Frederick Olmsted is referred to as the "Father of American Landscape Architecture." From the 19th century, he advocated for ...

Whether we call a design good or bad often comes down to whether we agree with the implicit assumptions that brought it about. Those that produced Central Park’s Lasker Pool and Skating Rink, which ...

When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York’s Central Park starting in the late 1850s, they created a set of diverse landscapes—including fields, meadows, lawns, and broad lakes. In ...

The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park. A rendering of the Davis Center in Central Park, with a new oval pool ...

On Saturday, April 26th, the public can finally visit the new Davis Center at Harlem Meer on the north end of Central Park. Construction on the $160 million project broke ground in 2021, and we got a ...