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 receives Honor Award in ASLA’s 2019 Professional Awards
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
Read PostThe new Arkansas Arts Center breaks ground
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
Read PostMission Rock Partners releases renderings and an updated design for China Basin Park
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
Read PostPublic Sediment for Alameda Creek receives $31.4 million in implementation funding
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
Read PostChattahoochee RiverLands website is live
The Chattahoochee RiverLands website is now live! Go there to find out more about our vision to help reconnect the greater Metro Atlanta area to its River and learn more about our exploration of the River’s access, history, culture, ecology, and community. We also want you to share your vision for the project. Run, don’t
Read PostSCAPE receives Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2019 National Design Award
SCAPE is honored to receive Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for landscape architecture.
Read PostSCAPE Wins 3 ASLA-New York Awards
SCAPE is honored to receive 3 ASLA New York Awards this year.
Read PostHudson Rising in the New York Times
The New-York Historical Society’s Hudson Rising exhibit, which features SCAPE’s Living Breakwaters, was recently highlighted in a New York Times article.
Read PostLiving Breakwaters at the New York Historical Society’s Opens Friday, March 1
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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