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URBAN SPACES: ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE FUTURE
Jacobo Krauel

AVANT GARDENERS
Tim Richardson and Martha Schwartz

INTERNATIONAL NEW LANDSCAPE: PUBLIC LANDSCAPE ART
Shanghai Yutong Culture and Media Company

USA LANDSCAPE DESIGN
George Lam

URBAN SPACES: SQUARES AND PLAZAS
Dimitris Kottas

FRENCH ISLAND ELEGANCE
Michael Connors & Bruce Buck

AMERICAN PLAYGROUNDS: REVITALIZING COMMUNITY SPACE
Susan Solomon

THOMAS BALSLEY: THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
Jane Gillette

GARDENS FOR THE FUTURE: GESTURES AGAINST THE WILD
Guy Cooper & Gordon Taylor

ARTICLES

2009
Metropolis, "A Singular Creation”

2008
Landscape Architect, "Light and Shadow, Form and Fantasy"
Concept Magazine, “Magok Waterfront, Seoul, Korea”
Environment & Landscape Architecture of Korea, “1st Prize Winner - Heart of Magok is Nature of Living Water”
Plus, Architecture & Interior, “International Design Competition for the Magok Waterfront, Seoul”
Space Magazine, “Heart of Magok is Nature of Living Water”
Architecture & Design Competition
Architecture & Culture, “Heart of Magok is Nature of Living Water”
Curbed.com, "Dreaming of Summer at Riverside Park South"
International New Landscape, "Riverside Park South: Masterplan & Phase I-IV"
Troy Record, “Fountains Mark New Entry to UAlbany”

2007
LAM, "Meet Me Again in St. Louis, Louis"
BBC: Around the World in 80 Gardens, Programme Five
Financial Times, "City's Green Designers get Lofty Ideas"
Crain's New York Business, "Great outdoors becomes latest condo attraction"
Landscape Architect, "A Phoenix Rises Rises from its’ Own Ashes"
St. Louis Post Dispatch, "New visions for Gateway Mall Surface"
Oculus, "ASLA NY 2006 Design Awards"
Landscape Architecture Magazine, "Building on a Gritty Legacy"

2006
Urban Land Institute, "ULX: Top Ten Urban Parks"
International New Landscape, "Queens West Waterfront Parks Master Plan & Gantry Plaza State Park (Phase I)"
New York Times, "The Newest Lure: Great Landscaping"

2005
New York Times, "Upping the Ante: Dog Parks and Outdoor Showers"
Landscape Architecture Magazine, "People Plaza"
Landscape Architect, "A Plaza Runs"
Landscape Architect, "Chelsea Waterside Park: A Playground for Everyone"
New York Times, Metro, "For a City Unafraid of a Little Public Snooze"
Landscape Architecture Magazine, "A Whale of a Garden"
Landscape Architect, "Rockefeller University's South Campus"

2004
St. Petersburg Times, "Firms Vie to Create Walk in the Park”
New York Times, Real Estate, "Going up at 205 East 59th Street; A 27-Floor, Dog-Friendly Condo"
Landscape Architecture Magazine, "The Poetry of Passages"
New York Times, Business Day, "A Highly Designed Design Complex Gets a New Life"
Landscape Architecture Magazine, "Planning Bollards and Beyond"
Rocky Mountain News, "City Opens Two Blocks of Skyline Park Downtown"
New York Times, Streetscapes, "On Waterfronts of the Present, Rail-Bridge Relics of the Past"

2003
Dwell, “All About the Angles”
New York Times, Metro, "New Park On Hudson Fills Gap In Greenery"
Daily News, “Trump Hands City Green: 3 acres of New Parkland”
The Oregonian, “Portland’s $1.9 Billion Bet”
New York Times, Arts, “Pierwise, One Person’s Wreck is Another’s Art”
The Sunday Oregonian, Arts Week ,“Thomas Balsley Has Designs on the Willamette River”
The Plain Dealer, Arts & Life, “Green with Promise”

2002
Building Stone, "Jurors Meet and Select Tucker Award Winners"
Sunday Denver Post, "NY Architect Envisions a Park for All”
New York Observer, "Trinity Hopes to Buy City Street to Build Office Tower and Park"
Denver Daily News, "Skyline Park Overhaul Subject of Symposium"

2001
Land Forum Book Review of Jerald Kayden's, "Privately Owned Public Space: NYC…"
Urban Land, "Parks on the Waterfront"
The Van Alen Report, "Recreating the City "NYC on the Verge: New Design for the Waterfront"
ID Magazine, "ID 40: Uncommon Ground"
Urban Spaces No.2, " The Design of Public Spaces"
Oculus, "At the Water's Edge"
Van Alen Report, "Architecture+Water"
Landscape Architecture, "Land Matters"
l'Arca Plus, "Gantry State Park at Queens West"
Environment & Landscape Architecture of Korea, "New Urban Landscapes"
Landscape Architecture, "Public Notice"
Places, "New Life for an Old Plaza"
The New York Observer, "Wet 'N' Wild in Chelsea"
New York Times, "Neighbors Greet New Pier with Grudging Accolades"
New York Times, House & Home, "Skyline Views from Midstream…"
Time Out, "Trump Card"

2000
New York Times, OPED, "New York Still Needs Patches of Green"
New York Times, OPED Letter, "Parks and Plazas, the Urban Backyard,"
Architectural Record, "Urban Power"
Garten + Landschaft
Design Times, "A Rock Revolution"
New York Times, House & Home Currents, "Plaza into Park, with Coffee Kiosk and …"
The Villager, "It's a Completion! With a Toss of a ball, Chelsea Park Opens"
New York Times, Real Estate, "Breathing Life into City's Barren Plazas"
Daily News, "Riverfront Park a Shore Thing" and "Trump Rolling Out the Green"

1999
Landscape Architecture, "History Moved Forward"
The Westsider, "The Man Who Greened New York"
Landscape Design (Japan)
New York Times, Metro, "An Appraisal; A Newly Renovated City Hall Park…"
The Spirit West Side Local, "Champion of the Unloved Park"
New York Times, Currents, "1Dog Run, 3 Mounds, Many, Many Options”
Waterfront World Spotlight, "Gantry Plaza State Park,"

1998
Architalx, "Architalx Design Lecture Series-The Work of Thomas Balsley, ASLA"
Building Stone, "Thomas Balsley"
Oculus Vol.61, No.2, "Park Profitability"
OPENSPACE, "At Last, A Public West Side Waterfront"
Landscape Architecture, "Practice: Pier View"
New York Times, Art/Architecture, "Where Iron Gives Way to Beauty and Games"
New York Times, The City, "From Mattresses' Graveyard to a Stylish Riverfront Park"
The Westsider, "Greening the Waterfront"

1997-1996
The NY Observer, "A Tale of Two Parks: One Withers, One Blooms"
Chinese Architect
Japanese Collaboration
The Villager, "Design is Chosen for New Park in Chelsea"
The Westsider, "A Tale of Two Tunnels"
Urban Assembly, "Partnership for Local Action: Riverside South"
Traditional Building, "East River Esplanade Park"
Waterfront World Spotlight, "East River Esplanade Park," Award Announcement

1995
Chelsea Clinton News, "In Brief"
Chelsea Clinton News, "A Park to Cheer"
Chelsea Clinton News, "Riverside South, Part 2"
Abitare, "Un Parco Per L'East River"
American City & County, "Waterfront Rehab Cited by Architects"
Landscape Architecture, Infrastructure, "East River Remedy"
Newsday Real Estate, "Winning Brief on East River"
New York Times, Metro, "The Grabbing of the Green"
Metropolis Observed, "QW: New Vision for New York or Big Deal Dinosaur?"

1994
Newsday Real Estate, "Plazas Unsweet for City"
New York Times Magazine, "The Waterfront 2004"
Brooklyn Neighborhoods, "Facelift for Downtown"
Landscape Architect & Specifier News, "An Esplanade with a Difference"
Openspace, "East River Esplanade Wins Design Award"
Our Town, "On the River's Edge"
New York Times, Architecture, "QW: Why Not Something Great?"
New York Times, Real Estate, "Queens West Begins with a Park"

1993-1990
Institute for Urban Design Newsletter, Brief Vol.9, No.3
Building Stone, "Thomas Balsley: In the Language of Natural Materials"
New York Times, Metro, "In the Battle Over Riverside South, the City Could be the Winner"
Crain's NY Business, "Design Study for Brooklyn Planned"
New York Times, Real Estate, "Are Plazas Public Boons, or Nuisances?"








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