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Atlanta Landscape Architect Tennessee Garden
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Its safe to say South Florida would have a very different look if Jonathan Seymour had never worked his magic on it.

The landscape architect created buildings and outdoor spaces that became some of the areas most iconic and beautiful images: The Country Club of Miami, Coral Gables Miracle Mile, the University of Miami Student Union, the Dade County Jail and Criminal Courts building and a large portion of the Julia Tuttle Causeway are just a few highlights of his portfolio.

Seymour died at his home in Jacksonville Tuesday morning, just 10 days after celebrating his 94th birthday. He had congestive heart failure and was receiving hospice care.

He lived in Miami from 1948 until 1992 with his wife, Elizabeth, who is an artist and also worked as his office manager for more than 40 years.

The couple, who were married for 67 years, met as undergraduates at the University of Georgia, where Jonathan majored in landscape architecture. They were introduced through one of his Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.

Before graduating from UGA, Jonathan served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was stationed in India. He was able to utilize his artistic personality even then, designing decoys out of balsa wood and fabric.

As Coral Gables landscape architect, he helped to transform the city from 1950 to 1956. At that time, he designed the Alhambra Circle entrance, and other entrances and street plantings in the city. He introduced wide sidewalks and ground covers to Miracle Mile.

He moved in on Miracle Mile when it really needed help, and he really gussied it up, said Paul George, a Miami historian and professor at Miami Dade College. Its become a very noteworthy street, with many upscale businesses. ... I would hold him partially responsible for the renaissance of that street.

Seymour opened his professional office in Miami in 1956. Although he designed well-known commercial properties, he was best known for residential projects, often for high-profile clients, including the DuPont and Wackenhut families. In particular, he was recognized for designing unusually-shaped swimming pools that incorporated elements of nature in the 1960s, when many designers were sticking to rectangular shapes.

He often designed in the style of the English garden, but had a diverse portfolio. Most of all, he loved elements of surprise and valued the individual experience of moving through an environment.

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JOHN Hopkins, the visionary landscape architect and mastermind of Londons Olympic parklands, has died aged 59.

Liverpool-born Mr Hopkins, a top international landscape architect, urban designer, environmental planner and author, was responsible for more than 250 acres of green space in his work at the Olympic DeliveryAuthority (ODA) from 2007 to 2011.

In directing the team who created the vibrant backdrop to last years Olympics and Paralympics in Stratford, east London, Mr Hopkins has also sowed the seeds for the UKs largest new urban park for more than a century.

Mr Hopkins died suddenly last week.

Mr Hopkins fiancee Laura Adams described him as something of an iconoclast a man who knew what he stood for and was unafraid to tell the truth.

She said: He never let us forget the urgency of our responsibility toward our environment, but he was thoughtful, with the patience and humility to plan and design projects whose real benefit can only be truly appreciated by a generation hell never know.

The Olympic Park is set to reopen in phases from this summer as the newly-named Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Mr Hopkins was a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Churchill Fellow in urban design, in addition to being a Corporate Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

After working on the Olympic project, Mr Hopkins moved to the US, where he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania while holding a similar role at the University of Greenwich in London.

He had also been leading a consulting team advising on Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee a 4,500-acre green space in addition to completing a study which would form part of landscape management strategy for Network Rail in the UK.

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John Hopkins, the visionary landscape architect and mastermind of Londons Olympic parklands, has died aged 59.

In directing the team who created the vibrant backdrop to last years Olympics and Paralympics in Stratford, east London, Mr Hopkins has also sowed the seeds for the UKs largest new urban park for more than a century.

Mr Hopkins, a top international landscape architect, urban designer, environmental planner and author, was responsible for more than 250 acres of green space in his work at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) from 2007 to 2011.

Liverpool-born Mr Hopkins died suddenly last week.

We are all shocked by the sad news of John Hopkins passing, ODA chairman Sir John Armitt said.

So many people delighted in seeing the parklands and public open spaces last summer - which will now be an enduring legacy of Johns work.

Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this sad time.

Mr Hopkins fiancee Laura Adams described him as something of an iconoclast - a man who knew what he stood for and was unafraid to tell the truth.

The gardens surrounding the Velodrome at the Olympic Park, which were masterminded by visionary landscape architect John Hopkins

She said: He never let us forget the urgency of our responsibility toward our environment, but he was thoughtful, with the patience and humility to plan and design projects whose real benefit can only be truly appreciated by a generation hell never know.

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Scholarships are beneficial to financially struggling college students, and alumni are common sources of the money needed to create scholarships.

Michael Chu, Cal Poly Pomona alumnus, is one of these alumni. Chu recently made a donation to CPPs landscape architecture program.

As a 1977 Landscape Architect graduate, Chu has achieved great success in his life and is looking to give back to the college that provided his hands on education.

Im grateful to Cal Poly Pomona, said Chu in an article on Polycentric. They accepted me as an out-of-state student, gave me a good education [and] allowed me to become licensed here in Hawaii as a professional landscape architecture.

Chu was surrounded by successful landscape architects who graduated from CPP during his entry-level junior draftsman position at a landscape firm in Honolulu.

In my mind, Cal Poly Pomona was the place to go, said Chu. And it still is.

Chu and his wife Yetta have set up The Michael S. and Yetta L.C. Chu Endowed Scholarship. The scholarships will be given out after Chu and his wifes deaths, resulting in all of their money being given to the University.

CPPs Director of Planned Giving, Daniel Wood explained that endowed scholarships are the best kind because they offer the most money for the students. People who give during their lifetime do not have as much to offer because they have a need for it. Chu realized this when creating his plan for giving back and wanted to give back as much as possible.

When not living anymore, you dont need your funds, said Wood. Like people, for example, who dont have children are a very important subgroup for us. Mr. Chu falls in that category. I have worked here for three and half years and a consistent message that our donors give us is they want to give back for the students best interest. This goes for both the alumnus and non-alumnus.

CPPs Director of Development for the College of Environmental Design Carrie Geurts said she is grateful for alumnus like Chu who realize the importance of giving back.

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the Charles David Keeling Apartments at UC San Diego, designed by Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects, feature an expansive roof with more than 4,000 plants that capture stormwater and provide thermal insulation. Courtesy

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Two projects in north La Jolla were honored last month by the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), as part of the groups 2012 design awards.

ASLA recognized landscape architect Laura Burnett and the firm of Wallace, Roberts & Todd in the category of Planning and Analysis for the long-proposed Torrey Pines City Park General Development Plan.

The conceptual master plan for the parks design calls for replacing the existing, rain-rutted dirt parking area north of Torrey Pines Gliderport with clearly marked spaces. A layer of gravel, soil and clay will first be added to smooth the lot, which will be covered by permeable, asphalt-like pavement that allows stormwater to run through it. The vast amount of stormwater running toward the bluff from the UC San Diego campus will be filtered by the underlying layer of soil and gravel, and then channeled to native coastal vegetation that will be planted on the bluff and throughout the park.

Most important, Burnett said, the vegetation will help hold the soil in place, preventing further erosion. According to geotechnical consultants, the bluff could be losing as much as a foot per year from wind and rain, in addition to erosion caused by vehicle traffic, she said.

Nothing is better than native plant materials to keep that soil from washing and blowing away, Burnett said. The roots of the living plant material holds the soil in place.

The plan will retain the same amount of parking, though spaces will be delineated and organized in a way that allows for replacement of native vegetation, while maximizing parking and existing trails.

You gain a huge amount of area for habitat restoration just by putting things in an orderly manner, Burnett said. Its a really simple, sort of obvious design.

The citys Park and Recreation Board approved the plans last summer. An environmental report on the project was finalized last fall and received no appeals by a Dec. 27 deadline.

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ESSEX >> The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has presented two Honor Awards to Anne Penniman Associates LLC Landscape Architects, of Essex.

The Landscape Planning and Analysis Honor Award was presented for A New Park for Madison in Madison and a Landscape Architectural Residential Design Honor Award was presented for A Rowers Landing in Lyme.

A New Park for Madison was a coastal town park adjacent to the lower reach of the Hammonasset River and Hammonasset State Park. The Master Plan converts a 42-acre abandoned coastal airport site into a town park with passive and active recreation, including 20.6 acres protected by a conservation easement. The landscape architect, as the lead consultant, worked closely with the volunteer Town Committee, an ecologist and an architect to develop a Habitat Restoration Plan and a final Master Plan.

This lakeside residential site at Rowers Landing includes the design for a safe access path from a rowers storage barn to a nearby landing at the lakes edge. A 7-foot high grade change along the steep path is negotiated with monolithic granite ramped steps broad enough to manage the beam of the scull. Curving granite retaining walls step down the hillside in rhythm with the treads. A new, locally quarried granite terrace creates a transition to the landing.

Penniman, a Yale College graduate, earned a masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia and has a landscape architecture firm in Essex.

University of Virginia graduate Tracey Miller, an associate of the firm, was the project manager for the project A New Park for Madison.

Rutgers University graduate April Maly, also an associate of the firm, was the project manager for the project A Rowers Landing.

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Exterior Images-landscape architect for Dixon residence in Rancho Mirage CA
Exterior Images Rear yard enhancement adding a BBQ Center, Fireplace and extend patio for sunning area around existing pool.

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