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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

“The main Woods...are disastrous,” Carol Kelleher wrote in an annual report to her fellow garden volunteers in November 2023. A few months earlier, a brief, intense storm had destroyed more than 30 ...