https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:44:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/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/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/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