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National #09 - 10.27.2021Latest Stories

A bridge park spanning two halves of a preserve bisected by a road
Slow Growth

AN sits down with the 2021 Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year, Stimson

Oudolf Garden Detroit, a wild landscape with a dome atop
Fan Mail

Oudolf Garden Detroit opens at Belle Isle Park five years after the Dutch plantsman first arrived

a tin home with printed concrete base
Print To Order

A Texas start-up introduces a cost-cutting way to build houses—by printing them

waterloo park, arranged with whirling paths and a metal pavilion
Green And Grey

At Austin’s Waterloo Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates weaves nature and infrastructure

A big pile of tires on display for waste age
Greetings From The Waste Age

Enthralling scenes of our Waste Age await visitors to the Design Museum London

Large mural walls shot as part of Black Landscapes Matter
Reading The Land

Black Landscapes Matter asks why Black landscapes are separate from landscape design

A Rafael de Cárdenas designed retail shop
Perfect Fit

Rafael de Cárdenas’ flagship for a Chinese menswear brand continues the firm’s excellence in retail design

A woman walking past a blue pavilion at the The Available City
Off Center

The 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial ditches its downtown digs to invest in historically underserved communities

A before and after flooding map of coastal new york, part of a Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation
The Changing Tide

Climate change is teaching designers to expand their horizons—or at least it should

A rural landscape and stormwater + climate change mitigation project
Town and Country

In Ida’s wake, America’s rural communities need better protection—cities can’t hog climate adaptation

The restored Pullman Company Town , now a park
Green Labor

The restoration of Chicago’s former Pullman Company Town commemorates a pivotal site of progressive American labor

The new round glass entrance to the denver art museum at night
Opposites Attract

Gio Ponti’s incongruously stolid Denver Art Museum sprouts a space-age appendage

aerial rendering of tom lee park along the Mississippi river
Heal the Land

Memphis’s long-neglected Tom Lee Park gets an overhaul, and Theaster Gates wants to honor its namesake

The Sixth Street Viaduct spanning la with arched concrete
Upstaging A Classic

The Michael Maltzan–designed Sixth Street Viaduct portends a multimodal renaissance for Los Angeles

THe boston seaport rock way path
Rocky Road

A new linear park promises to redeem the Boston Seaport megaproject

aerial rendering of river ring, a pair of towers on the east river with artificial cove
River Ring of Fire

The slow forward march of a Brooklyn waterfront megaproject highlights New York’s land use gauntlet

A large empty gathering space proposed as a prototypical new monument
Monuments Are Dead; Long Live Monuments

Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation’s National Monument Audit reveals the plasticity of our history

exterior photograph depicting a spherical building
Blowing Bubbles

The Academy Museum is open, but its standout gesture rings hollow

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