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Mathews Nielsen Landscape ArchitectsLatest Stories

view into a large central courtyard and garden at the jewish theological seminary
Opening Up

The Jewish Theological Seminary unveils Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects’ long-awaited campus redesign

Waterline square from above, an urban park with platforms
West Side Refuge

The MNLA-designed Waterline Square Park welcomes with arboreal landscaping

the Mid-Manhattan Library Branch, a squat stone building with a green copper topper
Magic Trick

Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle’s transformation of the Mid-Manhattan Library looks easy

Little island, a square landscape supported on concrete piers, juts out from 11th avenue into the river
Hudson River Outcrop

MNLA and Heatherwick Studio’s Little Island harnesses topography to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience

aerial view of a city park surrounded by tall glass towers
Glass meets Grass

MNLA shares Manhattan’s newest park at Waterline Square

People jogging by the sculptural concrete pots of little island
Natural’s Sorta In It

Heatherwick Studio and MNLA bridge structure and botany at Little Island

A school playground wrapped in fencing with fake ivy in Greenwich Village
Can You Hear Me Now?

A schoolyard fence proposal for Greenwich Village raises questions about creeping privatization

Rendering of a bridge over a street to the river's edge, part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency plan
Over Troubled Waters

Controversial Lower Manhattan flood protection plan moves forward

Photo of children running on grassy trail along river in the current DL&W Corridor
Everyone Wins

Five winning submissions picked in Buffalo park ideas competition

Parkgoers frolicking on a lawn
Aslan(y)'s Picks

ASLA-NY announces its 2019 Design Award winners

MNLA Freeman Plaza West
Islands in the Stream

Freeman Plaza West creates islands of green amid torrents of New York traffic

ESCR OK

Key Manhattan community board declares support for massive east side resiliency project

(Courtesy The Mayor's Office of Recovery & Resiliency)
Surge Forward

New East River flood barrier park aims for quick approvals

Bollard Bollocks

After NYC truck attack, how can we go beyond reactionary design responses?

Industry Parks

2017 Best of Design Awards for Unbuilt – Landscape

Plane Talk

Philadelphia airport announces five finalists in landscape redesign competition

Made in LIC

Long Island City’s latest mixed-use development will include factory space

In the Bronx

SOM brings science center and new natatorium to Horace Mann School

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