B-ILD and Constructo use shades of red concrete for skatepark on Belgian coast
This multi-tonal red concrete skatepark by architects B-ILD and Constructo doubles as a public square in the Belgian city of Blankenberge. More
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Heatherwick's Pier 55 park for New York now unlikely to go ahead
Plans to construct a Thomas Heatherwick-designed park and events venue jutting out over New York's Hudson River have hit a major bump after a federal court vacated the project's permit. More
Penda designs modular wooden "village" for Beijing Horticultural Expo
Architecture studio Penda has revealed plans to create a vast network of modular building blocks at the International Horticultural Expo 2019 in Beijing, forming a 30,000-square-metre exhibition space. More
South Dakota bunker field acts as apocalypse refuge for the rich
These mounds in the landscape of South Dakota are formed by hundreds of concrete military bunkers, which are being repurposed to create the world's "largest survival shelter community". More
Exhibition surveys work of modernist landscape architect Lawrence Halprin
Parks with terraced fountains and chunky concrete formations are among works by American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin featured in a show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC. More
Blank Studio proposes fibre canopies for sun-drenched Arizona streets
A scheme to convert roadways in Phoenix into car-free and plant-filled corridors shaded by woven canopies has won first place in a design competition. More
Swirling brick circles form back garden for South London Gallery
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco has worked with 6a Architects to create a sculptural garden paved in a pattern of interconnected circles for the South London Gallery. More
World Landscape of the Year 2016 is "about respect for water" says landscape architect Grant Bailey
In our next exclusive movie from this year's World Architecture Festival, Grant Bailey of Isthmus explains how the Auckland firm's award-winning Kopupaka Reserve was informed by local Maori culture. More
Beautifying the Border proposal replaces US-Mexico fence with landscaping
Miami firm DOMO Architecture + Design has created renderings that show a series of landscaped features along the border between the USA and Mexico instead of a fence or wall. More
Kopupaka Reserve in Auckland wins World Landscape of the Year 2016
An Auckland wetlands reserve featuring "woven" timber structures has been named World Landscape of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival. More
TetraPOT is a greener alternative to concrete coastal defences
Taiwanese designer Sheng-Hung Lee and Malaysian designer Wan Kee Lee have created a concept for a new kind of sea defence that also functions as a set of giant plant pots. More
Non-rectangular football pitches created in Bangkok slum
Unused patches of land in a densely populated area of the Thai capital have been transformed into a series of irregularly-shaped football pitches for local residents (+ movie). More
Norway moves to scrap plans for controversial Utøya memorial
The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents. More
Mountainside platform by Code Arkitektur creates three vertiginous viewpoints
This triangular viewing platform perched on the edge of a mountain was created by Norwegian studio Code Arkitektur as a rest stop for one of the country's picturesque tourist trails (+ slideshow). More
Zigzagging concrete "veranda" built in Shanghai agricultural park
Shanghai architects TF and PPAS have built a set of sprawling concrete structures that will be used by visitors to an agricultural park on the outskirts of the Chinese city (+ slideshow). More
Sunken pools and planting proposed to ease flooding in Copenhagen neighbourhood
A network of sunken basins and water-purifying planting has been developed by landscape studio SLA and engineering firm Ramboll to help avert flooding in a Copenhagen neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More
West 8 creates artificial hills on New York's Governors Island
Landscape architecture firm West 8 has added rolling hills with playgrounds and art installations across Governors Island in New York harbour (+ slideshow). More
OMA's team wins FAB Park competition for Downtown LA
The City of Los Angeles has chosen a design by OMA and landscape architects Mia Lehrer + Associates to transform a site in the Downtown area into a public park (+ slideshow). More
Graves reached using GPS proposed for bushland cemetery near Sydney
The bereaved will be able to find the location of their loved ones' graves using GPS in this cemetery without headstones, proposed by Australian firms CHROFI and McGregor Coxall for Sydney (+ slideshow). More
UAE plans manmade mountain to increase rainfall
The United Arab Emirates is considering proposals for an artificial mountain that could help increase the country's rainfall. More