Landscape architecture
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A vibrant new waterfront park opens in San Francisco
A waterfront park by leading studio Scape at China Basin provides dynamic public spaces and coastal resilience for San Francisco's new district of Mission Rock
By Léa Teuscher Published
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Light, nature and modernist architecture: welcome to the reimagined Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens and its modernist Roberto Burle Marx-designed greenhouse get a makeover by Weiss/Manfredi and Reed Hildebrand in the US
By Ian Volner Published
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Architectural gardens around the world to soothe the soul
From small domestic gardens, to nature reserves, urban interventions and local parks, here are some of the finest green projects that place nature at their heart
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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2023 Obel Award celebrates Kate Orff’s ecosystem-driven designs
Scape and its founder Kate Orff have scooped the 2023 Obel Award, which celebrates the landscape studio’s Living Breakwaters project
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Designer Camille Finefrock transforms Kickstarter’s Brooklyn HQ into a ’portrait of the woods’
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Crisa Santos designs spiritual landmarks in São Paulo park
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Make Architects’ London Wall high walk weaves through layers of architectural history
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Junya Ishigami claims inaugural Obel Award for architecture
Junya Ishigami+Associates has been presented architecture's latest prize, the 2019 Obel Award, for its Art Biotop Water Garden in a ceremony at the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark
By Jason Sayer Last updated
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Highlands house gets a radical extension
We celebrate Brown & Brown Architects' elevating intervention at a traditional Highlands house in Scotland
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Heatherwick Studio’s Little Island takes shape in New York
Heatherwick Studio's Little Island – half way through construction in the water on Manhattan’s southwest riverside in New York City – makes the most out of the hundreds of old wooden piles which stuck out of the Hudson River, to create a landscape that blends public park and performance space
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Go east: St Petersburg's New Holland Island is about to open to the public
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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The great outdoors: we unveil the 2015 Landscape Institute Award winners
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees project takes root in Shanghai
By Austin Williams Last updated
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Tom Ford's ‘Nocturnal Animals’ inspires modernist Vancouver home
Tom Ford's neo-noir film Nocturnal Animals inspires Maple Place, a modernist home designed by HLYNSKY + DAVIS Architects, interiors studio Sophie Burke Design and landscape architect Paul Sangha
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Cambridge family home features private garden spa annex
Sun Slice House, designed by London architect Neil Dusheiko, is a relaxing suburban retreat
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures animate Boston’s Emerald Necklace
By Joshua Fischer Last updated
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360° views: OOPEAA’s observation tower on the shores of a Finnish lake
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Old Army Barracks transform into new premises for Paris university
The French capital's Lourcine barracks, dating back to 1875, have been transformed into a verdant, modern university building for Paris I – Law University by architecture practice Chartier-Dalix, which merged an industrial interior with a leafy, carefully landscaped exterior
By Fabienne Dupuis Last updated
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NY’s Jewish Museum spotlights the creative legacy of Roberto Burle Marx
By Daniel Scheffler Last updated
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Minimalist lido and surf shack open a stone’s throw from London
Birch hotel promotes next-generation escapes in the English countryside with a design by architecture collective Red Deer – and now, the retreat comes with a new minimalist lido and poolside bar
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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High line: Barcelona’s elevated public space brings a bucolic bent to the cityscape
By Suzanne Wales Last updated
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Lawn order: landscape designer Alex Hanazaki brings a dose of Brazil to Berlin
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the famed Canadian landscape architect, has passed away at the age of 99 in Vancouver. Here, we pay tribute to her life and work.
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Landscape architect Julie Bargmann scoops 2021 Oberlander Prize
The 2021 Oberlander Prize has been announced, honouring landscape architecture and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander – and the winner is American landscape architect Julie Bargmann
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Bas Smets on landscaping Notre-Dame, and ‘hacking' a city to fight climate change
Landscape architect Bas Smets talks to us about Notre-Dame, modern gardens, microclimates and more
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The striking, angular lines of this Ballarat home belie a project that’s all about modesty
By Stephen Crafti Last updated
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Landscape architect James Rose’s legacy explored in show at his midcentury New Jersey home
Green River Project and Object & Thing inspect 20th-century landscape architect James Rose’s legacy in a display of art, furniture and objects, both historic and contemporary
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated