Public green space urban design

Image 9 of 20 from gallery of Petrās Architecture Designs New Greek Archaeological Museum for Sparta. Courtesy of Petrās Architecture

Happy Earth Day! I’m celebrating the day by looking back at Roberto Burle Marx’s’ Landscape Designs. Marx was a Brazilian Artist who specialized in asymmetrical designs and the inclusion of local, tropical species.

Nature in the city

LUZ: Today’s Šmartinski Park used to be a vast area of informal and individuals allotment gardens. In the municipal spatial planning documents the area was defined as green space and an infrastructural corridor, but in reality it was covered with garden beds and sheds, cut by a traffic road and crossed by a few main […]

George Hislop Park and Norman Jewison Park are now open! The Yonge Street Linear Park network provides vital green space and a popular pedestrian route parallel to Yonge Street in the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood. The revitalization project includes George Hislop Park, Norman Jewison Park and Alexander Street Parkette. The park improvements will be guided by the […]