The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is pleased to announce the addition of Susan Van Atta, FASLA to their 16-member Board of Trustees. In addition to her regular Trustee duties, Susan will serve on the Garden and Horticulture Committee. Ms. Van Atta is President of the Santa Barbara-based Van Atta Associates, Inc. (VAI), and is a registered landscape architect whose 30 years of experience and award-winning designs reflect her long-standing commitment to environmentally-appropriate landscape design, habitat restoration, and the use of native plants. As the co-author of the Gardens Cultural Landscape Master Plan with Charles Birnbaum in 2012, Ms. Van Atta demonstrated a deep understanding and appreciation of the Gardens historic designs and evolution. Her book, The Southern California Native Flower Garden, can be found in the Gardens Gift Shop. A graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies andCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Landscape Architecture, Ms. Van Atta resides in Santa Barbara, is married to Ken Radtkey (founder of Blackbird Architects), and has two sons, Kellen andIan.

For further information or to arrange an interview with Dr. Steve Windhager, SBBG Executive Director, or Susan Van Atta, FASLA, and to request high-resolution images please contact Joni Kelly, Communications Manager, at 805-682-4726 ext. 132 or via cell at 805-886-1869. For more information about the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, please visit http://www.sbbg.org

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25000 sqft net office building let to PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Architect: Gordon Shackell of Covell Matthews Histon Partnership, Manchester Southampton 198...

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Tapestry Landscape Architecture has created many successful and award winning landscapes throughout Northern New Jersey. We are residential Property Master Planners and intimate Garden Designers. As Licensed New Jersey Landscape Architects, we also work with developers on commercial and multi- unit Site Planning. One of the keys to our success is the collaboration with our sister company, Scenic Landscaping LLC. By working closely with us, they can seamlessly implement our designs into reality.

Richard Zimmer, Partner and Principal Landscape Architect, leads a team of talented New Jersey landscape architects and designers to create breathtaking outdoor spaces unique to your personal tastes. Some of our New Jersey landscape design services include: site analysis, site planning, pools and spas, water features and ponds, natural stone terraces and patios, paver walkways and driveways, outdoor kitchens, built in outdoor barbeques, outdoor fireplaces and fire pits, pergolas, gazebos, and garden structures, stone retaining walls, deer resistant plantings, water gardens, perennial gardens, location of mature plants and specimens, and landscape lighting.

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Landscape Architects

Welcome to the Landscape Architects Website

The Board of Architects is responsible for safeguarding life, health and property, and promoting the public welfare. A person using the title Landscape architect and engaging in the practice of landscape architecture in this State is required to submit evidence that the person is qualified to be licensed to practice landscape architecture. It is unlawful for a person not licensed as a landscape architect to use the title landscape architect or any other title, sign, card or device in a manner which tends to convey the impression that the person is a licensed landscape architect. Every holder of a license shall display it in a conspicuous place in his principal office, place of business or employment.

The practice of landscape architecture is any service in which the principles and methodology of landscape architecture are applied in consultation, evaluation, planning and design including the preparation and filing of sketches, drawings, plans and specifications for review and approval by governmental agencies, and responsible administration of contracts to the extent that the primary purpose of the contractual services is the preservation, enhancement or determination of proper land uses, natural land features, ground cover and planting, naturalistic and aesthetic values, the settings and approaches, or environment for structures or other improvements, the grading of land and water forms, natural drainage and determination of related impacts and sedimentation, blight or other hazards. This practice includes the proposed location and arrangement of those tangible objects and features as are incidental and necessary for any government approval and as may be prescribed by State or local authorities, but does not include the design of structures or facilities ordinarily included in the practice of engineering or architecture and does not include the making of land surveys or land plats for official approval or recording or other services as set forth in subsection (e) of section 2 of P.L. 1938, c.342 (C.45:8-28).

Inquiries about the Board may be forwarded to Charles Kirk, Acting Executive Director, PO Box 45001, Newark, NJ 07101, (973) 504-6385 or via e-mail.

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SPECTATOR PHOTO BY BILL HALL The Waterfront Revitalization Committee met with architects regarding the Town Beach and Sandy Beach last Wednesday. Shown here are, from left to right, Town Administrator James Kern, Robert Medeiros, Chris Sampson and landscape architect Peter Flinker during a presentation. Committee member Helen Tackett is in foreground.

By BILL HALL

March 13, 2014 12:00 AM

SWANSEA The Waterfront Revitalization Committee met with their architect and associates during a meeting to set up parking and possible ways to and from the beach facilities, last Wednesday evening at the Senior/Community Center.

Architect Steven Kelleher was joined by Nate Burgess and landscape architect Peter Flinker during the meeting attended by eight members of the Waterfront Committee.

It was noted that as many as 189 parking places had been identified based on 9.5-by-18-foot parking spaces for each vehicle. A review of the landscaping was presented by Mr. Flinker of Dodson Associates, that included ideas on plantings, treatments and extending a boardwalk into some of the lawn areas where beach grass is. They also took a look at Sandy Beach and connecting it by walkways from the beach area.

There was further discussion on the way in and out of the beach area.

One option that was presented would be to have traffic routed to Private Butler Avenue and make a direct entrance onto the beach property. Butler Avenue is currently a one way street going out.

It was noted that Ocean Grove Avenue would not be sufficient for outgoing traffic (it is currently one way in) because some of the larger boats that are hauled in would not be able to make the turn there.

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Wasaga Beach council members have said they agree with the main beach gateway design recommended by staff and a landscape architect is to proceed with the project.

A week after seeing four concepts for the redesign of the gateway the intersection where Main Street meets Mosley Street and four landscape design plans for the area, councillors came to a consensus Tuesday (March11).

The project is meant to beautify the area so that visitors coming over the Main Street Bridge get a good first impression. It also aims to lead people to Festival Square, an open-air event space being created in the parking lot.

The preliminary cost estimate pegs the project at $595,111 ($370,762 for the gateway design and $224,349 for the Mosley Street landscaping).

The price includes coloured concrete paving, raised concrete planters, soil, trees and shrubs, a shade structure, decorative benches, banners, flags, waste receptacles and other design elements.

I think its attractive and I think it will attract people. Its easy to look at, its easy on the eye and I think certainly, from Mosley Street, its going to be very impressive, said Mayor Cal Patterson.

He said there are still some issues being worked out but the work will proceed. There is still some work to be done to determine the best material to build a shade structure so that it is sure to withstand the elements year-round and how best to incorporate pedestrian crosswalks in the area.

We are going to take a closer look at the crosswalks in terms of safety and traffic flow but the whole concept was accepted, said Patterson.

The redesign of the main beach area started with a number of visioning sessions that drew hundreds of participants. Festival Square and design improvements to the area are a direct result of community input.

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IDEAS: David Wilson Partnership Limited's plans for Barnstaple's Civic Centre.

LAST week the Journal reported a Barnstaple architect had come forward with plans for Barnstaple's Civic Centre site.

They proposed to turn the site into 84 flats.

Since then a second architect has got in touch to share their ideas for what could be seen on the town centre site.

David Wilson Partnership Limited has drawn up plans showing a new adventure playground, marina and housing.

Pete Leaver is a landscape architect with the firm and said the Civic Centre site was one of the most prominent in Barnstaple.

"It's become even more visible since the new bridge opened; the car park and the back of the centre are seen by nearly every visitor to Barnstaple in a way that was never envisaged when they were built," he added.

"Our plans recognise how important the site is as a gateway to the town.

"The empty civic centre buildings would be demolished, making way for a new Monkey Island themed adventure playground and park."

Mr Leaver said North Walk could be flooded to allow boats to get into two marinas with water levels controlled by lock gates.

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 10, 2014

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum today announced Michael Ezban as the 2014 Maeder-York Family Fellow in Landscape Studies for his proposal Landscapes of Aquaculture. Ezban will be in residence at the Museum for three months from June to August 2014, with a monthly stipend and an apartment/studio space in the Renzo Piano-designed new wing of the Gardner Museum. Ezban will be welcomed to the Museum on the evening of June 12, 2014, in Conversation with Charles Waldheim.

We are thrilled that Michael Ezban will join us in June, said Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Consulting Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Landscapes of Aquaculture will attempt to develop a theoretical and historical framework for the fish farm as a landscape typology, engaging artists, historians, designers, theorists, and the general public in a dialogue on aesthetic perceptions of agricultural space, productive urban landscapes, waste management strategies, and ecological infrastructure.

Ezban is a landscape designer, registered architect, and educator. His writing and design work explores cultures of waste -- economies and ecologies entangled with waste landscapes. He holds a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received the 2013 Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship. He also holds a Masters Degree in Architecture with distinction from the University of Michigan. Ezban is a principal at VanderGoot Ezban Studio, a research and design practice based in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he teaches architecture at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

The support and resources that the Maeder-York Family Fellowship offers will be invaluable as I explore histories and futures of aquaculture landscapes in Boston, Ezban said. I am honored to have been selected as the 2014 Fellow, and I am looking forward to productive summer months at the museum.

The Maeder-York Family Fellowship in Landscape Studies at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was created in 2012 to recognize emerging design talent across disciplines dealing with landscape and support experimentation, research, and achievement in design through landscape. In addition, with each selection the committee aims to identify work embodying landscape as a medium of design for the public realm and grow disciplinary and professional capacity within landscape architecture.

Applications were received from around the world and were reviewed by a fellowship jury led by Charles Waldheim including:

Alan Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anita Berrizbeitia, Harvard University Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University Teresa Gal Izard, University of Virginia Richard Weller, University of Pennsylvania

The jury met to interview five finalists in early February. In addition to Mr. Ezban, Fionn Byrne of Toronto, Canada has been recognized as the first runner up for the Fellowship.

For tickets to Michael Ezban in Conversation with Charles Waldheim on June 12, 2014, or for more information about the Maeder-York Fellowship in Landscape Studies at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, please visit http://www.gardnermuseum.org/landscape.

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With a buried car park, 7,000 trees, and jogging and bicycle trails, the iPhone maker's new headquarters will take on Steve Jobs' vision to be more like a town park than an office park.

Apple plans to turn a "sea of asphalt" into a green space.

Stanford University's campus has a large central quad full of plants, flowers, trees, and pedestrian walkways -- this was Apple late co-founder Steve Jobs' vision for the design of the company's upcoming futuristic spaceship-like campus.

Architecture firm Foster + Partners is heading the project -- which is slated to be done in 2016 -- and the firm's founder, Norman Foster, recently spoke to Architectural Record about the thinking behind the new headquarters.

Jobs laid out plans for the campus in 2011. The facility is expected to have four stories and span a whopping 2.8 million square feet. Apple said in 2011 that it hopes to have 12,000 people on the campus -- up from about 2,800 in its current headquarters.

Before Apple took over the land, Hewlett-Packard had offices there. According to Foster, "the Apple building will occupy the site much more tightly than what was there." This means there will be far more open space for plants and trees. In fact, Apple has said that the headquarters will be 80 percent landscape with more than 7,000 trees.

The headquarters was first referred as a "spaceship" by Jobs himself, who said that it'll look "a bit like a spaceship landed." The round building is meant to emulate a town square with buildings encircling a park. Foster said that his firm did a series of planning studies for creating such a structure.

"These studies finally morphed into a circular building that would enclose the private space in the middle -- essentially a park that would replicate the original California landscape, and parts of it would also recapture the orchards of the past," he said. "The car would visually be banished, and tarmac would be replaced by greenery, and car parks by jogging and bicycle trails."

This isn't to say there won't be cars at Apple's new campus -- they'll just be hidden from view in a buried car park. That way, "you won't look out of your window and see row after row of parked cars," Foster said.

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