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The Landscape Architecture–AI Buffer Zone

How long can the idiosyncrasies of landscape architecture keep the promise and peril of artificial intelligence at bay?
Profiles

Billy Fleming and His Students Are Designing a Green New Deal

In his recent studio course, designer and University of Pennsylvania educator imagines a more just landscape architecture studio…by taking his students to a uranium mine in Greenland.
Projects

Two Former USPS Facilities Now Have Massive Rooftop Gardens

The adaptive reuse of Postal Service facilities in Manhattan and Chicago include rooftop gardens bigger than many of these cities’ more famous parks.
Profiles

Walter Hood: Facing History Through Landscapes

How the celebrated landscape architect proves the power of green space to tell new stories, communicate culture, and confront hard truths
Viewpoints

Designed Landscapes Are Surprisingly Carbon Intensive (And They Don’t Have to Be)

Urban landscapes often include plenty of hardscape made with materials that can have significant carbon footprints.
Viewpoints

The Past, Present, and Future of Public Outdoor Space

Three recent initiatives in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Los Angeles imagine an equitable future for public space.
Viewpoints

For Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architecture is the “Art of Survival”

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Award winner talks to METROPOLIS about our changing planet, his “Sponge City” concept, and nature-based solutions to urban planning.
Profiles

The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab Helps Communities Plan for Resilience

Six landscape architects at North Carolina State are creating nature-based interventions that help vulnerable communities recover from flooding and storm damage.
Projects

The Rebirth of Houston’s Giant but Ailing Memorial Park

The newly opened Memorial Park Land Bridge and Prairie is the first phase in the revitalization of the drought-stricken 1,500-acrepark, the largest urban green space in Texas.
Programs

3 Projects Transform Urban Life for the Better

The winners of Metropolis’s 2022 Planet Positive Awards in the mixed use and landscape categories combine private amenities and public benefits.
Projects

Architects Design 10 Birdhouses to Support a Texas Park

Global design leaders produced high concept birdhouses to support Brackenridge Park, an important avian habitat in San Antonio, Texas.
Projects

In Its New Studio, Taliesyn Design Showcases Biophilic Design Prowess

Located in the southern side of Bengaluru, Taliesyn Design & Architecture capitalizes on its ethos of contextual design and local material sourcing.
Profiles

Present Practice Takes a Sensory Approach to Landscape Design

The Columbus, Ohio, studio works to restore landscapes degraded by industrial agriculture while restoring our relationship to the land.
Projects

A Landscape for Clean Water on the Chesapeake Bay

Clients, architects, and landscape architects collaborate to restore a crumbling shoreline.
Profiles

Julie Bargmann on Clogs as a Portal to Honoring Past Generations

The founder of D.I.R.T. Studio and inaugural winner of the Oberlander Prize for Landscape Architecture describes finding signs of life among post industrial ruins.
Projects

This Mural in South Korea Inspires Play While Maintaining Social Distancing

Milan-based architects Migliore + Servetto Architects have teamed up with Busan, South Korea, art gallery to transform a mundane concrete path into an ocean-inspired walkway mural.
Viewpoints

With Bees and Recycled Polypropylene, Vitra Takes Steps Toward Sustainability

A new garden designed by Piet Oudolf, along with a slate of other initiatives, signals a melding of high design and environmental consciousness at the furniture giant.
Projects

Detroit’s Caterpillar Residence Marries Landscape and Steel

Located in Motor City’s quiet Core City district, the stretched Quonset hut building is the newest addition from local developer Prince Concepts.
Projects

A Transformation in Pacoima, Los Angeles, Reveals the Potential of the City’s Overlooked Alleys

Led by a group of local organizations and designers, the project replaces a previously hazardous alley with play areas, public art, and native plantings.
Viewpoints

Landscape Architecture Has a Labor Acknowledgement Problem

To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.