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Market Square Park among outdoor spaces that architect has shaped to improve city's quality of life
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/19 12:06pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/19 12:06pm
This Land is Your Land
"Being a person of color," Hood says, "people tend to look at what I do, because it's outside the norm, and make special allowances." His voice changes pitch as he mocks those who pigeonhole him: " 'Oh, that's just Walter. He does the art thing, he does the inner-city thing, he does the community thing.' "
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0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 09/19 12:05pmThe perfect garden landscape design
The perfect garden landscape design is the one that suits your needs and wants. Generally, people’s idea of a perfect garden landscape is one that is relaxing, accessible, simple and beautiful to you
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/18 10:46pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/18 10:46pm
Gardens That Grow on Walls
GIVEN the chance to accompany a team of botanists on a plant-collecting expedition to South America, most gardeners would probably be satisfied with the experience. They wouldn’t come home and try to recreate the rain forest in Manhattan.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 10:39pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 10:39pm
ASU connects globally to explore urban transformation
The ASU Herberger Institute School of Design Innovation and School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture hosted "Phoenix-Barcelona: Cities in Transformation," a symposium and month-long exhibition on the ASU Tempe campus in February 2010 that highlighted the ongoing development of both cities and how it is manifested in the work of local architecture and design practice.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:56am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:56amHarvard landscape architecture department receives $4m grant
More collaborative working is on the cards at US Harvard University after a $4m grant to its landscape architecture department.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:49am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:49am
The Growing Importance of Landscape Architecture
"There's an increasing sense that landscape architects are really able to better manage complex urban change over time" than people in other professions, [department head Charles Waldheim] said. Landscape architecture "now ends up being a place where the arts, questions of urbanism, and questions of ecology can connect."
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:20am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:20am
Landscape architects group seeks awareness
There are many different clubs on campus, but the ASU chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects works to help students stop and smell the roses.
Landscape architecture is the design and development of land — outdoor or indoor — for environmental and aesthetic purposes. It can include the building of parks, urban planning, and environmental restoration.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:15am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:15amMSU landscape architecture student team again among U.S. best
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State student team once more is ranked among the nation's best in a landscape architecture and contracting competition.
The 32-person university team recently finished eighth overall at the 2010 Student Career Days event organized by the Professional Landcare Network. In 2009, an MSU group finished at a similar tier.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:11am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/06 12:11am
Golf architect: The art of drawing up the course
Recently, a friend suggested "tongue in cheek" that I write an article that could be entitled: "How I ruin your round of golf". I laughed and we had a short discussion about his idea. Although his comment was made to me in humor, I realize that there is a faction of the golfing public that believes part of my job is to make the course difficult.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/01 12:52am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/01 12:52amSurvey Shows That Landscape Architecture Firms Mark Sign of Recovery
According to the latest American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Business Quarterly survey, firm leaders reported higher levels of billable hours, hiring and especially inquiries for new work – suggesting that the spring thaw could also apply to an industry hit hard by the lack of new design and construction projects over the past two years.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/01 12:51am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 05/01 12:51am
Round Rock Parks & Recreation awarded ASLA
The City of Round Rock Parks and Recreation Department and Halff Associates, Inc. was recently recognized with the Honor Award for Planning and Analysis from the Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for Game Plan 2020: Building an Active Community, the Round Rock Strategic Parks and Recreation Master Plan.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/28 10:00pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/28 10:00pm
New model of Woodall Rodgers deck park unveiled
The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation and Uptown Dallas unveiled a new scale model Tuesday of the $80 million deck park being built over Woodall Rodgers Freeway.
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0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/21 5:26pmRooftop garden projects aim for sustainability
A proposal going to Vancouver city council Tuesday could provide the seed money to grow food on the roof of a Chinatown parkade.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 12:45am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 12:45am
Imagining a More Watery New York
Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront In this MoMA show, a model by Architecture Research Office marries a wholly new landscape to Lower Manhattan’s streets.
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0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/26 9:41pm