Sculpture to Invigorate a Shrinking City
The New York Times
07/05/2009
“Within walking distance of the Gateway Arch, the park is intended to bring tourists and art fans to the mall and to draw office workers and loft dwellers outside with an array of amenities. ‘It’s really a hybrid landscape,’ said Warren Byrd, a principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz, the landscape architecture firm in Charlottesville, Va., that designed Citygarden. ‘It’s some combination of a city park and a sculpture garden.’”

Landscape Architecture Rising
ENR.com
07/01/2009
“If so, a landscape architect may be in your future. The design professional—until recently derided as little more than a glorified gardener—is on a campaign to reclaim a seat at the environmental cleanup table. Some are even bent on sitting at the head, leading the engineers.”

Planning Firm Keeps Louisiana Cities’ Stories in Mind with Projects
2theadvocate.com
04/26/2009
“Both landscape architects — Patrick of LSU and Randalle of California Polytechnic State University — the couple, over time, turned their company in the direction they wanted it to go. At some point, ‘We quit doing private estates cold turkey,’ Patrick said. Today, Moore Planning Group, landscape architects and site planners, has 13 Louisiana cities, five towns and three parishes among its clients.”

Life, Aquatic
At Home
July-August 2009
“That's why landscape architect Anne Lewis (lewisites.com), who's maintained an eco-friendly swimming pool for more than a decade, had to figure out how to do it herself. Outside of Europe, there are few pools like hers—and it's definitely unique in the Midwest.”

Everyone Out!
PostStar.com
07/03/2009
“‘In this economy, people are taking ‘stay-cations' rather than vacations and looking for ways to allocate whatever available resources they have in their home,’ says Dean Hill, ASLA, CGP, president and principal landscape designer at Indianapolis-based Terratecture.”

Warming Up to Fire Pits
ConnPost.com
07/02/2009
“Fire pits are the hottest trend in outdoor-living design features, according to a recent poll by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Fire pits create an inviting focal point for convivial gatherings.”

Complexity of the Visual Impact Analysis Should Fit the Size and Scope of the Project
New England Real Estate Journal
06/23/2009
“Landscape architects are considered to be the only professional trained in landscape aesthetics and for this reason, landscape architects are usually the only professionals qualified to prepare visual impact analysis or the more complex VIA.”

Rain Harvesting Law Draws Interest
Caller.com
07/06/2009
“‘The more that you can depress areas, the more water that you’re going to retain,’ said Eric Barrett, the project’s landscape architect. He said the site previously had only about four native trees and some palm trees and one bank of oleanders, with no water retention.”

High-Rises on Hold: What to Do with Empty Lots?
San Francisco Chronicle
07/05/2009
“Cover the site with fast-growing trees like Brisbane box, and within three years there'd be a leafy bosque taking carbon from the air and sending fresh oxygen toward passers-by. A developer seeking favorable attention could instead offer a site on a rotating basis to local artists or landscape architects.”

Renovations May Help Grow Crowds at Myriad Botanical Gardens
NewsOK
07/06/2009
“James Burnett, who is currently working on the Devon project, is the landscape architect for garden improvements. Larry Ogle, assistant director of the city’s Parks Department, said bulldozing it from curb to curb is not the solution, as it is important to preserve the culture already inside.”

Photographers, Reach New Heights on The High Line
The Huffington Post
07/05/2009
“The High Line design team was led by landscape architecture and urban design firm James Corner Field Operations with planting specialist Piet Oudolf, architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (which makes complete if you've visited Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art) and graphic design firm Pentagram.”

Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks’s Garden of Scottish Worthies
Architectural Record
06/30/2009
“This is particularly true among the rolling hills of southwest Scotland, where in Portrack, just north of Dumfries near the English border, Charles Jencks, the American theorist, architect, and (increasingly) landscape architect, and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, created a 30-acre garden on a family estate that engages both the mind and the senses.”

Evanston to Launch Beach Improvements at Clark Street
ChicagoTribune.com
07/01/2009
“The City Council voted last week in favor of the $1.17 million Clark Street Beach project, which will see construction of two small pavilions with bathrooms, storage and concessions, said Stefanie Levine, landscape architect with the city.”

Symbol of Liberty, Colonial Defiance Planted in Pawtuxet Village
Warwick Beacon
06/30/2009
“A few local trees did survive, according to Warwick landscape architect Margie Ryan, including one on Centerville Road, by Captain’s Catch Seafood. The city has been growing disease-resistant elms at its tree farm, Ryan said.”

The Greenhouse Effect
Departures Magazine
06/30/2009
“Boddie says Amdega-Machin's clients range from ‘twentysomethings to elderly millionaires,’ and that most are CEOs and entrepreneurs. Case in point: Harry Gates, a landscape architect, recently installed an 8.5 by 12.5-foot greenhouse from Private Garden Greenhouse Systems on his property in Washington, D.C.”

Stumping Grounds
Portland Monthly
06/30/2009
“We go, as Olmsted wrote, to savor ‘a specimen of God’s handiwork’. We go to rejuvenate, to breathe deeply and get a glimmer of the natural majesty that was here on the land before landscape architecture—and even human settlements—ever existed.”

Liquid Lesson
Portland Monthly
06/30/2009
“Of course, Mount Tabor’s gardens and the school’s other rainwater collection structures cost about the same as replacing the troublesome pipe—roughly $850,000—but that wouldn’t have been nearly as pretty (the gardens earned a design award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in October).”

Pool Perfect
Departures Magazine
06/30/2009
"’Today, pools are seen as a design element that can bring in other elements,’ says Mark Scott of Mark Scott Associates, a landscape architecture firm in Newport Beach, California. ‘When clients say that they want a pool, it usually means they want fountains, grottoes, spas, sports bars, surround-sound systems, and TV monitors’.”

Aquarium’s Green Roots Go Deep
GlobeInvestor.com
06/30/2009
“Landscape architect Randy Sharp knew he was onto something big back in 2005 when, while planning the ultimate urban-style garden for the Vancouver Aquarium, he discovered there was a growing interest in vertical garden systems, also known as green or living walls.”

Citygarden.—An Urban Oasis Blooms in St. Louis
StreetInsider.com
06/30/2009
“Ground for the garden was broken in April, 2008, at a rain-soaked ceremony attended by several of those who were instrumental in its creation: Mayor Slay; the Mayor's Executive Director for Development, Barbara Geisman; Seventh Ward Alderman Phyllis Young; and Warren Byrd, principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, the Charlottesville, Va.-based landscape architectural firm that prepared the plan for the garden.”

June 30, 1864, Abraham Lincoln Creates Yosemite Park
Politico
06/30/2009
“In 1865, Frederick Law Olmsted, a landscape architect who served on the Yosemite board of commissioners, warned that ‘the slight harm which the few hundred visitors of this year might do, if no care were taken to prevent it, would not be slight, if it should be repeated by millions’.”

Flatbush Refreshed
The Architects Newspaper
06/29/2009
“On June 24, the North Flatbush Business Improvement District (BID) unveiled a proposal to transform a stretch of Brooklyn’s central artery from an automotive speedway into a pedestrian-friendly boulevard. The master plan, designed by W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, aims to slow traffic along Flatbush Avenue and soften the thoroughfare’s hard urban character.”

She’s a Link to Lowell’s Past
Lowellsun.com
06/29/2009
“Boxes upon boxes of cataloged letters, photographs, office records and the unpublished autobiography of Manning, a celebrated landscape architect who lived from 1860-1938.”

One of the World’s Most Innovative Sensory Gardens Opens at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine
21 News Now
06/22/2009
“In 2004, renowned landscape architect Herb Schaal created the master plan from which the garden was built. In designing the sensory garden, Schaal, an award-winning Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects and a principal in EDAW, Inc. in Colorado, drew on his extensive experience designing accessible and therapeutic gardens.”