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Nation’s Front Yard Needs Big Fundraiser
Tampa Bay Online
07/31/2009
”The mall is worth the trouble. The president of the American Society of Landscape Architects calls it ‘an enduring symbol of our country's heritage and democratic ideals.’”
Homestead Mansion Owners Dream of Battle of Thompson’s Station Park
Tennessean.com
07/30/2009
“Greg Gamble, a leading landscape architect, is preparing the Master Plan for the battlefield. ‘It is the dream of Marcia and I to turn Homestead Manor Plantation into a premier historic destination over the next few years,’ Jay Franks said.”
Science, Beauty, and Fun Converge
The Philadelphia Tribune
08/01/2009
“In consultation with teachers, landscape architects and Jane Taylor, noted designer of the children’s garden at Michigan State University, they developed the imaginative Camden Children's Garden for children ages 3 to 12 and opened in July 1999.”
Native Shrubs Worth Planting
Chicago Tribune
08/02/2009
“Lynch, who is also a landscape architect, shares three top picks for home landscapes. These shrubs are suited to prairie conditions: full sun and able to handle lots of wind.”
Tiny Parks are Oases of Nature in City
PressDemocrat.com
08/02/2009
“A hundred years ago the Ladies Improvement Club waged a fund-raising campaign to turn the old graveyard into a safe playground, according to Janet Gracyk, a landscape architect and longtime resident of the Oak Hill Historic District who is compiling a guide to Petaluma’s parks.”
Winona Has Plenty of Places to “Park” It
WinonaDailyNews.com
08/02/2009
“Levee Park, designed by A.W. Finkelburg, a Winona landscape architect, was patterned after parks along the Rhine River and originally called Riverside Park.”
Pretty Poison: Plants to Die For
CBS News
08/02/2009
"’And then there's Frederick Law Olmstead, the famous landscape architect. At the age of 14, he was nearly blinded by exposure to poison sumac. He missed a year of school, but it didn't stop him from going on to design New York's Central Park.’”
Architect Works on Greening the New YMCA
The Salem News
08/03/2009
“Jones, who works for Keith LeBlanc Landscape Architecture in Boston, grows excited as he unrolls his intricately illustrated plot plan and points out where the new trees will go, what plants will be best for what areas, how all will be arranged and rearranged.”
Alabama Playground to Incorporate Tennessee River Heritage
MontgomeryAdvertiser.com
08/03/2009
"’It's going to be like walking through the Tennessee River valley,’ said Anne Daigh, the landscape architect working on the project.”
City’s Tyler Park Gets Organic Makeover
Individual.com
08/03/2009
“The legendary landscape architect who helped create New York's Central Park had a ‘naturalist approach,’ treasuring whimsical gardens, said Tyler Park neighbor Jay Mason, also an architect.”
Remembrance Garden Dedicated to I-35W Bridge Victims
HometownSource.com
08/03/2009
“The design of the Remembrance Garden was developed when the families and survivors began working with Dr. William McGuire, whose foundation manages Gold Medal Park, and Tom Oslund, the landscape architect who designed Gold Medal Park.”
Taking Gardening to New Heights
Palo Alto Online
08/04/2009
“According to San Francisco landscape architect Stephen Suzman, principal of Suzman & Cole Design Associates, whose firm designed the green roof on this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase, a green roof can lower the rooftop temperature from 130 degrees down to 75 degrees on a typical summer day.”
Dutch Designer Liberates Bulbs from Mass Plantings
WRAL.com
08/05/2009
“Garden design evolves, however, and one Dutch landscape architect is acquiring an international following by freeing bulbs from their traditionally crowded and formalized settings.”
“Green” for All
Diverse
08/06/2009
“’To date, most of the jobs in the green sector have gone to people with advanced degrees such as engineers, architects and landscape architects,’ says Hipólito, executive director of the Oregon-based Verde. ‘More recently, weatherization and stormwater management projects have produced jobs for low-wage workers. The pay scale for these jobs varies.’”
Borough Awaits Safe Routes to School Grant
PennLive.com
08/07/2009
“Camp Hill-based landscape architect and Mechanicsburg mom Sally Holbert was at the helm of that grant, as well as the $302,905 awarded to the borough of Newville to address traffic concerns near Newville Elementary, in the Big Spring School District.”
As Hartford’s Maintenance Lags, Parks and Cemeteries Grow Disheveled
Hartford Courant
08/07/2009
"’It's like walking into a Stephen King novel,’ said Marci Martin, a city resident who went to the cemetery recently to search for the burial place of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. ‘The condition of the graves is awful.’"
Expect Fewer and Longer Lawns and More Green Roofs in Effort to Cut Campus Costs
Chronicle Online (Cornell University)
08/07/2009
“Landscape designers also are ‘relying more and more on endowments and gifts’ to manage spaces, said David Cutter, landscape architect for Planning, Design and Construction at Cornell's Facilities Services, in a presentation on campus landscapes and naturalization at a communicators@cornell meeting, Aug. 6 in Warren Hall.”
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