Moving what Bibeau describes as an unguarded track in the grass brought current safety standards to bear, including “big ditches on each side of the track, big fence, big everything,” she says, and ...

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 ...

“A compact tape measure is ideal for field visits to well-designed sites, such as Little Island in New York City. It’s ...

The “Little Project” at the Minnesota home of Ping Design's founder creates experiences that exceed a small footprint.

You want to build in some relationship between the way the place feels and the materials and colors that are used on the signs,” he says. The relationship between landscape design and signage has ...

Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of fire. It was 1973. She thought the Soviets were coming. Then she wondered if there ...

Pompeii has lured visitors for centuries, offering a connection with a deeper humanity that both transcends and is rooted in the ordinariness of life. The sheer quantity of studies, films, novels, and ...

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 ...

Monica Chasten (foreground) and Sean Burkholder (center, holding a coffee) survey the opportunities with the team near Matts Landing in New Jersey. Photo by Jared Brey. A needle that falls in the ...

The institution's deep plant collection and conservation mission stand out in a new visitor center landscape. Matt Sickle, ASLA, who led the planting design for MVLA, describes the inclusion of such ...