What landscape architects need to know. New place-naming and wayfinding approaches give designers the opportunity to ...

Holiday gifts for landscape architects, landscape designers, garden designers, urban design fans, plant and pollinator ...

The “pond” in Lake County, Illinois, shown in May 2021, is subject to a complex legal and regulatory system. Photo by Practice Landscape. At first glance, it was just a pond. Dammed with earth at the ...

Voluminous hydrangeas bow gracefully over a pair of black chairs, barely grazing a stack of books that includes Planting in a Post-Wild World and How to Love a Forest. Granite chips crunch underfoot ...

Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...

Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...

Decomposed granite pavement (DG) is a textured and responsive paving material used on paths and plazas. Yet the quiet appearance of DG masks material and construction complexities that shape the ...

For nearly a century, a new breed of megaproject has gone unrecognized, and it is now proliferating. These projects, which we have named “mega-eco projects,” are different from old-school megaprojects ...

Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and Lauren Stimson, ASLA, built a new house and utility building on property Steve’s family has long farmed. Photo by Ngoc Doan. Outside the kitchen door of the Massachusetts ...

The permafrost is melting in Inuvik, a flat delta town in the Northwest Territories, 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. You can see the drunken trees, leaning this way and that along the banks of ...

A humble attitude brought the Charlotte firm work for three decades. Pulling out of the recession called for bolder moves. In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s ...

“This is one of the rarest trees in the United States,” says Andrew Wyatt of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pointing to one of two Virginia round-leaf birch trees planted outside the garden’s new Jack ...