Built as worker housing, alley houses were wood-framed or masonry structures built on the alley-facing portion of a lot that ...

Within the lines, every tennis court looks mostly the same. The dimensions at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the U.S. Open are identical to those of every one of the roughly 300,000 other tennis courts in ...

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Graduates from elite landscape architecture programs can specify plants on a screen, but few know how to grow one. To many landscape architects, nothing is more ego-deflating than hearing: “So you ...

Mithun centers deaf and hard of hearing spatial experiences in a new campus landscape for the Washington School for the Deaf. Perched on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River, the Washington School ...

A design competition for Tempelhofer Feld highlights the long-running dissension over the fate of central Berlin’s largest open space. Predawn Berlin light brightens still-shrouded trees on what was ...

In the Portola Valley Hills, Spiegel Aihara Workshop designed a family home as a monument to a loss and a testament to a landscape of hope. When you’re in the backyard of this house in Portola Valley, ...

In just a few years, artificial intelligence has transformed the way design firms do business. Balancing back-office gains with mounting costs will take longer. “We jumped in with both feet in 2025.” ...

As therapeutic landscapes become more mainstream, educator Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, looks back and ahead. When Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, and Amy Wagenfeld published Therapeutic Gardens: Design ...

Working across design disciplines requires more than putting students together. At the Rhode Island School of Design, a yearlong studio finds the substance of interdisciplinary teaching. It was the ...

Design Workshop’s landscape for a Lake Tahoe hotel folds water quality improvements into a new resort paradigm for the region. The Tahoe Basin is defined by jagged ridges that rise some 4,500 feet ...

In Richmond, the Brown's Island redevelopment orients a key civic space toward both downtown and the James River. In Richmond, Virginia, nature and industry collide in dramatic, obvious ways. Only a ...