After months of gathering public feedback, the City of Asheville, North Carolina, has gathered thousands of community comments into a single unified design for the Azalea Parks and Infrastructure Recovery Project. The effort will rebuild and reenvision City-owned...
California-based Green Industry Hall of Fame has revealed its 2026 class of inductees, honoring eight professionals whose careers have contributed to the advancement of landscape, irrigation, arboriculture and horticulture sectors. According to the organization, each...
Winners of the 43rd annual Awards for Excellence in Design have been announced in New York with the Public Design Commission (PDC). This year’s honorees include 13 award winners and two special recognitions that showcase the city’s creative and ongoing commitment to using public design to improve the quality of life across the five boroughs. ...
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSOPRH) has selected Jacobs to provide professional construction management services across Upstate New York. Whilst New York has over 250 individual parks, historic sites, recreational trails and other public spaces, maintaining and improving these assets requires...
David Thorne Landscape Architect’s Valley Brook project in Lafayette, California, has won Best of Show at this year’s APLD International Landscape Design Awards. The Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) has awarded 59 projects across eight categories, in residential, non-residential, small gardens, planting design, specialty...
Landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and his firm are this year’s recipients of the Oberlander Prize from non-profit The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Schjetnan founded Mexico City-based Grupo de Diseño Urbano in 1977, offering landscape architecture, urbanism, and architecture. The seven-person jury called the firm a “ strong voice for social...
Cheri Blatner-Pifer, senior associate landscape architect at KTUA has announced her retirement after 42 years at the company. The longest-tenured employee, Blatner-Pifer started back in 1982 where her engagement into the profession sparked. Whilst at KTUA, Blatner-Pifer worked on a variety of projects but was focused on the public realm...
Landscape architecture, construction and maintenance firm Environmental Designs has been named the official landscaper of the Denver Broncos’ Empower Field at Mile High. A subsidiary of Monarch Landscape Companies, the Denver-based firm will provide landscape design, installation and ongoing maintenance services for Epower Field. Brian Helgoe,...
Focusing solely on design and utilizing his background in construction has allowed Justin Fox to build hugely successful studio Foxterra. “I get so amped talking about landscape design because it’s been my passion since I was nine years old,” explains Fox. Based in Santa Ana, California, the now 30-strong team designs luxury pools and landscapes...
A new public space has opened in the Rosslyn Business Improvement District (BID), a 17-block mixed use, urban center in Arlington, Virginia. The BID, in partnership with Yellowstone Landscape and Monday Properties, has unveiled the NOW, a first-of-its-kind pop-up park at the corner of Nash Street, Oak Street and Wilson Boulevard. The project...
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the ASLA Fund have released a free resource on how to design for biodiversity entitled Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects: Essential Knowledge to Inform Meaningful Action. Developed by the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee (CBAC), the premier offers direction on how...
Landscape architect Kongjian Yu has tragically passed away during a plane crash that occurred late on Tuesday in Brazil, says Brazilian authorities. A global champion of the ‘sponge cities’ concept, a global ambassador for the profession of landscape architecture and a global advocate for addressing the effects of climate change, Yu had also been...
California-based Terremoto is just one of the studios whose work is being showcased in The Contemporary Garden, a new book from Phaidon. Three hundred gardens from more than 40 countries are featured, from renowned garden designers including Piet Oudolf, Sarah Price, Tom Stuart-Smith, Dan Pearson and Luciano Giubbilei, as well as leading studios...
We sat down with show director Tom Glasby to learn why FutureScape USA is the can’t miss show of the year. This will be the first FutureScape event in the US. What is the legacy of FutureScape in the UK? FutureScape in the UK is a cornerstone of the European landscaping market that supports the growth of industry suppliers and fosters a strong...
Non-profit The Cultural Landscape Foundation will announce the winner of the next Oberlander Prize on October 14. More than 300 candidates from around the world are vying for what has been described as the world’s “top honor in the field of landscape architecture”. The biennial Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize...
The City of Seattle is celebrating the grand opening of its new 20-acer waterfront park designed by Field Operations which has been transformed into a public promenade. From an old, elevated viaduct highway into a new space with bike lanes, event piers, gardens, beaches and new connections from downtown to the waterfront of Elliott Bay, the...
As part of a worldwide effort to highlight the need for safer, greener, more accessible public spaces, on September 19, Arizona Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects ( AZASLA ) will launch pop-up installations in Downtown Phoenix. "Park(ing) Day is about more than just reimagining parking spaces, it's about sparking new ideas for...
Insite Studio has been awarded the Honor Award for the 2025 Landscape Architect of the Year by The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Palm Beach Chapter. The Honor Award celebrates professionals whose creativity, innovation, and dedication have made a lasting impact on the architectural landscape of Palm Beach County. "Receiving this award is...
Pape-Dawson has acquired Bonnett Design Group, a Maitland-based firm specializing in landscape architecture and planning. This acquisition marks Pape-Dawson’s fourth in Florida. An established provider of civil engineering, surveying, and related professional services, Pape-Dawson has previously expanded its presence in Florida through acquiring...
Entries are open for the North & South America heat of the 2026 Pro Landscaper International Awards. Leading landscaping garden design and landscape architecture firms are now able to enter projects from across the two continents. Those shortlisted will be able to compete at the inaugural FutureScape USA, launching at the Los Angeles...
Nahal Sohbati and Eric Arneson met while both were studying landscape architecture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2019, they took a leap of faith and opened Topophyla, a process driven landscape architecture firm. In the September issue of Pro Landscaper USA, Sohbati and Arneson share their design inspiration, who in the...
2025 San Diego Design Week, which will take place from Sept. 17-21, and aims to celebrate human-centered design’s power to tackle today’s most urgent social, environmental, and civic challenges, has announced that OJB Landscape Architecture is the winner of the 2025 San Diego Design Week Signature Project Design Award for Landscape Design. This...
The Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (PHTA), the trade association representing the swimming pool, hot tub, and spa industry, has announced the winners of its 2025 Superlative Awards, including Builder of the Year, Service Professional of the Year, Retailer of the Year, International Hot Tub Association (IHTA) Hot Tub Retailer of the Year, Young...
The city of Chicago and Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) have broken ground on concourse D at O’Hare International Airport, set to be a green public realm area welcoming millions of passengers every year. The first new building in O’Hare’s transformative ORDNext expansion, which has been underway since 2019, the $1.8bn concourse will feature...
The Los Angeles City Council has approved 670 Mesquit, a 670,000-square-foot mixed-use development in the Arts District designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), as first reported by Urbanize LA. Led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, the development will transform an industrial site into a residential and commercial hub featuring 894 housing units,...
The National Association of Landscape Professionals has announced the foundation of The Healthy Green Spaces Coalition. The NALP is joined by Scotts Miracle-Gro, Hunter Irrigation, Rain Bird, OneSite, the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association as well as number other of lawn and garden related industry leaders. The Coalition seeks to advocate...
Shireen Zia, founder of EcoGardens Landscape Design and subject of PL USA's August issue "Let's Hear it From..." feature, collects inspiration from all around her. Attending conferences and traveling to different climates has had a huge impact on her work, but some of her earliest inspiration has come from her heritage. Growing up in Pakistan,...
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