Built in three phases, with the first opening in 2008 and the third in 2023, the park has been widely celebrated as a model of waterfront renewal. But beyond the familiar story of access returned to ...

Usually, you’re curtailed to a pretty small postage stamp site for an outdoor space at a hotel like this. We’re saying, no, let’s push this program out and around and depart from the typical ‘you are ...

Montreal’s Jardins des Floralies, on Île Notre-Dame in the Parc Jean-Drapeau, have changed a great deal since they were installed as part of a horticultural exhibition in 1980. Of the gardens that can ...

Erin Despard is a disabled writer and researcher whose work focuses on gardens, landscape, and visual media.

I'm an award-winning writer on design, sustainability, and well-being in the built environment. I write regularly for Architectural Record (where I'm a contributing editor and where my work formed ...