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New Editor-in-Chief for Landscape Architecture Magazine
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the selection of veteran journalist Bradford McKee as the new Editor-in-Chief for Landscape Architecture magazine, the landscape architecture profession’s national magazine of record celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/23 4:16pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/23 4:16pm
Not your garden variety landscaping firm
The Mansfield-based landscaping firm, Jameson Landscaping and Irrigation is one of 30 garden exhibitors featured at this year’s Boston Flower and Garden Show, March 24 through 28 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/22 7:54pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/22 7:54pmLandscape architects survey identifies hottest outdoor living trends for 2010
Popular elements include fire pits, low maintenance landscapes and low-frill entertaining
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0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/17 5:06pmWorking with landscape contractors
Considering selling plants to landscape contractors? Knowing what challenges they face can help you provide the products and services that satisfy them and their customers.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/14 5:49am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 03/14 5:49amArchitects struggling amid economic turmoil
Nationally, approximately 30 percent of architects are unemployed. According to statistics released by the American Institute of Architects for July 2008, architectural firms across the nation were employing a total of 224,000 people. By January 2009, that number had dropped to 206,000.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/22 10:13pm
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/22 10:13pm
Desert landscape inspires snow fort
Architects James Leach and Kris Nelson were driving home after a snowstorm when they noticed a beautiful natural phenomenon.
Winds whipping from the north had sculpted snow on a hillside into a series of small mounds. To Nelson, those shapes seemed vaguely familiar.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/22 10:11pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/22 10:11pmLandscape designer reveals the tools in his garden shed
A Japanese digging tool is the most highly used item in landscape designer Jamie Durie's garden shed, he claims.
In an interview with Proven Beauty magazine, the Australian reveals his favourite gadgets stored in his garden shed.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 5:00am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 5:00amPermeable paving: Good for the environment and your landscape
Less runoff, replenished groundwater levels, and tax savings are a few of the reasons why your home needs permeable paving.
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0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 4:59amUNM Landscape Architecture Graduate Students Win ENYA Awards
UNM landscape architecture graduate students Yekaterina Yushmanova, Kristina Guist, Maggie Ryan and Aaron Coffeen are winners in the ENYA (Emerging New York Architects) International Ideas Competition, a biennial architectural competition for emerging professionals.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 4:57am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 4:57amSustainable Landscape Design Comes to Fair Lawn
The local community will get an opportunity to learn about environmentally responsible landscape design from the region’s experts in the field — Midland Park, N.J.-based Eco Earth Design — during the Fair Lawn Green Fair.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 4:56am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 02/19 4:56am
Landscape Architecture Around America (PHOTOS)
Living in a big city, it can be hard to find refuge from the daily grind. Landscape architecture is a rising industry that provides a sort of urban oasis, connecting people with nature in a typically hectic setting. These spaces can be both aesthetically-pleasing and practical, sometimes even finding more sustainable ways to use public space.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:59am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:59am
Bush Presidential Library Unveiled; Design Goes for the Green
Designed to achieve LEED platinum certification and will include sustainable design strategies, including locally sourced and 20% recycled building materials, solar hot water panels, native landscaping to reduce irrigation, and a storm- water management system that conveys, cleanses, and collects surface runoff and roof rainwater and will provide 50% of the irrigation needed for the site.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:57am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:57amArchitects Plan 'Amphibious Landscape' for New York City
A collaboration between the Museum of Modern Art and its affiliate P.S.1: The museums have asked five separate architectural teams to come up with plans for transforming the metropolitan area's coastlines after warmer oceans and melting Antarctic ice have raised global sea levels, something many scientists predict is inevitable.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:53am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:53amArchitecture for Humanity Responds to Haiti Quake
The firm has issued a call to architects, interior designers, engineers, environmental scientists, agronomists, and landscape architects across the globe to donate their time and talent.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:51am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 01/16 5:51am