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THE WATER YOU CAN’T SEE

Posted in ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, FEATURES, HABITAT, HISTORIC LANDSCAPES, INVASIVE SPECIES, PARKS, PLANNING, PLANTS, RECREATION, RESILIENCE, SHORELINE, SOIL, SPECIES, THE CLIENT, UNIVERSITY, WATER, tagged architecture, bee balm, bridge, Central Park Conservancy, Chiller, civic hydrology park, Curtis Richardson, Cypress trees, drought, Duke Forest, Duke Hospital, Duke Pond, Duke stone, Duke University, Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, East Campus, ECOLOGY, environmental stewardship, erosion, Evan Grimm, Gothic Revival architecture, gravel, Horace Trumbauer, Invasive shrubs, irrigation, James Duke, Julian Abele, Kofi Boone, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture Foundation, landscape design, maples, Mark Hough, Michael Easley, mill, native perennials, native planting beds, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, nitrogen, North Carolina, North Carolina State University, Olmsted Brothers, outdoor classroom, phosphorus, pine forest, placemaking, planning, reclaimed wood, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, slate, stormwater, stormwater harvest pond, Stream and Wetland Assessment Management Park, Susan Nelson, terraces, the Dell, Trinity College, Tulip poplars, underground infrastructure, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, utility, Warren T. Byrd Jr., water conservation, water consumption, water quality, West Campus, wetlands on December 5, 2019| 1 Comment »

BY KOFI BOONE, ASLA

A civic hydrology park emerges on Duke University’s campus.

FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

Having lived in Durham, North Carolina, for more than a decade, I’ve come to realize that it’s almost impossible to discuss Durham without referencing Duke University, and vice versa. Duke is a private university, and its West Campus, although in the city, stands apart and within Duke Forest, a vast patch of woods created through a component of a century-old Olmsted Brothers master plan. The campus landscapes cultivated by Duke offer a stark experiential contrast to the eclectic environmental qualities of a rapidly suburbanizing region. Duke’s campus is a big draw for wedding receptions, picnics, walking and biking, and the occasional respite from nearby urban life. Durhamites regularly use the campus as an extended city park system. I’ve visited Duke’s landscapes many times with family and students in search of memorable settings in an educational environment.

Duke Pond, one of the newest campus landscapes, has been an increasingly popular attraction. On a recent visit to Duke Pond with my daughter, she waded into shallow water to scoop up a tadpole and said, “This place is kinda scruffy, but I like it!” When I relayed this story to Warren T. Byrd Jr., FASLA, the renowned landscape architect who concluded his career at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects with this project, he laughed. He was thrilled that younger generations felt comfortable engaging the landscape directly. Enabling the informal discovery of ecology was what he had in mind. On a campus populated with works by many leading landscape architects, most of them manicured and tightly controlled, the pond offers an example of a different aesthetic as well as the roles landscape can play in exciting the next generation about environmental stewardship. (more…)

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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, NOVEMBER 19

Posted in ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, ONLINE ONLY, PHOTOGRAPHY, REGION, RESIDENTIAL, SOIL, WATER, tagged Art Director's Cut, catchment, HANIYA RAE, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, New Mexico, RESIDENTIAL, stormwater, Water on November 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »

The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.

Photo by Stephen Dunn.

From “Look to the Sky” in the November 2019 issue by Haniya Rae, about a New Mexico residential landscape where a multilayered stormwater catchment strategy speaks to a different sort of beauty.

“Western water catcher.”

–CHRIS MCGEE, LAM ART DIRECTOR

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PETER WALKER’S POINT

Posted in AWARDS, BROWNFIELDS, CITIES, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, FEATURES, HISTORIC LANDSCAPES, HISTORY, MATERIALS, NURSERY, PARKS, PEOPLE, PLANNING, RECREATION, RESILIENCE, REUSE, SHORELINE, SOIL, WATER, tagged A Better Barangaroo, Aboriginal, Ann Sherry, Australia, Australian Institute of Architects, Ballast Point Park, Barangaroo Reserve, Botany Bay, Cadigal, Captain Arthur Phillip, cliff, Clover Moore, colonialism, computer model, Cutaway, Darling Harbour, design ideas competition, Goat Island, Gweneth Leigh, Hardenbergia, headlands, Hill Thalis, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Johnson Pilton Walker, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, Memel, Morris Iemma, native plantings, New South Wales, PARKS, Paul Berkemeier Architect, Paul Keating, Peter Walker, PWP Landscape Architecture, rock, sandstone, Shipping, shore, Simon Leake, Stuart Pittendrigh, Sydney, tidal pool, Troy Stratti, urban renewal, vines, Water on October 17, 2019| 1 Comment »

BY GWENETH LEIGH, ASLA

The Barangaroo Reserve transforms Sydney Harbour’s old industrial landscape.

FROM THE NOVEMBER 2016 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, my understanding of landscape was one of changing purpose. Cornfields were converted into housing subdivisions and office parks. Old winding roads were straightened, thickened with extra lanes, and punctuated by traffic lights. It was the small discoveries—an arrowhead in the garden, a bullet lodged in a tree—that revealed the older stories of these fractured landscapes. The layers of roads, power lines, and strip malls made any trace of a site’s earlier history difficult to imagine.

But what if we were to allow a landscape to break free from the confines of concrete curbs, smooth out its industrial wrinkles, and pluck off architectural blemishes in an effort to recapture a semblance of its younger, more picturesque self? Where injections of earth and rock serve as the Botox for an aging landscape, erasing the creases of human development in favor of a more natural topography. So begins the story of Barangaroo Reserve in Sydney, Australia. (more…)

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NO US AND THEM

Posted in ASLA, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, FEATURES, GARDENS, PLANNING, PLANTS, RESEARCH, RESILIENCE, SOIL, SPECIES, WATER, WILDLIFE, tagged Andropogon, ASLA Honor Award, ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award, Avalon Park & Preserve, BioBlitz, birds, business, Carol Franklin, Center for Sustainable Landscapes, Chestnut Hill, climate change, Colin Franklin, Darren Damone, David Barnett, Design Workshop, Drexel University, ECOLOGY, Emily McCoy, Green Roof, habitat, Ian McHarg, Integrative Research Division, INVASIVE SPECIES, José Almiñana, Journal of Green Building, Katharine Griffiths, Korman Quad, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, Lauren Mandel, Laurie Olin, Leslie Sauer, marsh, Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City, native plants, New York, Paul Simons, Paul Simons Foundation, Perelman Plaza, Philadelphia, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, PRACTICE, Research, Richard Piacentini, Rolf Sauer, SEEDdesign, Shoemaker Green, SITES v2 Rating System, soil, sound mapping, Stony Brook, stormwater, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Tom Amoroso, University of Pennsylvania, wetland, Yaki Miodovnik on September 26, 2019| 2 Comments »

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BY JARED BREY / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

Darren Damone, ASLA, and Katharine Griffiths were standing on a boardwalk at Avalon Park & Preserve, in Stony Brook, New York, looking across the pond at a gang of cormorants loitering in the branches of a beech tree.

“They used to nest over here, and it was a disaster zone,” said Griffiths, the director of the preserve. “It used to smell like a bluefish factory. It was nasty. They did a lot of damage to the trees in this area.… That’s what happens. They strip the leaves to put in their nest, and then their guano is so acidic that it just burns everything. They’re kind of sloppy birds.”

It was a May morning, and the squealing songs of cardinals spilled out of the woods behind us. We took a curving path up a hill to a smaller pond, fed by what looked like an underground stream, and I asked, credulously, where the headwaters were.

“This is just recirculating,” Damone said, looking amused. “This is completely created.”

In 1996, before the preserve existed, Paul Simons, a local nature lover who liked to ride his bike on a path through the property, was struck by a car on Long Island and killed. In his honor, the Simons family created the Paul Simons Foundation, and bought the eight-acre property that would later become Avalon Park & Preserve. Griffiths was a friend of the Simons family and had just finished college in Ontario, studying political science and horticulture, and she moved to Stony Brook to lead the preserve. Creating the preserve was a way for the Simons family to grieve, she said, and it was meant to be a place that Paul would have wanted to be. Beyond that, she told me later, “We didn’t have a vision, really.”

So it turned to Andropogon, the Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm, to create (more…)

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PERMAFROST FRONTIER

Posted in ASLA, CLIMATE, ECOLOGY, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, FEATURES, FOOD, HEALING GARDENS, MAINTENANCE, PEOPLE, PLAYGROUNDS, RESILIENCE, SOIL, SPECIES, STUDENTS, THE CLIENT, tagged Anne Raver, Arctic Circle, Arthur Erickson, ASLA Medal, Barrenland Beauties: Showy Plants of the Canadian Arctic, bearberry, Beate Hahn, Beaufort Sea, birch, boreal forest, Camilla Verbonac, cloudberry, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Covering Climate Now, cranberry, culture, Dan Kiley, Darren Karst, Dempster Highway, Dowland Contracting Ltd, drift, dwarf birch, East Three School, edible plants, Expo 67, First Nations, food security, gabion baskets, groundcover, Gwich’in, ICE, Inuvialuit, Inuvialuit Nautchiangit: Relationships Between People and Plants, Inuvik, Inuvik District Education Authority, Judy Harder, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, landscape model, landslides, larch, Legislative Assembly, Louis Kahn, M. Paul Friedberg, Mackenzie River, maintenance, Matsuzaki/Wright Architects, medicinal plants, melting, native plants, natural gas, natural light, North by Northwest Ventures, Northwest Territories, oil, Oscar Stonorov, Page Burt, Paul Arthorne, peat bog, Permafrost, Peter Oberlander, Pin/Matthews Architects, Pin/Taylor Architects, pipeline, playground, Richard Dattner, Robson Square, school, shelterbelt, shrubby willow, Simon Taylor, spruce, swale, Vancouver Public Library, VanDusen Botanical Garden, Walter Gropius, weather model, wild arctic rose, wild rose, wind, Yellowknife on September 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »

BY ANNE RAVER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY IHOR PONA

Around a school in an arctic town, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander has made a landscape to withstand the prospect of a warming world.

This week, LAM is joining more than 250 media outlets for Covering Climate Now, flooding the zone, as it were, with climate coverage in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23. Landscape and landscape architecture are deeply implicated in the future of climate progress, or a lack of it. Over the past decade, LAM has dug into climate issues of landscape in numerous dimensions, mapping the big resource picture as well as local attempts to fend off increasingly apparent hazards of global warming—from the procurement of materials to the integrity of the food supply chain. Each day this week we’ll bring you excellent stories from recent years that follow landscape architects acting and thinking about climate change and the landscape.

FROM THE NOVEMBER 2013 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

The permafrost is melting in Inuvik, a flat delta town in the Northwest Territories, 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. You can see the drunken trees, leaning this way and that along the banks of the Mackenzie River. The Gwich’in and Inuvialuit—native people who make up 40 percent of the some 3,500 residents here—have to go farther out to hunt seals, because of the melting ice.

The caribou get stuck in the mud, instead of running across snow, as they migrate to their calving grounds north of Tuktoyaktuk, or Tuk, as people here say, on the coast of the Beaufort Sea. The lichen that has sustained them for millennia is getting crowded out by species that thrive in warmer temperatures.

Local people tell of landslides and collapsing banks along the Mackenzie River, or slumping—where the land simply caves in—on a road or in the forest. The pingos, or subterranean ice houses, may be melting up in Tuk, but most people have freezers anyway.

“Come, I want to show you where I sank into the permafrost that was melted,” Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, FASLA, the Canadian landscape architect, said one unseasonably cold day in July. (more…)

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THE RISING TIDEWATER

Posted in CITIES, CLIMATE, ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, FEATURES, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, PARKS, PLANNING, PLANTS, SOIL, UNIVERSITY, WATER, tagged Ann C. Phillips, Ann P. Stokes, Ann P. Stokes Landscape Architects, Arcadis, bioretention cells, Brett Anderson, Carol Considine, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Certification, Chesterfield Heights, cisterns, climate science, Covering Climate Now, Creek Watershed Project, Dale Morris, David Imburgia, David Waggonner, Donald Whipple, Dutch Dialogues, engineering, erosion, flooding, Fort Monroe, gate, Glenn Oder, grasslands, Hampton, Hampton Roads, Hampton University’s Department of Architecture, Haynes Creek Stormwater Park, HUD, Hurricane, Hurricane Florence, hydrology, Lafayette River, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, Larry Atkinson, living shorelines, Mason Andrews, Military, Mujde Erten-Unal, National Disaster Resilience Competition, National Historic Landmark District, Netherlands, New Orleans, Newmarket Creek, Newport News, Norfolk, oceanography, ODU Resilience Collaborative, Old Dominion University, Phoebus, Pippa Brashear, Portsmouth, raised road, Ramiro Diaz, RESILIENCE, Rockefeller Foundation, runoff, SCAPE Landscape Architecture, sea-level rise, Security Center for Climate and Security, Shereen Hughes, SHORELINE, Structures of Coastal Resilience, Terry O’Neill, Tidewater, US Navy, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Waggonner & Ball Architects, Water, water retention, waterfront park, watershed, Wayne Creek, wetlands, wetlands watch on September 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

BY BRETT ANDERSON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA

Disparate but urgent efforts to address sea-level rise in the Virginia Tidewater, one of the country’s most important strategic centers, are striving to keep up with visible realities.

FROM THE DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

The first question that sprang to Ann C. Phillips’s mind soon after she moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 2006 was, “Why, when it rains, does the whole place submerge?”

She wasn’t referring only to dramatic weather events, although Phillips, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, landed in Norfolk during a bumper crop of those: Norfolk saw more major coastal storms and hurricanes in the 2000s than in the four previous decades combined, according to the city government.

Harder to fathom were the floods caused by light rains and “blue sky floods” triggered by lunar tides. Tidal flooding affects low-lying areas of Norfolk nine times per year on average.

These more regular floods were unlike anything Phillips experienced growing up in Annapolis, Maryland. They’re an alarmingly routine part of life in Norfolk and the surrounding Hampton Roads area (more…)

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THE GLASS IS GREENER

Posted in CLIMATE, DETAILS, ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, NOW, PLANTS, POLLUTION, PRESERVATION, RESEARCH, RESILIENCE, REUSE, SOIL, tagged closed-loop, cullet, ECOLOGY, environment, environmental footprint, extraction, ferrous sulfate, glass, green, greenhouse gas emissions, Infrastructure, landfills, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape designer, materials, OLIN, OLIN Labs, pH, Philadelphia, planting, planting media, postconsumer glass, Rebecca Popowsky, reclaimed materials, recycling, Research, Richard Roark, sodium carbonate, soil, Soil-less Soil, Timothy A. Schuler, University of Pennsylvania, urban, waste glass, water conservation on September 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

Can waste glass be repurposed as a planting medium for green infrastructure?

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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. But every project has an environmental footprint, including, in some cases, the destruction of wilderness areas hundreds of miles from the project site through sand mining and soil removal, which provide the raw material for landscape soil blends. “We put ourselves out there as purveyors of sustainability, but meanwhile we’re kind of like these crazy organ harvesters, borrowing healthy soil and transplanting it somewhere else,” says Richard Roark, ASLA, a partner at OLIN in Philadelphia. “I was like, can we stop that?”

That is exactly what OLIN is attempting to do through a multidisciplinary research project known as Soil-less Soil. Led by the firm’s research division, OLIN Labs, the landscape architects and their partners are studying the feasibility of (more…)

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BY KOFI BOONE, ASLA

FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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“Western water catcher.”

–CHRIS MCGEE, LAM ART DIRECTOR

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BY GWENETH LEIGH, ASLA

FROM THE NOVEMBER 2016 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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BY JARED BREY / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA

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FROM THE NOVEMBER 2013 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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BY BRETT ANDERSON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA

FROM THE DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

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