At the heart of the Minnesota mall, pedestrians might gather, find respite, or take a selfie underneath the LEDs.

The Spur has just opened on the south edge of Hudson Yards.

A central grouping of buildings creates a gateway and support system for 4,500 acres of parkland in Memphis.

A waterfront park on the site of an abandoned sugar factory pumps up a once barren post-industrial neighborhood in New York.

The much-anticipated park, designed by James Corner Field Operations, will open six acres of the Brooklyn waterfront to the public.

“The idea was to create a ribbon in the middle of the canyon,” says Hervé Descottes, principal of L’Observatoire International, about the High Line project.

After the London 2012 Summer Olympics, lighting design firms Speirs + Major and Michael Grubb Studio worked with landscape architect James Corner Field Operations to transform what had been an open concourse in the Olympic Park into a 1,600-foot-long promenade.