As climate change intensifies, coastal cities across the United States are grappling with rising seas, more intense storms, and widening disparities in public health and access to nature. These challenges reveal the need to rethink how open spaces are planned and designed. Landscape architecture has become a crucial to…

Seating is an important contributor to the social effectiveness of public spaces, due to its ability to support stay activities. This paper focuses on the contributions seating makes to sociability in Queen Street Mall in Brisbane, a public space where limited qualitative assessment has been conducted on seating…

The Kounkuey Design Initiative a not-for-profit design and community development organization active in Kibera and Mukuru, two large informal settlements in Nairobi, since 2006. The organization collaborates with community-based groups to co-create public spaces that support everyday needs related to sanitation, childc…

A major new public park for the City of London, Exchange Square is re-imagined as a bucolic landscape and generously planted green space, suspended above the tracks of Liverpool Street Station. Unfolding across several levels to create a more natural topography for the site, it provides opportunities for rest and relax…

Design and construction of a temporary bamboo structure provided the vehicle to explore live and interactive design-led research, extending collaborative partnerships and forging new relationships. Designed for two events of contrasting scale as part of the Dark Mofo annual arts festival hosted by the Museum of…

2023 Public Projects / United Kingdom / Built in 2022 / lda-design.co.uk Alfred Place was a heavily parked back street in London’s West End, situated alongside Tottenham Court Road in an area between the Euston Road and Oxford Street. With nowhere to sit, it was a place to hurry through. The street is lined with offi…