Controverski: Sochi, gay rights Russia-bashing
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It #39;s (not) about landscape architecture: Mary Scipioni at TEDxRochester
Mary Adelaide Scipioni is a NYS Registered Landscape Architect and Associate Adjunct Professor at RIT #39;s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, where she teac...

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Landscapes for Living
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Prepping Landscaping is Essential After Harsh Winter
DAYTON -- Miami Valley landscape companies are getting ready to shift business away from their snow plows and focus on the growing season. Spring is just aro...

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Landscape architect Renny Reynolds and horticulturist, author and historian Jack Staub will discuss classic English garden design Thursday at the annual Garden Club of Palm Beach lecture, presented at The Society of the Four Arts.

Reynolds and Staub were inspired by historic gardens in Britain during the 35-year course of creating Hortulus Farm, a 100-acre property they own and maintain in Wrightstown, Pa.

We have always admired the English style of gardening and landscaping, said Reynolds, who has traveled with Staub to Britain to experience many gardens throughout that country during the past decades.

The pair split their time between two homes: the Bucks County, Pa., farm and their Point Manalapan home, where they have spent winters for the past several years.

The English perfected the principles of landscape design, such as vista, axis, enclosure, kitchen and herb gardens, water features and follies, Reynolds said. And we found that English gardening translates well to the American vernacular, especially in the case of our farm, which was created around a stone farmhouse dating from 1723.

We are fascinated with the English manner of landscape design and were influenced by specific gardens we have visited, many of which are not on the typical English garden-tour circuit, he said.

They will share images of specific British gardens and show how their features were brought to the Pennsylvania property, which consists of 22 distinctive and authentic landscaped areas.

Renny and Jack are the dynamic duo of garden history and design, and their Pennsylvania farmstead is simply magnificent, said Vicky Hunt, Garden Club president. Their knowledge about English-style gardens is deep and impressive, and their lecture should be inspiring to all of us interested in landscape design and horticulture.

Hunt hopes that the lecture, The Art of English Gardening, will inspire people to visit Hortulus Farm, which was placed on the U.S. Register of Historic Places in 2004 and is an affiliate of the Garden Conservancy, with its gardens open to the public.

This annual lecture is our clubs gift to the town of Palm Beach, Hunt said.

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Choosing a landscape architect - Chris Kent from PGAdesign, Oakland
How do you go about choosing the right landscape architect in Oakland? Chris Kent from PGAdesign walks us through the ins and outs of getting the right firm ...

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Park amenities include a rain garden, pavilions, an ice-skating rink and a cafe.

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The team transformed a parking lot for Washington D.C. school buses on the Anacostia Waterfront into a three-acre park that offers aboveground recreational amenities and a belowground stormwater sewer system. Runoff from seven city blocks is diverted to the system, which includes two underground 40,000-gallon cisterns; tree pits also collect runoff. The reused water provides nearly 95% of the park's needs, saving an estimated 1.5 million gallons of potable water annually. Park amenities include a rain garden, pavilions, an ice-skating rink and a cafeas well as interactive water fountains and interactive sculptures.

Project Team

Owner: Canal Park Development Association; Housing Authority of the District of Columbia

Architect: Studios Architecture

General Contractor: James G. Davis Construction Corp., Rockville, Md.

Engineers: Loring; Vika, Germantown, Md.

Landscape Architect: The Olin Studio, Philadelphia

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Architect Landscape Architect Presentation on New Building Ideas - UMass LARP
Architects and Landscape Architects presented their basic ideas on the new Integrated Design Building. Hills North - Procopio Room, UMass Amherst, January 10...

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By Megan BackhouseFeb. 15, 2014, 3 a.m.

Kate Dundas describes how she - a one-time 'party animal' - turned into a gardener in Yorkshire.

Landscape architect and urban designer Kate Dundas describes how she - a one-time ''party animal in Glasgow'' - turned into a gardener in Yorkshire. It is a story about what happens when a thesis-writing university student in Leeds decides to apply what she has learnt about creating healthy cities to an allotment in an industrial estate in a rough part of town.

What happens is she gets a plot in the allotment immediately, there being no waiting list, on account of the suburb's reputation. Then she starts spending time away from the ''usual crew of students'' and engaging with people of different ages, backgrounds and skill levels. And then - no matter her ''neglectful'' gardening ways - she harvests sweetcorn she has grown from seed, watercress and a bounty of other vegetables.

For Dundas, who grew up in Scotland eating deep-fried potato in buttered white bread rolls, it was a revelation.

When Dundas moved to Melbourne two years ago, she tried to get a local plot. But, as anyone who has tried to secure a space in a community garden here could have told her, it was going to be a long wait. She began growing food in the garden of the terrace house she rents in Fitzroy instead and then, late last year, helped establish 3000acres, an outfit that aims to unlock unused urban, suburban and rural spaces for food gardens.

Inspired by 596 Acres, an online set-up established in New York in 2011 that maps vacant public land and connects potential gardeners through social networking, 3000acres has today launched a website of its own. The site (3000acres.org) publishes interactive maps of Melbourne on which users can plot unused sites and observe whether other people are also interested in trying to get access to them.

Some pieces of land - along railways, for example - could potentially be gardened long-term, while other sites - such as those owned by developers awaiting planning permits - could be cultivated for a finite period.

Such is the situation with 3000acre's first community project, a privately owned site in Fitzroy that is to be developed into apartments within the next year but in the meantime is being opened (from today) to local communities for gardening. Twelve specially deposited industrial plastic containers will operate as wicking beds with a reservoir of water held in the bottom that is then drawn up (through capillary action) into the growing medium.

The garden, on a site owned by Neometro Developments, will host a series of talks this afternoon for the Sustainable Living Festival and is just one of a string of productive gardens open to the public this weekend.

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Nico Muhly

The hip American composer Nico Muhly will appear live via Skype in a panel discussion at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at the Contemporary Arts Center in advance of the world premiere of his newest work, Pleasure Ground. The musical portrait was commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for the 2014 MusicNOW Festival.Louis Langre and theorchestra will give its premiere on March 21 in Music Hall.

The panel will explore the subject of Muhlys composition, landscape architect and designer Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsteds legacy includes Central Park in New York City, Elm Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, and the landscape surrounding the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC, among many other projects.

It will be moderated by the CSOs Naimah Bilal, and also include: Drew Klein, Performance Curator, CAC; Steven Schuckman, Superintendent, Planning, Design and Facilities, Cincinnati Parks; and Christopher Manning, ASLA, Principal/Landscape Architect, Human Nature, Inc.

This event is from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4 at the CAC, and is free and open to the public.

In 2011, Muhlys first full-scale opera, Two Boys, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Theater and the English National Opera. It had its American premiere at the Met in October.

Muhly has composed a wide scope of work for ensembles, soloists and organizations including the American Ballet Theater, American Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony, percussionist Colin Currie, countertenor Iestyn Davies, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, violinist Hilary Hahn, Gotham Chamber Opera, designer/illustrator Maira Kalman, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, Music-Theatre Group, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Paris Opra Ballet, soprano Jessica Rivera, The Royal Ballet, Saint Thomas Church in New York City, Seattle Symphony, and artist Conrad Shawcross.

Muhly has also lent his skills as performer, arranger and conductor to Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie Prince Billy, Doveman, Grizzly Bear, Jnsi of the band Sigur Rs, and Usher.

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