What landscape architects need to know. In L.A., recent innovations bolster the case for replacing hardwired streetlights.

What landscape architects need to know. EnviroCollab is a case study of how landscape architecture firms may be warming to ...

“How are you going to be able to communicate this to the installers? The question becomes a big influence for how you might approach the assembly of the script; otherwise you might create outcomes ...

Integrating solar power into the infrastructure of communities is a necessary step toward sustainability, but that pioneering path has not always been a smooth one.

Landscape architecture firms have been embracing alternative business models of late, fueled by young designers questioning traditional norms and firm founders wondering how to pass on their practices ...

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 ...

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming. The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable ...

A hawk glides overhead. An egret perches alongside a pedestrian walkway. Butterflies flutter in the foreground. From across the spectrum of the animal kingdom they appear in the drawings and ...

The new Mosholu golf driving range is part of a controversial water filtration plant project built at the edge of the bucolic Van Cortlandt Park. The new driving range has been set back into the ...

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 ...

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 ...