Reclaiming Urban Spaces: Modular Micro-City On Parisian Bridge

September 2, 2015

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Parisian Architect Stéphane Malka addresses the economic inequities inherent in urbanization in a concept that re-imagines how people might live in today’s mobile world–in this case, hanging off the side of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris.

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Malka thinks people … Read More...

National Design Awards Announces Landscape Architecture Winners

June 1, 2011


Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s Lurie Garden, Millenium Park, Chicago. Plantsman: Piet Oudolf. Theater Set Designer: Robert Israel.

Urban gardens are featured prominently among the designs of landscape architects selected to receive the 2011 Landscape Architecture Award, part of the National Design Read More...

Benchmark: An Urban Landscape Goes Undercover

February 13, 2010

Here’s a challenge to the traditional notion of public space as a “town square” or “village green”: You’ve got an unsafe under bridge area within an existing viaduct not so suitable for planting or creating a verdant space.  Architects James … Read More...

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