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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

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

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

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

Today, we launched a new website to gather public input on the Hayward Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan by June 12th. The shoreline of Hayward, CA is a mosaic of diverse bayland ecosystems, habitats, and critical infrastructure – supporting a mix of tidal marshes, salt ponds, filtration marshes, storage ponds, diked wetlands, landfills, solar fields, and

While museums and cultural institutions across the nation are closed, some of our partners are developing new ways to interact with and learn from past exhibits. Hudson Rising—a 2019 exhibit at the New-York Historical Society exploring 200 years of ecological change and environmental activism along the Hudson River—is now available as an immersive online experience.

For the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Kate spoke with ASLA’s The Dirt about the role of landscape architects in the context of our current global pandemic, climate change, and how SCAPE’s projects integrate ecological benefit at all scales. “Landscape architects are largely concerned with the ‘middle scale,’ but Earth Day forces us to conceive

SCAPE’s work on Midtown Center Plaza in Washington, DC won a Merit Award in ASLA-NY’s 2020 Design Awards. Inspired by the radiating geometry of the original L’Enfant plan for DC, Midtown Center Plaza introduces a 15,000 square foot forested plaza and cross-block connection into the dense environment of central city. Sculptural forms, angular planting beds,

A Note to our Clients and Colleagues: In light of the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic, SCAPE is following current best practices that aim to slow the spread of the virus. Our teams have been working from home since March 13th, and we will continue this practice until this critical period passes. Our IT setup is

This week, SCAPE and Wood were in Pensacola, Florida to kick off the Carpenter Creek and Bayou Texar Watershed Management Plan with a series of site visits, meetings, and a community meeting on Wednesday evening. In partnership with Escambia County and the City of Pensacola, we are studying access, water quality, ecological conditions, and opportunities