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Skier’s team hired the Miami-based landscape architect Raymond Jungles, FASLA, winner of the 2024 ASLA Design Medal, to craft a vision for a restored coastal ecosystem that could serve the foundation’s education and advocacy missions. Jungles brings an obvious passion for repopulating species often decimated by commercial developments.
On Design - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape Architecture Magazine covers the wide range of design by landscape architects written by award-winning journalists. More than parks, landscape architecture is woven into cities, neighborhoods, and rural places in projects large and small. Below is a sample of some of the best feature articles on design that have appeared recently.
About Us - Landscape Architecture Magazine
About Us. Founded in 1910, Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). It is the magazine of record for the landscape architecture profession in North America, reaching more than 60,000 readers who plan and design projects valued at more than $140 billion each year.
Desert Bloom - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 30, 2017 · The built landscape consists largely of concrete, asphalt, and bland architecture. Many of the city’s most interesting buildings have been built at UTEP, which had spent far more money on the design of its architecture than its landscape. Most of its buildings display the Bhutanese style of architecture.
Promised Land - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Mar 29, 2018 · Concrete, Impala granite from Rhode Island, and 37,000 square feet of Mesabi Black granite quarried in Minnesota were the main elements. The landscape design, especially for the stone fabricators, was deceptively complex, Abela says. With 60 percent of the building underground, the landscape rests on a six-inch steel and concrete platform ...
Keeping It Weird - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 25, 2024 · Designed by Ten Eyck and the architecture firm Clayton Korte, the roughly 18,000-square-foot restaurant space is the second outpost of Cosmic Coffee, whose stylishly ramshackle South Austin location opened in 2019. The new space, accessible from Austin’s Red Line commuter rail and the Red Line Trail that follows it, revives a pair of graffiti ...
On Climate - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape architects have been working on issues of sustainability and resiliency for the last century. Reporting on projects and approaches to sea-level rise, extreme drought, urban heat islands, flooding, and wildfires has raised public awareness of the vital work landscape architects are doing to help communities adapt to climate change.
The Wright Way - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Dec 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.”.
Mind the Gaps (and Curves) with Precast Concrete
Jul 15, 2022 · Landscape architects are specifying precast more and more for those very reasons as well. Precast allows for consistent finishes, complex forms, and uniformity among pieces that may otherwise be difficult to achieve in the field. It is, however, likely to cost more in the long run, especially if you do not have economy of scale.
Theater Revival - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 7, 2020 · Even to modern eyes, the amphitheater’s erratic form comes as a surprise. Designed by the noted California landscape architect Robert Royston, the 1967 Quarry Amphitheater is as much a work of environmental art as a theater. The amphitheater had been closed for more than a decade owing to disrepair and reopened in 2017 after an $8 million ...