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 without consequences. According to one news outlet’s analysis of city data, at least 800 historic structures have been demolished since 2000. “I’ve seen, one by one, these beloved places torn down,” says Christy Ten Eyck, FASLA, the founding principal of Austin’s Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. […]

A new housing development in Arkansas is designed for neurodiversity and community. By Maci Nelson, Associate ASLA The ability to decide how to get from one place to another is a choice that many people take for granted. But for many neurodivergent individuals, these small yet meaningful travels from school or to work are a resource for a sense of self-actualization, dignity, and independence, experts say. At South Cato Springs, a 230-acre Ozarkian mixed-use, mixed-income development designed to serve neurodivergent individuals in Fayetteville, Arkansas, an emphasis on nature-immersed mobility that promotes nonvehicular travel as the norm could help the development […]

Dryland farming comes to the suburbs, thanks to an innovative community park. By Timothy A. Schuler When Diane Lipovsky, ASLA, and Stacy Passmore, ASLA, the founding principals of Superbloom, first visited the Windler homestead in Aurora, Colorado, to develop a proposal for a new community park, they knew they didn’t want to treat the buildings like dollhouses. “We tried to think through how it wasn’t just a museum where people go to learn about farming; it was also your community park,” Lipovsky says. “We want this to be a place where we can celebrate the history of dryland agriculture but [also] […]

A rural city bets on water access and landscape amenities as the keys to economic revitalization. By Kim O’Connell Throughout its history, Danville, Virginia, has been a pass-through city—a place where people and products were often headed someplace else. Located on the North Carolina border, this small industrial city is bifurcated by the Dan River but remains largely cut off from it.

In Atlanta, a 30-year-old experimental garden finds a new, and more contextual, home. By Timothy A. Schuler  Trees Atlanta’s new headquarters has the requisite office and program space, including an implementation yard and tree nursery, but with more than 55 tree species and the installation of an experimental landscape artwork, the endeavor was, in many ways, “more of a landscape architecture project than an architecture project,” says Matt Cherry, ASLA. He is the director of landscape architecture and urban design at the multidisciplinary firm Lord Aeck Sargent, which designed the new building.