SWA Parking Day Los Angeles 2012
On September, 21, 2012, SWA Los Angeles created a mini-urban forest on the corner of 7th and Flower in downtown Los Angeles. This temporary parklet, was an intermediary for 20 boxed trees that were donated for the Dominguez Channel Enhancement and Engagement Project (DEEP), which memorializes Patrick Curran, a landscape architect who had an unrelenting passion for the environment. The parklet lasted for 6 hours before the trees were brought to the Environmental Charter School in Hawthorne. The three species of trees (California Sycamore, White Alder and Western Redbud) were planted along the Dominguez Channel on October 20,2012. DEEP has been a three year pro-bono landscape project involving the Patrick T. Curran Initiative (PTCI), From Lot to Spot (FLTS) and Los Angeles County Flood Control District that transformed a barren 20000 site along the Dominguez Channel into a beautiful native landscape with bicycle and pedestrian opportunities.From:SWAGroupViews:38 1ratingsTime:02:17More inScience Technology

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Lilydale Park Entryway Installation
A new entryway was placed at Lilydale Park on Oct. 22, 2012 and Saint Paul Parks and Rec. Landscape Architect, Ellen Stewart, was there to capture the installation. Visit http://www.stpaul.gov for projects updates and information.From:GreatRiverPassageViews:2 0ratingsTime:00:55More inPeople Blogs

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Tour of 14 Lyndeoch Avenue, St Kilda East
An Architect Designed Oasis Impeccably designed renovated to the highest standards, this superlative home provides the perfect balance between modern luxury family pleasure. The exquisite architectural details lend sophisticated elegance to the lounge, dining room, sitting/media room, family/meals with custom-designed bar, gourmet kitchen, playroom, fitted study, north-facing poolside entertaining designed by landscape architect (Out From The Blue) pampering master ensuite with city views, all on a fabulous north facing allotment of 10000sqft (approx title dimensions). call Gary Peer Associates 03 9526 1999.From:Gary PeerViews:5 0ratingsTime:02:52More inPeople Blogs

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Watch full movie : tinyurl.com Just Like Heaven Part 1 Full Movie, Just Like Heaven Part 1 Movie, Just Like Heaven Movie Part 1, Just Like Heaven Part 1 The Movie, Just Like Heaven Part 2 Full Movie, Just Like Heaven Movie Full Movie, Just Like Heaven (2005) Movie Part 1 English Full, Just Like Heaven Movie HD trailer. A lonely landscape architect (Ruffalo) falls for the spirit of beautiful woman (Witherspoon) who used to live in his new apartment.From:violaru retaViews:0 0ratingsTime:09:33More inFilm Animation

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Preserving a Twentieth-century Downtown
At the first caf of our fifth season, Demion Clinco and Helen Erickson of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation share information about the latest developments in downtown preservation projects, with a special focus on efforts to preserve the work of renowned landscape architect Garrett Eckbo. Handout materials for this cafe are availale for download at http://www.archaeologysouthwest.orgFrom:ArchaeologySouthwestViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:12:15More inScience Technology

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Beckenham Place Park, Autumn Glow.
theo harpik, youtu.be Situated off Beckenham Hill Road, London Borough of Lewisham. This open parkland is a public golf course with extensive woodland walks along the boundary. The grounds are open to the public and free parking is provided, it is a great place for a walk. The park was acquired by John Cator in 1773 and he quickly restored the mansion to it #39;s former glory. His father in law, Peter Collinson, an early landscape architect and botanist, introduced to the grounds many exotic trees and a lake (now drained). The Cator family became one of the largest landholders in the area, and at one time the Cator estate spread from Shortlands to Sydenham Hill. In the late 19th Century the house was used as a boys school and it then became a sanatorium. Beckenham Place Park is now the home of one of England #39;s largest and busiest public golf courses. The 18 hole golf course meanders through the ancient woodland of the park.From:theo harpikViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:12More inTravel Events

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Hurricane Sandy at SAKC Philadelphia
Obsererving the stormwater performance of multiple BMPS at a former brownfield recliamed as a recreation campus for the Salvation Army following Hurricane Sandy, October 30, 2012. Landscape design and civil design by Andropogon Associates and Duffield Associates respectively. Video by Chris Mendel, landscape architect with Andropogon.From:Chris MendelViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:58More inScience Technology

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By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) - A 15-acre park at the upcoming George W. Bush Presidential Center will recreate a Texas prairie, complete with a wildflower meadow, a new blend of native grasses and even trees transplanted from the former president's ranch.

"I'm really excited about it. I think it's so pretty, so beautiful," said former first lady Laura Bush, who said she envisions people strolling along the park's paths and picnicking there once the center opens at the end of April.

The park's landscaping, which was just completed this month, recreates the kind of prairie landscape that would have existed in the area before the city was here, said Mark Langdale, president of the George W. Bush Foundation.

The wildflower meadow should include Indian paintbrush, evening primrose, and, of course, Texas' beloved state flower, the bluebonnet, when it blooms next year.

"This spring I'm feeling pretty good we'll have some bluebonnets," said the center's landscape project manager Herb Sweeney IV, a senior associate with the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc.

The presidential center on the campus of Southern Methodist University will feature a library including archives and a museum. The approximately 227,000-square-foot, three-story center, will also house Bush's policy institute.

The museum will feature a Texas interpretation of the White House Rose Garden, which Laura Bush said museum-goers will come to about halfway through their visit. She said the garden, lined with trees and roses and featuring benches and a replica of the West Wing Colonnade, will be a peaceful spot for reflection after going through exhibits covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"They'll be able at that point to step out, and they say if you can get out in the sunshine and outside, you'll feel refreshed and then you can go back and do the second half of the museum," Bush said.

From the rose garden, visitors will be able to see a view of downtown Dallas and also look out over the park, which will spread out to the south behind the building.

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By Carol Stocker Landscape architects and historians from around the country converged on the Boston Athenaeum Saturday night to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Library of American Landscape History, the foremost publisher in the genre, which is headquartered in Amherst. The non-profit has published a cannon of 26 books on the history of landscape design in this country, working with the University of Massachusetts Press. They include the award winning "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era," by Robin Karson, LALH's founder and executive director, who briefly addressed the gathering.

Also in attendance were Iris Gestram, executive director of the National Association for Olmsted Parks in Washington, director Mark Zelonis of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Bob Cook, former director of the Arnold Arboretum, Meg Winslow, archivist for the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Lee Farrow Cook of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic National Park Service site, named Fairsted.

Nancy Turner, the LALH's founding president, was honored. "I met Robin when she came to write about my Fletcher Steele garden," recalled Turner in an interview. The famous Boston landscape designer had had an office on Louisburg Square, but had retired to Pittsford, N.Y., near her estate, and created his last garden there for her. Karson documented it in her great book, "Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect." Written shortly after Steele's death in 1971, the book documented many of his gardens before they were lost. Steele gardens were generally high maintenance and seldom survived their owners, "but Mabel Choate preserved her Naumkeag," said Turner. She referred to the The Trustees of Reservations' Steele garden in Stockbridge, famed for its series of white Art Deco staircases and waterfalls framed by birch trees..

Turner now lives in Connecticut. Does her own Pittsford garden still exist? "I don't know. I never went back to look. There has been a tremendous increase in the cost of maintenance." She smiled. "Gardens are like sand castles. It survives in Robin's book," she said as she flipped though the book's pages, which featured photos of her well planted granite staircase, orchard, and a series of terraces that led to a round reflecting pool. "It's very quiet, a placid place that reflected the final year of Fletcher Steele's life."

It was after completing this survey of Steele's rapidly vanishing gardens that Karson decided there needed to be an organization that published books on American historical landscapes. She was able to start one with Turner's support, and has kept it going for 20 years, during which she has assembled the most important authors of books on landscape architecture in this country.

New books include "Community by Design; The Olmsted Firm and the Planning of Brookline," by Elisabeth Hope Cushing, Roger G. Reed and Boston University professor Keith N. Morgan, who was at the party. After designing Central Park, Olmsted deserted New York for Brookline, which had proudly anointed itself "the richest town in the world." Little has been previously published on the importance of Brookline as a laboratory and model for the Olmsted firm's work. This book will detail how his son and namesake saw the town as a grounds for experimenting in the new profession of city planning.

It will be followed next year by a study of another important locally based designer. "Arthur A. Shurcliff and the Making of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape," by Elizabeth Hope Cushing, will spotlight this under-appreciated force in the Colonial Revival house and garden movement. His projects included aspects of the Charles River Esplanade, the Franklin Park Zoo, and, at the end of his life, the iconic gardens at Colonial Williamsburg.

Next year will also see the LAHL's publication of "The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System," by Francis R. Kowsky, cq writing about Buffalo, N.Y. "We try to focus the study on individual places," explained Karson. It will be the first in a series edited by Ethan Carr called "Designing the American Park." Another new series will deal with environmental design.

Interest in the history of American landscape architecture has blossomed in the last three decades, said Carr at the gathering. He linked it to the resurgence of interest in New York's Central Park and it's history. That park, which sunk to an all-time low in the 1970's, is now in the best shape of its history, thanks in part to LALH board member Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the founder of the powerful Central Park Conservancy.

Boston's Emerald Necklace, another Olmsted masterpiece, has also enjoyed rejuvenation and scholarly attention. The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project will soon publish Volume Eight of Olmsted Sr's letters, dealing with the 1880's when the Emerald Necklace was created, said Carr, who is the editor.

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