Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. The architectural and scenic wonders of France, Belgium and Germany have long been varied and great. In the summer of 1846, Calvert Vaux and his ...

Vaux remained in the shadow of Olmsted’s grand public personality and social connections. The design of Central Park embodies Olmsted’s social consciousness and commitment to egalitarian ideals.

The Vaux Barn is the only surviving structure designed by Calvert Vaux, a visionary architect and world-renowned landscape designer who blended nature and art. Vaux was a pioneer of landscape ...

Designed by Susan T Rodriguez, the project features a landscape-camouflaged amenity building and a vast public pool that converts into an ice rink in the winter.

Revisiting a 19th-century New York architect plus a taste of what's to come at our Sustainability in Practice conference on September 10 in Chicago.

Olmsted and Vaux went on to design dozens of other successful parks and entire park systems such as in Buffalo that were beautiful, like Prospect Park, but none were as revolutionary.

T he Riverside Improvement Committee envisioned “a perfect village in a perfect setting” when it hired Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux of Central Park fame to lay out the community in 1869.

Also see Frank Kowsky’s book, The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System, ...

Sitting pretty in the middle of New York City's Central Park is one of the country's most famous castles. Completed in 1872, the park's co-designer, Calvert Vaux, wanted the Gothic structure to ...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story. Prospect Park was not even half completed when it opened to the public in 1867. It was a huge success, made even larger over the next six years, as work ...