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 ...

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

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 ...

A path leads through a grove of camellias in the Woodland Garden, down to the Leach House next to Johnson Creek. “We wanted that project so badly,” a friend told me when I mentioned my upcoming visit ...

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 ...