's brackish inundation, Segment 5 is an enormously popular park in the formerly "parkless" Chelsea. The outward-looking centerpiece of the 5-mile Hudson River Park, itself a miracle of 30 years of public advocacy, Segment 5 is a resourceful and truly public space born of vocal neighborhood demand. ]]> https://landezine.com/hudson-river-park-segment-5-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-campus-by-gustafson-guthrie-nichol/ https://landezine.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-campus-by-gustafson-guthrie-nichol/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:10:53 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=24299 Congratulations to Gustafson Guthrie Nichol for 2014 ASLA Award of excellence for their project Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus. The 2014 Awards Jury comments: "It’s beautifully crafted, elegantly detailed and serves as a new model for an urban campus ... It has altered the way employees interact with the space"]]> https://landezine.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-campus-by-gustafson-guthrie-nichol/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-commonground-by-land-collective/ https://landezine.com/the-commonground-by-land-collective/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:30:57 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=22881 On the morning of July 29, from 11 AM to 1:30 PM, the community of Eskenazi Health, civic leaders, and designers came together to celebrate the opening of The Commonground, a civic gathering place focused on community, serenity and wellness for patients, visitors and employees of the Eskenazi Health campus.]]> https://landezine.com/the-commonground-by-land-collective/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pamm-perez/ https://landezine.com/pamm-perez/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:30:37 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=22324 Where the PAMM building itself has been designed to express the raw material of concrete in its many forms, native plants have been chosen to display the raw materials of our landscape as complement and contrast to the geometric architecture of the building. Native trees, shrubs, groundcovers and vines spring from the ground plane in a vibrant counterpoint to more formal, hanging vertical green elements.]]> https://landezine.com/pamm-perez/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/hunters-point-south-waterfront-park-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/hunters-point-south-waterfront-park-by-swa-group/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:06:10 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=20208 The site is waterfront and city, gateway and sanctuary, blank slate and pentimento. Design leverages the site’s industrial heritage and spectacular views to establish a resilient, multi-layered recreational and cultural destination.]]> https://landezine.com/hunters-point-south-waterfront-park-by-swa-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/high-line-section-2-by-james-corner-field-operations/ https://landezine.com/high-line-section-2-by-james-corner-field-operations/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:00:51 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=19908 The mantra throughout the design process was ‘Keep it Simple, Keep it Wild, Keep it Slow, and Keep it Quiet'. The intent was not to overdesign the park with elaborate interventions, but rather intensify the existing context and design it as an immersive experience, episodic walk and surreal journey in the City.]]> https://landezine.com/high-line-section-2-by-james-corner-field-operations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/mill-river-park-and-greenway-by-olin/ https://landezine.com/mill-river-park-and-greenway-by-olin/#respond Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:57:28 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=19888 OLIN led a team of ecologists and civil engineers, collaborating with experts to create a comprehensive and ambitious framework for a park and greenway. The end result: a dynamic park that is viable, active and alluring, a continuous programmed edge along the banks of Mill River, and a “green zipper” that brings together neighboring communities with downtown Stamford.]]> https://landezine.com/mill-river-park-and-greenway-by-olin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/rogers-environmental-studies-magnet-school-by-mikyoung-kim/ https://landezine.com/rogers-environmental-studies-magnet-school-by-mikyoung-kim/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:23:44 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=19379 The Rogers School is a new environmental magnet school that creates a vibrant community for learning on a remediated brownfield site. The design demonstrates ecological stewardship through its four prominent environmental demonstration components: a large intensive green roof for educational use; a rain garden ...]]> https://landezine.com/rogers-environmental-studies-magnet-school-by-mikyoung-kim/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/lakewood-cemetery-garden-mausoleum-landscape-by-halvorson-design-partnership/ https://landezine.com/lakewood-cemetery-garden-mausoleum-landscape-by-halvorson-design-partnership/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:25:05 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=19341 During the master planning process, which began in the late 1990s, the Trustees of Lakewood Cemetery asked Halvorson Design Partnership to take on the challenge of integrating a large new mausoleum in the historic garden landscape. ]]> https://landezine.com/lakewood-cemetery-garden-mausoleum-landscape-by-halvorson-design-partnership/feed/ 6 https://landezine.com/fdr-four-freedoms-park/ https://landezine.com/fdr-four-freedoms-park/#respond Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:25:47 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=18827 …I had this thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden. That’s all I had. Why did I want a room and a garden? I just chose it to be the point of departure. The garden is somehow a personal nature, a personal kind of control of nature, a gathering of nature. And the room was the beginning of architecture. - Louis Kahn, lecture at Pratt Institute Fall 1973]]> https://landezine.com/fdr-four-freedoms-park/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/phoenix-downtown-civic-space-by-aecom/ https://landezine.com/phoenix-downtown-civic-space-by-aecom/#respond Fri, 31 May 2013 07:04:28 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=18493 Public and private, past and future, art and engineering; are all integrated into the design, which reflects a commitment to public engagement, sustainability, and community. The partnership of city, community, and designers created a vibrant and iconic destination at the city’s heart.]]> https://landezine.com/phoenix-downtown-civic-space-by-aecom/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/cumberland-park-by-hargreaves-associate/ https://landezine.com/cumberland-park-by-hargreaves-associate/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:08:02 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=17815 Cumberland Park demonstrates Nashville’s commitment to both its children and to sustainability through brownfield remediation, floodplain preservation, stormwater harvesting, improved biodiversity, and interpretation of cultural and natural resources. ]]> https://landezine.com/cumberland-park-by-hargreaves-associate/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/shoemaker-green-by-andropogon-associates/ https://landezine.com/shoemaker-green-by-andropogon-associates/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:56:59 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=16510 Andropogon Associates: Shoemaker Green is a 3.75 acre site located immediately east of 33rd Street between Walnut and Spruce Streets, and is a major component of the east-west connection between the central campus and Penn Park, serving as a new continuation of the Locust Walk / Smith Walk corridor. The site is surrounded by two […]]]> https://landezine.com/shoemaker-green-by-andropogon-associates/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/national-911-memorial-by-pwp-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/national-911-memorial-by-pwp-landscape-architecture/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:39:55 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=16214 The Memorial commemorates the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon as well as the World Trade Center attack of February 26, 1993. Two fountain-lined voids, centered on the locations of the destroyed twin towers, and a surrounding forest of oak trees form the […]]]> https://landezine.com/national-911-memorial-by-pwp-landscape-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/tanner-springs-park-by-henning-larsen/ https://landezine.com/tanner-springs-park-by-henning-larsen/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:16:26 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=16187 Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl: Formerly a wetland, the Pearl District was bisected by Tanner Creek and sided by the broad Willamette River. Rail yards and industry first claimed and drained the land. Over the past 30 years, a new neighborhood has progressively established itself – young, mixed, urban and dynamic, today the Pearl District is home […]]]> https://landezine.com/tanner-springs-park-by-henning-larsen/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/hoke-residence-by-2-ink-studio/ https://landezine.com/hoke-residence-by-2-ink-studio/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:07:53 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=15914 2.ink Studio: The Hoke Residence sits within a dramatic woodland setting overlooking a steep ravine to the Lower Macleay Trail in Northwest Portland. The contemporary architecture of the house emerges from the hillside with strong angled geometry, offering a stark juxtaposition to the lush native planting along the south facing slope. History The house was […]]]> https://landezine.com/hoke-residence-by-2-ink-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard-gateway-by-2-ink-studio-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard-gateway-by-2-ink-studio-landscape-architecture/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:06:25 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=15448 2.ink Studio: The NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Gateway and Heritage Markers Project supports the ongoing efforts of area residents and business owners to highlight the unique identity of Portland’s inner north and northeast neighborhoods. 2.ink Studio Landscape Architecture led a multidisciplinary team in both Master Planning and Design, working closely with neighborhood activists […]]]> https://landezine.com/martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard-gateway-by-2-ink-studio-landscape-architecture/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/keene-state-science-center-courtyard-by-dirtworks/ https://landezine.com/keene-state-science-center-courtyard-by-dirtworks/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:14:48 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=15386 Dirtworks PC: The advancement of the natural sciences is at the forefront of Keene State College’s academic agenda. The redesign of the natural sciences building enclosed an 8,500 sq. ft. courtyard and provided an opportunity to promote education through the landscape. The design team worked to capture the essential character of the New Hampshire landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/keene-state-science-center-courtyard-by-dirtworks/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/dublin-grounds-of-remembrance-by-plant-architect/ https://landezine.com/dublin-grounds-of-remembrance-by-plant-architect/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:16:02 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=14264 The Dublin Grounds of Remembrance in Dublin, Ohio, is a one acre-park honouring the service of veterans and their families. On a site with no prior military significance, the project eschews a traditional “monument” in favour of promoting the act of habitual walking and social gathering, reinforcing community remembrance and creating new significance for the […]]]> https://landezine.com/dublin-grounds-of-remembrance-by-plant-architect/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/race-street-pier-by-james-corner-field-operations/ https://landezine.com/race-street-pier-by-james-corner-field-operations/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:58:16 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=14107 Landscape Architecture: James Corner Field Operations Client: Delaware River Waterfront Corp. Design Team: James Corner, Lisa Switkin, Jayyun Jung, Yoshi Harada, Kimberly Cooper Consultants: Langan Engineering, CHPlanning, VJ Associates Size: 1 Acre Budget: $5 million Planning: 2009-2010 Construction: 2011 Text & photos: James Corner Field Operations   Facts: 1. Trees: The 37 large caliper Swamp […]]]> https://landezine.com/race-street-pier-by-james-corner-field-operations/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/anchorage-alaska-landscape-architectur/ https://landezine.com/anchorage-alaska-landscape-architectur/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:54:44 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=12724 Charles Anderson | Atelier ps: The Anchorage Museum Common is a 2-acre park where elements of landscape, history, and culture beckon to visitors and locals alike. This new setting for the expanded museum is an urban birch forest “scooped” out of the surrounding landscape, creating one of the city’s most memorable and emblematic civic spaces. […]]]> https://landezine.com/anchorage-alaska-landscape-architectur/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof-by-swa-group/ https://landezine.com/california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof-by-swa-group/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:03:09 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=12589 SWA Group: One of San Francisco’s first sustainable building projects, the new California Academy of Sciences supports a stunning 2.5-acre green roof. Emphasizing habitat quality and connectivity, the project is expected to receive LEED Platinum certification. The building’s architectural team, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), invited SWA Group and horticultural consultant, Paul Kephart of […]]]> https://landezine.com/california-academy-of-sciences-living-roof-by-swa-group/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/seattle-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/seattle-landscape-architecture/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:20:51 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=11611 Charles Anderson |  Atelier ps: The Gardens of the Olympic Sculpture Park are the clothes that dress a 9‐acre brownfield site on an abandoned fuel storage facility on Seattle’s waterfront. Sitting on 200,000 cubic yards of excavation material and salvaged old growth topsoil, six garden precincts use over 85,000 transplanted native plants to represent the […]]]> https://landezine.com/seattle-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/stone-river-by-jon-piasecki/ https://landezine.com/stone-river-by-jon-piasecki/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:36:58 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=11458 Stone River in Eastern New York State is made by Jon Piasecki, who received ASLA Honor Award 2011 for the project. The idea is simple, execution most subtle, yet very effective. See the following movie and learn how Stone River responds to the forest environment, problems of modern life, flirts with land-art, and how Jon […]]]> https://landezine.com/stone-river-by-jon-piasecki/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/the-edge-park-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/the-edge-park-landscape-architecture/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:48:37 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=11305 The Williamsburg waterfront has been dominated by industry and its relics for over a century–making it largely off limits to the public. New zoning is changing the public interface with the water’s edge by increasing density and emphasizing waterfront access. The “Edge” park seeks to bring people to the river and link the ecosystem with […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-edge-park-landscape-architecture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/boston-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/boston-landscape-architecture/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:18:53 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=10678 Mikyoung Kim: Levinson Plaza is situated within the campus of Mission Park, a fourteen acre Housing and Urban Development residential project in Boston. This residential development is in close proximity to significant Boston landmarks, including Fenway Park, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum and the Longwood Hospital district. This HUD community […]]]> https://landezine.com/boston-landscape-architecture/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/florida-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/florida-landscape-architecture/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:08:47 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=10098 The Lincoln Park site is a small – slightly larger than 1 hectare in size – urban site located at Washington Avenue and 17th Street in South Florida that strives to establish a new precedent for parks in the City of Miami Beach. While an urban park this size might often receive a design that […]]]> https://landezine.com/florida-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/stones-throw-playground-by-archicolture/ https://landezine.com/stones-throw-playground-by-archicolture/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:00:26 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=6837 Archicolture: Landscape is represented in traditional garden art through allegories or as realistic miniatures. We are inverting the process of miniaturisation by isolating a stone from its original environment and expanding its scale to the point that it becomes itself a landscape. Similarly to some experiences in pop art an elementary object is blown to […]]]> https://landezine.com/stones-throw-playground-by-archicolture/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/tahari-courtyards-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/ https://landezine.com/tahari-courtyards-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:58:26 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=6823 Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Fashion designer Elie Tahari hired MVVA to add a soothing landscape to a windowless suburban “box” he was renovating to relocate 300 warehouse and accounting staff. Mr. Tahari’s work spaces in New York City are renowned for their sensuous materials and unusual uses of landscape; he sought to recreate that feel […]]]> https://landezine.com/tahari-courtyards-by-michael-van-valkenburgh-associates-mvva/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/architects-brother-by-robert-and-shana-parkeharrison/ https://landezine.com/architects-brother-by-robert-and-shana-parkeharrison/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:47:58 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=6152 Artists: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison  ]]> https://landezine.com/architects-brother-by-robert-and-shana-parkeharrison/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/landscape-photography-by-sally-mann/ https://landezine.com/landscape-photography-by-sally-mann/#comments Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:34:35 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=5557 Photos: Sally Mann https://vimeo.com/25115631]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-photography-by-sally-mann/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/ps1-pole-dance-by-so-il/ https://landezine.com/ps1-pole-dance-by-so-il/#respond Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:39:01 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=4888   Design: SO-IL Location: New York, USA More Photos on: Iwan.com]]> https://landezine.com/ps1-pole-dance-by-so-il/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/flex-fence/ https://landezine.com/flex-fence/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:19 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=3808 Design of the fence was inspired by leaves of oak trees that can be found on the site. Corten modules of the fence can easily align to the funky morphology of the grounds and thus create a playful site specific structure. Landscape Architecture / fence design: Mikyoung Kim Project: Flex Fence at Farrar Pond Residence […]]]> https://landezine.com/flex-fence/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/deformscape/ https://landezine.com/deformscape/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:09:23 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=2379 Thomas Faulders: Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational pattern of grooves that are focused towards the tree’s centroid. This asserts the valued […]]]> https://landezine.com/deformscape/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/lurie-garden/ https://landezine.com/lurie-garden/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:07:31 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=2337 Landscape Architecture: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd Perennial Planting Design: Piet Oudolf Location: Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA Size: 1,2ha Check out: Lurie Garden video Photos: Linda Oyama Bryan, Mark Tomaras Construction: 2004]]> https://landezine.com/lurie-garden/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/crack-garden/ https://landezine.com/crack-garden/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:48:53 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=1801 Landscape Architecture: CMG Landscape Architecture Area: 75m² Location: San Francisco, CA Cost: 500$ Awards: ASLA 2009 award]]> https://landezine.com/crack-garden/feed/ 7 https://landezine.com/teardrop-park-mvva/ https://landezine.com/teardrop-park-mvva/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:08:59 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=802 Teardrop Park is a public residential park surrounded by buildings higher than park’s width. It offers places for people of all ages, especially children can enjoy playing in sand, climbing the rocks, hiding in high shrubs etc. Special feature is a stony wall with ice water-fall, which crosses the park and divides it on two […]]]> https://landezine.com/teardrop-park-mvva/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/aerial-suburbia-drawings/ https://landezine.com/aerial-suburbia-drawings/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:04:56 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=816 Ross Racine draws fictive urban patterns, mostly suburbias, surrounded by a desert or agricultural looking environment. All artworks are produced freehand, no scans or photos are included in the process. Drawings are printed on high-end inkjet printer.]]> https://landezine.com/aerial-suburbia-drawings/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/westminster-presbyterian-church/ https://landezine.com/westminster-presbyterian-church/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:29:29 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=704 Coen+Partners: Westminster Presbyterian Church is a prominent institution in downtown Minneapolis with far-reaching community service and social justice programs. The Church retained Coen + Partners to complete a new design for the landscape surrounding the 110-year-old building; the firm was challenged to create a modern presence for Westminster along adjacent streets, a meaningful courtyard for […]]]> https://landezine.com/westminster-presbyterian-church/feed/ 4