LAM WINS FOREST HISTORY JOURNALISM AWARD
The battle to document and save old trees that may have once marked Native American trails. Congratulations to Timothy A. Schuler, editor of LAM’s NOW section and a frequent contributor to the...
View ArticleRESILIENT BY DESIGN, AND BEFORE DISASTER
BY RACHEL DOVEY The team led by SCAPE proposes breaching levees to allow trapped sediment out, creating a stronger network of marshes and mudflats that can cushion developed areas. Image courtesy...
View ArticleRE-GROWING DETROIT’S URBAN EDGE
BY ZACH MORTICE The Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates plan uses a series of intensely programmed pavilions at the park’s urban edge. Image courtesy Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. At 22 acres on a...
View ArticleA HUMAN-MADE RIVER, MAROONED NO MORE?
BY ZACH MORTICE The Upstate Archipelago proposal. Image courtesy Cornell Design, H+N+S, and SOAR (Strengthening Our Area Residents) of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension. New York’s Erie...
View ArticleTHICKET OF THE MIND
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER An American garden at the Domaine Chaumont-sur-Loire garden festival is a landscape of endless possibility. FROM THE OCTOBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. When...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, NOVEMBER 28
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo by Thrainn Hauksson. From “A Greater Crater” in the November 2018 issue by Bradford McKee, about...
View ArticleLEI OF THE LAND
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER A lei by PBR HAWAII references the island’s dark colonial past. Courtesy PBR HAWAII. As the receptionist for the Honolulu office of Belt Collins, Dawn Higa is not typically...
View ArticleESCAPE HATCHES
BY JONATHAN LERNER Solitary moments with nature as a response to urban loneliness. FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. As one might expect, the winners of Bubble Design...
View ArticlePAINED PLAZA
BY JARED BREY As the pandemic slows projects, Philadelphia has a chance to rethink a difficult public space. FROM THE DECEMBER 2020 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Most of Philadelphia was...
View ArticleWINTER WARMERS
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER In Colorado, outdoor dining concepts are grounded in pragmatism—and the latest public health research. FROM THE FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Cities...
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