University landscape

Schollen & Company: The City of Toronto situated in Ontario, Canada is a dense urban city of 3 million people nestled in a network of natural valley corridors comprising 20 % (over 100 square km) of the City’s land. The University of Toronto, renowned for its research, enrolls nearly 90,000 students per year across three […]

The busy Mekel Road, which divided the campus of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), is replaced by the eye-catching Mekel Park. Centrally located, the park connects the various faculties of the TU Delft, and in doing so, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the university. At 800 metres long and 80 metres wide, Mekel Park lends a grandeur to the university and provides an enjoyable meeting place for the international community of teachers and students. Mekel Park forms a…

A revival of the heart of the Australian National University

Arcadia, together with architects PMDL, have developed a masterplan for the entire senior school campus, which will provide a framework for the future physical development of St Ignatius College on the current Lane Cove site, ensuring the best outcomes for teaching and learning and ongoing support for the Riverview community. Stage One of the Ignis Project has just been completed with the Therry Building and surrounding Therry Courtyard now in use. The Therry Courtyard delivers a teaching…

The Smith Plaza & Union Square Renovation transforms 3.3 acres at the heart of UNM’s main campus into UNM’s signature social gathering space. Intensely occupied by students, faculty, staff and local community members, the central plaza redesign acts as a social space of equity, diversity and inclusion. Addressing the historic Zimmerman Library, Student Union Building, […]

Northwest Laboratory Courtyard | The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston #landarch

Planergruppe Oberhausen: The new Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences focuses on defining identity to the area. By its open and inviting structure, the new campus gets perfectly embedded in the existing environment. The commonly used buildings center the campus in public, and the different faculties are made accessible from the center via the foyers. […]

For the Tokoha University landscaping project, we planned four terraces for the main locations. In o

This 60,000-sf plaza transforms the 14-acre Thomas Jefferson University campus in center city Philadelphia by providing a new “heart of campus” where two above-ground parking garages once stood. The new plaza, built above a 215-space parking garage, was designed to accommodate academic events and ceremonies and to serve as a shared space for the surrounding neighborhood. The elliptical forms radiating from the center make this space feel expansive despite being surrounded by tall buildings…