The Kaw Pavilion, a shade structure in Lawrence's Burroughs Creek Trail and Linear Park, is pictured on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. A shade structure recently constructed in a Lawrence park is now an ...

An artist-rendered composition of the Ryan Gray playground with the added shade structures. Right now, when the sun beats down on Hillcrest Elementary’s Ryan Gray Playground, there’s no shade where ...

Texas Tech University College of Architecture professors and research partners Stephen Mueller and Ersela Kripa examine a paper prototype of a shade structure designed by their software, which focuses ...

¡Sombra! Experiments in Shade is introducing artistic and functional shade structures across nine parks to combat extreme summer heat. The project helps spruce up some community parks that needed to ...

One of the two compressors used to chill the surface of the city’s new, $10 million ice ribbon failed when it was initially installed, but a replacement is belching steam and planners are still ...

Visitors to the Mandel Recreation Center's southern field will get relief from the Florida sun now that the Palm Beach Architectural Commission has voted to approve the installation of a new pergola ...

PHOENIX - A Phoenix-based company is proving there is money to be made in the shade and they're showing us how they can help keep all of us safe from the sun. "I was born here in Arizona and playing ...

A new structure to provide more outdoor shade at the Mandel Recreation Center was approved by the Town Council at its meeting last month. Council members voted unanimously June 13 to approve in ...

The primary function of architecture, and possibly the most important and basic, is to protect against the weather. Whereas our ancestors would stack tree trunks and animal skins to create rudimentary ...