This morning, the new LEED-Gold, Marble Fairbanks and SCAPE-designed Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center opened for business. The ribbon-cutting was held in a socially-distanced ceremony livecast on Brooklyn Public Library’s Facebook page. While due to the Coronavirus the library is only open initially for limited lobby service, the completion and opening of the branch
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SCAPE is currently seeking to hire for the positions of Associate and Project Designer. _ SCAPE is currently seeking to hire a designer with 3-5 years experience for the position of Project Manager/Project Designer. Please view the full job listing and requirements here. To apply, please send a portfolio (no larger than 5MB), resume and
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In this weekend’s New York Times, Kate spoke with author James Russell about the future of public landscapes after Covid, which has transformed the uses and design of the built environment across the globe. “I see large connective landscapes as combating the isolation and interiority of Covid. We need transformative landscapes that really burst open
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Yesterday, Kate joined WWNO’s Tegan Wendland for a virtual event on the Washington Post Live, Conservation and Sustainability, to discuss SCAPE’s collaboration with Dr. Don Boesch and the Walton Family Foundation on a vision for the Louisiana coast with fully implemented restoration. The segment also included Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland; Christiana Figueres, former
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“All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays, poems, and art by women climate leaders is coming September 22 via One World Books / Penguin Random House. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering
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After 20 months of research, public engagement and collaboration, the Chattahoochee RiverLands Design Team released the Chattahoochee RiverLands Greenway Study alongside the Trust for Public Land, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), the City of Atlanta, and Cobb County. Led by SCAPE, the core team includes Gresham Smith, New South Associates, Biohabitats, Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks,
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This represents a statement-in-progress. We aim to refine and expand on this in our company retreat in July, translating our collective reflections into a platform for action and accountability. Black Lives Matter. Landscape architecture and urban planning, alongside every other profession that underpins American society, is complicit in sustaining patterns of spatial practice that fall
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Increasingly, “designing the social must be paired with new forms or architectural expression like un-making, un-doing, subtracting, reversing, decarbonizing, tearing out, ripping up, re-planting, and connecting,” Kate Orff described in a 2019 lecture for the Architectural League of New York. In the Summer 2020 issue of the Cooper Hewitt Design Journal, Kate explores these ideas
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On Wednesday, May 20, we unveiled a new design for Tom Lee Park with Studio Gang–a 30-acre riverfront park catalyzing the unification of river and city by transforming the most visible and accessible piece of the Mississippi riverfront into a signature park for all Memphians. Via live webcast on The Daily Memphian homepage, SCAPE Founding
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Today, The Harborkeepers launched Vision Chelsea Creek: a six month-long visioning, planning, and stakeholder engagement process to re-imagine the abandoned MBTA / MassDOT-owned railway site along the industrial shoreline of lower Chelsea Creek in East Boston. Aiming to solve for multiple coastal and urban challenges, this project is driven by a public-private partnership between The
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