Category: Landscape
Posted by Anthony on 8/23/2007 7:13:00 AM
Spaces of simplicity, elegance and balance
flashfilm.com has an interview with London-based garden designer, Philip Nixon. Philip is a participant of the Chelsea Flower Show and is currently working on an exhibition for the 2008 Gothenburg Festival in Sweden.
Via: flashfilm.com
Link: Philip Nixon Design
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 7/9/2007 3:38:00 PM
Inaugural launch of Orange County's Great Park
 Roll on down to El Toro on Saturday, July 14, 2007, where you can get a glimpse of the future according to Ken Smith.
The City of Irvine and the Orange County Great Park Corporation are hosting the inaugural launch of the Great Park, and you are invited.
The design team for the Great Park is lead by New York City landscape architect Ken Smith. His band of merry-makers include Enrique Norten (Ten Arquitectos), Mia Lehrer, (Mia Lehrer + Associates), Buro Happold Engineers and Ecologist Stevel Handel.
Link: The Great Park Takes Flight
Link: www.greatparkballoon.org
Link: Orange County Great Park
Previously: Ken Smith in the O.C. (L+L)
Previously: Orange County Great Park (L+L)
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 4/12/2007 9:49:00 AM
American Society of Landscape Architects honors 38 projects
 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2006 Professional Awards. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 38 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 8 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The top "Awards of Excellence" are awarded in several categories:
Link: ASLA 2007 Professional Awards
(complete awards list and project profiles)
IMAGE: The Red Ribbon - Tanghe River Park, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China
Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute) and Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing, China.
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 3/7/2007 7:38:00 AM
Sean Canavan
Not quite the Kathryn Miller approach to guerilla gardening (Sean is more akin to these fellow Brits), but pretty cool.
Video: Google Video
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 12/7/2006 12:43:00 PM
Contemporary Ephemeral Gardens in celebration of Québec City's 400th anniversary
 The Ephemeral Gardens will be an artistic event where creators from different horizons are invited to bring an artistic viewpoint on the major themes of Québec City's 400th anniversary. This viewpoint will be expressed through creator gardens : outdoor creations using mediums that combine different elements, including plant materials. The gardens will be on view at Espace 400e , a focal point of the festivities to be created alongside Louise basin in downtown Québec City.
The goal is to create 6 contemporary art gardens.
This call for proposals is aimed at seasoned and budding creators. They may be architects, landscape architects, or visual artists and may be from Québec City, Canada, or countries historically linked to Québec City: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Registration deadline is January 31, 2007
Link: Québec 400: Ephemeral Gardens
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 9/13/2006 4:23:00 PM
American Society of Landscape Architects honors its student members
 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2006 Student Awards. Awards were given in seven categories to 24 projects representing 15 schools.
The ASLA website features full descriptions and slide shows for each project. Just a few excerpted images shown after the jump to whet your appetite.
And props to Brett Milliga from the University of New Mexico who made all of his classmates look bad by scoring two awards...
Link: ASLA 2006 Student Awards
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 6/30/2006 5:10:00 PM
Vertical Garden Competition Winning entry by David Fletcher + Juan Azulay
 The MAK Center and SCI-Arc invited thirteen emerging architecture firms and architects to design a 'vertical garden' at the Schindler House. To contend with the vertical growth of the city, a vertical garden will be designed to occupy the edges of the Schindler House property, adding a new dimension to the landscape of the low-rise Schindler House and creating a green buffer between the house and its neighbors. The Schindler House is as inseparable from its garden as it is from its condominium neighbors; the vertical garden will address this condition and posit new ideas relating to landscape, public art, urban growth, and architecture.
The proposal by David Fletcher + Juan Azulay proposes a light weight structural system enveloping the site to provide support for the growth of an organic sturctural system - strangler fig (f. petiolaris). Over time, the organic structure fuses with the non organic structure and becomes dominant.
Video: mak T6 Vacant by Fletcher + Azulay
Link: SCI-Arc - MAK Center | Vertical Garden Competition Winners Announced
Link: MAK Center
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Category: Landscape
Posted by Adriean on 6/29/2006 1:52:00 PM
Welcome to their jungle
Mall security owes Spectrum Skatepark Creations a serious pat on the back !
As the only skatepark design & construction company in Canada owned and run by a sponsored skateboarder, Spectrum has indeed carved the landscape enough to make Mother Nature take notice.
We aim to ensure that the skaters of your community have the best possible skating experience. We are dedicated to provide for our skating brethren by creating the highest caliber skatepark possible for each unique situation & budget. We also strive to empower & teach the youth by heavily involving them in the entire creation process.
Skateparks ought to be accessible, fluid & dynamic arenas in which all levels & types of skaters can become well-rounded riders & people. With creativity; a knowledge of our sport's past; an understanding of the timeless ideas of balance, fluidity, & continuity in design; & an awareness of emerging & future design trends, we have the opportunity to create truly great skateparks & a legacy for the future.
I had the pleasure of watching one of their parks open up near my home in Edmonton. The response alone was pretty wild as the park is literally packed from sunrise to sunset with both young boarders as well as chartered Accountants hanging onto their glory years. Great stuff.
Link: Spectrum Sk8park Creations ltd.
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 6/26/2006 9:43:00 AM
Gardens for the new emergent times
 Spanish born garden designer Fernando Gonzalez is the principle and founder of Metagardens, a gardens design firm based in London. Fernando says that “the boundaries between the artificial and the organic are more blurred than ever before” and his innovative design practice seeks to address these challenges of the digital age through both built and experimental projects. Through computational techniques and an exploratory approach to design it proposes to go beyond the ordinary and conventional.
We live in a post-human environment where the relationship between the biological and the machine is more of a symbiosis than of contradiction. Our cybernetic culture sees Nature as something manufactured far away from ‘naturalistic’ theories that dream with a romantic and uncontaminated environment outside of our culture or, even worse, as a return to the past. But while the rest of the artistic disciplines are mutating to adapt to the new challenges garden design practices and theories are still based in outdated ideas incapable of dealing with the complexity of the new situation.
Link: Metagardens
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 6/22/2006 1:24:00 PM
 The Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair is the UK's most prestigious interior and garden design event for consumers. The event will run 29th June - 2nd July, in Olympia, London.
With over 400 companies taking part, the Fair embraces all elements of stylish living including interiors, gardens, accessories, entertaining at home and gourmet food and wine.
Link: House and Garden Fair
Link: Buy Tickets
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