In this week’s New York Magazine, architecture critic Justin Davidson wrote about SCAPE’s First Avenue Water Plaza at the base of the American Copper Buildings—in particular, a sense of “liveliness, mutability, and natural change” flowing down into the Plaza. “With its planted hillocks, artfully placed boulders, and long wood-slat benches resting on bases of weathered
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Public Sediment for Alameda Creek just received an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning in the American Society of Landscape Architects 2019 Professional Awards. Developed as part of the Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge, the project recently received $31.4M in implementation funding from the State of California. Congratulations to the SCAPE-led team, which includes
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We broke ground on the new Arkansas Arts Center today alongside partners Studio Gang, Nabholz Corporation, Pepper Construction Group, and many others. Kate and Jeanne Gang delivered remarks alongside many others at the morning ceremony, including Little Rock Mayor, Frank Scott, Jr. The transformed AAC designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE aims to foster deeper
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After over a decade of community planning, Mission Rock Partners (Tishman Speyer, the San Francisco Giants, and the Port of San Francisco) have released new renderings and an updated design for China Basin Park—a new 5-acre waterfront park showcasing the historic ecologies of the Bay Area, designed by SCAPE. John King wrote about the unveiling
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This week, Public Sediment received $31.4 million in implementation funding from the State of California. Our local team members joined State Senator Bob Wieckowski for the ceremony. Public Sediment for Alameda Creek was developed as part of the year-long Resilient By Design: Bay Area Challenge. SCAPE led the team, which also includes Arcadis, the Dredge
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SCAPE is honored to receive Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for landscape architecture.
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SCAPE is honored to receive 3 ASLA New York Awards this year.
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The New-York Historical Society’s Hudson Rising exhibit, which features SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters, was recently highlighted in a New York Times article.
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SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters project is featured in the New York Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit, Hudson Rising, opening March 1st.
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“Something that keeps me up at night is the vanishing intertidal landscape. We are on the brink of ecological collapse and the extreme loss of biodiversity.” Kate sat down with A/D/O Journal to talk about her approach to landscape architecture and the urgency behind SCAPE’s work on helping communities become more resilient to climate change.
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