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Landscape Institute announces 2009 Awards

Landscape Institute announced the 2009 Landscape Institute Awards recently with Gillespies winning the President’s Award for St Andrew Square in Edinburgh. The Peter Youngman Award which is awarded each year for outstanding contribution to landscape was awarded to the Olympic Delivery Authority for their visionary plans for a new London park.
For the Full list of [...]

WPA 2.0 & WPA 2.0 SE winners announced

Carbon T.A.P. // Tunnel Algae Park
PORT, Andrew Moddrell and Christopher Marcinkoski, from Chicago and New York for their project, Carbon T.A.P. // Tunnel Algae Park. The jury of Elizabeth Diller, Cecil Balmond, Marilyn Taylor, Walter Hood, Stan Allen, and Thom Mayne was unanimous in its decision citing two primary qualities: The floating, carbon-capturing bridge between [...]

Richard Rogers' Maggie's cancer care centre has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009

Maggie’s Centre, a beautiful cancer care sanctuary in west London by Richard Rogers’ practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize 2009 in association with The Architects Journal and Crystal CG. This is the second time the practice has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize (Barajas Airport, Spain, 2006).
The presentation [...]

Professor Bernard Lassus awarded IFLA Gold Medal 2009

The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has much pleasure in announcing the winner of the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal 2009.
The winner is Professor Bernard Lassus of France. Professor Lassus was nominated by UNESCO under whose auspices the award is presented. The recipient is a practitioner whose merit, talent and actions are respected internationally. [...]

West 8 wins architecture award Rietveldprijs 2009

The design for Papendorp Business Park, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the Rietveld Award 2009. For the first time a landscape and urban design project has won the award in stead of a building.
The awards ceremony takes place on the 15th of November 2009. The Rietveld Award is [...]

Shortlisted Designs for the development of Queens Wharf

The Winners for the Queens Wharf Competition in Auckland, New Zealand has been announced after thorough evaluation and assessment, five designs have been selected from the 237 original entries.
The Finalists
Design number 024 – Andrius Gedgaudas, Architect, Shanghai China.
Design number 046 – Den Aitken, Pete Griffith and Hamish Foote, Field Landscape Architecture, Auckland.
Design number 170 – David [...]

ASLA - Day 4 - Large Scale, Sustainable Landscape Projects in China

10:05 Hu Jie – The university firm did not feel the effect of the economy as their projects are most government focused.
Hangzhou – West Lake c.1138
The city has been developed with the mountains and water in mind.
Beijing – Nature, mountains and landscape
Beijing Forest Park – 680 hectares combination of cultural and nature. The park is [...]

ASLA Day 2 - PM - Urban Agriculture

Presenters: David Fletcher, Amy Gavaris, Elizabeth Mossop
David Fletcher, Fletcher Studio
13:45 Distance that food comes an average 1700 miles
1% of corn is eaten
Recent trends -
changing of lawn to vegetables
White house changing lawn to vegetable garden

13:50 Urban Agriculture is use of vacant space.
Los Angeles – South Central Farm – produce food for themselves and also restaurants
Working with [...]

ASLA Day 2 - AM - Sustainable Sites Update

Presenters: Deon Glaser, Debra Guenther, Jose Alminana, Steve Windhager, Nancy Somerville.
11:08 Guiding Principles
Do not harm
Use the precautionary principle
Design with nature and culture in mind
Regenetrative systems for intergenerational
Support a living process

11:12 Focus on Ecosystem services and values are for free but are worth 33 trillion dollars
11:15 A framework for Site

Regulate global and local climate
Detoxify and cleanse [...]

ASLA Day 2 - Grand Opening

Mayor Daley & ASLA President Angela Dye
8:02 Beyond Sustainability – Reinvent approaches to solve problems
8:05 President of Landscape Structures introduction to May Daley – the greenest mayor in the USA
8:10 Mayor – Economic future of the city is linked to the environment. Invest in resources to clean air or enhance buildings enhances the city. Government [...]

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