On Wednesday, members of the North Carolina Arts Council listened to the opinions of the residents on planning and design.

Two days later, the council came back with a blueprint based off local concepts.

On Friday at the Community Council for the Arts, a follow-up to the Corridors of Connectivity meeting where members of the North Carolina Arts Council and other groups presented some of their plans for the design of Queen and Herritage streets.

Landscape Architect Glen Walters gave a presentation based on some of the ideas of the citizens such as vibrant signs and walkways providing information about the African-American Music Trail.

I thought this week was really great and we have a good direction on the priorities of the city, Walters said. In all honesty, we werent as aware of the music history and we felt a lot closer to Kinston through the inspiration of the artists. Its inspired us to bring that in with our designs.

Chris Beachem, senior program director for creative economies at the North Carolina Arts Council, said the ideas were exciting, but implementing them could be a daunting task.

In the big picture, it takes a lot of money and time, so we have to find little side pieces and start on what we can do, Beachem said. I do a lot of work in Durham and people have said theres not much happening here, and then Ill say Were you here 15 years ago? There has been significant growth there and 15 years down the road, it will difficult for someone who hadnt been to Durham in 30 years to identify it because of the tremendous growth.

To a certain extent, I see Kinston moving in the same way. The progress made will be steady and people need to keep pushing and working. I believe in five years there will be significant change to South Queen Street and I would be very disappointed if thats not the case.

Kinston Mayor Pro Tem Joe Tyson attended the meetings and said it will take time for the project to come into fruition and nothing is set in stone.

I thought the meetings were productive, Tyson said. I liked the input from citizens, but everyone has to know this is strictly a plan. Hopefully, we can use this in the future to seek grant money for the future.

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Planning Charette at arts council gives locals a look at plans, designs for streets

On Wednesday, members of the North Carolina Arts Council listened to the opinions of the residents on planning and design.

Two days later, the council came back with a blueprint based off local concepts.

On Friday at the Community Council for the Arts, a follow-up to the Corridors of Connectivity meeting where members of the North Carolina Arts Council and other groups presented some of their plans for the design of Queen and Herritage streets.

Landscape Architect Glen Walters gave a presentation based on some of the ideas of the citizens such as vibrant signs and walkways providing information about the African-American Music Trail.

I thought this week was really great and we have a good direction on the priorities of the city, Walters said. In all honesty, we werent as aware of the music history and we felt a lot closer to Kinston through the inspiration of the artists. Its inspired us to bring that in with our designs.

Chris Beachem, senior program director for creative economies at the North Carolina Arts Council, said the ideas were exciting, but implementing them could be a daunting task.

In the big picture, it takes a lot of money and time, so we have to find little side pieces and start on what we can do, Beachem said. I do a lot of work in Durham and people have said theres not much happening here, and then Ill say Were you here 15 years ago? There has been significant growth there and 15 years down the road, it will difficult for someone who hadnt been to Durham in 30 years to identify it because of the tremendous growth.

To a certain extent, I see Kinston moving in the same way. The progress made will be steady and people need to keep pushing and working. I believe in five years there will be significant change to South Queen Street and I would be very disappointed if thats not the case.

Kinston Mayor Pro Tem Joe Tyson attended the meetings and said it will take time for the project to come into fruition and nothing is set in stone.

I thought the meetings were productive, Tyson said. I liked the input from citizens, but everyone has to know this is strictly a plan. Hopefully, we can use this in the future to seek grant money for the future.

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When the Rev. Robert Roethemeyer looks across Concordia Theological Seminarys campus, he sees little clumps of four or five trees, sometimes of the same species, amid a broad lawn.

He calls them sacred groves, and indeed, he says, that was how they were seen by the person who meticulously laid out the plantings on the 191-acre campus on the north side of Fort Wayne more than 50 years ago.

He had this idea that you could sit under this sacred grove and in the natural environment and reflect on the questions of life, says Roethemeyer, director of library and information services, has been the unofficial shepherd of the seminarys buildings and grounds for several years.

It bespeaks his vision of what the campus was about, a place for reflection and contemplation of the gifts of God.

The visionary for Concordias grounds was landscape architect Dan Kiley. And today, says Julie Donnell, a founder of non-profit Friends of the Parks, the Boston-born practitioner of Modernism is probably the pre-eminent American landscape architect of the last century.

Yet, she says, most area residents probably dont know that Fort Wayne houses one of Kileys major works. Thats why the Friends are spearheading a stop by a nationally touring exhibit conceived to mark the centennial of Kileysbirth in 1912 and plead for the preservation of his legacy.

The reason we are doing this is, very seriously, that we dont recognize these landscapes, and this is an opportunity for people to understand how beautiful they are and how important they are to our cultural heritage, says Donnell, who is also on the board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., organizer of the exhibit.

Featuring Kileys plan for Concordia among 27 of his more than 1,000 projects commissioned worldwide, the exhibit opens Tuesday at the Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery of the Allen County Public Library. Associated events are a reception and panel discussion with two Kiley experts at the library at 6:30 p.m. Friday and a Concordia campus tour guided by Roethemeyer at 10a.m. Saturday. All are free and open to the public.

The exhibit comes to Fort Wayne after appearing in Indianapolis and Columbus, two other Indiana cities with significant Kiley works. Some of his best-known landscapes include the Air Gardens of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Washington, D.C.s Benjamin Banneker Park and Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

Mark Zelonis, deputy director of environmental and historic preservation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, steward of a Kiley installation at the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, says Kiley created three-dimensional works of art in which, true to Modernist credo, plantings and structures work seamlessly together.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 7, 2014 ? Two projects designed in part by University of Virginia faculty members are among the 11 finalists for a major international landscape architecture prize.

Organizers of the eighth Rosa Barba International Landscape Architecture Biennale Prize, to be awarded next month in Barcelona, last month recognized three UVA School of Architecture faculty members ? Iaki Alday, Margarita Jover andTeresa Gal-Izard ? as outstanding designers.

The competition jury ? chaired by renowned Dutch landscape architect Michel Van Gessel, and including members from Australia, Spain and the United States ? selected the 11 finalists from among landscape architecture projects completed in the last five years by some of the leading architectural firms from nine countries.

Alday, Quesada Professor and chair of the Department of Architecture, and Jover, a lecturer in that department, along with their firm Alday-Jover, were honored for their landscape architecture design of The Park of the Meander of Aranzadi in Pamplona, Spain.

Gal-Izard, associate professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, contributed to a team that worked on another project in Spain, serving as a landscape designer and agricultural engineer with Batlle & Roig Architects, who designed and managed the reclamation of the Val d?en Joan landfill in Barcelona.

Other nominees for the prize include works located in Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of the projects are already widely known, such as the High Line and Queens Plaza in New York and Quinli Park in China.

The Rosa Barba International Landscape Architecture Biennale exhibition and symposium opens Sept. 25 in Barcelona. The finalists will lecture on their work, and the winner will be announced during the three-day symposium.

Alday-Jover?s Aranzadi Park ? built into the meander, or bend, of the Arga River ? was recognized as a public space of extraordinary quality that balances the relationship of the river, local residents and the area?s agricultural heritage in a radically innovative way.

The park?s vegetation grows with the help of the river, while its gardens serve as orchards to boost local food production. The park?s spaces function as both contemplative and educational areas for local citizens.

The nomination recognizes a park that is still young, but that incorporates the historic vegetable gardens in the meander, or river?s bend. The park has been heavily tested through the highest flood in Pamplona?s history.

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Revered architect Blair Wilson. Photo: Wilson Architects

A Brisbane architect who designed Brisbanes La Boite Theatre and the iconic Greek Orthodox Church at West End has been remembered as moving Brisbane architecture style away from post-war brutalism to softer, curved, more organic lines.

Blair Wilson, from prominent Brisbane architectural firm Wilson Architects, passed away last week aged 83.

Wilsons Architects has a 130-year link to Brisbane and in 1884 designed the Plough Inn hotel in South Brisbane, now part of South Bank, beginning their ties to Brisbane.

The Greek Orthodox Church at West End. Photo: Wilson Architects

Blair's son, Hamilton Wilson, now the principal architect for Wilsons Architects, said his fathers views on architecture were shaped by early trips through Europe after graduating.

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He travelled throughout Europe again after winning the 1973 national Clay Brick Prize for architecture for the La Boite Theatre in Hale Street at Milton.

Like many architects, he went overseas and did a stint in London and travelled quite extensively throughout Europe, Hamilton Wilson.

The former Kindler Theatre at Queensland University of Technology. Photo: Wilson Architects

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Sierra National Forest landscape architect Cesar Sanchez was recently recognized with the 2014 National Accessibility Accomplishment Award by the U.S. Forest Service Regional Office on Mare Island, agency officials said.

Pacific Southwest Regional Forester Randy Moore surprised Sanchez with this honor at a recent visit to the Vallejo Regional Office, they said.

Sanchez ensures that recreation facilities like campgrounds and picnic areas are designed and constructed for maximum accessibility, officials said.

"Cesar is always looking for new solutions, if the first one does not succeed. He never limits his thinking to the status quo. He is a creative resource for the Forest Service," his supervisor Susan Burkindine said in a statement.

Among his many accomplishments, 100 percent of the recreation sites recently handled by Sanchez met accessibility standards, according to the announcement.

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Unauthorized landscaping placed along Highway 49 in Auburn by local businesses may be allowed to stay, pending the approval of an encroachment permit, according to Caltrans.

The owner of Auburn Extreme Powersports installed trees and plants to enhance the busy roadway on what he thought was his land. Later, he said a Caltrans employee told him that it looked nice but, since it was on state property, it would have to be torn out.

I asked him, What can we do? And he said, Nothing, you just have to take it away, Jeff Barbarick said. Seems kind of crazy because all we want to do is make things nicer.

Barbarick said he was tired of the weeds and trash along the road outside his business.

It reflects bad on our community to have it look like this, Barbarick said.

Two doors down, Michael Klemp, the owner of a used car business, said he had a landscape architect design 150 feet of landscaping along Highway 29. His property is apparently overseen by the City of Auburn, but he also ran afoul of Caltrans.

They had said I needed to go to the City of Auburn for a permit and that if the City of Auburn said it was O.K., they would say it was O.K., said Klemp, owner of Automotion.

Residents that FOX40 News spoke with couldnt understand why the landscaping couldnt remain.

I love it, I think its beautiful. Theyve done it voluntarily on their own, they spent their own money, its beautiful. Whats the problem? said Katrina Bilbao, who owns a restaurant on the highway.

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By Monique Sugimoto and Dennis Piotrowski, Special to the News

Good architecture and attractive neighborhoods, gardens and landscaping are what make a city worthwhile they give life satisfaction. Everything else is secondary.

So said Charles H. Cheney, the first city planner for the city of Palos Verdes Estates, at the 1940 national conference of the American Society of Planning Officials. As PVE celebrates its 75th anniversary, it has much for which to thank Cheney.

Just more than a hundred years ago, city planning was not a full-fledged profession; the term was not well known and even less understood. At what would become the professions first meeting in 1909, participants, ranging from architects and landscape architects, to social welfare and civic interest groups, discussed the pressing housing issues of the day including overcrowding and congestion, poor construction and ventilation, inadequate parks and playgrounds, migration to cities and ugly advertising signs.

After this conference, city planning would sweep the country, forever changing the nations housing landscape.

Cheneys education prepared him well for this burgeoning field. Graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1905 with a degree in architecture and engineering, Cheney went on to Paris famous cole des Beaux-Arts where for three years he studied the main cities in France, Italy, Spain and England.

In 1910, Cheney returned to the United States and worked for several years as an architect, before turning his full attention to city planning in California.

Cheney created the first statewide city planning conference in California in 1914. One year later, he was instrumental in persuading the California Legislature to pass the first city planning measure. The City Planning Law of 1915 provided for the creation of city planning commissions in all incorporated cities and towns.

Not long after, Cheney drafted a state zoning enabling act that gave unincorporated areas the right to create zones or districts. Adopted in 1917, the California State Zoning Act, was the start of designated districts for industry, business, and residential areas.

Cheney also played a major role in writing the California Planning Act of 1927, which authorized cities, counties and regions to establish master plans and appoint planning commissions. He was key to getting the language improvement and control of architecture inserted into the act, noting that it was through architectural control that harmonious development and attractiveness in a city could be achieved.

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