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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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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...
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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 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 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...
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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 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 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 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 ArticleLAM 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 ArticleTHE ART OF INFRASTRUCTURE
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Landscape architects are visualizing the future of renewable energy. FROM THE MARCH 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. I first began to see the signs outside Sioux...
View ArticleBIOMIMICRY FROM THE GROUND UP
BY ZACH MORTICE The Living Filtration System. Illustration by Living Filtration System. It’s the habitat that most determines the health of any ecosystem, but it’s largely invisible to the naked eye....
View ArticleGROUNDED
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER A recent design competition promised novel ideas for vacant land in New Orleans. It ended with some very unhappy participants. From the October 2016 issue of Landscape...
View ArticleLIFE ON THE WEDGE
On Monday, the Aga Khan Foundation announced its 2016 awards for architecture, honoring six projects from a short list of 19 named as semifinalists in May. The award honors architecture of the Islamic...
View ArticleOCTOBER LAM: NEW ORLEANS
Click to view slideshow. At LAM this month, we’re deep into Louisiana—with a jog over to the Mississippi Delta—as we get ready to head to New Orleans, where several thousand landscape architects and...
View ArticleINDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION
BY TOM STOELKER At Paterson Great Falls, one of the newer national parks, Americans made many things, including history. From the August 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Paterson, New...
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BY DANIEL JOST A yearlong design campaign in Philadelphia promotes the value of recreation. From the July 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Today, young children spend much of their time...
View ArticleBETTER LUCK THIS TIME
BY NATE BERG Agence Ter has won a bake-off to redesign Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles for the fifth or sixth time. Or is it the seventh? From the June 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture...
View ArticleJUNE’S LAM: MAKE ROOM
Click to view slideshow. This month, we have a few big stories that take you back a ways before bringing you back to the present. After decades of re-do schemes in Pershing Square in Los Angeles, and a...
View ArticleLAMCAST: ST. PATRICK’S ISLAND PARK
After two years of construction, St. Patrick’s Island Park in Calgary, Canada, by Civitas and W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, recently opened to the public. In these two short videos by...
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