Landscape architecture

Highlands house gets a radical extension

We celebrate Brown & Brown Architects' elevating intervention at a traditional Highlands house in Scotland

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 26 October 22

Ebb and flow: Chicago Riverwalk to transform the city's urban experience

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 25 October 22

Heatherwick Studio’s Little Island takes shape in New York

Heatherwick Studio's Little Island – half way through construction in the water on Manhattan’s southwest riverside in New York City – makes the most out of the hundreds of old wooden piles which stuck out of the Hudson River, to create a landscape that blends public park and performance space

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 21 October 22

Go east: St Petersburg's New Holland Island is about to open to the public

By Sara Sturges • Last updated 20 October 22

The great outdoors: we unveil the 2015 Landscape Institute Award winners

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 20 October 22

Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees project takes root in Shanghai

By Austin Williams • Last updated 20 October 22

Tom Ford's ‘Nocturnal Animals’ inspires modernist Vancouver home

Tom Ford's neo-noir film Nocturnal Animals inspires Maple Place, a modernist home designed by HLYNSKY + DAVIS Architects, interiors studio Sophie Burke Design and landscape architect Paul Sangha

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 13 October 22

Cambridge family home features private garden spa annex

Sun Slice House, designed by London architect Neil Dusheiko, is a relaxing suburban retreat

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 12 October 22

Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculptures animate Boston’s Emerald Necklace

By Joshua Fischer • Last updated 12 October 22

360° views: OOPEAA’s observation tower on the shores of a Finnish lake

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 11 October 22

Old Army Barracks transform into new premises for Paris university

The French capital's Lourcine barracks, dating back to 1875, have been transformed into a verdant, modern university building for Paris I – Law University by architecture practice Chartier-Dalix, which merged an industrial interior with a leafy, carefully landscaped exterior

By Fabienne Dupuis • Last updated 11 October 22

Green thumb: landscape architect Enzo Enea on bringing mysticism to Miami’s waterfront

By Daven Wu • Last updated 11 October 22

NY’s Jewish Museum spotlights the creative legacy of Roberto Burle Marx

By Daniel Scheffler • Last updated 10 October 22

Minimalist lido and surf shack open a stone’s throw from London

Birch hotel promotes next-generation escapes in the English countryside with a design by architecture collective Red Deer – and now, the retreat comes with a new minimalist lido and poolside bar

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 10 October 22

High line: Barcelona’s elevated public space brings a bucolic bent to the cityscape

By Suzanne Wales • Last updated 9 October 22

Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021)

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the famed Canadian landscape architect, has passed away at the age of 99 in Vancouver. Here, we pay tribute to her life and work.

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 8 October 22

Landscape architect Julie Bargmann scoops 2021 Oberlander Prize

The 2021 Oberlander Prize has been announced, honouring landscape architecture and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander – and the winner is American landscape architect Julie Bargmann  

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Bas Smets on landscaping Notre-Dame, and ‘hacking' a city to fight climate change

Landscape architect Bas Smets talks to us about Notre-Dame, modern gardens, microclimates and more

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on why it should be easier to be green

A version of this article originally appeared in the May 2018 issue of Wallpaper* (W*230)

By Hadani Ditmars • Last updated 6 October 22

The striking, angular lines of this Ballarat home belie a project that’s all about modesty

By Stephen Crafti • Last updated 30 September 22

Landscape architect James Rose’s legacy explored in show at his midcentury New Jersey home

Green River Project and Object & Thing inspect 20th-century landscape architect James Rose’s legacy in a display of art, furniture and objects, both historic and contemporary

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 27 September 22

Drawing circles: Bell Phillips Architects put a park in a Kings Cross gasholder

By Clare Dowdy • Last updated 26 September 22

Landscape architecture meets industrial reuse at Smith Oaks Sanctuary in Texas

Landscape architecture meets industrial reuse in the SWA Group and Schaum/Shieh's reinvention of Smith Oaks Sanctuary in Texas, US

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 17 September 22

Memorial and community centre honour Jewish culture in Poland

Mark Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) by exploring this recently completed exhibition and education centre by Krakow-based architecture firm NArchitekTURA

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 15 September 22