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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.”.
The Metasequoia Mystery - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 19, 2016 · The 1940s discovery in China of the dawn redwood, a living fossil, remains in shadows cast by war, political upheaval, and scholarly intrigue. By Kyna Rubin On a clear August day in 2002, Ma Jinshuang, a botanist, struck gold. At the bottom of a cabinet in a dark, moist, long-abandoned herbarium in Nanjing, perched unprotected.
The Seven-Foot Sandwich - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Feb 21, 2017 · Plans call for 1,650 plantings and 200 mature trees and include wind- and shade-resistant species such as large-canopied black tupelo trees. The signature elements will include a 200-foot-long S-curved fountain sculpted to create a natural current like that of a river.
Soils: The Measure of Moisture - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 21, 2014 · A good moisture meter that gives reasonably reliable data will cost about $250 or more. These meters will typically read around 50 percent when the soil is totally saturated. Moisture meters that are far cheaper, $15 to $100, are available, but these give much more approximate readings. I use two meters.
The Story Beneath Our Feet - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jul 31, 2018 · Uncovering historic pavements reveals each city’s “urban fingerprint.” By Zach Mortice Vitrified brick in Cincinnati. Image courtesy Robin Williams. In the past 200 years, cities have become larger, safer, and healthier places to live, but there’s one arena of urban infrastructure that has become incalculably more monotonous and denuded: the range and diversity of pavement types on ...