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At Olmsted Woods in Washington, D.C., Andropogon Associates is trying to revive the fragile landscape. By Bradford McKee A trail at the Cathedral Close, the 57 acres surrounding the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy Andropogon. “The main Woods…are disastrous,” Carol Kelleher wrote in an annual report to her fellow garden volunteers in …
On Design - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape Architecture Magazine covers the wide range of design by landscape architects written by award-winning journalists. More than parks, landscape architecture is woven into cities, neighborhoods, and rural places in projects large and small. Below is a sample of some of the best feature articles on design that have appeared recently.
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Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, provides respite while reflecting on the long history of racial injustice. Once a city dump on the Mississippi waterfront, Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is now a landmark park. The design provides downtown Memphis with a destination playground, water features, hammocks, art installations, new climate-adaptive trees and native shrubs, and a restored ...
Keeping It Weird - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 25, 2024 · In the landscape for a new taqueria, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves a slice of Austin’s history. BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Austin, Texas, has been the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan area for 12 years running. The steady growth, driven by a booming tech and venture capital sector, has utterly changed the fabric of the city—and not
The Wright Way - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Dec 15, 2021 · Bayer Landscape Architecture brings Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House back into full bloom. By Joann Greco Photo courtesy Bayer Landscape Architecture. Daylilies and phlox are thriving along the terrace with the pergola in the background .Darwin and Isabelle Martin were getting tired of waiting. “We want a garden,” Darwin wrote to their architect, Frank
The Metasequoia Mystery - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 19, 2016 · The 1940s discovery in China of the dawn redwood, a living fossil, remains in shadows cast by war, political upheaval, and scholarly intrigue. By Kyna Rubin On a clear August day in 2002, Ma Jinshuang, a botanist, struck gold. At the bottom of a cabinet in a dark, moist, long-abandoned herbarium in Nanjing, perched unprotected
Life on the Wedge - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Oct 4, 2016 · In Copenhagen, Superkilen rolls out a half-mile mash-up of global culture. By Jessica Bridger Credit: Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Kristian Skeie. On Monday, the Aga Khan Foundation announced its 2016 awards for architecture, honoring six projects from a short list of 19 named as semifinalists in May. The award honors architecture of …
Landscapes Over Time - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Mar 14, 2013 · Michael Van Valkenburgh on managing landscape architecture designs through the years. By Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, with William S. Saunders. Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time.
Traces of Self-Exile - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Aug 3, 2017 · A new biography of James Rose explores his difficult brilliance. By Mimi Zeiger “Words! Can we ever untangle them?” reads James Rose’s opening salvo in Pencil Points. Appearing in the definitive journal of modernist design thought, the landscape designer’s 1939 essay rejects preconceived ideas of formal or informal design and makes the case for an