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Landscape Architecture in the News
Ellin Goetz, FASLA
Ellin Goetz has made her mark on Naples
Miami Herald (Miami, FL)
In 1984, Ellin Goetz had two choices: move to Naples or end the relationship with the man who would be her husband. She chose Naples. ``I thought, my God, I've moved to the end of the world.''…Her conservation work prompted her former boss, J. Roland Lieber, to nominate her for Fellow status in the American Society of Landscape Architects… Goetz's celestial park at Mediterra uses grasses and palms as the main plants to complement the night sky for stargazing. It features a human sundial, and a maze of clipped grass, a visual oxymoron. In 2003, Parque Celestial received an Award of Excellence from the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA
Landscape architect to speak
The Republic.com
World-renowned landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, designer of Mill Race Park, will speak in Columbus next week. Sponsored by Columbus Area Visitors Center, Van Valkenburgh’s presentation begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall… The self-titled landscape architect’s firm has completed projects nationwide, including Harvard Yard at Harvard University, the grounds for Washington Monument and Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House. His Columbus landscaping achievements also include the Front Door Project, Washington Streetscape, Bartholomew County Courthouse Lawn, Irwin Union Bank and Columbus Regional Hospital. “He’s certainly left a big impression on our community,” said Cindy Frey, associate director of the visitors center.
Carol Yetken, ASLA
What about the personalized bricks at Maze?
Wednesday Journal (Oak Park, IL)
Following our coverage last week of the reopening of the Maze Branch Library [Coming home to the Maze Branch, News, June 7], we received a letter from Karen Kelly who wanted to know about one lapsed detail… the bricks, sold to make the restoration/renovation financially easier, were not in place as promised, and I had to explain to Ben, and his mom (whose birthday present this was last year) that the brick I had told them about was not on exhibit, as promised. Why not? What happened to the bricks (not just ours, of course, but everyone’s) that were to be installed and when can we expect to see the bricks at Maze—at last?"…Well, here’s what happened: Assistant Library Director Jim Madigan said the bricks were all finished and ready to install as they intended in the southeast corner of the property when they discovered the tree there was half dead. They brought in an arborist and their landscape architect, Carol Yetken, who had a conversation with the architect, Alan Armbrust, and they decided to move the brick plaza to the southwest corner.
Walter J. Hood, ASLA
George Hargreave, FASLA
ARCHITECTURE: Now you see it, now you don't
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
Blame technology. It has wreaked havoc on public space as we knew it. Parks, sidewalks and building lobbies are the un-volumetric or formless living room where we are redefining public space versus private domain. …Pedestrian bridges such as those over dikes in the Netherlands (or for that matter Walter Hood's new walkway between Market and Mission streets in San Francisco), cemeteries in Japan, and pavilions such as Diller and Scofidio's 2002 Swiss Expo Blur Building of fog are some examples of ephemeral, lyrical architecture.... Sculptor James Turrell, whose subterranean camera obscura was recently installed in the new De Young's sculpture garden, is included, and San Francisco landscape architect George Hargreave's Guadalupe River Park near San Jose is another example that amplifies ideas of new, ecologically sound public space and of nature as architect. Hargreaves recently presented ideas for public spaces above new, higher levees in New Orleans at a conference in the Netherlands.
Jolene Rieck, ASLA
Mayor, kids christen spray park
Billings Gazette (Billings, MT)
Water started flowing at Billings' newest spray park Saturday morning. Children squealed in delight and adults applauded as the water started spraying at Castle Rock Park. Children rushed to grab water cannons and run through sprinklerlike equipment when the water was turned on… One of the advantages of the spray park design is that water from the 2,000-square-foot play area will drain underground to the irrigation pond in the park and be used to water the park, he said. Jolene Rieck of the firm Plains to Peaks, which designed the spray park, recognized Donarae Williams and Lee Llewlyn from AME Construction for "outstanding craftsmanship" in building the spray park.
2006 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal
Cameron R.J. Man, FASLA
Mississippi ASLA chapter
Michael Gammill, ASLA
MSU professor wins national award in landscape architecture
The Starkville Daily News (Starkville, MS)
Mississippi State University News (Starkville, MS)
A veteran Mississippi State administrator and teacher is being honored with the highest honor bestowed upon a landscape architect by the field's national professional association. Cameron R.J. Man will receive the 2006 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal during the organization's annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., in October. Winners of other ASLA awards also will be recognized… "The Mississippi State University Department of Landscape Architecture has been fortunate to have Mr. Man as department head for such a long time," said Michael Gammil of Hattiesburg, a trustee of the Mississippi ASLA chapter that nominated Man for the medal. "He is well known and respected in the landscape architectural profession."
2006 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal
Cameron R. Man, FASLA
MSU dept. head to receive lifetime achievement award in landscape architecture
The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Mississippi State University landscape architecture professor and department head Cameron R. Man will receive the American Society of Landscape Architects Medal in October for lifetime achievement and contribution to the profession. It’s the 16,500-member organization’s highest honor. Man has headed the landscape architecture department since joining the MSU faculty in 1989. MSU’s academic programs in landscape architecture and landscape contracting are the only ones of their kind offered in the state. Man holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and a master’s in landscape architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.
2006 ASLA Professional Awards
Steve Martino, FASLA
P.V. home transformed from skinny to spacious
East Valley Tribune (Scottsdale, AZ)
Thomas and Andrea Kotoske have, as their landscape architect Steve Martino describes it, "a skinny little house."…Six years ago, the Kotoskes decided to expand, but instead of covering their yard with walls and floors, they hired Martino to design a landscape to blend the outdoors with the inside…"You can either think of the outdoors as a small backyard or a really big room," says Martino, who calls the still-in-progress project (with an estimated cost of more than $100,000) "pretty darn amazing." The American Society of Landscape Architects agrees. The group awarded Martino, owner of Steve Martino & Associates in Phoenix, the 2006 Residential Design of Excellence award for the Kotoskes' design, chosen from hundreds of entries.
2006 ASLA Professional Awards
ASLA announces 2006 professional landscape awards
Facilities Management News
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2006 Professional Awards. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 32 projects to receive the awards, which will be presented October 9 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. The General Design Category and Landmark award winners are listed below…
American Society of Landscape Architects
Does money grow on trees? It could, by investing in yard
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
Forget wiring your home for audio, video and data. If you want to add value, go for landscaping.
Done correctly, the addition of trees, shrubs, plants, walks, lighting and patios can increase the value of your property by 20 percent….A study by Arbor National Mortgage found that 84 percent of the agents queried believe a house on a treed lot would fetch at least that much more than one on a lot without trees…Which begs the question: How much should you spend? The American Society of Landscape Architects, or ASLA, suggests you invest 5 percent to 10 percent of your home's value in landscaping. That can be expensive, but the good thing is, you don't have to do it all at once. Now, before you dig. Begin with a realistic budget. Next, ASLA suggests looking at books and magazines and starting a file of plants, trees, gardens, yards, patios, decks and fences that strike your fancy.
Walter J. Hood, ASLA
GREEN STUFF WEST BAY
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
Architecture Zahid Sardar, Chronicle design editor, and Walter J. Hood, landscape architect for new De Young Museum, on "New Modernism in Gardens and Architecture." 3 p.m. Thurs. Cornerstone Gardens, 23570 Hwy. 121, Sonoma. (707) 933-3010.
Marilee Tortorelli, ASLA
Morris & Ritchie Associates Inc.
Names & Notes: Arlington company buys VTC
Business Gazette (Gaithersburg, MD)
Fortress America Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company in Arlington, Va., has purchased privately owned VTC LLC of Greenbelt for $38.5 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission… Morris & Ritchie Associates Inc., a land planning, engineering and architectural firm in Laurel, hired Marilee Tortorelli as an associate to direct its planning and urban design studio. Tortorelli, an Oella resident with 21 years of experience in planning and engineering, is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and board member of the Home Builders Association of Maryland’s Anne Arundel chapter.
Doug Campbell, ASLA
Proposal to move clubhouse criticized
San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA)
Fans and members of the La Jolla Bridge Club told a community group last night to leave their clubhouse alone. “Are you aware of how much you are kicking yourself in the rear end?” one man asked the group that wants to put together a master plan for Scripps Park, the popular bluff-top park next to La Jolla Cove…After the meeting, committee chairman Patrick Ahern said the passion for the clubhouse was expected and understood. He said the consultant, Santa Monica landscape architect Doug Campbell, will consider the feedback and come back with a final proposal for a master plan. Campbell said that probably won't occur before the fall.
Terra-Firma Landscape
Gary Urban, ASLA
Hawks Nursery
Colorful, tidy landscaping can add 7 percent to home price ...
Fort Wayne News Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
Angeline and Fletcher Koch bought their Milwaukee house in the dead of winter 2005...A bedraggled yard looks more high-maintenance than a clean-cut one, says Gary Urban, a landscape architect and sales manager with Hawks Nursery in Wauwatosa…Heather Schuster, co-owner of Terra-Firma Landscape in Muskego, reports an increase of "emergency calls to do lawns." Repairing tired turf is the quickest and cheapest way to redeem a yard…TIPS: ROSES-"There's nothing like popping in hybrid tea roses. You'll have blooms all season. Put them by the entry, where people can see and smell them. If you have 10, it says `high maintenance.' If you have three, it says, `welcome,'" according to Gary Urban, landscape architect and sales manager at Hawks Nursery in Wauwatosa. Rose bushes generally cost $15 to $25 each.
Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller Ltd. Landscape Architects
Chavez proposes park for parking lot
New Mexico Business Weekly (Albuquerque, NM)
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez wants to turn a Downtown parking lot into a one-acre interactive city park. The "Metro Park" is being proposed for the surface lot bounded by Roma Avenue and Marquette Avenue and Third and Fourth streets, just north of Civic Plaza…The design of the park, by Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller Ltd. Landscape Architects, calls for reflective pools, planted trees, a tricentennial fountain, walkways with pillar accents, promenade water walls, kiosks with information about Albuquerque's sister cities, and a live Web-camera and monitor that would allow people to talk to others in Albuquerque's sister cities.
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