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, ...

Every working designer understands that change can be a creative force, but it can also be disruptive and deeply unsettling. It is this duality that emerged in early spring, when six firm leaders ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Elizabeth Kennedy, FASLA, knows intimately how much landscape architecture has matured over the past few decades. She is the founder of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect, PLLC (EKLA), the ...

In 1966, the Hayden Library opened at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe. Byron Sampson, ASLA, the university landscape architect, says that with its massive—perhaps even intimidating—presence, ...

A decade and a half ago, the Chinese government “canceled” landscape architecture education in China. Some bureaucrats decided the discipline was superfluous. Today, the profession of landscape ...