12/20/2017CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PREVENTING NATURAL DISASTERSWYPR: 2017 is looking to be a record setting year when it comes to natural disasters in the United States. Climate change and a growing…
12/12/2017ISLAND OFFERS PLACES FOR UNIQUE CLIMATE SOLUTIONSAlameda Sun: Several Alameda locations have been nominated to be part of a study that aims to provide unique solutions to locations mos…
11/22/20176 IDEAS TO TRANSFORM THE BAY AREA AND STALL THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSECo.design: Unfortunately, it usually takes a natural disaster to remind cities how vulnerable they are–and how urgent long-range resili…
11/16/2017RACING RISING SEAS IN THE BAY AREA: DESIGN TEAMS ‘FLOAT’ SOME BIG IDEASKQED: After months of study, ten carefully-picked design teams are unveiling their first ideas for giving the Bay Area a makeover to co…
11/15/2017MEET SCAPE, THE ARCHITECTS DESIGNING URBAN LANDSCAPES TO STAND THE TEST OF TIMECurbed: Growing up in the forests of Delaware, Gena Wirth, a design principal at SCAPE, spent her days building forts and collecting st…
11/02/2017OYSTER-TECTURE99% Invisible: Standing on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s financial district in the shadows of glass skyscrapers, it is easy to forget how…
11/01/2017FIVE YEARS AFTER HURRICANE SANDY, NEW YORKERS REFLECT ON THE STORM’S LEGACYMetropolis: This week marks five years since Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history, made landfall. As it …
11/01/2017AS HOUSTON REBUILDS, WE NEED AMENITIES, NOT EYESORESHouston Chronicle: History provides a guide for how Houston can rebuild after the devastation of Harvey. In the wake of destructive …
10/30/2017CAN THE BAY AREA DESIGN ITS WAY OUT OF SEA LEVEL RISE?Bay Nature: Last month, as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida, a crowd of international designers, scientists, and policy-maker…
10/26/2017FEDS TO FUND MASSIVE FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECT FOR HOBOKEN, NEARBY TOWNSNJ Spotlight: Nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Sandy inundated Hoboken, the city got word from the federal government that …
10/23/20172017 INNOVATION CONFERENCE IN NYC DEMONSTRATES HOW DESIGN MAKES A DIFFERENCEArchitectural Record: The setting, an ornate auditorium in Manhattan’s Masonic Hall, was designed for semi-secret rituals, but the focu…
10/16/2017THIS GROUNDBREAKING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IS CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT COASTLINESCoastal Living: A landscape architect who saves coastlines? Meet urban designer Kate Orff, a newly named MacArthur Fellow, and the…
10/03/2017WHERE IS THE ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE HIT BY HURRICANE MARIA?NRDC: Our nation has been rocked by three catastrophic hurricanes over the past five weeks. This rash of disasters has taxed the nation…
09/17/2017HARVEY RECOVERY CZAR FACES LIMITS TO ‘FUTURE-PROOFING’ TEXASThe Washington Post: AUSTIN, Texas — The man tasked with overseeing Texas’ Hurricane Harvey rebuilding efforts sees his job as “future-proof…
09/14/2017COMPETITION LOOKS AT REDESIGN FOR S.F. BAY AS SEA LEVELS RISESSan Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area residents know how hard it is to get a full sense of the large and constantly shifting shoreline that…
09/12/2017U.S. PAVILION ANNOUNCES DESIGN TEAMS FOR 2018 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALEArchpaper: Seven design teams have been selected to represent the United States in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennal…