01/31/2018HASSELL+ AND MVRDV TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BAY AREAInhabitat: A HASSELL+-led design team that includes MVRDV has unveiled their preliminary proposed design strategy for ta…
01/18/2018BIG UNVEILS SCHEME TO PROTECT SAN FRANCISCO CREEK FROM FLOODINGDezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by cl…
01/16/2018RAISED STEPPING STONES ALLOW DUTCH BRIDGE TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE DURING A FLOODDezeen: Rising water levels don't cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accesse…
01/11/2018DESIGN COMPETITION TACKLES SITES AROUND BAY AREA TO ADDRESS RISING WATERSSan Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscape…
01/11/20185 BERGEN TOWNS TO BENEFIT FROM DEP MEADOWLANDS FLOODING PLANNorth Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could …
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…