Planting is well underway at the Lola Mora Cultural Center. Preserved trees are thriving, and the newly installed groundcovers are healthy and establishing well.
Lola Mora Cultural Center construction update
Kicking off the Design of the Palisade house in Jersey City
Excited to begin shaping the landscape vision for the Palisade House—grounded in the site’s character and its sweeping views toward Manhattan. The house overlooks Hoboken, creating a meaningful connection to our Rebuild by Design project there from a decade ago.
SITES Silver Certification for Sylvia H. Rambo United States Courthouse
The Harrisburg courthouse features an 11,000 SF green roof with regional, drought-tolerant plantings and 60%+ native green space to reduce heat and support habitat; the landscape also captures and treats stormwater runoff.
Tbilisi Sea Master Plan completed
Landscape close-up of the nature preserve—one of the key nodes within the 482-ha design area.
Sejong Garden Expo pavilion competition
Balmori was invited to join the design competition for a pavilion at the Sejong Garden Expo in Sejong, South Korea (later canceled). Our concept, Eum-Yang Garden, explores balance through two simple moves: a shaded Old Growth Forest structure—cool, quiet, and made for forest bathing—and a sunlit Meadow Mound—warm, open, and alive with wildflowers and movement. Thank you for Knippers Helbig and GroupHan’s contributions.
Public Administrative Town, Sejong — 20 Years Later
Two decades after Balmori, HAEAHN, and H Architecture won the competition, Sejong’s Public Administrative Town has grown into a green nature-forward civic landscape.
Allegheny RiverTrail Park Opens
Allegheny RiverTrail Park (ARP) in Aspinwall, PA, near Pittsburg transformed a former neglected industrial site into a vibrant public space expanding on the original Aspinwall Riverfront Park to connect the community with the Allegheny River.
The Birds are back
The Mata Atlântica’s layered, native landscape at São Paulo Corporate Towers is now active habitat—welcoming wild birds back into São Paulo’s urban canopy.
Reforestation in Bogota
At Bogotá’s Unicentro mall, the Gastronomic District Park transforms part of a parking lot into a protected, all-native Andean forest garden with six immersive zones, dining and play amenities, and art—creating a cooler, healthier urban oasis and a pilot for turning more hardscape into green space.
Lola Mora Cultural Center on CNN
Lola Mora Cultural Center in Jujuy, Argentina is on CNN’s list for new buildings to shape the world in 2023!
Yale School of Architecture Lecture
Balmori Associates: A Landscape Never Happens Twice. Javier and Noemie presents Balmori’s recent projects.
