Posted in ASLA, AWARDS, CITIES, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, FEATURES, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, IN THE ISSUE, NEW YORK CITY, PEOPLE, PLANTS, PLAYGROUNDS, RECREATION, RESILIENCE, REUSE, SANDY, SHORELINE, SOIL, SPECIES, STREETS, TRANSPORTATION, VIEWS, WATER, tagged abandoned sites, American holly, Andy Wisniewski, Anne Raver, ASLA Professional Awards, asters, Award of Excellence for General Design, BAMBOO, bayberry, beach plum, beach roses, berm, Bird Island, Black gum, black locust, Bosnian pine, bouncy floor, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, buttonbush, canyon, catalpa, catalpas, cedars, Cerami & Associates, cherry, chokeberry, Cryptomeria, Deodar cedar, East River, elderberry, Equisetum, Eric Rothstein, Frederick Law Olmsted, Geofiber, gingko, goldenrods, Granite Prospect, hills, Hollywood juniper, honey locust, hydrangeas, Infrastructure, inkberry, James Sotillo, Jason Siebenmorgen, Jeffrey Sandgrund, joe-pye weed, jute mesh, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, London plane, Long Meadow, longleaf yellow pine, mallow, Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, Mary Ellen Murphy, Matthew Urbanski, meadows, Metasequoia, Michael van Valkenburgh, mooring bollards, New York City, oak, oaks, oat, palimpsest, Paul Seck, paulownia, perennials, Picnic Peninsula, Pier, Pine & Swallow Environmental, pitch pine, Postindustrial, privet, Prospect Park, queen of the prairie, rain gardens, recycled materials, Regina Myer, riprap, river, Rural, Sandbox Village, sassafras, signal mounts, smooth cordgrass, soccer fields, soil, Statue of Liberty, stormwater, swamp milkweed, sweet gum, Swing Valley, telephone poles, the High Line, topography, transit, trapeze, trees, viburnum, water feature, Water Lab, Willis Avenue Bridge, winterberry on December 17, 2018|
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BY ANNE RAVER
The final pier has opened. Brooklyn Bridge Park is all but complete.
It was raining, so we crouched, rather than sat, in the grassy bowl that Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, had envisioned as the centerpiece of the newly completed green space and playground on Pier 3, which, like most of the other piers in Brooklyn Bridge Park, sprawls over five acres, into the East River.
“I’m lucky to know what it’s like to imagine and hope for something like this for 20 years and finally see it, have it realized,” said Van Valkenburgh, whose firm drew its first plan for this park in 1999. “Look at that sky.” (more…)
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Posted in ASLA, ECOLOGY, ONLINE ONLY, PEOPLE, RESILIENCE, WATER, tagged Alpa Nawre, ASLA, Bradford McKee, India, LAM Lecture Series, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, professor, resource management, Rural, social change, The Ecologies of Resource Management: Water as a Development Tool in Rural India, University of Florida, Water on September 5, 2017|
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The Ecologies of Resource Management: Water as a Development Tool in Rural India
Thursday, September 7, 2017, at 7:00 p.m.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture
636 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
Alpa Nawre, ASLA, assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida and the founder of Alpa Nawre Design, in conversation with Bradford McKee, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Professor Nawre’s design and research have focused on the crucial role that water landscapes play in the cultural life of Indian society. Just as water sustains communities, its scarcity can severely distress them, particularly their most vulnerable members. In this talk, Nawre will discuss the ways in which water and resource management, viewed from a landscape perspective, can feed into development efforts and become a more potent agent of social change.
$15 General Admission
Free for students with valid student ID for 2016–2017 or 2017–2018.
Doors open at 6:30. Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required: bit.ly/LAMLectureSeries2
1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
For more information, go to https://www.asla.org/events.
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