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A Wilder West | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Embracing “ugly-pretty” ecology on a Camelback Mountain estate. By Brian Barth / Photography by Caitlin Atkinson Stormwater runoff from the property collects in a steel basin before seeping into the lawn through a series of weeps. Photo by Marion Brenner, Affiliate ASLA. Rare is the landscape architecture client who enjoys a view of decay out their window. Lauri Termansen’s taste may be unconventional, but it fits the desert ecology of her southern Arizona home like a glove. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame glimpses of notably unmanicured native species, whose succulent pads are left to shrivel as nature intended when they fall off the mother plant. Other once-living appendages dangle from cacti bodies as…
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Design and architecture projects to look out for at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Returning to Paris, France, for their 33rd edition, the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will mark the 100-year anniversary of the city’s last outing in 1924 as the host for one of the most high-profile events in the arena of global sport. With over 800 days to go till their commencement, this iteration of the age-old athletic spectacle has been promoted as a triumphant return to form for the Olympic Games, in the wake of the pandemic-constrained Tokyo Olympics that occurred last year. With swarms of spectators and residents expected to flock to Paris and observe the scintillating displays of athletic prowess on show, the city is pulling out…
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Landscape architecture adds value to construction projects, mitigates climate change
Landscape architects in the U.S. not too long ago celebrated Planet Landscape Architecture Thirty day period (WLAM). Every April American landscape architects be part of their colleagues all-around the planet to celebrate the career. April is the reasonable month to defeat the drum for landscape architecture. Earth Day falls on April 22 and the birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, the creator of Central Park and founder of the career in North The usa, is on April 27. The intent of WLAM is to elevate the visibility of landscape architecture and to remind the general public and the architecture, engineering and construction sector of the position landscape architects engage in in…
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Have Van, Will Garden | Landscape Architecture Magazine
The radical landscape architecture of Straub Thurmayr. By Brian Barth Nothing excites Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, ASLA, more than bringing high-concept landscape architecture to places where it is traditionally absent—remote communities, inner-city schoolyards, peri-urban land awaiting tract homes. But in their case, high concept does not mean high budget or highbrow; if their designs are rarefied, it is in the degree of humility that is expressed. Homeliness becomes a virtue in their work; cracks in the sidewalk become gardens; weeds are welcome. The German designers, who moved from Munich to Winnipeg 12 years ago, once designed a 500-acre, $320 million botanical garden outside Shanghai. Now professors at the University…
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Olmsted 200 Celebrates Legacy of ‘Father of Landscape Architecture,’ Looks Toward Equitable, Sustainable Future
The Olmsted Legacy in Connecticut: Constructing Sustainable Metropolitan areas Symposium honored the legacy of the “father of landscape architecture” and Hartford indigenous, Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted, born in Hartford in 1822, was a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture and accomplished considerable initiatives these kinds of as Central Park in New York Town, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and parks in the course of the U.S. and Canada. The symposium, co-arranged by assistant professor in the School of Agriculture, Overall health and Normal Methods Sohyun Park and Phil Birge-Liberman in the Department of City and Community Studies, focused on 3 major places of sustainability for park style: community, ecological, and financial…
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Architecture and design firm Marvel adds Richmond to its universe
From left, Caroline Frantz, Mitch Crowder and Tyler Silvestro are handling Marvel’s Richmond office. (Kate Thompson Pictures) An architecture company with roots in Puerto Rico and New York has proven an workplace in downtown Richmond. Marvel, named for principal and co-founder Jonathan Marvel, has established up shop at 300 E. Main St., filling a 1,200-square-foot storefront room in the St. Albans Lofts creating in Monroe Ward. The 9-calendar year-old business focuses on architecture, landscape design and urban organizing in these types of areas as household, business, cultural, education and learning, hospitality and recreation. Captaining Marvel’s Richmond staff is Tyler Silvestro, a companion with the business who’s taking care of the…
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