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The Team on Tops | Landscape Architecture Magazine
By any count, Presidio Tunnel Tops had an unusual number of women in construction and project leadership. They say there are good reasons for that. By Anne C Godfrey The Meadows, sitting directly on top of the Highway 101 tunnels, is a place to gather and enjoy the views. Photo by Rachel Styer. An unexpected amount of rain fell on the Presidio Tunnel Tops construction site this past October. The rain was a mixed blessing; though welcomed by parched San Francisco Bay Area residents, it had damaged parts of the job site. Kerry Huang, ASLA, a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations (JCFO), the project’s design partner and landscape…
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A Bumpy Reentry | Landscape Architecture Magazine
Girls landscape architects are finding the road from component-time to comprehensive-time function complete of potholes. By Jared Brey Barbara Peterson, ASLA, is a night time owl. All through the 16 many years she labored as a part-time landscape architect, she normally used the hrs of 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. sending email messages, doing work on styles, and stamping strategies. When her son, Eric, obtained a little older, she would pack a lunch and depart it in the fridge for him to consider on his way to the bus in the morning. She put in much of her working day carting him again and forth to sporting events and skateparks.…
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Natural Resting Place | Landscape Architecture Magazine
The world’s to start with Web-sites-accredited cemetery is developed as a successional forest. By Lydia Lee To create a native meadow and burial ground from the previous dump, the soil down to 4 ft was screened for particles and then amended with compost. Image courtesy Alta Arranging + Design and style. In the summer, the 400 grave web sites in a part of West Laurel Hill Cemetery outdoors Philadelphia that is known as Nature’s Sanctuary are marked only by a meadow blazing with indigenous scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma). Memorial stones are established into a nearby wall. The location, which is specified for inexperienced burials, is the initially cemetery to…
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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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BAMcinemaFest Announces 2022 Program | Filmmaker Magazine
Alma’s Rainbow (Photo: Milestone Films) BAMcinemaFest, which is returning with an in-person event June 23 – 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, announced today the complete 2022 edition slate. The film opens with Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s Aftershock, a documentary about the the ways in which the US maternal health system fails Black women and families, and it closes with Ramin Bahrani’s Sundance premiere, 2nd Chance, a portrait of Richard Davis, who invented the modern bulletproof vest while being something of an independent filmmaker and fabulist. Among the restorations are Ayoka Chenzira’s 1993 first feature film, the coming-of-age dramatic comedy Alma’s Rainbow, about a group of middle-class Black…
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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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