September 6, 2016 by LAM Staff
BY CAROL BECKER
Hoerr Schaudt’s Michigan Avenue plantings in Chicago return the investment near and far.
You might be in Xanadu, having lunch in an outdoor café on Michigan Avenue. You are steps from noisy traffic, but flower baskets surround every café, parkways are lush with flower beds, and every available space along the sidewalk, both public and private, is given over to gardens, urns full of flowers, statuary, and well-kept trees. A garden grows in the middle of the six-lane avenue. Twenty-five years ago, Chicago’s main downtown thoroughfare was little different from many others—you shopped or ate or saw sites or worked and lived along city streets with young trees under tree grates, with not much else that was living to separate people from constant high-speed traffic and the railroad yards.
Today it’s all different, owing to the Michigan Avenue Streetscape project, recipient of the 2016 ASLA Landmark Award, given to works of landscape architecture between 15 and 50 years old that have kept their design integrity and contribute to the public realm. The project has proved its worth for tourism, real estate, retail shopping, dining, and quality of life for the millions of people who find themselves on the avenue every year. Michigan Avenue has become a destination in itself. The Streetscape (which includes only the median plantings and not the many other streetside plantings that have followed) guides Continue Reading »
Posted in ASLA, AWARDS, CITIES, LAM MAGAZINE, STREETS | Tagged 2016 ASLA Awards, A Safe Haven, ASLA, Associate ASLA, Carol Becker, Chicago, Clarence Davids & Company, Department of Transportation, Doug Hoerr, FASLA, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, Kris Sorich, Landmark Award, Mag Mile, Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Avenue Streetscape, Millennium Park, Pamela Self, Peter Schaudt, Phyllis Bramson, public private partnership | Leave a Comment »
September 1, 2016 by LAM Staff
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It’s time to celebrate! The September issue of LAM rolls out the 2016 ASLA Awards, with more than 80 pages of Student and Professional Award winners, plus this year’s Landmark Award, given to the Michigan Avenue Streetscape project in Chicago. Out of 271 submitted projects to the Student Awards, 22 winners were chosen, and 29 Professional Awards were selected from 457 submissions. All this plus our regular Land Matters, Now, and Goods columns.
You can read the full table of contents for September 2016 or pick up a free digital issue of the September LAM here and share it with your clients, colleagues, and friends. As always, you can buy this issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine at more than 700 bookstores, including many university stores and independents, as well as at Barnes & Noble. You can also buy single digital issues for only $5.25 at Zinio or order single copies of the print issue from ASLA. Annual subscriptions for LAM are a thrifty $59 for print and $44.25 for digital. Our subscription page has more information on subscription options.
Keep an eye out here on the blog, on the LAM Facebook page, and on our Twitter feed (@landarchmag), as we’ll be ungating September articles as the month rolls out.
Credits: Landmark Award, Charlie Simokaitis; Professional Communications, Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, and Barrett Doherty; Professional Analysis and Planning, Ramboll with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl; Professional Residential Design, D. A. Horchner/Design Workshop, Inc.; Professional General Design, Tom Arban.
Posted in ASLA, AWARDS, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, LAM MAGAZINE, RESEARCH, RESILIENCE, RIVER RESTORATION, SHORELINE | Tagged 2016 ASLA Awards, Analysis and Planning, Award of Excellence, Communications, Copenhagen, DBX Ranch, epiphytes, flooding, General Design, health, Landmark Award, Peru, Professional, Residential Design, students, Thailand, Underpass Park, What's Out There | 4 Comments »
August 31, 2016 by LAM Staff
BY ADAM MANDELMAN
Cleaning up after the Burning Man festival is serious business.
Every year, in the weeks leading up to Labor Day, a temporary metropolis emerges from the barren alkali flats of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Meticulously surveyed, the concentric circles and spokes of Black Rock City’s dusty streets fan out across some seven square miles of dry lake bed (or “playa”), providing an iconic geography for one of North America’s more bizarre annual rituals: Burning Man.
But the chaotic arts and music festival, known for its high hedonism, is as much an exercise in evanescent urban planning as it is a radical social experiment. Come Labor Day, Burning Man’s deeply ingrained leave-no-trace ethos takes over. Attendees pack up gear, artists break down installations, and theme camps dismantle projects so elaborate that Continue Reading »
Posted in ART, ENVIRONMENT, LAM MAGAZINE | Tagged Adam Mandelman, arts, Black Rock Desert, Burning Man, festival, leave-no-trace, Moop, Nevada, playa, restoration, transitory, urban planning | Leave a Comment »
August 30, 2016 by LAM Staff
Presented by the Architectural League of New York, this lecture by Mia Lehrer details many of her firm’s “advocacy by design” efforts throughout her years in practice. Based in Los Angeles, Lehrer focuses on a wide variety of projects at differing scales, each of which takes a unique approach to bringing nature back into the city.
This lecture and discussion were presented as part of the Architectural League of New York’s Current Work series. For more information, please visit here.
Posted in CITIES, LAM ONLINE | Tagged advocacy, Architectural League of New York, Current Work, LAMcast, lecture, Los Angeles, Mia Lehrer, Mia Lehrer & Associates, non-profit, video | Leave a Comment »
August 25, 2016 by Jennifer Reut
A lift behind the scenes helped bring the National Park Service into being.
In February 1916, the American Society of Landscape Architects met in Boston for its annual meeting. Among the reports entered into the proceedings was one of the Committee on National Parks. The committee was made up of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harris Reynolds, Stephen Child, Percival Gallagher, and Warren H. Manning, and it had been formed on the recommendation of ASLA President James Sturgis Pray in 1915, part of a groundswell of unease that had been brewing for several years over the fractured administration of the national parks.
The passage of the National Park Service Organic Act on August 25, 1916, established the park service and its mission, and though it has been amended many times, and threatened many more times than that, it remains, 100 years hence, our primary apparatus for preserving and interpreting the national parks. Ethan Carr, FASLA, the landscape historian and author of Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture & the National Park Service, writes that Continue Reading »
Posted in ARCHIVES, ASLA, HISTORY, LAM MAGAZINE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | Tagged American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, Centennial, Conference, Ethan Carr, FASLA, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr, Harris Reynolds, historian, James Sturgis Pray, Landscape Architecture Magazine, National Forests, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, National Park Service Act, National Parks, Pervical Gallagher, Stephen Child, tourism, Warren H. Manning | 2 Comments »
August 25, 2016 by LAM Staff
BY TOM STOELKER
At Paterson Great Falls, one of the newer national parks, Americans made many things, including history.
Paterson, New Jersey, is a tough town. Gang violence is prevalent, teachers are being laid off, and about 30 percent of the city’s residents live in poverty. But the city’s got soul. On Market Street, the lively main thoroughfare, bachata music spills from 99-cent stores, and the scent of Peruvian food wafts through the air. Paterson has been a magnet for immigration since the 19th century, and the reason why is found nearby. Twenty minutes from the center of town is the Great Falls, now part of Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, where the Passaic River makes a majestic drop of 77 feet off basalt rock cliffs before it continues its twisted path. These are the falls that made Paterson.
In 1778, Alexander Hamilton, General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, recognized the river’s potential to harness power for both manufacturing and geopolitics. Hamilton understood the young nation needed to grow its industry to be independent of Europe. Through a group he helped form in 1791, the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (SUM), Hamilton chose Paterson as the site of the nation’s first planned manufacturing development.
Gianfranco Archimede, who today directs Paterson’s Historic Preservation Commission, said: “At the end of the war, the king essentially said, Continue Reading »
Posted in BROWNFIELDS, COMPETITIONS, HISTORIC LANDSCAPES, LAM MAGAZINE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, PRESERVATION | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, archaeology, brick, Centennial, Darren Boch, foodways, Gianfranco Archimede, graffiti, Great Falls Bridge, Hamilton Partnership for Paterson, Hinchliffe Stadium, Historic Preservation Commission, hydroelectric, industrial, Industrial Revolution, James Corner Field Operations, June Williamson, Karen Tamir, L'Enfant, Larry Doby, Leonard A. Zax, Mary Ellen Kramer Park, master plan, National Historical Park, National Natural Landmark, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, National Parks Now, New Jersey, NPS, Paterson, Paterson Great Falls, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Ralph Applebaum Associates, ruins, scale, Silk City, Team Paterson, Theodore Best, Tom Stoelker, Van Alen Institute | Leave a Comment »
August 23, 2016 by LAM Staff
BY KEVAN WILLIAMS
In North Miami, flooding and sea-level rise have spurred talk of relocation, as well as cries of “climate gentrification.”
Before the city was built, the land around Miami consisted of a low band of limestone, the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, dissected by lower sloughs, marshy freshwater streams that eventually were filled in and developed. The Arch Creek neighborhood of North Miami is one such area. “Fast forward, [and] they’re what FEMA calls repetitive loss properties,” says Walter Meyer, a founding principal of Brooklyn-based Local Office Landscape Architecture, of the homes built in these vulnerable, low-lying areas.
After multiple claims, the homes are no longer eligible for the National Flood Insurance Program.
Meyer was one of nine urban planning experts convened by the Continue Reading »
Posted in CITIES, CLIMATE, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, LAM MAGAZINE, NOW, RESILIENCE, SHORELINE, WATER | Tagged advocacy, Arch Creek, Caroline Lewis, CLEO Institute, Climate, climate change, coastal communities, David Stebbins, FEMA, flooding, foreclosed homes, gentrification, greenway, Gretchen Beesing, Kevan Williams, land bank, Local Office Landscape Architecture, Miami, North Miami, panel, redevelopment, resiliency, riparian, sea-level rise, Urban Land Institute, urban planning, Walter Meyer | 1 Comment »
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