Artists rally to protect Russell Page garden at New York's Frick museum
Prominent names in the contemporary art world are fighting to save the Russell Page-designed viewing garden at New York's Frick Collection museum. More
Prominent names in the contemporary art world are fighting to save the Russell Page-designed viewing garden at New York's Frick Collection museum. More
A series of glazed pavilions situated on the edge of two lakes in eastern China are concealed below planted rooftops and were designed for a horticultural exhibition (+ slideshow). More
A naturally filtered outdoor swimming pool is taking shape as part of the redevelopment of King's Cross in London. More
News: the viewing terraces opened today at the top of Rafael Viñoly's so-called Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, pictured in these exclusive images by photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). More
News: BIG's competition-winning design for a new public square at London's Battersea Power Station has been revealed. More
News: first it was a garden bridge to span London's River Thames, now British designer Thomas Heatherwick is proposing a floating island park for the Hudson River in New York (+ slideshow). More
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. More
News: Bjarke Ingels has unveiled a vision to transform the harbour of Denmark's second largest city into a public plaza featuring a waterside theatre, swimming baths, beach huts and maritime allotments. More
London office Studio Octopi has revised its proposal for a floating swimming pool in the River Thames, to become a pontoon of three freshwater pools in a new location beside Temple underground station. More
Keeping up with the growing popularity for natural swimming pools, Herzog & de Meuron has completed a biologically filtered bathing lake in Riehen, Switzerland (+ slideshow). More
Cape Town architect Mark Thomas and engineer Henry Fagan have completed a sinuous wooden walkway that meanders through the treetops of a botanical garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain (+ slideshow). More
A team featuring JDS Architects has created a waterfront recreation area for the Danish seaside town of Faaborg where swimming areas sit between piers and decked surfaces curve up over small buildings (+ slideshow). More
Danish restaurant Noma commissioned Polyform Architects to create a landscape based on Nordic terroir to give pilgrims to the world's best restaurant a taste of what's inside, without disturbing diners (+ slideshow). More
Lisbon firm Topiaris Landscape Architecture has extended a 700-metre long timber walkway through wild riverside scrubland to connect a new Portuguese public park with a bird observatory (+ movie). More
Studio Weave has designed a new roof terrace for London College of Fashion's gallery space, adding brightly coloured decking and seats. More
This vertiginous viewing platform in the Canadian Rockies was designed by Calgary firm Sturgess Architecture with a strengthened glass floor that provides a view straight down to the valley below. More
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. More
This wooden observation platform and pavilion emerges from the landscape of a memorial park in Koknese, Latvia, offering views across the River Daugava (+ slideshow). More
A pavilion with a spiked roof by Australian firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects rises above the landscaped site of the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). More
News: architects and designers including OMA, BIG and WXY have unveiled proposals to revitalise parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and help protect them against future emergencies. More