A look at 2024’s landscape architecture products with style. Edited by Kristen Mastroianni. Every month, LAM’s Goods column features new products of interest to landscape architects, selected by the Goods editor. Sleek benches, fire pits, water features, lighting, and play equipment are some of the product category standouts.

Jan 28, 2025 · Plants at Botanical Treasures, a perennials wholesaler in Fletcher, North Carolina, in Helene’s aftermath. Photo courtesy Robert Stine/Botanical Treasures. In several videos Robert Stine made of his nursery in Fletcher, North Carolina, on September 27, the windshield wipers slice away rain from ...

Aug 22, 2024 · Inspired by the Netherlands, Montreal is adopting water squares to mitigate urban flooding. By Katharine Logan The water square’s central basin slowly releases stormwater into the plaza’s deeply carved rain gardens.

Oct 1, 2024 · Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, provides respite while reflecting on the long history of racial injustice. Once a city dump on the Mississippi waterfront, Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is now a landmark park. The design provides downtown Memphis with a destination playground, water features, hammocks, art installations, new climate-adaptive trees and native shrubs, and a restored ...

Jan 25, 2024 · What landscape architects need to know. In the landscape for a new taqueria, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves a slice of Austin’s history. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Austin, Texas, has been the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan area for 12 years running. The steady growth, driven by a booming tech and venture capital sector, has utterly changed the fabric of the city—and not

Oct 2, 2024 · The African Ancestors Memorial Garden in Charleston, South Carolina, honors the labor and legacy of enslaved people. The ecology of both the South Carolina low country and the African diaspora feature in the African Ancestors Memorial Garden at the International African American Museum in Charleston. The garden covers two and a half acres at Gadsden’s Wharf, the port of arrival for nearly ...

Sep 19, 2024 · A group of University of Southern California students spends six days walking the 51 miles of the Los Angeles River and documenting what they found.

Sep 25, 2024 · Two landscape architects create a multimedia platform encouraging Californians to rethink their relationship with fire. This multimedia advocacy platform by two University of California, Davis professors encourages Californians to rebrand their relationships with wildfire and intentional fire.

Jan 30, 2025 · What landscape architects need to know. “We did a lot of fountain designs for them that didn’t resonate. It was the only piece of the project that didn’t make them happy right out of the gate. Then I had the idea: Why are we not just using the millstone? And it occurred to me that we could utilize the millstones in

Landscape Architecture Magazine covers the wide range of design by landscape architects written by award-winning journalists. More than parks, landscape architecture is woven into cities, neighborhoods, and rural places in projects large and small. Below is a sample of some of the best feature articles on design that have appeared recently.