Gabled kiosks by Atelier Urban Face tilt away from Mount Royal's slope
These kiosks on Montreal's namesake peak lean away from the hillside at different angles to look as if they're being blown over by the wind. More
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"There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another"
The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. More
Porto architects create five temporary gallery spaces for travelling art exhibition
A mirror-clad pavilion camouflaged in woodland and another resembling a dilapidated shed are among five temporary structures on show in the grounds of the Alvaro Siza-designed Serralves Foundation in Porto. More
Urban gardening system Growmore helps city dwellers build mini local farms
Our next Dezeen x MINI Living video explores a modular urban farming system called Growmore, which allows people living in cities to build mini gardens from a series of simple plywood planters. More
World Landscape of the Year 2017 teaches people about China's farming history, says Turenscape
The Chinese rice farm that was recently named World Landscape of the Year is designed to teach people about traditional agriculture, according to Stanley Lung of landscape architecture firm Turenscape. More
wHY proposes undulating park for cyclists and runners along New York's East River
US architecture firm wHY has developed a proposal for oscillating bicycle and pedestrian pathways along the Manhattan side of the East River. More
Barry Diller launches "one last attempt" to revive Heatherwick's Pier 55 for New York
Media mogul Barry Diller is making a last-ditch effort to build Thomas Heatherwick's "treasure island" park on the Hudson River, despite abandoning the plans last month. More
Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack
Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. More
Thomas Heatherwick saddened after plans for New York "treasure island" are scrapped
Only a month after the Garden Bridge was scrapped, Thomas Heatherwick's plans for a park on New York's Hudson River have been abandoned – and the designer has described the decision as "really, really sad". More
Growmore is a modular building kit for urban gardeners
Planting boxes can be bolted together to create mini gardens and farms, with this simple construction system devised by Danish architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum. More
Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami create three-pronged visitor centre for Dutch park
Three intersecting glass corridors sweep outwards from a sunken, triangular-shaped visitors centre designed by Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami + Associates for Park Vijversburg in the Netherlands. More
Loop NYC driverless-car proposal offers Manhattanites more time and green space
New York studio Edg has proposed converting some of Manhattan's major roads into public-transit highways for driverless vehicles, in order to reduce travel times and turn the island's central thoroughfares into landscaped parks. More
18 "rail-to-trail" projects following in the High Line's footsteps
The creators of New York's High Line have launched a platform to advise similar infrastructure reuse projects in the USA. We've rounded up the 18 other schemes in the works, including an OMA-designed bridge with ramps and waterfalls, and an underground park. More
High Line creators launch website to advise on avoiding gentrification
The organisation behind New York's High Line elevated park has created an online forum that offers advice for those embarking on similar infrastructure reuse projects. More
James Corner Field Operations adds circular landscaping to Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green
A+Awards: landscaped circles accommodate different activities at the centre of the redeveloped Navy Yards in Philadelphia, designed by James Corner Field Operations and a winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More
Ecosistema Urbano envisions bioclimatic domes for West Palm Beach
Madrid studio Ecosistema Urbano has won first place in a competition to revamp the waterfront of Florida's West Palm Beach, with a proposal for domed spaces that house an array of functions, from an aquarium to a yoga and meditation zone. More
Max Lamb, Scholten & Baijings and Philippe Malouin create "Superbenches" for suburban Stockholm park
A bench with springs for legs and a brutalist concrete structure are among the 10 experimental pieces of public furniture created by international designers to help regenerate a park area just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. More
Riverside office tower in Chicago by Goettsch Partners rises from sharply tapered base
US firm Goettsch Partners has completed a glass skyscraper with a compact footprint, which responds to its placement next to active train tracks and the Chicago River. More
Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Factory site to become six-acre park by James Corner Field Operations
The site of the former Domino Sugar Factory on the Brooklyn waterfront will open as a public park in 2018, as part of a major redevelopment project. More
Kengo Kuma's major expansion of Portland Japanese Garden opens
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a new complex for an urban garden in Portland, Oregon, that features a central courtyard and buildings topped with pagoda-style, green roofs. More