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National Mall Design Competition Open to All

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, National Mall, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Water Management on 09/08/2011 | 1 Comment »

The Trust for the National Mall announced the kick-off of a National Mall design competition in Washington, D.C., which will be open to established and emerging U.S. teams of landscape architects, urban designers, architects, and sustainable designers. Trust Chairman John Ackridge said the goal of the competition was to make the National Mall, which receives 25 million [...]

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Student Design Competition: Parks for the People

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Sustainable Design on 08/17/2011 | 1 Comment »

Parks for the People, a student design competition organized by the U.S. Park Service, Van Alen Institute, National Parks Conservation Association, and financed by the National Endowment for the Arts and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, aims to “reimagine America’s most spectacular public places — its national parks — by using design as a catalyst to creatively rethink their connections to people [...]

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New Central Park Map Identifies, Plots 19,600 Trees

Posted in Forests, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces on 08/03/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Working with Edward S. Barnard, author of New York City Trees, Ken Chaya, a graphic designer and artist, has spent more than two years creating Central Park Entire, an illustrated, comprehensive tree and trail map of Central Park available either as a poster or fold-out walking map. This guide to the natural history of the one of the world’s greatest parks, [...]

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A New President’s Park South

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Security Design, Urban Design on 07/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) announced Rogers Marvel Architects has won a design competition for a new President’s Park South, a 52-acre historic site located between the White House grounds and the Washington Monument. Redesigning President’s Park South, which is one of the most-visited landscapes in Washington, D.C., is a challenging brief for a designer. The site, which includes Sherman Park and the Ellipse, a number of monuments, and a [...]

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E.O. Wilson’s Love Letter to Parks

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Gardens, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Wildlife on 04/27/2011 | 1 Comment »

E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s great biologists and a Pulitzer prize-winning author on the natural world, made a case for preserving and investing in the restoration of urban parks at the 70th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks Park in Georgetown. Designed by renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, the only woman among the founding members of ASLA, the 27-acre park has [...]

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Aligning Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design

Posted in Green Buildings, Historic Preservation, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials on 03/28/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Historic preservation and sustainable design are two disciplines that no longer need to be at odds but can actually join together to improve the sustainability of buildings, argued Maria Casarella, an architect with Cunningham | Quill Architects, Brendan Owens, Vice President of LEED Technical Development, and Eleni Reed, chief greening officer at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). These [...]

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National Park Service Picks Best-designed Parks

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 07/21/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The National Park Service’s first Designing the Parks competition announced that a total of 17 projects won honor and merit awards. The Park Service received almost 70 entries submitted by public organizations and private design firms in 20 states and five countries. To win, parks had to engage people, embody sustainability, break traditional barriers, involve the community in decision-making [...]

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Digitally Preserving Africa’s Cultural Landscapes

Posted in Historic Preservation, Technology on 06/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Zamani project, run by the University of Cape Town, uses laser-scanners, photography, and advanced surveying techniques to capture 3-D images of Africa’s important historic  landscapes and buldings. The Zamani project attempts to ”capture spatial domain of heritage, with a current focus on African heritage, by accurately recording its physical and architectural nature and dimensions. Sites are seen in [...]

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Restoring Mughal Landscapes

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Revitalization on 04/21/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Program, which is affiliated with Harvard University, organized a lecture on the restoration of two of the most important Mughal empire landscapes — Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi, and the Bagh-e Babur in Kabul, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an Islamic philanthropy, [...]

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Interview with Franceso Bandarin, UNESCO World Heritage, on Cultural Landscapes

Posted in Historic Preservation, Land Art, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces on 03/10/2010 | Leave a Comment »

Francesco Bandarin is the Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. A recent UNESCO report on cultural landscapes says, “As soon as a territory is seen as a landscape, it bears cultural values; but these values are not necessarily outstanding and universal. Those landscapes where the interaction between people and their environment is considered to [...]

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