PHOENIX — The Phoenix Sidewalk Shade Project is aiming to make some of the Valley's sizzling-hot streets a little safer and more tolerable. Early plans show that more than two dozen shade structures ...

One of the two compressors used to chill the surface of the city’s new, $10 million ice ribbon failed when it was initially installed, but a replacement is belching steam and planners are still ...

AGENCY Architecture is located in El Paso, Texas, and our work has focused largely on ideas that shape our border-adjacent desert context, with a particular sensitivity to social issues, ecological ...

Students in Kennesaw State University’s Master Craftsman Program are in a unique position of having their creativity incorporated into public spaces around the city. The city of Kennesaw recently held ...

Texas Tech University College of Architecture professors and research partners Stephen Mueller and Ersela Kripa examine a paper prototype of a shade structure designed by their software, which focuses ...

Jacksonville plans to build a shaded structure at the Veterans Memorial Wall and a Veterans and Military Families Community Center. Funding for both projects will require a combination of public and ...

LAS CRUCES - The city has signaled it will go with the most expensive option for shade structures in the downtown Plaza de Las Cruces, but also the option that's perhaps the most durable and doles out ...

Public Square Group board member Vince Frantz, an avid skateboarder and Lakewood resident, played a key role in researching and identifying the RCP Shelters amenity. “We kind of knew this might be ...

In a surprise move, the Palm Beach Architectural Commission has sent a town proposal for a new pergola at the Mandel Recreation Center back to the drawing board, after members criticized the design of ...

The Tucson sun is relentless. Despite our cloudless skies and abundant sunny days, many of us are reluctant to spend time outside in our yards and gardens due to the heat and brightness. Some shade is ...

In a city that more than 150,000 veterans call home, the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall is hallowed ground, but it's location in a sea of asphalt parking lots also makes it an uncomfortably hot ...

In the tragic first chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson’s breakthrough novel, The Ministry of the Future, readers follow a caregiver as he navigates an Indian city amidst a crushing heat wave. The power ...