Rethinking Playgrounds
Web applications and video games have redefined what it means to "play" for our youth. In most parts of the world, as access to electronic devices become more and more common place, children are…
Book Highlight – Garden Park Community Farm
Garden Park Community Farm is a new coffee table book by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW). The book highlights some of their recent and best designs, but also showcases their philosophy…
Interview with Andrea Cochran
Image credit: Christopher Irion In a recent book on your work from Princeton Architectural Press, Mary Myers writes, "Like Luis Barragán, Andrea Cochran is able to convey a forceful…
Paving; Afterthought or Integral?!
SOURCE: DIRT Written by: J. Green Landscape architects in Europe are doing really innovative things with pavers, perhaps more so than in the United States. Some recent contemporary urban…
Peace Pavilion | London Festival of Architecture | Atelier Zündel Cristea
Source: World Landscape Architecture IMAGE CREDIT | ArchTriumph ArchTriumph is announcing the exhibition of the showcase “Peace Pavilion” in the Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green,…
Firm Highlight: Sasaki
Looking at various local, national, and international Landscape Architecture firms is a great way to get information on places that have internship and job opportunities, as well as being very…
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Instructor Julie Trachtenberg invites you to join in the expansion and improvement of the Grandpa Allen Learning Garden (GALG) in the heart of Richmond for the Richmond College…
Last Call!!!! Park(ing) Day Entries Due FRIDAY JULY 19 – NOON!
Interested in designing and implementing a temporary Public Open Space in San Francisco? Then mark your calendar for July 19th and September 20th, and here is why: "PARK(ing) Day is an annual…
Parklet Competition Winners Announced!
During Spring 2013, students of the School of Landscape Architecture's LAN 498/695: Design/Build/Collaborate class designed competition entries for a Parklet and fence structure that is intended as…
Project Spotlight || OCT Bay | Shenzhen China | SWA Group
Source: World Landscape Archiecture Located in Shenzhen, China, OCT Bay has a combined site area of approximately 1.25 square kilometers including a new urban center and nature preserve. The design…