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2006 ASLA Annual Meeting/43rd IFLA World Congress Podcasts & VideoPoscasts include interviews with Ken Smith, Jean Michel Cousteau and Kongjian Yu, and video clips of meeting sessions and award presentations.
Landscape Architecture salaries up by 20 percentSo says the preliminary results of the ASLA 2006 National Salary Survey and Business Indicators Survey.
Field Operations in TorontoApparently Toronto Waterfront Revitalization officials are not making a big enough deal over the hiring of landscape architect James Corner for the redesign of Lake Ontario Park.
Governors Island Vote... nevermindWe Clipped the public input for a redesigned Governors Island a while back. Well, your votes count towards nothing now.
Cornerstone Festival of Gardens in Sonoma, CaliforniaA bit of an update on the current offerings at Cornerstone (previously featured on L+L). Among the more recent additions are gardens by Andrea Cochran and Oehme van Sweden & Associates. [images]
Quake fault parkMore on the previously Clipped park proposed for San Diego by artists Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertelsen with Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects.
Beirut's Forgiveness Garden, Slated for 2008, on Wartime HoldLandscape architect Kathryn Gustafson and architect Neil Porter had intended to install planted areas among the ruins from the last war that tore Beruit apart - another war has interupted those plans.
"Living Laboratory" proposed for the Great ParkAll the Great Park news lately has revolved around project team leader Ken Smith... but today a word from artist Mary Miss about her concepts: "Miss sees the Great Park as a place of experimentation where sustainability efforts can be a tangible experience and new ideas about environmental and social sustainability evolve."
Redesigns mask security barriers throughout USA"Anti-terrorist barricades that went up to protect public buildings after Sept. 11, 2001, are slowly disappearing from the public landscape. They're not going away, just being disguised."
3 Firms Are Finalists to Design Park at Cornfield Site in L.A."Mia Lehrer and Associates of Los Angeles, Hargreaves and Associates of San Francisco and Field Operations of New York beat out 30 other design teams in the first phase of the contest, state parks administrators said Thursday. Each firm will receive a $25,000 stipend to help cover the cost of preparing a master plan for the 32-acre parcel east of Chinatown known as the Cornfield." [reg. req'd]
Ken Smith wears funny glasses and guzzles coffeeThe second bit of OC Great Park news is an article that examines the quirks of landscape architect Ken Smith.
Great Park revision proposedTwo bits of news from the OC we missed last week... the first involves a change to developers plans for a portion of the old air base which would give 402 more acres to the public and provide more upfront funds to for the construction of the park.
Sk8-scape - It's All in the SwoopSkateboarding, once associated with concrete wastelands and Empty parking lots, has inspired a whole new design field. Here's how skate parks became fast, deep, curvaceous and breathtaking.
The Haute Bamboo"Exotic species -- stunning in size and wild in color -- have become hot commodities with a fervent following."
International Flora Montreal garden showMoco visited Flora and shows some of the contemporary landscapes on display.
Kew BrewWhen beer and landscape collide... you find me... face down..... in the landscape... ahem. Young's brewery in Britain has been producing a special brew with Kew grown hops, and contribution from the sale of each bottle goes work in conservation, research and education.
So succulentCactus and succulents are growing in popularity in southern California... it's about time people figure out that agaves are a bit more practical than azaleas in a desert.
Vote for Your Favorite Governors IslandChoose your favorite illustrated guideline for the parks and public spaces on the 172 acre Island in New York Harbor. Seacrest, out.
ASLA Retrofits Headquarters with Green RoofA quickie from AR on ASLA's new green roof designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.
Moco goes to MetisWe've featured the International Garden Festival at the Jardin de Metis here on L+L several times, including the concepts for this year's garden show... but we have not actually been able to visit. The good folks at Moco Loco have been and lived to tell the tales - in a series to be posted in the days to come.
Garden CityThe history of nurseries in Flushing, Queens dating back to the 1700's, and the endangered remains of Parsons nursery (founded in the 1830's) where Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux obtained rare specimines.
O.C.'s Great Park to Join the Land of AahsAn article detailing the Great Park's proposed bright-orange tethered balloons which will give visitors a view from 500 feet above the park.
The Ground Zero Memorial, Revised but Not ImprovedNew York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff weighs in on the revised memorial plan.
New Plan Unveiled for W.T.C. MemorialScaled back proposal created in response to high costs... trims approx. $162 million from the budget.
Harbour plan needs daffiness weeded outA critique of the winning proposal for Toronto's waterfront designed by the team lead by West 8.
Fence it offFive (of 13 invited) architects and urban planners devise proposals for the controversial border fence between Mexico and the United States. (multimedia slideshow)
A surprisingly large number of homeowners seem to think that nature wants them deadThe challeneges of a nature-loving landscape.
Monumental woesSeptember 11th memorial to be redesigned after contractors concluded that the current proposal could cost nearly $1 billion.