Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture. Olmsted was famous for ...

The northern end of Central Park is slated to get a major upgrade by 2024. Today the Central Park Conservancy and the New York City Parks Department unveiled its plans for a $150 million restoration ...

Renderings courtesy of Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture Design and the Central Park Conservancy. The northern end of Central Park that surrounds the Harlem Meer will soon get a major revamp. There are ...

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 ...

Sheep Meadow is quiet on this Wednesday morning in June. The guitar-strummers and sunbathers who lounged on its lawn yesterday are gone, and now its only occupants are the elms and sycamores that ...

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 ...

New York City's Central Park is due to receive a significant restoration. The Central Park Conservancy, which manages the park, recently unveiled its plan to improve some of its layout and facilities, ...

A Weston, Massachusetts, mansion with gardens by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York’s iconic Central Park, hit the market Tuesday for $7.75 million. Known as Ridgehurst, ...

Lasker Rink, a swimming pool and skating rink, activated Central Park’s north end since 1966, but was due for an upgrade. This week the renamed and revamped recreation spot opened again to the public ...

BRIDGEPORT — Frederick Law Olmsted’s projects include some of the nation’s most storied landmarks, including New York’s Central Park and the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. But to Bridgeport residents, ...

The new ice skating rink at the Davis Center offers free and affordable public skating sessions, ice time for local schools ...