Walter Hood to Design Solar-Panel Wonderland in Buffalo

The University of Buffalo will soon break ground on a 1.1 megawatt installation, and a sprawling park intended to make solar energy beautiful.

Fields of solar panel arrays are now popping up all across the United States, but the State University of New York, Buffalo, hopes to create the country's most beautiful one yet--smack dab at the entrance to its North Campus.

The university just announced that renowned landscape architect Walter Hood will design a combination solar-array-landscape...