In its former state, Dilworth Plaza was anything but inviting. Despite its prominent location at the foot of City Hall and the nexus of Philadelphia’s public transit system, the plaza was one that many Philadelphians avoided. Built in the 1970s, | Read More
How can cities create equity and quality public parks in underserved communities with limited funding? Experiments at Roosevelt Plaza Park (RPP) in Camden, NJ, one of the nation’s poorest cities, attempts to answer that challenge through an iterative, evolving and | Read More
The Bud and Susie Rogers Garden is a gift to the people of Akron, made possible through dedicated local support, a visionary mission of stewardship and community advocacy, and the ingenuity and collaboration of local builders and craftsmen. The site | Read More
The Allegheny County Airport Authority released a new vision for the Pittsburgh International Airportto the public, celebrating the natural beauty of the Allegheny foothills as inspiration for the reimagined airport. OJB Landscape Architecture (OJB) teamed with Gensler + HDR in association with luis vidal + architects (LVA) to transform the | Read More
The Western New York Land Conservancy is excited to announce the start of new international Design Ideas Competition for the DL&W corridor. Professional and student designers, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and artists are invited to submit their visionary concepts | Read More
WRT and The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation (PHRF) celebrated the grand opening of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, the long-awaited expansion to the existing public plaza surrounding the Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs at 16th Street and Benjamin Franklin | Read More
Business is picking up for landscape architecture firms, according to the American of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Business Quarterly survey for the third quarter of 2018. Based on the responses of 121 primary firm contacts, the survey indicates that billable hours | Read More
Recently we had the opportunity to talk with Cheryl Barton, Founder and Director of the Office of Cheryl Barton in San Francisco, USA. Cheryl leads the firm in the planning and design of revitalization strategies for urban and ecological systems – | Read More
The USDA Forest Service recently published the US Urban Forest Statistics, Values, and Projections (David J. Nowak and Eric J. Greenfield) in the March edition of the Journal of Forestry. The study estimates the change in urban land on a national level (USA) and state-by-state, and | Read More
Fareground liberates a lost landscape in a bustling urban environment through the transformation of an underutilized office plaza. The project produced a new hub of urban life; fully embracing the downtown Austin community in an oasis to gather, socialize, relax, | Read More
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