Landscape Architecture In the News
A sampling of recent press coverage of landscape architecture. Keyword terms are noted by “>>>” and “<<<” marks.

Queen of Green: Canadian Geographic Magazine
Canadian Geographic
Date: 09/04/07

You can hear the steady drumbeat of a cold rain on the slender glass house near the University of British Columbia (UBC) where >>>landscape architect<<< Cornelia Hahn Oberlander lives. "There's the sound here of nature. I love it," says Oberlander, her voice still tinged with the accent of her native Germany. In her early 80s, she pauses for a moment in the soft light filtering through the Douglas firs that tower above the minimalist home she shares with her husband of 54 years, architect and urban planner…

Group Teaches Going Green
The Independent
Date: 09/04/07

…the opening seminar will feature Jon Piasecki, a >>>landscape architect<<< whose work was recently featured in House and Garden magazine, and David Borton, a physicist from RPI who specializes in photovoltaic technology. Mr. Borton inspired the group's formation with a lecture at the New Lebanon Library, according to CBG organizer Carol Roseman. "We all started talking," says Ms. Roseman, "and I said 'There's so little information out there; why don't we try to educate the community at the same time as ourselves?'"

Veterans Park Conservancy Signs Enhanced Sharing Agreement With Veterans Administration for Los Angeles National Veterans Park
Excite
Date: 09/04/07

…garden designer, Laurie Olin, a world-renowned >>>landscape architect<<< and Jim Folsom, director of the Huntington Botanical Gardens, will plan and develop the memorial park. The professional team envisions the park will include fountains throughout the property, a pond, rolling meadows ringed with stately trees, lush gardens, a pavilion, a labyrinth, meandering pathways, as well as educational and commemorative sites to create an open classroom of history and patriotism for children and adults. The vast West Los Angeles federal property was donated in 1888 by the Senator John P. Jones and Arcadia de Baker family, with the stipulation that it be…

Neglected lot Ready for Makeover
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
Date: 09/03/07

BSC TerraSphere, a Boston planning and >>>landscape architecture<<< firm, met last week to look at the property in preparation for putting out bids for the work. "We're working on finalizing the construction documents so we can go out to bid," Ms. Lewenberg said. "Hopefully, if there are no delays work will start in October." Robert C. Antonelli Jr., assistant commissioner of the city's parks, recreation and cemetery division, said the foundation should not present a significant problem and that if some of it needs to be removed it will not add to the project's cost.

New life for Glencairn
Herald Online
Date: 09/02/07

…the original master plan drawn by South Carolina >>>landscape Architect<<< Robert Marvin, who later would landscape at the governor’s mansion in Columbia. The Glencairn project is an ambitious undertaking, conservatively estimated to cost $10 million to $12 million over the next 10 to 12 years. An advisory committee has helped plan and promote the project; a city development committee will mount a campaign to raise money; sponsors have been enlisted to help pay for improvements; and city officials and members of the parks and recreation department have been active in the initial stages of expanding the garden….

Green Moves Upward
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
Date: 09/02/07

…cooling costs, according to Jim Lapides of the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<<, which has a living roof on its headquarters. "A green roof will virtually eliminate heat gain in the building," said Peck. Also, "you can save the life of your individual roof. Instead of replacing your roof every 20 years, in Germany the roof lasts 40 or 50 years," said Lapides. The heat reduction benefits the entire city, because cities often are hotter than surrounding areas because of the "urban heat island effect."

Gardeners' vision comes to fruition with festival
Fort Collins Coloradoan
Date: 09/01/07

Already a Colorado State University >>>landscape architecture<<< class has built structures for an arbor and a stone wall for the garden. "It ties in with everything that I've been reading about in the news - poverty, obesity, community collaboration" Meador said. "(Youth volunteers) will get physical exercise and what better reward than to take home some vegetables you've raised with you at the end of the day."

Tigard picks a site for downtown civic plaza
The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
Date: 09/01/07

…because it will allow the city's consultants, >>>landscape architects<<< Walker Macy, to begin detail design for a specific site. The Stevens Marine site was the clear favorite among councilors and members of citizen committees who spoke Tuesday. Alice Ellis Gaut of the Fanno Creek Steering Committee said her group liked the site for a number of reasons including its willing seller and the way it connects to the city's 30-acre Fanno Creek Park, allowing the plaza to open into greenspace.

The disciplined garden
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 09/01/07

…exactly what you had in mind. Benninghouse, a >>>landscape architect<<< and owner of Firefly Garden Design of Wauwatosa, said: "I like masses of plants that flow together. It keeps the weeds down and gives that abundant look." But there's a difference between a cottage garden that purposely overflows and one that's out of control. Benninghouse said her garden requires attention throughout the growing season to stay disciplined, and she's not afraid to be ruthless. Deadheading spent blooms is a constant. Previous performers that now bloom half-heartedly should be divided, and entangled plants should be separated if possible, replaced or

Botanical Gardens receives a truly "sensational" gift
Boothbay Register (ME)
Date: 08/31/07

While Herb Schaal, a Fellow in the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< and principal of EDAW in Fort Collins, Colorado, completed the master plan for the sensory garden, it didn't begin there. The initial idea for a garden that could be enjoyed, and in part maintained, by the blind and visually disabled came from Gardens board member Mollie Moore, who is blind, and her husband, Wells. The Moores and other volunteers set out to learn all they could about sensory gardens; and it was Board member Elsie Freeman, M.D., who visited such a garden in Osaka, Japan and brought back detailed information that became a role model for its…