Articles by Ben Dreith

Landscape architects must prioritise creating “sponge cities” in the face of increased flooding, Oberlander Prize-winner Kongjian Yu tells Dezeen in this interview. Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu believes that landscape architects need to take the lead in transforming “grey infrastructure into green infrastructure” if our cities are to resist flooding caused by changing climates. He

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Manhattan’s first “public beachfront” and a salt marsh feature at Gansevoort Peninsula on the Hudson River, which was designed by local landscape studio Field Operations to serve as a buffer against rising tides. Gansevoort Peninsula sits on the Hudson River on the site of a former pier and is part of a greater initiative known

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Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. Called the Refinery, the 12-storey building is the conversion of an industrial factory into a contemporary office, reflecting how the borough’s architectural needs

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Local architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country’s largest and tallest mass-timber structure to “set an example for innovative construction methods”. Called El Jardín Anatole, the 940-square-metre structure was placed in the former courtyard of a historic house in a residential neighbourhood in Mexico

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