Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has created a sound installation for a sculpture park in Shanghai, featuring horn-shaped speaking tubes, swings and slides to transform the natural environment into a playful gathering space. More about Yuri Suzuki creates acoustic playground for Shanghai park
Yellow accents enliven the viewing platforms, performance areas and play spaces at this urban park in Kunshan, China, completed by local studio SoBA. More about SoBA draws on "curves and rhythm" of music for The Orchestra Park in China
California architects Finn Bradley and Robert Jernigan have proposed a memorial in the fire-devastated Pacific Palisades neighbourhood in Los Angeles that maintains a century-old facade and opens up a block for community use. More about Local architects propose preserving historic facade for Palisades fire memorial in LA
Chicago has approved plans for architecture studio RIOS and landscape studio Field Operations to transform 55-acres around the United Center arena as part of the 1901 Project. More about United Center's parking lots to be turned into "network of plazas and paseos"
UK architecture firm Heatherwick Studio has designed an undulating structure atop the elevated Belvedere park in Louisville to be something "powerful, exciting and new" for the city. More about Heatherwick Studio designs "ribbon-like" riverfront park in Kentucky
Architecture studio Entorno y Contexto has led the redevelopment of a stretch of the Papaloapan River on Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, installing lightweight steel structures on stilts and landscaping to facilitate recreation. More about Red-painted steel structures feature in Mexican riverfront revitalisation
Architecture studios Local and Pir 2 have collaborated on a community park and playground in Etne on the West coast of Norway, featuring a pavilion made using recycled aluminium from a nearby plant. More about Multipurpose community park in rural Norway designed with local residents
American firms Dig Studio and Lake Flato have restored and expanded Scottsdale Civic Plaza in Arizona, adding a series of pavilions and responding directly to existing buildings flanking the outdoor space. More about Dig Studio and Lake Flato revamp Scottsdale Civic Plaza for "increasingly warming world"
Local architects Dmytro Volyk and Ksenia Donetska have completed the renovation of Uspenska Square in Dnipro, Ukraine, dividing multipurpose space with wave-like benches informed by the nearby river. More about Public square renovation in Ukraine demonstrates "impetus for city life" amid ongoing conflict
Austrian studio Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has completed the Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse in China, engulfing a disused steelworks with a mass of curved glass pavilions. More about Delugan Meissl transforms disused steelworks in China with "organic curved pavilions"
Local landscape design studio Surfacedesign has completed Bayfront Park waterfront park in San Francisco using steel elements from a recently demolished portion of the Oakland Bay Bridge. More about Surfacedesign "celebrates material reuse" at San Francisco waterfront park
A series of viewpoints clad in charred-timber shingles have been perched throughout the largest nature park in Copenhagen by Danish studios LYTT Architecture and ADEPT. More about ADEPT and LYTT Architecture elevate lookouts within Amager Nature Park
Architecture studio LMN Architects and landscape studio Field Operations have opened a wood-clad aquarium extension topped with a public park that acts as a bridge between the city and Seattle's waterfront. More about LMN Architects and Field Operations open aquarium extension and park in Seattle
An open steel grid topped with green barrel-vaulted roofs frames this park in Spain, which has been completed by Bilbao studio Bear Architects. More about Bear Architects designs Zubitegi Park in Spain as "living infrastructure"
Architect Iñaki Echeverria has completed the first phases of an eco-park three times the size of Manhattan in Mexico City, using some of the infrastructure of the cancelled Foster + Partners-designed airport. More about "Regenerative" eco-park opens on site of cancelled Mexico City airport
A range of colours, patterns and forms animate this sports and play area in Tianjin, China, designed by international studio Ballistic Architecture Machine to "rethink the role of parks in dense cities". More about Tianjin 4A Sports Park is a multipurpose play area in China by BAM
An elevated, winding walkway guides visitors through Park of Memories, a former graveyard in Aš, Czech Republic, renovated by local studio SOA Architekti. More about SOA Architekti transforms former graveyard into public park in Czech Republic
Brazilian studio Estúdio Campana has created a park near São Paulo that includes pavilions made with live plants on land once farmed by the founders' grandfather. More about Estúdio Campana adds living plant pavilions to São Paulo park
Chinese studio AIM Architecture has transformed a series of former oil silos in Changzhou into Cotton Park, a mixed-use community space surrounded by a public garden and play areas. More about AIM Architecture transforms oil silos in China into community park
Chunks of onyx stepped along the waterfront, green spaces and multiple playgrounds fill a public park built on a former industrial port in Los Angeles by international architecture studio Sasaki. More about Sasaki completes waterfront transformation and public park in the Port of Los Angeles