SWA Group’s Martin Luther King Jr. Square has recently opened to the public, transforming a former brownfield site prone to flooding into a flourishing stormwater park and cultural asset for Downtown Conway, Arkansas.
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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates’ design for Waterloo Greenway is already well underway, with a 2026 completion goal and some sections already open to the public.
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SWA Group have announced the completion of the first phase of Sanshan Hillside Park, offering a, “dynamic and lively space that meets the needs of people of all different ages.”
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Built on the site of a former power plant and its neglected surroundings, Haoxiang Lake Park offers a new wetland connected by a series of bridges and footpaths in Shenzhen, China and has been masterplanned by Hong Kong-based landscape studio eLandscript.
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Space enthusiasts in Hanoi have a new universe to explore. And they don’t have to leave earth, or even Vietnam to do it. Astronomy Park surrounds Bah Hop Thuy Lake, an abandoned detention basin in Ha Dong.
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Completed in 2021, Hassell’s Riverside Green forms 6,816 square-metres of tranquil, plant-filled public space for central Brisbane, and has won two AILA 2021 Landscape Architecture Awards.
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The Hudson River Park Trust has begun construction on James Corner Field Operations’ design for Gansevoort Peninsula, which will include Manhattan’s first public beach and one of the largest public art projects in the United States.
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Two years ago Riverside Park in New York had a problem with invasive weeds in an inaccessible part of the park. The solution? - Goats. And now the animals are back to do their best against the weeds once again.
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Recreation Aotearoa has named the best parks in the country. Five of New Zealand's top parks and open spaces were recognised at the group’s New Zealand Parks Awards ceremony last week.
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New York’s newest park rises out of the Hudson River, a whimsical, playful little islet floating atop concrete tulip pots.
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In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Austrian-based Studio Precht has designed a maze-like park divided by tall hedges, allowing city-dwellers to enjoy nature while maintaining a safe distance from others.
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ON-A Architecture, a studio specialising in renaturation and bioconstruction, has released a proposal which would convert a the world famous FC Barcelona stadium into a 26-hectare green space.
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Perth landscape architect Peta-Maree Ashford has her cricket-loving son to thank for the design concept for Pegasus Park.
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A Cambridge community board member who’s pushing for councils around the country to plant vegetable patches in public parks has hit an early road bump with her own project.
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A “no mow” pilot programme is being trialled at Auckland’s Grey Lynn Park to improve biodiversity outcomes.
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Bim’bimba Park, the final piece of Mirvac’s masterplanned community Gainsborough Greens in Queensland, has won a landscape architecture award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
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Sydney Park was once a cemetery of sorts for rusting car bodies; a place where televisions and fridges and other detritus of modern life went to die when no longer wanted by the city’s inhabitants.
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Those searching for the perfect wave in Sydney will soon no longer be beholden to Mother Nature. Australian startup URBNSURF is developing a surf park facility at Sydney Olympic Park.
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Milan-based Stefano Boeri Architetti have designed the winning proposal for Genoa’s comeback from the 2018 Morandi Bridge tragedy.
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Barry Curtis Park Plaza by Isthmus has been named winner of the Institutional category of the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019.