Paolo Bürgi Landscape Architect: Discovering the Horizon: Mountain, Lake, and Forest (Source Books in Landscape Architecture)
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
There's a big move afoot among many gardeners to get rid of lawns, and here's the book that will tell you just how to do that. In his new book, The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn (Timber Press, 2009), nurseryman, designer and author John...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Just think ... how nice it would be to have an entire suburban street with landscapes like this one ... entire streets without lawns! It's just one of the new ideas that could become a reality ... thanks to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI), a collaborative effort to persuade homeowners,...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The campus of Cornell University has more than 7000 trees, and they're storing millions of pounds of carbon, worth more than half a million dollars to the university. A comprehensive tree inventory was recently conducted by two graduate students, as the university considers how to implement its pledge to achieve...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
(Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.) To launch its 14th anthology, Water , Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime talk in which Jeroen Bodewits will discuss Waterpleinen , a project designed by Florian Boer and Marco Vermeulen...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
( MEtreePOLIS , by HWKN and which appears in Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead? , envisions a future, genetically modified Atlanta, Georgia. Watch Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner give a tour of their “fantasticity” here .) Coinciding with the next issue (#18) of Kerb , the annual landscape architecture journal edited by students at RMIT, Melbourne, is their first ever international...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Classical Chinese Garden in Portland, OR, is a 21st-century ancient garden. It opened in September, 2000, and it's destined to be (if not already) one of the most popular garden destinations in the country. Built on the site of an old parking lot, it's patterned after classical Ming Dynasty...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Pumpkin Patch™ Rose Could there be any rose as perfect for Halloween? This is a new one from Weeks Roses, described as the color of pumpkin pie, on the caramel side. It's a floribunda, medium-sized, round and bushy, with a moderately fruity fragrance. Hybridized by Bedard, it's said to like...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Lawrence Halprin, one of the 20th century's prominent landscape architects, has died at the age of 93 in San Francisco. Among Halprin's most famous works are the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC; Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco; Freeway Park in Seattle, Sea Ranch in northern California and, pictured...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Through Nov 15 Kiku in the Japanese American Garden, Bronx, NY Final Kiku show at the NY Botanical Garden. Lectures, Demos, More 718-817-8616 Nov 1 Garden Tours, Mt Kisco NY 10AM-4PM Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours Nov 2, Design: Urban Landscapes, NYC 6PM-7PM, Lecture, landscape architect Walter Hood, Scandinavia House,...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
How about a little black plant to go with that little black dress? Or a bouquet of black flowers to add a sense of mystery to that Halloween table or a sinister boutonniere in the lapel of that costume? In his first book, Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Gardens has put up a series of images of early 20th century American gardens on Flickr ... in honor of American Archives Month. The garden above, in Bar Harbor, Maine, is designed by landscape architects Ann Leighton Smith and Beatrix Farrand. It is part...
Lazy days & Sundays (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I live north of Grosse Pointe Shores, home of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. I've been at the estate a number of times over the years for various functions, but never toured the house until yesterday. Oh. My. Goodness. It is gorgeous, and interesting and was a real family home when Henry II, Benson, Josephine and William Ford were growing up. Edsel was the only son of Henry Ford. He married Eleanor...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Should gardens be priced by the square foot? It's an interesting idea. The Knibb Modular Garden is a concept pioneered by LA landscape architect Sean Knibb. Basically, the plants are pre-selected and more or less pre-designed, the hardscape materials have...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
(Image by KMA.) Speaking of augmented game spaces , here is an interesting interactive installation set to come online at the of the month in three UK cities. Created by KMA , Great Street Games will be a “huge, participatory, high-tech athletics tournament” in which participants in Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough compete against each other in real-time over four nights. KMA will...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
(All photos via Urbangolf.fr .) Actions: What You Can Do With The City finally comes to Chicago. Organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the exhibition features “experimental interactions with the urban environment [that] show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city.” These “actions” tend to be modest in scale and budget, opportunistic...
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