The Wright Way - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBDec 15, 2021 · By Joann Greco. Photo courtesy Bayer Landscape Architecture. Daylilies and phlox are thriving along the terrace with the pergola in the background . Darwin and Isabelle Martin were getting tired of waiting. “We want a garden,” Darwin wrote to their architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, late in 1903. “We do not want the whole thing a lawn.”.
The City, Polarized for Play - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBSep 5, 2019 · The granite slide in New York City’s Billy Johnson Playground is an illustration of M. Paul Friedberg’s design philosophy. Its 45-foot serpentine curve is nestled into a rocky outcropping, one of Central Park’s startling moments of geologic heft. The slide came from Friedberg’s observations of how his own children tumbled down the slate ...
Walter Hood’s (Extra)Ordinary Witness
WEBJul 31, 2017 · The site of this protest is now home to a commemorative public art and landscape installation by Walter Hood: Witness Walls, for the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, completed in April. It’s the city’s first civil rights-themed piece of public art, according to The Tennessean, and cost $300,000. In an existing park next to the Metro ...
High Streets - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBAug 9, 2018 · Image courtesy City of Miami Beach. Faced with rising sea levels, the City of Miami Beach is lifting itself out of the water’s way—one street at a time. Beginning with the neighborhoods lowest in elevation, the city has raised dozens of streets in the past few years, some by as much as two feet. The $500 million project, which also includes ...
The Story Beneath Our Feet - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBJul 31, 2018 · Uncovering historic pavements reveals each city’s “urban fingerprint.” By Zach Mortice Vitrified brick in Cincinnati. Image courtesy Robin Williams. In the past 200 years, cities have become larger, safer, and healthier places to live, but there’s one arena of urban infrastructure that has become incalculably more monotonous and denuded: the range and diversity of pavement types on ...
A Forest in the City in the Forest - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBFeb 28, 2018 · Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History occupies a formidable 1992 postmodernist structure by Graham Gund Architects. Visitors enter through a lobby that looks down into an octagonal atrium dominated by enormous dinosaur skeletons posed as if on the brink of carnage. Beyond the atrium’s glazed …
A Park with a Heart of Gold - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBJan 4, 2022 · Gold Street Park is one of the first such parks to be realized, a collaborative design by four of Kweon’s graduate landscape architecture students: Jason Poole, Jennifer Ren, and Laura Robinson, who did the original design, and Vince (Che-Wei) Yi, who did revisions and construction drawings. The starburst ground mural is by LaTosha Maddox ...
Mulligans - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBFeb 11, 2020 · With VanVlymen’s colleague John Jackson, ASLA, a principal and the director of landscape architecture and urban design at Ratio, the firm is proposing supplanting green fees in favor of multipurpose recreation and letting everyone onto the land. “Golf courses are very large-scale designed landscapes,” Jackson says.
Traces of Self-Exile - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBAug 3, 2017 · Much of the book is devoted to advocating for Rose’s achievements while trying to. account for the designer’s disillusionment with the culture of postwar landscape architecture and his eventual self-imposed exile to suburban New Jersey. Although these two threads are not in opposition, they do place a strain on the narrative, suggesting a ...
Peter Walker’s Point - Landscape Architecture Magazine
WEBOct 17, 2019 · Designed by Peter Walker, FASLA, of PWP Landscape Architecture, in association with the Australian design practice Johnson Pilton Walker (JPW), Barangaroo Reserve is significant in how it knits an enormous piece of neglected waterfront back into Sydney’s public realm. Standing along the generous outcrop of …