What landscape architects need to know. In L.A., recent innovations bolster the case for replacing hardwired streetlights.

What landscape architects need to know. EnviroCollab is a case study of how landscape architecture firms may be warming to ...

“How are you going to be able to communicate this to the installers? The question becomes a big influence for how you might approach the assembly of the script; otherwise you might create outcomes ...

Landscape architecture firms have been embracing alternative business models of late, fueled by young designers questioning traditional norms and firm founders wondering how to pass on their practices ...

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming. The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...

Plant-hunting is always in season at the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon, the storybook base of the botanist Lilla Leach, where Land Morphology has begun a next-century upgrade to the ...

It was raining, so we crouched, rather than sat, in the grassy bowl that Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, had envisioned as the centerpiece of the newly completed green space and playground on Pier 3, ...

Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...

For nearly a century, a new breed of megaproject has gone unrecognized, and it is now proliferating. These projects, which we have named “mega-eco projects,” are different from old-school megaprojects ...

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates used Thermory, a thermally modified lumber, for a deck at Wellesley College. They found radial cuts easier with Thermory than with hard, dense tropical hardwoods.