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Another Way for Highways

BY MARGARET SHAKESPEARE A sophisticated stormwater system elevates Philadelphia’s Girard Avenue interchange. Around the world, cities are demolishing, burying, or capping their elevated freeways, but...

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In Public: Honolulu

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Honolulu’s popular Queen Kapi‘olani Park is closed as of Friday, March 20. Photo by Timothy A. Schuler. It could have been a scene from any number of dystopian films: a group of...

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Supernatural

BY PATRICK SISSON “It’s hard to tell the story of the L.A. River without flying through it,” says Michael Todoran, a landscape designer, lecturer, and podcast host. Along with his students at...

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Winter Warmers

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Designed for Colorado’s ski resorts, the PARK[AS] concept prioritizes ventilation thanks to feedback from public health officials. Image courtesy Colorado Restaurant Association....

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THE VENICE BIENNALE’S LATENT LANDSCAPES

BY JESSICA BRIDGER Venetian bridge with biennale banner. Rem Koolhaas, the director of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, calls for the “end of starchitects” and a refocusing on capital-A...

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L.A. DRAINS THE COMMON POOL

BY MELISSA RAGAIN Linear City by Lane Barden, on view at the WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles. Courtesy of Luke Gibson Photography. Los Angeles is fascinated with the improbability of its own existence in...

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ROOF TO TABLE

BY LAUREN MANDEL, ASSOCIATE ASLA Ryerson University’s green roof transformation. From the August 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. In downtown Chicago, the city’s convention center,...

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UNEARTHED AND UNFORGOTTEN

BY JONATHAN LERNER Now viewed across the lawn and meadow, the houses evoke the settlement’s rural character. From the September 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Nearly 50 years ago, a...

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AN ALTERNATE PARK UNIVERSE

BY ELIZABETH PADJEN Ramps for the 1,400-car garage are camouflaged by walls and plantings. From the October 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. At 10:30 on a July morning, an east wind...

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DETROIT FROM THE GROUND UP

Don’t think of the city as post-apocalyptic. Think of it as pre-urban. Credit: Detroit Future City From the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Erin Kelly, Associate ASLA, was...

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