Standing astride the curves of the Los Angeles River and an arcing freeway, the inverted brutalist pyramid of the former Sunkist Headquarters represents a quintessential Southern California landscape.

As a persistent housing shortage contributes to expanding homelessness across the nation, landscape architects are increasingly being asked to develop design strategies that confront this societal ...

Patrick Sisson, a Chicago expat living in Los Angeles, writes about architecture, tech, politics, and the forces that shape cities.

Perched on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River, the Washington School for the Deaf (WSD) was once a visual anchor in the Vancouver, Washington, landscape. That was before trees grew downslope and ...

Joan Iverson Nassauer, FASLA, has long been a vocal proponent of blending aesthetics and ecological performance across a variety of landscape types, including the agricultural fields that formed the ...

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 ...

Over the years, Adam Fine has seen a lot of bad signs. They include instructional signs that bury key information and welcome signs that are unwelcoming. One was such a failure that 25 years ago it ...