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Healing Gardens: Nature as Therapy in Hospitals
Cortesía de Fundación Cosmos Share Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whatsapp Mail Or https://www.archdaily.com/972112/healing-gardens-nature-as-therapy-in-hospitals For the Cosmos Foundation, environmental conscience, ecological conservation, and community focus form the foundations of land planning and landscape design within public infrastructure projects. We sat down with the foundation’s project director, Felipe Correa, as well as foundation architects Valentina Schmidt and Consuelo Roldán, as they went in depth on the benefits, objectives, and motivations behind the Healing Gardens initiative. Nature’s Place Within Hospital Infrastructure Throughout the conquest and colonial times, plants held a central place within hospital architecture, especially within sanatoriums specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis and mental illnesses. As time passed, however, natural spaces disappeared…
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Master Gardener: Landscaping with nature in mind | Lifestyles
Landscaping with nature in mind The garden has been put to bed and is ready for a blanket of snow. The last of the garden ornaments are in storage, containers have been emptied, fall bulbs are planted and trees that didn’t find a home are healed in. Fences to keep hungry critters from nibbling on new trees have been erected. The gardener and garden are ready for a rest. The ladybugs, bumble bees, fireflies and butterflies are also at rest, finding shelter in leaves, old stems, rock piles, rotting logs and underground spaces. The birds that are spending the winter have been busy in the garden eating seeds left standing…
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Exhibit of Nature Gone Wild Photos Opens in YMCA Community Gallery
Photographer and Northbrook resident Michael Greenberg returns to the North Suburban YMCA’s Community Gallery in December with a new exhibit of photos entitled “Nature Gone Wild.” The exhibit captures the power of Mother Nature, unleashing scenes of motion, intense colors, textures, and astronomical/weather wonders. The high-resolution framed photographs are for sale and could make a great holiday gift. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Y’s Visual Arts Program. When he travelled to Argentina in 2020, Greenberg captured images of Iguazu National Park Waterfalls that dwarfed Niagara Falls. Cruising off the coasts of Argentina and Chile offered unique “nature gone wild” images of a breaching whale, flying fish, squawking and…
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Children’s Nature Playscape construction begins in downtown Kalamazoo
Funds are secured, materials are being ordered and construction is scheduled to begin on the Children’s Nature Playscape on Bronson Park, a new playground that eventually will be one of the largest natural playscapes in an urban core. The 130-foot square greenspace at 302 Academy Street, slated to open next summer, is a nature-inspired space that will give kids rocks and trees to climb, water to splash in, and logs to traverse — right in downtown Kalamazoo. “We are planning for a soft opening June 1,” says Jody Brylinsky, Children’s Nature Playscape on Bronson Park Steering Committee chair. Children and families will be welcomed to the site with some areas…
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These untouched nature photos reveal the true beauty of our planet
Right now, as COP26 turns its interest to mother nature and the position it will engage in in long run local weather plans, we want to share some genuinely natural landscape pictures with you. You really do not have to scroll way too extended as a result of your social feeds to detect that some landscape photography can be, nicely, variety of fishy. In an era of photoshop and filters, the Normal Landscape Images Awards were developed to market the very very best landscape pictures. Established by digital and movie photographers who price realism and authenticity in their function. Level of competition organisers set up a set of policies to…
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Natural and Realistic Landscape Photography Celebrated in the First Natural Landscape Photography Awards Which Aims to Rebuild the Public’s Trust in Nature Photography
Durango, CO, November 03, 2021 –(PR.com)– Utah, United states of america-based landscape and nature photographer Eric Bennett wins the 2021 Organic Landscape Images Awards, the extremely to start with images competitiveness of its form. The levels of competition was established to advertise the extremely very best landscape images by electronic and movie photographers who worth realism and authenticity in their work. The competitiveness set up a set of crucial regulations to prevent the varieties of deceptive electronic enhancing methods that have come to be commonplace in landscape images. The outcomes are a fantastic showcase of not only the photographers concerned, but also the genuine speculate of the landscape in a way…


