Landscape Architecture - Articles - Page 5

Continuing Education: Designing for Extreme Heat

As heat waves intensify, passive cooling strategies for buildings and public space can save lives

Katharine Logan

July 31, 2023

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Architects and landscape architects respond to potentially deadly heat events with passive cooling strategies.

A Public Plaza-Topped Underwater Bike Garage Revitalizes a Neglected Stretch of Riverfront in Amsterdam

Will Jennings

May 17, 2023

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Designed by VenhoevenCS, IJboulevard at Amsterdam Central Station creates space for life to flourish above and below the surface.

Fearon Hay's Matagouri House Fuses with the Craggy Terrain of New Zealand's South Island

Sarah Amelar

April 14, 2023

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Embedded into a sloping lakeside site, the low-impact dwelling takes its name from long-living native shrubs.

Höweler + Yoon’s Moongate Bridge at Shanghai Expo Park is Optimized for Meandering

Matt Hickman

March 16, 2023

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Serving as a new park gateway, the Boston-based firm’s inviting overwater plaza is rooted in traditional Chinese garden design.

Land Morphology Creates an Architectural Dreamscape for Leach Botanical Garden

Portland, Oregon

Randy Gragg

February 17, 2023

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An aerial tree walk is the centerpiece of a reimagined botanical garden in Portland, Oregon.

Rendering of a park-like landscape next to industrial buildings

Heatherwick Studio Tapped to Reimagine Harley-Davidson Campus in Milwaukee

Matt Hickman

January 17, 2023

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Surface parking lots at the motorcycle behemoth’s sprawling corporate headquarters will be transformed into community green space.

Snøhetta Brings Fresh Air into a 1980s Landmark

Clifford A. Pearson

January 5, 2023

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Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s AT&T Building is reimagined by Snøhetta as an urban garden.

Snapshot: Mjölk Architekti's Whimsical Series of Lookouts Embody a Czech Town's Past and Present

Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Czech Republic

Pansy Schulman

December 23, 2022

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In the mountains of the Czech Republic, four timber-and-steel structures, collectively called The Guard Patrol, are inspired by figures in the crest of the popular resort town they overlook.

Takashi Suo's Sinuous Pavilion Snakes Around its Mountaintop Site in Japan

Takamatsu, Japan

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

December 15, 2022

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Takashi Suo crafts a dramatic mountaintop attraction clad with scaly stone shingles to revitalize an abandoned but treasured landscape in Japan.

Nearly a Decade Post-Sandy, Dirtworks Restores and Reinforces a New York Wildlife Refuge

In 2018, Dirtworks alongside Rippled Waters Engineering and Great Ecology began the marsh restoration project at Jamaica Bay in the Gateway National Recreation Area

Ilana Herzig

November 21, 2022

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At Gateway National Recreation Area, the landscape architecture firm has worked collaboratively to reconstruct West Pond's shoreline and restore and create acres of tidal wetland.