Berlin’s Jungfernheide Park Lets You Climb Amidst Hundred-Year-Old Treetops

PICS: 1000s of Flowers Fill Spanish City Streets for Girona’s Colorful Springtime Festival

Twisting Modular Planter Holds Flourishing Micro Gardens Within its Layers

Ascensio Mah recently teamed up with students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design to create this beautiful twisting planter embedded with a series of miniature gardens. Showcased at this

Jeppe Hein’s Quirky ‘Social Benches’ are Interactive Sculptures That Engage the Public

Jeppe Hein has re-imagined the average public bench by creating a series of modified benches that open up discussion about social behavior in urban spaces. The Danish artist took the form of a typical

Winners Announced for National Mall Design Contest in Washington, DC

Brick Biotope at FABRIKAAT: Bricks That Double as Bird Habitats Showcased in Milan

Compelled by the disappearance of house sparrows due to the depletion of their natural environment, students Micaela Nardella and Oana Tudose designed Brick Biotope, a set of bricks that doubles as a

Nashville Riverfront Transformed From Wasteland to Cumberland Play Park for Families

Andrew Maynard Renovates a Modern Melbourne Home With a Giant Grassy Hill!

Henning Larsen Architects Win Competition to Design New Emmen Theater and Zoo

Henning Larsen Architects, working in partnership with the Dutch Van der Berg Groep, have won first prize in the competition to design a new Theater and Zoo entrance in Emmen, The Netherlands. The 16,000

Talking Public Space and Urban Intervention With San Francisco’s Rebar Studio

Philadelphia Unveils Their Own Elevated Rail Park for the Abandoned Reading Viaduct

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Unveil Green Plans for the Future of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Lush Living Wall Masks the Construction Site of a New Philadelphia Shake Shack

Bishan Park: Singapore Transforms a Concrete Channel Into a Vibrant Riverside Park

Situated in the heart of Singapore, Bishan Park is one of the city’s most popular green spaces. Once a utilitarian concrete channel, the site has been transformed into a naturalized river through a

JAILmake’s Reseeding Bricks Help Grow Living Buildings in London

Installing grassy facades on urban buildings are a great way to create a greener city. With this in mind, London-based design studio JAILmake has developed these ‘Reseeding Bricks’, which can

E/B Office Unveils Plans for Soaring SEAT Pavilion Made From 400 Chairs

New York and Portland-basedE/B Office recently unveiled plans to build this amazing SEAT Pavilion from 400 simple wooden chairs at Freedom Park in Atlanta. Home to a number of permanent art installations,

INTERVIEW: Architect James Corner On NYC’s High Line Park

The High Line urban park project in New York City opened last summer to tremendous excitement from locals and tourists alike looking to escape the bustling streets for a more peaceful, green enclave in

Amsterdam Footbridge-Cafe Concept Blends the Traditional and the High-Tech

Architect Laurent Sain Val and his team developed this incredible footbridge and cafe as an entry for a design competition calling for new bridge ideas for Amsterdam. Designed to be built in wood and

Sunset Triangle Plaza: LA’s First Pedestrian Plaza Conversion is Now Open!

Designs Unveiled for Section 3 of the High Line!

Initial design plans have been revealed for the third and final section of everyone’s favorite elevated park, New York City’s High Line! At a community meeting last night, Friends of the High

James Corner Field Operations Wins Competition To Redesign Chicago’s Navy Pier

Chicago Unveils Plans for the Elevated Bloomingdale Trail Park in the Sky

Barkow Leibinger’s Amazing ‘Loom-Hyperbolic’ Art Installation is Made from Local, Natural Materials

‘Mountain Band-Aid’ Transforms Strip-Mined Mountainside Into a Vertical Eco Village

Mountain Band-Aid is a plan for a sustainable city designed to help mitigate mining damage in southern China while providing a place for local inhabitants to repopulate the countryside. From a distance,