Moving what Bibeau describes as an unguarded track in the grass brought current safety standards to bear, including “big ditches on each side of the track, big fence, big everything,” she says, and ...

Montreal’s Jardins des Floralies, on Île Notre-Dame in the Parc Jean-Drapeau, have changed a great deal since they were installed as part of a horticultural exhibition in 1980. Of the gardens that can ...

Erin Despard is a disabled writer and researcher whose work focuses on gardens, landscape, and visual media.

I'm an award-winning writer on design, sustainability, and well-being in the built environment. I write regularly for Architectural Record (where I'm a contributing editor and where my work formed ...

The “Little Project” at the Minnesota home of Ping Design's founder creates experiences that exceed a small footprint.

You want to build in some relationship between the way the place feels and the materials and colors that are used on the ...

“A compact tape measure is ideal for field visits to well-designed sites, such as Little Island in New York City. It’s ...

How many things can a river do? The people of the Tennessee Valley have not finished asking. For 10,000 years the Tennessee River has both sustained human civilizations and attended their demise. One ...

When rain started falling several days after the opening of Copenhagen’s Grønningen-Bispeparken, an employee from SLA, the design studio that reimagined the site, live streamed the storm to her ...

Monica Chasten (foreground) and Sean Burkholder (center, holding a coffee) survey the opportunities with the team near Matts Landing in New Jersey. Photo by Jared Brey. A needle that falls in the ...

Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of fire. It was 1973. She thought the Soviets were coming. Then she wondered if there ...

When concerns surfaced that the redesign of Tom Lee Park would only benefit downtown, the firm returned to the drawing board. The park opened in September 2023 after roughly four years of planning, ...