The incredible history of the Square du Vert-Galant
Yanaguana Garden is a 4.1-acre park within the 19.2-acre Hemisfair District in San Antonio, Texas, and it is the first phase of implementation for the Hemisfair Area Master Plan. Built on a portion of the site of the 1968 World’s Fair, Yanaguana Garden replaced a 1970s-era children’s play structure with a series of linked and flexible spaces that provide opportunities to play and socialize for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. The park is named for Yanaguana, a Payaya Indian village that was located in the area that became San Antonio.
The Garden for the Future is a 3ha contemporary extension of the historic Bendigo Botanic Gardens, in regional Victoria, Australia. It is the first built stage within an ambitious masterplan for the expansion of the Gardens. As part of this project the City of Greater Bendigo identified that it was important to celebrate the cultural […]
Florida’s Emerald Trail strides toward a more walkable future. By Margaret Shakespeare McCoys Creek Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, is a major thoroughfare that increasingly is closed to traffic because of flooding, even after a routine afternoon shower. It’s one of many areas in the city that, due to aging infrastructure like undersized pipes and inadequate
The significant redevelopment of RMIT’s main academic buildings and library along Swanston Street addresses key issues of the precinct. A diverse consortium was engaged to Reactivate the Swanston Street frontage, providing new links from this spine through the heart of the buildings to Bowen Lane as well as new library services, and delivering new informal […]
Arcadia conceptualised and delivered the landscape and public realm for the Susan Wakil Health Building on Gadigal country at the University of Sydney. The new state-of-the-art facility integrates clinical, research and teaching environments for the University of Sydney’s Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Central Clinical School, the Sydney School of Health Sciences and […]
Completed in 2020 in Wenzhou, China. Images by Di Zhu. Shangen Village is a renovation project in Wenzhou, dedicated to transforming the once traditionally built village into a tourism destination....
An award-winning new outdoor space in Ohio focuses on the autistic experience. By Maci Nelson, Associate ASLA In early 2020, Toronto-based Virginia Burt, FASLA, received a cold call and invitation to meet for pizza and discuss a garden project in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The garden would honor the memory of the family’s child, Morgan, whose
The Official Website of Seoul. You can view a wealth of information about the city, including the main policies, history, culture, tourism, metropolitan experience, medical welfare, transportation, etc., along with an overall introduction to the city such as Seoul-related videos, photos, and map.
A Chicago garden calls a Black community pushed to the margins back together again. By Zach Mortice Since 2009, a vacant lot turned community garden on the 4600 block of Winthrop Avenue in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood has commemorated the Winthrop Avenue Family, the descendants of a group of Black families who for much of the
Completed in 2020 in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Images by Julien Lanoo. The planting activity for a new garden by the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf started in May 2020 on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. It will take some...
Completed in 2021 in Shenzhen, China. Images by Yong Zhang, Tianpei Zeng, Wenjian Liao. The 13-hectare Haoxiang Lake Park, designed by eLandscript, is located in Bao'an District, Shenzhen. It is connected to four urban rivers including...
Image 3 of 19 from gallery of The Cuddly Playground / BudCud + Iza Rutkowska. Photograph by Jakub Certowicz
The Official Website of Seoul. You can view a wealth of information about the city, including the main policies, history, culture, tourism, metropolitan experience, medical welfare, transportation, etc., along with an overall introduction to the city such as Seoul-related videos, photos, and map.
Terrain-NYC turns a bedrock cliff in the Bronx into a garden for all seasons. By Zach Mortice Faced with the need for a meditative and richly planted landscape for an affordable and supportive housing project in the Bronx on top of exposed bedrock, Brian Green, a landscape architect at Terrain-NYC, looked to the other geologic
Risskov School was extended with a building for the pupils from 0 to 2nd grade. All rooms in this building have access to a large outdoor playground slope connecting the existing school and the new extension to the adjacent football field. This hill, which connects the 1st floor and the ground floor is cut through […]
Washington Park natural playground bug sculptures in Denver, Colorado. Ladybug sculpture, bumblebee sculpture, tree house towers. Earthscape Play.
Transforming the Julong Bay area into a vibrant and resilient mixed-use district at China's first SITES Platinum project
A flexible, vibrant public hub for arts, events, and play, that helps open up Boston's Seaport neighborhood as an increasingly inclusive and lively place
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 […]
Installed on the top of the Burnley Campus administrative building, the facility comprises three separate roofs, providing cleverly integrated spaces that collectively allow for the full spectrum of activities undertaken in relation to the University’s green roof research and advocacy programs.
The Al Ain Wildlife Park & Resort is deeply rooted in cultural heritage, conservation, and environmental stewardship.
From the jury statement: Folds works above all as sculpture-play-scape. While the design tools are simple, they offer a layered complexity within this simplicity, so as to cater for various uses. The play of shapes, levels and morphology makes it interesting to the various age groups of the nearby kindergarten as well as children from the area. The project is about the play between two materials which reflects geological processes that formed the Jura Mountains. In this way it establishes a unique and strong visual language and an engaging playground. On a larger scale it enriches the well-known modernist design approach of the surrounding residential area; the contrast between the orthogonal housing and more nature-inspired landscape forms.
Downtown Cary Park broke ground on July 1, and once complete, will bring a highly programmed urban park to North Carolina's Research Triangle
Horsetopia is a horse theme park in Yeongcheon South Korea. Half of the 1,474,883㎡ site is dedicated to horse racing and the other half is dedicated to horse-related activities. This proposal is a multi-disciplinary approach to create a sustainable and profitable park. It aims to elevate...
Completed in 1995, the Satellite House Complex designed by Javier Senosiain is one of the best examples of Mexican organic architecture.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has been on a tear lately with his gargantuan sculptures. His giant floating rubber duck that sailed around Hong Kong is
Let one of America’s foremost designers of hound spaces lay out what works (and doesn’t).
North Meadow on the Greenway is a site of constant reinvention. Once open water within the Charles River estuary, then dammed to become “Mill Pond,” it was then filled in as a part of the 19th Century Bulfinch Triangle development. For most of the 20th century, the site sat in the shadow o
Image 5 of 56 from gallery of Meditation Office / ARO Studio. Photograph by Hoang Le
Residents of Rotterdam’s Bospolder-Tussendijken frequently spot bushy-tailed foxes roaming their streets at night, but now, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has given the carnivorous animal a permanent home in the area. He recently installed a massive “Bospolder Fox” that peers over a busy intersection in the neighborhood. Spanning 16 meters, the fox holds a pink bag in its mouth, a gesture that anthropomorphizes the wild animal, as Hofman asks, “Has the Bospolder Fox stolen something? More
