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Filmmaker's gardenAn director designs a garden for film... then ditches the media career to design landscapes full time.
Wildflower HighwayNative plantings are beginning sprout up along US highways; a movement born part of frugality and part of environmental Enlightenment. Of course there is the intellectual opposition who make points like, the native grasses "just look awful," and highway medians "should look like a lawn, mowed."
Go Green, Great ParkFor some reason we just love following the minutiae behind the design of the Orange County Great Park. Here are 9 ideas for 12 (possible) environmental features.
Nazi OaksAlong with gold medals, champions of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin were presented with an oak sapling... ya know, that whole world domination thing, spread German Oaks around the world. One such tree planted in Britain recently met the ax.
Detroit: Garden City?Ah Detroit... lots of room for urban community gardens and mother nature to reclaim a foothold. (See also L+L 2/20/2006 Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.)
MFO ParkA fascinating structured urban Zurich, Switzerland designed by Burckhardt + Partner AG and Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG.
Etant Donne by Mitnick Roddier HicksCreating an endless landscape through the use of mirrors. Not only that, it's also mobile. Check it.
When Landscape Is ArchitectureJealous of all of the attention Landscape Architecture has garnered as of late, architects are moving in on landscape territory. Some "innovative projects reimagine the natural world in a technological age."
Pretty yet practical"Sustainable gardens at London garden exhibition offer Californians some ideas and a look at the future."
Not a Cornfield/FarmLab unveils a new urban project in Los AngelesFarmlab’s most recent investigation into creative sustainable urban land use. A "do-able" alternative to high budget proposals that a recent (previously Clipped) competition produced.
Pantone 152CThe first phase of the Great Park opened... a 5 acre sliver of Ken Smith's grand vision with giant floating oranges in the sky. Images and video for your pleasure.
Plant geek alert"A rare ghost orchid has been found growing high in an old cypress tree in a southwest Florida nature preserve." [photo]
Recycling El Toro into the Great Park"A recycler is transforming materials from the former El Toro base into mulch and soil that will be used to build Irvine's Great Park."
Great Park gets it upThe Great Park's big orange balloon is ready to rise to the occasion for this weekend's kick off event.
Public Enemy No. 1?"Lush lawns are a Southern California obsession. But with rainfall at historic lows, a turf war is heating up. Critics wonder if grass is always greener."
Talking PlantsA psychadelic blog about plants that... dood, get this... talk to you! Aw yeah that would be groovy, but, actually its just NPR's new gardening blog.
Competing Visions for Governors IslandFive teams comprised of renound designers are finalists in the competition to design a publis park on New York's Governors Island. "The five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed."
Beyond the Garden"Landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander discusses her ahead-of-the-curve career in sustainability."
London's cool new courtyardsStylishly designed garden courts are being designed into new London aparment complexes... will Melrose Place style drama be far behind?
Plants 'Recognize' Their Siblings"Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings."
The Green Wall of ChinaChina has planted a "Green Wall" in Inner Mongolia to hold back the growing Gobi Desert.
Charleston Waterfront Park receives 2007 Landmark AwardSasaki Associates will receive the 2007 Landmark Award for their 1990 design which has been a catalyst of transformation for Charleston. [images]
You go girlMartha Schwartz became the first woman in the history of Harvard's landscape architecture program to receive tenure.
Young Circle ArtsParkA family-oriented cultural experience in downtown Hollywood, Florida designed by Glavovic Studio. [images]
seedPOD: A "Wikiseedia" for the Future of Food and Farming"A speculative anticipation of what a model for tracking and trading local knowledge about farming and food in an open, global network might look like."
The Red RibbonArchidose takes an look at the Tanghe River Park in Qinhuangdao in China's Hebei Province, recipient of a 2007 ASLA Professional Award (see L+L 4/12/07). The park was designed by Turenscape and the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University.
Goodness gracious, great balls of the Great ParkThis first element of the Great Park designed by Ken Smith is scheduled to lift off this summer.... big orange balloons will offer riders views of central Orange County from 500 feet.