

Public Park
Design and planning of public parks, from master planning to pavilions and recreational facilities.
Public parks are shared outdoor spaces that serve communities through recreation, gathering, and environmental benefits. This topic covers the full range of park design work, including master planning, landscape architecture, and the structures that activate these spaces.
The community explores innovative approaches to park design across scales and contexts, from large-scale interventions like aquarium parks and market spaces to intimate pavilions serving specific neighborhoods, as well as adaptive reuse projects that transform existing sites into public gathering places.
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View all 47 journalsThe Infinity Park: A Figure-Eight Park That Tries to Breathe for Its Neighbourhood
A sculptural lung and visitor-triggered oxygen bollards make people the park's breath, and show how narrow a carbon-only idea of clean air can be.
P.O.P Popular of Park: Translucent Ribbon Walls That Turn a City Park into a Pop Art Gallery
Curving pale walls loop round gallery rooms, a café and a playground, so a public park becomes an exhibition you enter without noticing the door.
Edgar Mazo and CONNATURAL Build a Park in Medellín from the Ruins of the Houses It Replaced
In the Aranjuez district of Medellín, 80 percent of the materials for a new 5,500 square meter park came from the homes that once stood on the site.
Ruy Ohtake Shapes a 26,000 m² Aquarium as a River Flowing Through Campo Grande
Inside Brazil's Parque das Nações Indígenas, a zinc-clad ellipse and red steel ribs house 32 aquariums celebrating the Pantanal wetland.