We’re happy to share that SCAPE received three awards in the 2022 Louisiana Chapter ASLA (LC-ASLA) Design Awards: Our Future Coast | Louisiana Gulf Coast Honor Award: Communications Developed alongside a world-renowned coastal scientist and a local coalition of environmental advocates, ‘Our Future Coast’ visualizes a positive scenario where Louisiana’s coastal ecosystems are even more
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At this year’s ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, SCAPE is participating in seven panels and one field session. On Saturday morning, Kate is moderating the 2022 General Session, “The Blue-Green Connection,” with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, discussing how landscape architects can build community around climate action—and why ocean justice needs to be
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Today, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) and partners celebrate the completion of Town Branch Commons—a 2.5-mile multimodal greenway weaving through Lexington along the former path of Town Branch Creek. Town Branch Commons threads together stormwater management and a shared greenway, eventually linking into the Town Branch Trail and Legacy Trail—altogether, a 5.5-mile network that connects
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Eke Panuku—a public development organization in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand)—recently announced the selection of a design team for Te Ara Tukutuku (Wynyard Point), a 25-acre site along the city’s waterfront. Once a hazardous chemical storage facility, the vision for the site reimagines it as a waterfront park and mixed-use development interweaving the region’s
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Encompassing seven municipalities and approximately 310,000 residents, the Raritan River and Bay communities of New Jersey have been shaped by their proximity to water for centuries. As a key point of connection between Middlesex County, New York City, and New England at large, the region is a critical transportation hub and home to a wide
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In Summer 2020, reflecting on the nationwide movement for racial justice brought into sharp clarity by the deaths of countless Black Americans at the hands of police, SCAPE formed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) to expand pathways for diversity within the field of landscape architecture—as well as through our own office, practice, and
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Today, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA)—the oldest and largest cultural institute of its kind in the state—announced their planned opening date of April 22, 2023, following a dramatic transformation of its building and grounds by Studio Gang and SCAPE. The design, which includes a 133,000-square-foot building and over 11 acres of new landscape,
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In ‘Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures‘ (Routledge, 2022), Founding Principal Kate Orff contributed a conversation with editors Rosalea Monacella and Bridget Keane. Covering her years of experience directing the Urban Design (MSAUD) program at Columbia University GSAPP, co-founding the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), and teaching a multi-year studio,
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Mobile’s history is inextricably tied to its waterfront. Established as a trade hub along the shores of Mobile Bay in the 1700s, the Port of Mobile and related industries have grown into a central economic driver for the entire region. But today, many residents are disconnected from the water’s edge—a rich mosaic of tidal flats,
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Construction for the re-imagined Tom Lee Park—a 31-acre park in Memphis along the Mississippi riverfront—reached its halfway point this week, the Memphis River Parks Partnership announced. Designed by Studio Gang and SCAPE, the park will open in 2023 as a centerpiece of the Memphis riverfront. Bill Dries wrote about the benchmark in the Daily Memphian:
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