We are excited to announce that Parkman Triangle in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, will be featured at the Venice Biennale later this year.

Parkman Triangle, an example of urban acupuncture in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, is thriving one year after LA City Council President Eric Garcetti anchored the ribbon cutting in August last year.

In my latest article on The Guardian Sustainable Business, I make the case that “urban acupuncture” is one way to make cities more sustainable and livable. Read my interview with LA architect John Southern.

It has been a year since work on Parkman Triangle was completed, and now the micro-park is thriving. Last October, NBC 4 interviewed Ara Babaian about the work that went into this Silver Lake street corner, and this morning it make NBC 4’s segment on cool local neighborhoods.

About a year ago we started work on Parkman Triangle, a thin strip of land on Parkman Avenue and Silver Lake Boulevard south of Sunset Boulevard. The micro-park, once a dreary patch of asphalt, now thrives.  We had some hits and misses with some plants, but now the space is lush–all those Christmastime rains sure [...]

After two years of applications, planning, negotiating, and working, Parkman Triangle is finally open. You can now grab a cafecito at Cafe Tropical and enjoy it with a guava cheese pie on one of the rocks (just throw away your trash, of course!).

Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti will be in attendance this Saturday, August 14, at 11:00 a.m. for the ribbon cutting ceremony that will officially open Silver Lake’s new “urban lounge!” Councilman Garcetti was a huge part of the project: his office contributed over $4000 which was used to demolish that old patch of asphalt that paved the way to creating a new green space for the district’s residents who live south of Sunset Boulevard.