Floating gardens

We visit the floating gardens in the Chicago river. We employ water conservation into all of our designs and advocate for the river as public space.

By Dimosthenis Vasiloudis

in rotterdam, the recycled island foundation has retrieved debris from the city's river to create a prototype floating park, which is now open to visitors.

How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as c…

Immerse yourself in a re-created salt marsh habitat and learn how the National Aquarium is restoring Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Opened in 2024, Harbor Wetland is a free, outdoor exhibit between Piers 3 and 4.

Seattle’s Duwamish River estuary has something new afloat along the shorelines. If you have the chance to visit the river this spring, you might see several structures holding large, square mats of wood straw, biodegradable foam, and other natural materials tethered to piles near the river’s edge. You might also see me or other team members perched on the wooden frames, counting fish, measuring plants, and sampling water quality.

White blooms stand neatly on floating bamboo rafts in Taipei City, Taiwan on April 1, 2013. (billlushana1/Flickr)