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…
09/10/201710 TEAMS SELECTED TO MAP BAY AREA’S RESPONSE TO RISING SEA LEVELSSan Francisco Chronicle: With sea level rise expected to become a pressing threat here within decades, 10 design teams have been selected to…
09/06/2017LESSONS FROM HURRICANE SANDY HAS NY ON FIRM FOOTING AGAINST STORMSReal Estate Weekly: Fresh of Hurricane Harvey, days away from Irma and five years after New York was battered by its own Hurricane Sandy,&nb…
09/01/2017ELABORATE PROJECTS PLANNED TO STOP ANOTHER SANDYFOX 5 News - After Superstorm Sandy hit, a handful of groups were tasked with creating ways to protect communities in and around New Yo…
08/30/2017WHAT THE DUTCH CAN TEACH THE WORLD ABOUT MANAGING FLOODSCBC: The hurricane that has devastated Texas and Louisiana — and the catastrophic flooding in Sierra Leone and South East Asia — s…