By Damian Holmes, on August 30th, 2010
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has announced the winners of the 2010 National Awards.
The top honor of Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture was awarded to
James Mather Delaney Design Pty Ltd in partnership with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and City of Sydney for Paddington Reservoir Gardens, Paddington, Sydney
AILA 2010 National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence
DESIGN
Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Darlington [...]
By Damian Holmes, on August 25th, 2010
Five additional acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park have been opened to the public, including the first 2,000 feet of the park’s greenway, a 30-foot wide, scenic bikeway and walkway along the East River shoreline. The first section of the new greenway starts at the park entrance at Old Fulton Street and ends at the foot [...]
By Damian Holmes, on August 4th, 2010
The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlist for 2010 Awards. Several projects made the Landscape category shortlist for Built Projects but only two are on the shortlist for Future Projects. The Winners will be announced at the Festival in Barcelona which is to be held between 3-5 November.
The Student competition Urban SOS: Transformations recently closed [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 26th, 2010
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects [AILA] and its competition partners invited individuals and teams to participate in the Sea Change 2030+, an international ideas competition, which asked for innovative ideas for planning, designing and managing for adaptation to urban sea level rise.
There were many highly innovative ideas in most of the submissions. Three equal first [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 27th, 2010
The Earlybird (Discount) Rates for the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects end soon.
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Congress 2010 is to be held in Edmonton, Alberta from August 19 to 21, 2010 currently has an Earlybird rate of $550CAD saving $75CAD if you register until June 30. Register now.
LIVING LANDSCAPE The European Landscape Convention [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 24th, 2010
OLIN recently announced that they have expanded in Los Angeles with a new office at The Taft Building on Vine Street. Dennis McGlade, FASLA, has been appointed as Partner-in-Charge of the new West Coast branch.
OLIN has been closely connected with the City of Los Angeles since the early 1980s, collaborating with many of the region’s leaders [...]
By Damian Holmes, on May 26th, 2010
*UPDATE*
Seems who ever wins of June 4 when the winner of the Lansdowne Park Competition will have to deal with a large amount of consultation with stakeholders and be ready to compromise on parts of there design as Parks Canada and Ontario Heritage Trust raise concerns about some of the design – Read more at [...]
By Damian Holmes, on May 25th, 2010
KCAP Architects & Planners in cooperation with local architect Arlette Schneiders win the competition for an office development in the city of Luxemburg. The competition entry was already awarded first prize in 2009. Recently, the client Fonds de Compensation has officially assigned the building commission to the team KCAP and ARLETTE SCHNEIDERS ARCHITECTS with advisors [...]