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Tending 'Defiant Gardens' During Wartime"War gardens -- not just victory gardens, grown in time of scarcity, but those planted on hostile fronts, including Eastern Europe's ghettos and the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II."
2006 Landslide gardens at riskThe Cultural Landscape Foundation highlights endangered landscapes and promotes the preservation of these "places that offer unique opportunities for recreation and rest and are touchstones of individual memory and shared experiences."
Seismic conditions, motion and geologyScience-minded artists Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertelsen (Living Lenses) selected to create public art for a new San Diego park on top of a fault line.
Life Support Systems: Mushrooms dining on motor oilBreaking down long-chained toxins through mycoremediation.
ASLA selects 2006 Medal, Community Service, and Landscape Architecture Firm Award winnersChicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Cameron R. Man, Steve Martino, the Olin Partnership, Donald L. Collins, Hugh C. Miller and Randal Scott Romie selected as ASLA award winners.
A bold Dutch plan for Toronto's waterfrontEven more about the Toronto waterfront competition and the winning proposal by a team headed by Adriaan Geuze and West 8.
Garden of Planes by Gregg BleamA profile of an award winning garden by Gregg Bleam, ASLA, which transformed an unused basketball court into a modern walled garden.
Toronto Waterfront winner chosenApparently the jury has unanimously chosen the proposal by Rotterdam based landscape architects West 8 for the Waterfront competition.
Fixing Brooklyn's Grand Army PlazaDesigned in 1867 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vauxthe Plaza has become an "insane" traffic oval. In the 1920's a "Death-O-Meter" actually reported pedestrian fatalities. Jan Gehl of Gehl Architects (urban quality consultants from Copenhagen) have been hired to offer a redesign.
Toronto waterfront wavesThe public weighs in on the proposals by finalists in the Toronto Waterfront design competition. The popular leader: West 8.
America's obsession with that green patch in the yardAn environmental historian ponders the cultural significance of the lawn in suburban America.
How Millennium Park created a unique nexus of culture"It was designed as a lush urban park, a star-lit concert space, a grassy art gallery dotted with high-toned creations, but Millennium Park has become something more."
Group hears Great Park designer's visionSpeaking at an Orange County Forum luncheon, landscape architect Ken Smith tells the croud that his complex plans have a simple intention: for people to "love the park." Smith says.
Designers float visions of Toronto waterfrontBrief descriptions of the designs proposed by the selected five finalists in a competition to improve public access to Toronto's waterfront. The design teams are: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and Martinez Lapena-Torres; Foster and Partners, Atelier Dreiseitl; Stan Allen Architect, Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte Architects; Snohetta, Sasaki Associates, Narchitects, Weisz + Yoes Architecture, H3, Balmori Associates, Halcrow Yolles HPA; and West 8, Du Toit Allsopp Hillier.
Michael Van Valkenburgh gets showcase at HarvardThe Boston Globe writes up landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and the show of his recent work at Harvard GSD - Between Form and Circumstance: Re-thinking the Contemporary Landscape.
Nouvel's "universe of relaxation" in the middle of BarcelonaJean Nouvel's design for Poble Nou Park in Barcelona, Spain, will be completed in 2007. It will be "a place of serenity in contrast to the roar of the cars."
What is it that a landscape architect actually does?"Landscape Architects -- Experts on More Than Just Lawns and Gardens." Who knew?
'Green roofs' growing more popularCNN takes an interest in green roofs, checking out the new installation at the ASLA headquarters building in Washington D.C., recognizing Chicago's green roof efforts, and talking to Stephen Holl who says the Chinese "want it and they're willing to pay for it." I think he means green roofs.
High on the High Line"After seemingly endless discussions, work has begun to transform an abandoned rail trestle into a public park -- and a building boom is born."
Podcast - High Line Aspirations: The Park of the FutureAndrew Blum speaks with Joshua David, co-founder of Friends of the High Line, about the transformation of an old elevated freight railway on Manhattan's West Side into a public park.
Channeling the raindrops"The rain that falls on my property stays on my property." Creating a garden that conserves water and prevents polluted storm water run off.
A place of no meaning"Rupert Christiansen is overwhelmed by Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin"
Monumental SecurityLAND Online presents a virtual tour of the Washington Monument grounds, redesigned by Laurie Olin. The design incorporates security barriers while improving visitor experience.
A Force Of NatureChina's pre-eminent landscape architect, Harvard GSD trained Yu Kongjian, is on a quest to bring unexpected beauty to the nation's boomtowns.
Turf Warrior - genetically engineered lawns coming soon?!"Jim Hagedorn (chair and CEO of ScottsMiracle-Gro) wants to sell you the pest-proof, no-mow, genetically engineered lawn of the future. But first he has to head off a grassroots rebellion." I am afraid... are you?
Snapshot - cylindrical projection of JupiterAn amazing image of Jupiter stitched together from photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its December 2000 flyby of the planet.
AIGA Grow ConferenceJill over at Inhabitat covered the AIGA Grow conference last weekend in New York. Check it out for her take on the conference along with some photos of the conference participants (Jill included) wearing masks :-)
"The Aesthetic Of The Perfectly-Groomed Lawn""Environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains American's fascination with the perfect lawn."
State Sowing Seeds for a Future L.A. LandmarkAn article about the previously Clipped competition for the Cornfield in Los Angeles.