Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both.
By Jared Brey
Monica Chasten (foreground) and Sean Burkholder (center, holding a coffee) survey the opportunities with the team near Matts Landing in New Jersey. Photo by Jared Brey.
A needle that falls in the southern reaches of the New Jersey Pinelands might find itself washed into the Maurice River and carried by its current to Delaware Bay. The Maurice flows south in tight coils, and before it reaches the estuary, it’s forced into one final wide bend around a long dike at Matts Landing, near the old bayside oyster towns of Bivalve and Shell Pile. Continue reading The Long Game→
Guarded by isolated landscapes and rough ocean waters, Argentina’s remote peatlands are among the world’s most effective and fragile carbon sinks.
By Jimena Martignoni / Photography by Joel Reyero
Peatlands appear in the landscape as extensive, soft surfaces slightly undulated and dotted by small pools of water.
At the southern tip of South America, between the Strait of Magellan to the north and west and Beagle Channel to the south, the Tierra del Fuego archipelago may hold one of the keys to global carbon sequestration: nearly pristine peatlands. Continue reading Bog Wild→
OLIN Labs has found that the pH of crushed glass exceeds that of sand but can be lowered with the addition of ferrous sulfate. Photo by OLIN.
It is easy to paint landscape architecture as an inherent “greener” of communities, particularly when it comes to green infrastructure and the profession’s more recent emphasis on creating and sustaining urban ecologies. Continue reading The Glass is Greener→
To create a native meadow and burial ground from the former dump, the soil down to four feet was screened for debris and then amended with compost. Image courtesy Alta Planning + Design.
Play structures that double as public art and native plantings that double as stormwater infrastructure adorn The Metropolitan, by The Design Collective.
The Promenade at the Metropolitan is a 40,000-square-foot park space serving a mixed-use multifamily building. Photo by Design Collective/Jennifer Hughes.
Geffel mowing in his Thicket Composite landscape. Photo by Nick Sund, Student ASLA.
For a few years after his undergraduate studies in geography, Michael Geffel, ASLA, worked as a gardener, performing the most literally and conceptually reductive type of landscape maintenance—weeding. Continue reading Lawnmower Man→
