With all of the disruption in our lives from Covid-19 in 2020, the environment…
We have a new plaza in Manhattan under construction – this is an entry…
Happy New Year! While 2020 was not the festive twentieth anniversary year we had…
Did you know that the first commercial flight took of from St. Petersburg, Florida?…
After nearly a decade of design and planning by W and the project team,…
The skate park we designed in collaboration with Califonia Skateparks, NYC Dept. of Parks &…
W designed the St. Pete Pier Approach, which is part of the St. Petersburg…
W worked with the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the NYC…
Three out of four phases of improvements in Shoelace Park are complete and now…
An article published today in the New York Times, ‘Why Cities are Finally Showing…
The Chicago Athenaeum has publicly announced the winners of the American Architecture Awards and…
We are proud to share that the St. Petersburg Pier Approach we designed was…
W participated in the Neighborhoods Now initiative, launched by the Urban Design Forum and…
The Edge park was awarded an American Architecture Award in the Urban Planning/Landscape Architecture…
W’s redesign of Shoelace Park in the Bronx is now partially open! In the…
Author Suketu Mehta and New York Times’ architecture critic Michael Kimmelman took a tour…
We are thrilled to announce that we were selected by the Western New York…
W’s recently completed park, the St. Petersburg Pier Approach, includes Bending Arc, by Janet…
The skate park plaza we designed in collaboration with Califonia Skateparks, NYC Dept. of…
The new Water Taxi Terminal and USS Constellation Museum construction is steadily moving along…
W worked with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation to redesign CC Moore…
Barbara Wilks, principal at W, will be on a panel on August 6 at…
The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has partnered with PARK to launch an intereactive and…
Read this article, ‘In a New Pier District, an Arc Bends Towards Justice,’ in…
W worked with NYC Parks to redesign Riverside Skate Park in Riverside Park on…
The St. Petersburg Catalyst covered the opening week at the Pier District. Bill DeYoung,…
The new St. Petersburg Pier District opened on July 6 and encompasses 26 acres…
W is part of a working group collaborating with the Urban Design Forum and…
Janet Echelman‘s new site-specific artwork for the St. Petersburg Pier Approach is now installed!…
The long-awaited debut of the new St. Pete Pier and Pier Approach has a…
The Shoelace Park Greenway has restarted construction after pausing – we are excited to…
June 8th is World Ocean’s Day! As the World Ocean’s Day organization says “there…
Eight public spaces have been selected as finalists for the 2020 Urban Land Institute…
Common / Edge spoke with St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman about the city’s approach…
Check out this springtime aerial photo of Pyramid Hill! W designed and installed the…
Construction at the USS Constellation Water Taxi Terminal at the waterfront in Baltimore is…
We are happy to report that The Edge, our waterfront park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,…
In an effort to help the spread of COVID-19 by social distancing, W has…
Celebrating and remembering Michael Sorkin (1948-2020), generous and passionate architect and friend. He shared…
Here’s a photo of our office – we at W are doing our part…
As Capitol Hill considers stimulus funds to counteract the effects of the coronavirus, it…
In uncertain times, parks and other open spaces can be vital resources for cities….
New York City recently passed a climate legislation package focused on buildings, which are…
On June 18, 2020, Barbara will speak at the Courageous by Design symposium in…
On February 13, NYC Parks broke ground on the Shoelace Park reconstruction project. W…
Demolition is complete at the Inner Harbor Water Taxi Terminal in Baltimore, MD. The…
Thrillist covered the opening of the St. Petersburg pier and pier approach in this…
In honor of the feature article Landscape Architecture Magazine published on St. Patrick’s Island,…
Here is a sneak peek of the St. Petersburg Pier approach, which is currently…
The January 2020 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine has a feature story on our…
This semester, Barbara has been serving on the jury for a design studio led…
Archinect featured the unveiling of the MiNY campus designs – read the article here!…
Last week, the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC) released the designs for the…
An interdisciplinary team from the fields of landscape design, planning, and art examines LGBTQ…
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle broke the news that a former DUMBO hotel will be…
Last week, at the National ASLA Conference in San Diego, Samantha Sikanas, landscape designer…
The NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced plans for a $136 million Made In…
Join us on Sunday, October 20 for a tour of 50 West Street plaza…
We’re opening our doors for Open House NY’s weekend #OHNYwknd! Our office will be…
The St. Petersburg pier approach is coming along – and will be open in…
On Wednesday, our office had a picnic lunch and walkthrough of The Edge park…
Curbed NY covered our Downtown Far Rockaway project in an article published yesterday. There…
Last weekend, Barbara was in Prague to participate in the first evening salon of…
The playground at the St. Petersburg Pier Approach is coming together – the equipment…
Councilmembers, city officials, community members, and the design team attended the groundbreaking ceremony for…
The American Architecture Awards, considered the nation’s highest public awards for new architecture and urban…
W recently completed the reconstruction of a portion of the Hudson River Greenway with…
Yesterday, Barbara served on the jury for the La Brea Tar Pits redesign in…
Julian B. Lane just won two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athanaeum Museum…
Julian B. Lane park in Tampa won the ‘Best Project’ award in the Landscape/Urban…
Last week, phase 2 of The Edge park opened to the public! The park…
Last Friday, a class of students from the Knowlton School at Ohio State University…
The Brooklyn Paper‘s most recent issue included a front page article on the status…
Last week, Barbara and the rest of the Van Alen Climate Council visited the…
W worked with NYC Parks and Green Shield Ecology to design a landscape restoration…
The skate park in Riverside Park on West 109th Street is now under construction!…
The Westport Library has undergone a major transformation and is getting ready to fully…
W and Civitas are honored to share that we were awarded a ‘Future of…
W is working with Buffalo RiverWorks and Buffalo Niagra Waterkeeper to expand Buffalo’s water…
Grant Park Playground, located at the corner of Grant Avenue and E 169th Street…
Happy Earth Day! One of the many elements destroying our planet is plastic. One…
On April 24th, Barbara Wilks [W Architecture and Landscape Architecture] will take part in…
Last Thursday night, was the ASLA NY awards ceremony where we received the honor…
In Buffalo for the 30% concept development meeting with Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, HDC, DEC,…
Proud to announce that our project, The Valley Beeline, a key part of our…
nARCHITECTS, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture to develop new garment hub and public space…
Working with Bergmann: Architects Engineers Planners in Rochester, NY we plan to take down…
2019 AIA Baltimore and BAF Spring Lecture Series: The Intentional and Unintentional Edge This…
We are happy to announce the recognition of two of our projects by The…
Snow, construction, sand, and winter waves lapping at the edge. 27 West Street is…
From the Tampa Bay Times The Massachusetts-based artist unveils her design during a speech…
Our community centered plan for the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood ended this morning at a…
The new illuminated sign on the Tampa River Center is a beacon in the…
The reconstruction of CC Moore Homestead Park in Elmhurst, Queens will begin construction in…
Images from the three day retreat with the Van Alen Institue's Climate Council addressing…
Barbara Wilks is heading to Sacramento this week with the Van Alen Institute as…
There will be an additional screening of Beverly Willis' documentary on the contributions of…
The waterfront park at 27-41 West Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is now under construction….