By Damian Holmes, on July 16th, 2010
Recently Public Works published a survey or Top AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) firms finding that for the first time since 2005 one-third of Public Works departments “are now turning to these same firms for landscape architecture park/design.”
We can interpreted this survey in many ways such as AEC firms have hired more landscape architects and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 23rd, 2010
PLACES has published a recent interview with Matthew Urbanski of MVVA about the design & construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The interview goes into detail about the materials used and some of the design elements. An interesting interview that gives good insight to the design and construction process.
Read more at the SOURCE: PLACES -Building Brooklyn [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 17th, 2010
The I-Park Foundation (www.i-park.org), a not-for-profit international arts community in E. Haddam, CT (USA), is seeking proposals from the following disciplines that re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death, memory and memorialization:
Music/Sound Sculpture
Visual Arts/Environmental Sculpture
Theater/Choreography/Performance Art
Landscape/Garden Design
Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Those invited to execute their physical, performance or music/sound sculpture pieces for the Thanatopolis Exhibition in October [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 16th, 2010
Two great videos that promote the profession of landscape architecture and what it is and isn’t. Video was created by the St.Louis Chapter of ASLA. Great to see ASLA chapters promoting the profession. Got any recent videos we should know about? Email damian@worldlandscapearchitect.com
SOURCE: Youtube
Video Creator: St.Louis Chapter of ASLA
By Damian Holmes, on May 10th, 2010
James Corner’s master plan for Lake Ontario Park in limbo – Globe & Mail
“Once the parks are realized, Toronto will be indisputably a city connected to the lake, psychologically as well as literally. That can change the image and identity of a place,” he said. Toronto would be, in our own minds, a freshwater-ocean city.
Yet [...]
By Damian Holmes, on April 19th, 2010
New Zealand’s prestigious Landscape Architecture Awards ceremony was held on Friday 16th April in Wellington.
‘NZILA Resene Pride of Place Landscape Architecture Awards 2010′ provided a record 127 entrants with tougher competition than ever before. Award-winners, who are chosen by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects’ judges just once every two years, received Golds, Silvers [...]
By Damian Holmes, on March 27th, 2010
A team from the Landscape Architecture program at University of Manitoba was one of the four teams awarded $25,000 from the $100,000 Go Green Challenge, a competition funded by the TD Friends of the Environment foundation (TDFEF), a national organization formed by TD Bank and Financial Group.
Aileen Zubriski and Kathryn Voroney, two [...]
By Damian Holmes, on March 23rd, 2010
Recently on the Urban Design Podcast, David Rubin a partner at Olin was interviewed in which
David Rubin asserts that the twenty-first century is a century of landscape architecture, while the twentieth century was about architecture. His argument is that landscape architects are building spaces for society and forming human interaction.
Urban Design Podcast is a [...]