By Damian Holmes, on August 12th, 2010
AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) has recently announced the results of the 2010 Salary Survey with 530 respondents. This year the AILA survey has changed from past years with respondents gave their total salary package including superannuation (9% of salary as compulsory retirement savings). AILA also changed the ‘experience in years’ for the junior [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 21st, 2010
Deutsche Welle channel recently posted a video on Youtube in which they interviewed Swiss landscape architect Enzo Enea about his Tree Museum which recently opened in Rapperswil-Jona on the shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland.
SOURCE: Youtube
Video Credit: Deutsche Welle
By Damian Holmes, on April 21st, 2010
24dash.com recently reported that Willmott Dixon Housing will appear in a TV show documenting the development of the community over one year. The community was designed by Glenn Howells Architects, and landscape architects Studio Engleback, the Triangle is part of Kevin McCloud’s vision to create housing supports sustainable lifestyles, with open public spaces, rainwater recycling [...]
By Damian Holmes, on March 13th, 2010
Green space skills: 2009 National employer survey findings, a survey commissioned by CABE and English Heritage, is the first to reveal the full extent of skills shortages in the green space sector in the UK. The report has found that 14.9% of national employers found landscape architects hard to recruit due [...]
By Damian Holmes, on February 26th, 2010
Over the past two years with the Global Financial Crisis hit nearly every nation across the globe and as a result landscape architects where laid off in large numbers. This was hardest felt in the USA due to lack of work and collapse of the home building market.
Governments from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, China and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on January 10th, 2010
SWA group designed the 27 acres around the base of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The San Francisco Chronicle has a quick interview with John Wong of SWA about the project and its design.
Read the interview at the [SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Sausalito group creates oasis at Burj Khalifa]
Related Article – Dubai City Guide [...]
By Damian Holmes, on December 31st, 2009
U.S. News and World Report have listed Landscape Architect and Urban Planner in the Top 50 Careers for 2010.
Numbers of Landscape Architects according U.S. News and World Report are expected to jump 20 percent between 2008 and 2018 and Urban Planners are expected to also to grow 19 percent from 38,400 jobs in 2008 to [...]
By Damian Holmes, on November 27th, 2009
thisissouthdevon.co.uk reports
DETAILS of the new £500,000 Lottery-funded playground for Paignton seafront have been submitted to Torbay Council.
The ideas by landscape architect Rob McGuiness at Bay architectural firm Kay Elliott include a timber board walk bridging the play area and offering views in both directions; earth mounds between two and three metres high with [...]