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Guarded Optimism

Decision to pause border barrier work at binational Friendship Park welcomed by community advocates

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200 Candles

Here’s how to celebrate Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.’s 200th birthday

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In The Right Place

With appointment of Lisa Delplace, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts again gains a landscape architect

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Imperiled Olmsted

Landslide 2022 brings under-threat Olmsted landscapes into focus

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Let's Roll

Elyn Zimmerman’s monumental MARABAR finds a new home at American University

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Giving Voice to Unseen

Landslide 2021: Race and Space highlights at-risk landscapes rife with toil and triumph

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It’s a Go

National Capital Planning Commission gives final approval to the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden redesign

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Provocateur, Practitioner, and Intellectual

Julie Bargmann wins the inaugural Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize

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California Classic

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s newest Pioneers oral history delves into the career of Pamela Burton

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Garden Green Light

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s sculpture garden redesign at the Hirshhorn Museum wins final approval from the Commission of Fine Arts

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Gems Aplenty

Explore the modernist landscapes of Washington, D.C., with this new illustrated guide

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1921 – 2021

Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander dies at 99

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The Male Gaze

Daily digest: Christoph Büchel’s migrant boat leaves Venice, the politics of mid-century modernism, and more

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Stonewalling

Did Hiroshi Sugimoto threaten to quit the sculpture garden overhaul at the Hirshhorn Museum?

Exterior photo of the Marabar sculpture, split granite rocks, in a modernist courtyard
Written In Stone

Resolution reached to save MARABAR at National Geographic Society headquarters

a meadow and a building covered in greenery on the weyerhaeuser campus
A Chorus of Concern

The Cultural Landscape Foundation launches campaign to halt “inappropriate” development at historic Weyerhaeuser campus

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An Indelible Legacy

Pioneering landscape architect Carol R. Johnson passes away at 91

Taking the Lead

Landslide 2020 spotlights women-designed landscapes and the threats that they face

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