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Archive for March, 2008

Pruned: 18th and 19th Century “Before and After” Landscape Drawings Digitized

Posted in Exhibits on 03/28/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Next time you are frustrated with the hours you put into CAD renderings and tours, think about 18th century landscape designer Humphry Repton. Repton, a famous designer of gardens and private parks for English country estates, created a series of before and after illustrations of his projects. Like flipping a pop-up book page, these illustrations [...]

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RFP for Four Acre Park in Hudson Yards, NYC Released

Posted in Public Spaces on 03/25/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, the New York City Department of Design and Construction and the Hudson Yards Development Corporation issued an RFP for the design of the four-acre Hudson Park and Boulevard and the creation of a streetscape plan for the Hudson Yards area in Manhattan. Click here to log in and download the document. According to the [...]

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Chicago Public Radio’s Look at Stormwater Management

Posted in Green Roofs on 03/21/2008 | Leave a Comment »

This week Chicago Public Radio’s program “Worldview” interviewed Marcus De La Fleur, ASLA, about how he convinced his landlord to improve his rental home’s stormwater management. De La Fleur’s design hits all the major stormwater management points: removal of old pavement and turf lawn and replacement with rain gardens, gravel grass, porous pavement and rooftop [...]

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Finalist Designs for 4,500 Acre Shelby Farms Park Now Online

Posted in Public Spaces on 03/19/2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Shelby Farms Park Conservancy in Memphis, TN, has released the designs of the three finalists for the redesign of the 4,500 acre park. The new park is to be, in the words of the Conservancy, “…an urban forest, a civic playground, a model for health and sustainability. It can be a standard-setting prototype for parks [...]

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April 1st is “Fossil Fools Day”

Posted in Climate Change on 03/17/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Not only is April 1 the start of National Landscape Architecture Month, but it’s also the day that the “Fossil Foolies Award” winners are announced. The Foolies look to “recognize the world’s biggest contributors to our devastating global addition to fossil fuels.” The Foolies are organized by the Energy Action Coalition, Co-op America and Rainforest [...]

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Treehugger: How to Green Your Home Buying

Posted in Residential Design on 03/14/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Treehugger.com (now part of Discovery Communications) is a popular green and sustainability blog. This week they released a list of ten tips for new home buyers looking for a “sustainable home.” Along with the usual advice to buy a smaller house, and to live near mass transit, two of the tips speak directly to landscape. [...]

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NYC and Cooper-Hewitt Announce Bike Parking Design Competition

Posted in Public Spaces on 03/14/2008 | Leave a Comment »

This week, the New York City Department of Transportation and Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum announced a new international design competition for bike parking in New York City. The competition seeks to develop “attractive, functional, well-designed sidewalk racks and to generate new concepts for bicycle parking inside commercial and residential buildings.” More than $50,000 in [...]

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AP: U.S. Drinking Water Tainted with Pharmaceuticals

Posted in Environment on 03/10/2008 | Leave a Comment »

In a sobering report today, the Associated Press released the findings of a four-month study of the water supplies of 28 US metropolitan areas. Of the 28 cities’ water supplies, 24 were found to hold traces of popular over-the-counter and prescription drugs. These drugs include including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones. From the [...]

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Grist: How Green Is Your Candidate?

Posted in Policy and Regulation on 03/07/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, has up a great compendium of interviews, fact sheets, and information on this year’s crop of US presidential candidates. Here’s a handy chart of the positions of Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama, and Ralph Nader on various environmental topics such as fuel economy standards [...]

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ArchRecord: Landscape/Architecture Firms Growing Closer Together

Posted in Landscape Architecture on 03/05/2008 | Leave a Comment »

Take the time to read Architectural Record‘s piece this week about how the sustainability movement is encouraging architecture and landscape architecture firms to work more closely together. From the article: As architects attempt ever more ambitious feats with green projects, the collaborative relationship between members of a design team is becoming more important. Landscape architects, [...]

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