Built in three phases, with the first opening in 2008 and the third in 2023, the park has been widely celebrated as a model of waterfront renewal. But beyond the familiar story of access returned to ...

Montreal’s Jardins des Floralies, on Île Notre-Dame in the Parc Jean-Drapeau, have changed a great deal since they were installed as part of a horticultural exhibition in 1980. Of the gardens that can ...

Erin Despard is a disabled writer and researcher whose work focuses on gardens, landscape, and visual media.

I'm an award-winning writer on design, sustainability, and well-being in the built environment. I write regularly for Architectural Record (where I'm a contributing editor and where my work formed ...

You want to build in some relationship between the way the place feels and the materials and colors that are used on the ...

A profile of the late Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier from 2020, on the eve of publishing Serious Fun, his career-spanning monograph.

“A compact tape measure is ideal for field visits to well-designed sites, such as Little Island in New York City. It’s extremely handy for measuring construction details like the thickness of a ...

When Claude Cormier, ASLA, and I pull up to Dorchester Square in Montreal, a man is leaning against the grand fountain, with its three Victorian bowls, all painted a very Victorian shade of green, ...

How many things can a river do? The people of the Tennessee Valley have not finished asking. For 10,000 years the Tennessee River has both sustained human civilizations and attended their demise. One ...

A set of collages explored design possibilities for the backyard. Courtesy TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. The backyard as a distinct space has not always been with us. It is, according ...

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 ...

Two snowmobiles rumble upslope high in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, 40 minutes east of Salt Lake City and just west of Park City, arriving at Big Dutch Peak, an elevation of 8,170 feet. The landscape ...