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SOURCE: TED.com ISTANBUL – Images in which the concentration of the Asian population is visible through the architecture of Hong Kong are presented in two series, ‘Transparent City’ and ‘Architecture of Density,’ in Istanbul’s Çukurcuma. find out more about the exhibition at the SOURCE: Hurriyet Daily News – Density, transparency of cities through photos Register by July 9 for the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO, September 18-21 in Chicago and save $100 on registration. Registration numbers are tracking well ahead of last year, tours and field sessions are already selling out, and the official hotel blocks are filling quickly, promising strong attendance in Chicago! Never been to an ASLA Annual Meeting? Take a test-drive by viewing the highlights video from 2008, capturing the energy and excitement of the world’s largest annual gathering of landscape architecture professionals. Sign up to follow annual meeting news on Twitter. Network with colleagues from across the country, earn more than 21 Professional Development Hours, experience one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and regenerate your creative energy. Register by midnight July 9 and save. SOURCE: ASLA Technorati Tags: ASLA, annual meeting, EXPO, landscape architecture, chicago, The Globe and Mail reports Landscape architect Randy Sharp knew he was onto something big back in 2005 when, while planning the ultimate urban-style garden for the Vancouver Aquarium, he discovered there was a growing interest in vertical garden systems, also known as green or living walls. International architecture firm RMJM has been appointed as lead design consultants for the Deerfields project. SOURCE: AMEinfo.com – Ground work begins at Deerfields Town Square in Abu Dhabi | MBI Daily Commercial News reports The University of Western Ontario is poised to break ground this summer on a $100 million building to house the Richard Ivey School of Business. The project is the largest in the university’s history. SOURCE: Daily Commercial News – Western’s school of business to get new home Contract Magazine reports RMJM’s Singapore studio has revealed the designs for the new Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa located on China Beach in Vietnam Star-Telegram.com reports Children’s play areas would be added and water fountains removed to make room for a “great lawn” in a proposed redesign of Burnett Park, the quasi-green space in downtown Fort Worth that for years has served more as the entrance to the Burnett Plaza office tower than a city park. read the full article and download the proposed redesign at the SOURCE: Star-Telegram.com – Children’s play areas to be added in redesign of Fort Worth’s Burnett Park | Top Stories | Image SOURCE: Google Maps PUB reports The ABC Waters Design Guidelines has been launched by Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Amy Khor, on 25 June 2009. It is a document to introduce PUB’s ABC Waters Programme (a strategic programme aims to transform our drains, canals and reservoirs into beautiful, vibrant and flowing streams, rivers and lakes) and the potential applications of ABC Waters Design Features (bioretention swales, rain garden, wetland etc.) to the industry professionals, as well as the public and private sectors. SOURCE: PUB In recent weeks, scores of walkers, joggers, bicyclists and others have discovered the riverwalk that just opened on the Chicago River’s south bank. Stretching from east of the Michigan Avenue Bridge to Wabash Avenue, with an extension to State Street due to wrap up in early July, the handsome, people-friendly public space marks the latest step in Mayor Richard Daley’s ambitious drive to make the riverfront a prime public space downtown and in the city’s outlying neighborhoods. read the full article @ the SOURCE: City’s second waterfront: Riverwalk improved, but hurdles remain Technorati Tags: river, south bank, chicago, michigan avenue, The jury of the situate competition – an international sculpture competition offering $1million for an artwork to transform Perth’s Forrest Place- have narrowed down 202 entries received from 33 countries to five shortlisted entrants. A natural play area is being designed and constructed in at Merrylee Primary School in Scotland. It is going to be the only school in Britain with a natural play area within its grounds. The Evening Times reports It will have hills, long grass, a flower garden and eco-friendly features including badger set and fox’s den. For the FULL article & video go to the [SOURCE: Evening Times - Naturally Classy] LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT – Felicity Steers of erz studio
Included in the list is EDAW/AECOM, bluegreen, Design Workshop and numerous other firms from Colorado and across USA for the full list go to the SOURCE: VailDaily.com – Firms ready to redesign Eagle-Vail Flickr Image Credit: discosour
SOURCE: KPBS.org – What Other Western Cities Know about Living in Arid Climates Flickr Image credit: .Larry Page As a group of university students work on their capstone thesis program this year, the City of Tomah might also benefit from their work. The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently requested proposals for community-focused undergraduate and graduate thesis projects. read the full story at the SOURCE: Tomah Journal – UW Landscape student project could benefit Tomah Les Klein, Principal of Quadrangle Architects Limited unveiled The Green Ribbon design for the Gardiner Expressway at the ideaCity held in Toronto last week.
Images courtesy: Quadrangle Architects SOURCE: Quadrangle Architects Bahrain’s massive commerce, entertainment and education facility, @bahrain, has chosen architectural major Aedas as the master planner for the project. Read the full article at the SOURCE: ConstructionWeekOnline.com – Bahrain names mega project master planner Bahrain’s massive commerce, entertainment and education facility, @bahrain, has chosen architectural major Aedas as the master planner for the project. Read the full article at the SOURCE: ConstructionWeekOnline.com – Bahrain names mega project master planner
read the full article at the SOURCE: New York Magazine – Has New York Lost Its Great Chance With Frank Gehry? North Street Urban Garden – the brainchild of Colby Gray, a landscape architect from Ball State University and Jason Donati, the director for the Department of Stormwater Management – is working to provide a sustainable source of vegetables by offering their abandoned house lot for cultivation. The garden has already planted more than two dozen vegetable types, as well as a handful of herbs and flowers. SOURCE: Ball State Daily News Online – Muncie’s Urban Garden project utilizes abandoned lots to grow plants – NEWS Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic for the Los Angeles Times writes Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates — If a city can be spectacularly quiet, this waterfront city-state has certainly qualified in recent months. Hundreds of abandoned construction cranes languish above Dubai’s gated communities and beach-side developments and, most dramatically, up and down Sheikh Zayed Road, its high-rise spine………………. SOURCE: Los Angeles Times – Dubai development may be down, but it’s not out Technorati Tags: dubai, crisis, architecture, cranes, start, 2009, UAE, AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced today that a joint venture of which it is a part has been awarded a design-services contract worth US$82 million for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation Limited’s Hong Kong High-Speed Rail Terminus project, which will connect to the high-speed rail network in Mainland China. Technorati Tags: aecom, hong kong, china, high-speed rail terminus, joint venture, Emirates Business 24/7 reports
SOURCE: Emirates Business 24/7 – Construction companies need to take steps to manage waste Technorati Tags: Hyder, UAE, Dubai, Construction Waste, construction, managaement, waste, REG, James Hurley, The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture | Design & Innovation | Fast Company Fast Company has produced a special on the creative people of business in every industry and Architecture was one category along with Web, Movies, Health, Marketing, Food and Sports. Technorati Tags: Rem Koolhaus, Zaha Hadid, Jacques Herzog, Pierre De Meuron, Norman Foster, Fast Company, 10 list, Architects Journal reports The architects shortlisted in the prestigious King’s Cross Square contest remain unbriefed about the project – six months after being selected SOURCE: Architects Journal – King’s Cross Square contenders in the dark | News | Shortlist for the project includes Stanton Williams, Gehl Architects, Field Operations, Martha Schwartz Partners, Gustafson Porter, Gross.MaxTechnorati Tags: kings cross square, competition, gehl, field, martha schwartz, gustafson, gross.max, london, West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture reports Waterfront Toronto, together with the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario and City of Toronto, officially opened the Simcoe WaveDeck, the second and most dramatic urban dock, designed by West 8+DTAH, being built along Toronto’s central waterfront.
SOURCE: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens “THE United Kingdom will embed more than 60,000 seeds, which can be planted after the World Expo 2010, into the structure of its pavilion to urge people to protect natural species from extinction…..” SOURCE: Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 – UK plans to embed its pavilion with seeds Emirates Business 24/7 reports “Saleh Construction is tipped to win the Dh200 million main contract for the first phase core and shell construction for Dubai Lifestyle City (DLC) next week, according to a senior official of the project….. Read the full article at the SOURCE: Emirates Business 24/7 – Saleh tipped to secure Dh200m DLC contractTechnorati Tags: RNL, Khatib & Cracknell, Dubai, Lancashire Evening Post reports “The opponents of the £3m Winckley Square redevelopment are “prejudiced against any change whatsoever,” the architect behind the plans said today. read more at the SOURCE: Lancashire Evening Post – Square revamp opponents are ‘prejudiced’ |
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