A large, steel sphere sourced from a shuttered paper mill has been repurposed by Seattle firm Mutuus Studio as an installation in a waterfront park in the Pacific Northwest. More about Mutuus Studio converts industrial artefact into Acid Ball installation in Washington park
The first section of a five-kilometre-long, looping park is set to open in London's Greenwich this summer, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architecture studio behind the High Line. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro creating new five-kilometre-long park in London's Greenwich,
Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to overhaul a portion of New York City's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, known as the BQE, with a public park that covers a subterranean roadway. More about BIG unveils park-covered highway for Brooklyn's waterfront
A zigzag elevated walkway and a pavilion wrapped in bamboo by West-Line Studio in the province of Guizhou, China, has been revealed in new photos. More about West-Line Studio creates bamboo-clad gateway to Chinese national park
Toronto firms Public Work and Greenberg Consultants have completed a new park underneath the city's Gardiner Expressway, to provide "a vital artery for pedestrians and cyclists". More about The Bentway park opens under Toronto's Gardiner Expressway
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to overhaul a park on Memphis' Mississippi River, which include building a plant-covered viewing tower, bulbous stoney structures, and a gridded canopy for basketball. More about Studio Gang unveils redesign of Memphis waterfront Tom Lee Park
An old coastal fortification in Cape Town has been transformed into an urban park, skatepark and garden by South African studio DHK. More about Battery Park brings skateboarders to V&A Waterfront in Cape Town
A salt marsh and a cantilevered viewing platform are among the features in an extensive new park that stretches along the East River in Long Island City, Queens. More about Former industrial site in Queens transformed into Hunter's Point South Park
American firms Marlon Blackwell Architects and James Corner Field Operations have renovated a vast park in Tennessee that once served as a farm where prisoners worked. More about Marlon Blackwell and Field Operations revitalise massive Shelby Farms Park in Memphis
Design, Bitches co-founders Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph explain their idea to create a park that brings different activities together in unusual ways in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More about Design, Bitches envisions assortment of pavilions for new park concept
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. More about Pelli Clarke Pelli's Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco
American firms Lake Flato and Matsys, along with landscape architect Rialto Studio, have designed a riverfront park in southern Texas, with sculptural pavilions that provide shade on sunny days and help collect rainwater during storms. More about Lake Flato and Matsys build pavilions with "petals" for San Antonio's Confluence Park
US studio James Corner Field Operations has created a public park on the waterfront site around the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, featuring a sunbathing spot, an industrial-style playground and a taco stand. More about Six-acre park opens at Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Factory site
Polly is a brightly-coloured pavilion designed by Charles Holland Architects, which has taken up residence in the grounds of Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal in North Yorkshire. More about Charles Holland installs parrot-like pavilion in National Trust garden
Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye have won a competition to transform a riverside parcel in Downtown Detroit into a thriving public park, with plans for a beach, multiple pavilions and a small isle for roosting birds. More about David Adjaye and Michael Van Valkenburgh selected to transform Detroit's West Riverfront Park
An underused public space in Veracruz, Mexico, has been given new life by Rozana Montiel and Alvin V Wallach, who built a canopy over the plaza to protect it from the elements. More about Pitched-roof structure revitalises public space at Veracruz port
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an unused space beneath a highway in Toronto, which is being overhauled to create a new park complete with an ice-skating track. More about Ice-skating trail transforms unused space beneath Toronto highway
Retail company Amazon has completed a set of glass orbs filled with "cloud forest" gardens for its headquarters in Seattle, providing work areas for employees and green space for the public. More about Plant-filled spheres open at Amazon headquarters in Seattle
These kiosks on Montreal's namesake peak lean away from the hillside at different angles to look as if they're being blown over by the wind. More about Gabled kiosks by Atelier Urban Face tilt away from Mount Royal's slope
The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. More about "There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another"