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Landscape Architecture in the News
Laurie Olin, FASLA
Safety vs. Security In Restructuring Of Nation's Capital
NBC 4.com (Washington, DC)
Officials in charge of new urban development in the District are now arguing that barriers put up to protect the city are ruining open society and do not provide much protection anyway. Dozens of barriers can be seen blocking streets across D.C. Commercial trucks pass through checkpoints before even getting close to the Capitol, much of which remains closed off to them and tourists alike. "A lot of what we see destroys the public realm and our civic spaces, but it doesn't really make us safer at all," said Philadelphia landscape architect Laurie Olin. "A lot of what we see is just a panic reaction that all happened in a matter of weeks, and since, people have been rebuilding (the District) in a more permanent form, but without thinking if it's sensible or right." Olin was part of a Wednesday seminar on the future of the nation's capital, looking to the year 2030.
Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc.
Ken Smith Landscape Architect
Cornelia Oberlander, FASLA
Finalists named in Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Design ...
Canadian Architect
Toronto Star
Archiseek
Four outstanding design teams have been selected as finalists to compete in Stage II of the international competition to revitalize Nathan Phillips Square. The four shortlisted teams are…Plant Architect Inc., Toronto, with Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners (architect, Toronto); Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc. (landscape architect, Chicago)…Rogers Marvel Architects, New York, with Ken Smith Landscape Architect (landscape architect, New York)… The competition jury is chaired by…Cornelia berlander, distinguished landscape architect from Vancouver…
Vafiades Landscape Architect
Wendy Shearer Landscape Architect
Campus additions city design leaders
Western News (England)
Two Western buildings have been tapped for top honours in urban design. London Hall, the campus' newest residence, and the Western Y Child Care Centre garnered awards this week at the 2006 City of London Urban Design Awards… The award for best building was given to London Hall while the Western Y Child Care Centre received an honourable mention…The project team also included Murphy Hilgers Architects, Vafiades Landscape Architect and Southside Construction, all of which worked with Western's Physical Plant to complete the project on time… In addition to Western staff, the project team for Western's child-care facility included Ventin Group, Jain and Associates, Hastings and Aziz, Wendy Shearer Landscape Architect
Thomas Balsley, FASLA
Peter Walker, FASLA
Under Cover
Downtown Express (New York, NY)
Folks worried about the school-straining number of families moving into Downtown’s new condo developments needn’t fret over William Beaver House, the Andre Balazs creation in the Financial District….Landscape architect Thomas Balsley, Tribeca’s condo courtyard designer du jour, joined developers Joel Silver and Ethan Eldon Monday night to showcase the Tribeca Summit’s “townhouses” ($2.25 million - $25 million), which will open early next year at 415 Greenwich St… He has also smoothed things over with an old friend, landscape architect Peter Walker, who was miffed when Balsley told UnderCover over the summer that he wasn’t sweet on the sweet gum trees Walker picked for the World Trade Center memorial plaza.
Kongjian Yu, ASLA
ASLA Annual Meeting
The Art of Survival: Positioning Landscape Architecture in The New ...
(Landscape.CN, China)
Kongjian Yu, ASLA- Dean and Professor, The Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University and President,Turenscape, Beijing, China. Abstract: In a new era of multiple unprecedented challenges imposed by the processes of industrialization and urbanization, landscape architecture is now on the verge of change in the world, and especially in China. It is time for this profession to take the great opportunity to position itself to play the key role in rebuilding a new Land of Peach Blossoms for a new society of urbanized, global, and interconnected people.
Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA
State is studying BQE shelf repairs
BrooklynPapers.com
A wider highway with new connections to the Brooklyn waterfront could replace the deteriorating, always-clogged decked section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that runs under the famed Brooklyn Heights Promenade… That project’s landscape architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh, plans to absorb the highway’s steady rumble with several man-made hills between the development and the highway. At a public meeting about the waterfront project this week, area residents asked the state to do more to reduce the highway’s roaring impact.
Landworks Design
Studio INSITE, LLC
TAXI development gets new tenants
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Parikh Stevens Architects and Landworks Design today said they will relocate their headquarters to TAXI, the mixed-use development in downtown Denver’s River North neighborhood. The two firms join Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture and Studio INSITE, LLC as the most recent design businesses to purchase office space at TAXI.
Brown, Richardson & Rowe
Boston chapter
'Fish Playground' design picked for waterfront park
Providence Business News (Providence, RI)
Mayor David N. Cicilline today announced the winner of the city’s Waterfront Park Design Competition: the award-winning landscape architectural firm of Brown, Richardson & Rowe Inc., whose “Fish Playground” design was selected by the 11-member Waterfront Design Selection Committee…Brown, Richardson & Rowe is a Boston-based landscape architectural firm specializing in creating and renovating public and private outdoor spaces. The agency’s park designs have won numerous awards over the years, including the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s 2004 Preservation Award for the restoration of Nathan Tufts Park in Somerville; the Massachusetts Recreation and Park Association’s Outstanding Design Facility in 2001, for Boston’s Millennium Park; and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects’ Honor Award in 2000, for Spectacle Island in the Boston Harbor.
Sue Mortier, ASLA
Sustainability Key to Design Ideas for UNM West
UNM Today (Albuquerque, NM)
‘Build it and they will come’ understates the need for a UNM campus in Rio Rancho. The city has grown exponentially, West side public schools are burgeoning, and UNM West educates more and more students face-to-face…He drew upon internal expertise from faculty and students at the school, plus institutional experts, Domínguez, Steve Borbas, campus planner; and Sue Mortier, landscape architect. Nationally, Schluntz recruited professionals from other universities as well as from the local professional community. The City of Rio Rancho was represented, as well.
ValleyCrest Companies
Phil Graham & Company
ASLA
Phil Graham, FASLA
ValleyCrest Landscape Companies Acquires Landscape Architecture ...
Yahoo! News
ValleyCrest Companies, the nation's largest provider of integrated landscape services, announced today that it has acquired St. Petersburg, Florida-based Phil Graham & Company, a landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm. The acquisition signals ValleyCrest's continuing initiative to grow its landscape architecture and design-build businesses in the important Florida marketplace... A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and LEED AP certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, Phil Graham has made a significant personal impact on the St. Petersburg, Tampa and Sarasota markets for the past 35 years.
Patrick W. Caughey, FASLA
ASLA
ASLA Releases Call for Proposals for 2007 Annual Meeting
Lawn & Landscape
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has released the call for education session proposals for its Annual Meeting and EXPO, Oct. 5-9, 2007, in San Francisco. The theme of the meeting will be Designing with Nature: the Art of Balance… “Stewardship was a founding principal of the landscape architecture profession and our members are always seeking information on how to plan, design, and build in balance with nature,” said Patrick W. Caughey, FASLA, president of ASLA.
Tetra Tech, Inc.
EDSA
Tetra Tech to Lead Destin, Florida Waterfront Improvement Program
Business Wire
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today it will lead a major waterfront improvement program for the City of Destin, Florida/Community Redevelopment Agency. The Company estimates the total constructed value of the waterfront improvement program to be between $80 and $120 million over 5 to 10 years…Tetra Tech will then develop engineering design plans and specifications and help the City implement the proposed improvements. Tetra Tech leads an expert design team that includes EDSA, one of the leading planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firms; Walker Parking Consultants; and Economics Research Associates.
Witold Rybczynski, Hon. ASLA
Laurie Olin, FASLA
Deering's Villa Vizcaya gets its place in history
Miami Herald (Miami, FL)
During America's Gilded Age, great country houses displayed great wealth created by steel, oil, railroads and machinery. Between the 1890s and the 1930, the Biltmore in Asheville, N.C., cottages in Newport, R.I., and Whitehall in Palm Beach were among the homes built by Vanderbilt, Flagler, Carnegie and Rockefeller. And James Deering, who built his Villa Vizcaya in Miami…The book, a collaboration between Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin, both University of Pennsylvania professors, locates the house and garden within the artistic and intellectual context of the times with wonderfully readable tales.
Field Operations
Hargreaves Associates
Beyer Blinder Belle
Oehme, van Sweden & Associates
Olin Partnership
Wallace Roberts & Todd
Mexican Architect Looks at Historic Rutgers With a Modern Eye
New York Times (New York, NY)
With a cylindrical glass academic building and a new undulating landscape that will extend the campus right to “the banks of the old Raritan,” the Mexican architect Enrique Norten has won the competition to reimagine the historic Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is to announce its choice today…Mr. Norten was among five finalists in the competition, each one collaborating with landscape architects. The others were Eisenman Architects (with Field Operations); Thom Mayne of Morphosis (with Hargreaves Associates); Beyer Blinder Belle and Ateliers Jean Nouvel (with Oehme, van Sweden & Associates); and Antoine Predock Architect (with Olin Partnership). Mr. Norten’s firm is teaming up with Wallace Roberts & Todd.
Cameron, McCarthy, Gilbert and Scheibe Landscape Architects
Lebanon edges closer to building amphitheater
Sweet Home New Era (Sweet Home, OR)
The Lebanon community last week took another step toward completing a long-term plan for Cheadle Lake, located on the east side of Lebanon off Highway 20…On Dec. 7, Cameron, McCarthy, Gilbert and Scheibe Landscape Architects held a public meeting to begin developing a "Cheadle Lake Refinement Plan." Lebanon Director of Public Works Jim Ruef provided an overview of Cheadle Lake's history and the beginning of the effort to turn it into an events facility.
Richard Burck, ASLA
Lisa Giersbach, ASLA
Richard Burck Associates
Patterhn Design : BCA Announces Environmental Design Winner
Dexigner
The Boston Center of the Arts (BCA) is pleased to announce that Eric Hoffman and Tony Patterson of patterhn design of Saint Louis, Missouri are the winners of its national design competition "inside::out - Weaving Arts into the Urban Fabric."…The BCA is also pleased to announce that the project team for the next phase of development will include: Richard Burck and Lisa Giersbach of Richard Burck Associates, noted landscape architects located in Somerville, Massachusetts; and Steven G. Cecil of The Cecil Group of Boston as the BCA's Client Representative.
Bob Callans, ASLA
Bob Callans & Associates Landscape Architects
Greenwood Planning Gets High-Tech Makeover
Fort Smith Times Record (Fort Smith, AR)
The Greenwood Planning Department is taking a giant step into the high-tech age with Geographic Information Systems technology…Architect Bob Callans of Little Rock-based Bob Callans & Associates Landscape Architects said the GIS program gives his staff members detailed information they can use in their planning… Using the city’s new GIS system Thursday, Greenwood Director of Planning Steve Tedford, front, helps landscape architect Bob Callans access topography and property boundary information related to Bell Park and a planned trail system.
LSU’s School of Landscape Architecture
Our Views: Number one in landscape
2TheAdvocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Congratulations to LSU’s School of Landscape Architecture for its ranking as tops in the nation in undergraduate education, according to a new survey conducted by a leading journal in the field. The survey by DesignIntelligence journal also ranked the school’s graduate program fifth in the United States. While U.S. News & World Report magazine ranks universities and many university programs, it does not include design schools. LSU’s landscape program has consistently ranked in the top 10 in the DesignIntelligence survey, which is based on statistical information about programs and surveys of academic and professional reputation.
Florida chapter
Mediterra ranked among best
The New Press (Ft. Myers, FL)
Noted golfing magazine Links included Mediterra on its 2006-07 list of America's 100 Premier Properties, an annual guide to the best golf communities in the nation. Bonita Bay, another of Bonita Bay Group's seven Southwest Florida master-planned communities, also made the list…Mediterra’s landscaping and Parque Celestial have each received the Award of Excellence from the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Randall Collins, ASLA
Gates, Leighton and Associates
Main Street could get a face-lift
Concord Monitor (Concord, NH)
If the city council adopts a plan presented at last night's meeting, Main Street could eventually look and feel quite different, with just one lane of traffic in each direction and a central turning lane between Park and Perley streets…"Basically, our goal is to improve pedestrian safety (and) reduce conflicts between cars and pedestrians and parked cars," said Randall Collins, vice president of Rhode Island landscape architectural firm Gates, Leighton and Associates.
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