This unique exhibit will feature a selection of entries from the recent Living Wall Studio Competition – a joint collaboration between the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and Lafarge North America. Featured projects will showcase the creativity of UBC’s Master of Architecture students. Competitors were challenged to design a revolutionary precast . . . → Read More: EVENT: Living Wall Studio Competition Exhibit – Nov 17 – Jan 9 2012
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 National Arboretum Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean © John Gollings Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Victorian Branch (State) has announced the winners for 2011. With projects such as the National Arboretum in Canberra by Taylor Cullity Lethlean in collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer winning the Victoria Medal for Landscape Architecture. ASPECT Studios won the Landscape Architecture Design Award for 717 Bourke Street, Melbourne. For the full list of Award winners announced Continue reading “AILA Victoria announces 2011 Award winners” » CURRENT WORK: Michael Van Valkenburgh, Michael van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) Michael Van Valkenburgh will present the recent work of his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA). Based in Brooklyn and Cambridge, MVVA is a landscape architecture firm, which works on projects in scale from the city to the campus . . . → Read More: EVENT: Michael Van Valkenburgh MVVA at Cooper Union – November 22 Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design led in a discussion with Hiteshkumar M. Hathi, Producer, NPR’s ‘Here and Now.’ gave a lecture ‘The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism’ on Friday, October 21, 2011 at Harvard GSD. Sadly, the organisers have disallowed embedding but . . . → Read More: The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism – Rahul Mehrotra [VIDEO] The design of cities are becoming increasing important as more than half the worlds population now live in urban environments. Over 540 planners from 22 countries have started to debate how to design walkable cities during Walk21, a four-day international conference that started on Sunday in Vancouver at the Olympic Village. The conference vision is “a global culture . . . → Read More: Turning car cities into pedestrian cities November 18-19 2011 – MOMA, New York City, NY Conference Navy Pier is the most popular attraction in Chicago, drawing nearly nine million visitors annually. Navy Pier, Inc., the newly formed not-for-profit entrusted with the redevelopment and operation of the Pier is conducting an international search for a Design Team to reimagine the Pier’s outdoor public spaces, or Pierscape. This work at Navy Pier provides the . . . → Read More: Navy Pier starts search for international design teams for public spaces “The Department of Landscape Architecture wishes to honor Dick Bell for his professional achievements, leadership, and many landscape legacies through this annual lecture in his name,” said Gene Bressler, FASLA, NCNLA, head of the department and Professor of Landscape Architecture, who refers to Bell as a “North Carolina landscape architecture icon.” Dick Bell, FASLA, will kick off . . . → Read More: NCSU College of Design announces the Richard C. Bell Annual Lecture Series Light Pollution is changing the way we live and impacting on the world around us. Recently, I found THE CITY DARK, a feature documentary about light pollution and the disappearing night sky. Filmmaker Ian Cheney made the film after moving to New York City from rural Maine, and asked a simple question, “Do we need the . . . → Read More: The City Dark – who turned the sky out? Recently the 19th Congress of New Urbanism was held and I have been looking around for posts, videos, etc about the CNU with a few find listed below. Please put any of other blogs or videos in the comments. You can watch Charles Waldheim presentation and Waldheim’s interview by Duany (use the slideshare to fast forward to . . . → Read More: CNU 19 – Landscape Urbanism vs New Urbanism – Video, Blogs, Reports |
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