World Landscape Architecture

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World Landscape ArchitectureD-PREP International School | Landscape Tectonix D-PREP International School represents a new paradigm in the institutional landscape, in which education is envisioned as a high-performance ecosystem.

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World Landscape ArchitectureThe Right Life | Deeproots Design Winner of the Outstanding Award in the 2026 WLA Awards – Concept Residential Landscape Design category Situated within Bengaluru’s historic eastern tank cascade, the site forms part of a…

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World Landscape ArchitectureStudent Project | Topography of Aqua-Succession Winner of an Honourable Mention in the 2026 WLA Student Awards – Graduate category Contemporary riverside landscapes are increasingly losing their role as living ecosystems and becoming spaces…

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World Landscape ArchitectureThe Pearl Innovation District Integrates Medical Innovation, History, and Public Life The Pearl Innovation District in Charlotte, North Carolina, represents a new model for healthcare-anchored urban development; one that blends advanced medical research with public life, cultural…

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World Landscape ArchitectureJefferson Memorial Forest Master Plan | MKSK Winner of the Outstanding Award in the 2026 WLA Awards – Concept Masterplanning & Urban Design category Jefferson Memorial Forest (JMF) Master Plan establishes a long-term vision for the stewardship…

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World Landscape ArchitectureBeyond the Furrow: Restoring Ecological Connectivity and Sustainable Coexistence in Chenhu Winner of the Outstanding Award in the 2026 WLA Awards in the Built Sustainability and Resilience category.

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World Landscape ArchitectureNate Cormier Joins Design Workshop as Senior Designer Design Workshop welcomes Nate Cormier, ASLA, PLA, as its Senior Designer. With more than 25 years of experience, including the past decade at RIOS in Los Angeles, Cormier will serve as a senior…

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World Landscape ArchitectureThirty years of designing for biodiversity Landscape architect Andrew Grant, RDI of Grant Associates, and ecological designer Mike Wells, RDI of Biodiversity by Design, discuss how three decades of working together have changed their…

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World Landscape ArchitectureProfile | Niels de Bruin Recently, WLA Editor Damian Holmes asked Niels de Bruin to be part of our WLA profile series about his career and his role as a juror in the 2026 WLA Awards, and in a different take on a profile, he…

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World Landscape ArchitectureArcadia opens Sunshine Coast studio led by Jamie Franklin Jamie Franklin Arcadia has recently announced a new studio on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, led by Jamie Franklin.

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo