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ASLA 2010 Student Awards

Digital Landscaping — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:36:40 +0000

Winners of the ASLA 2010 Student Awards

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2010 Student Awards.Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 16,000 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters. The society’s mission is to lead, to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of the cultural and natural environments. Members of the society use their ‘ASLA’ suffix after their names as highest ethical standards of the profession.

As the top student awards within the profession, ASLA will present awards to 32 projects in the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis and Planning, Communications, Research, Community Service and Student Collaboration.

The ceremony and reception will take place on Monday, September 13, at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Washington, DC.

More Information:
http://www.asla.org/2010studentawards/

High Line Park in NYC

Digital Landscaping — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:51:37 +0000

Inhabitat Exclusive Video: The NYC High Line Park Opens!

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The Opening of the HIghline Urban Park

This week the highly anticipated High Line Park in NYC opened to the public for the first time. We were super excited to be on the scene for a sneak peek of the new elevated park, which was built on the remains of an abandoned rail system in New York City. Check out our video of the new High Line, with exclusive interviews with the design team including Lead Designer and Landscape Architect James Corner of James Corner Field Operations and architect Ricardo Scofidio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro who made this stunning new park possible. Enjoy!

+ High Line Park in the Sky
+ The High Line
+ James Corner Field Operations

World Habitat Awards

Digital Landscaping — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:09:59 +0000

World Habitat Awards 2009/10 – Winners announced!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 cycle of the World Habitat Awards:

SELAVIP funding opportunity

SELAVIP is offering grants of up to US$ 60,000 for innovative housing and shelter projects working to meet the needs of low-income households in developing countries. Project proposals are sought that address a range of issues related to the complex reality of homelessness in developing regions, from direct housing provision to promoting community based processes aimed at securing shelter.

International Study Visit, Brazil: 7th – 13th November 2010

An international study visit will be carried out from 7th – 13th November 2010 to the ‘Caprichando a Morada: Living well is part of human dignity’ project of the COOPERHAF rural housing cooperative.

International Study Visit, Poland: 6th – 11th June 2010

An international study visit took place from 6th – 11th June 2010 to the ‘Building Partnerships to Eradicate Poverty’ project of the Barka Foundation for Mutual Help, Poland.

World Urban Forum 5

The World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place from 22nd – 26th March 2010 where sessions of the following were included:

The International Social Housing Summit

The International Social Housing Summit (ISH•SUM) is a new conference for the global housing sector. Focusing on the shared challenges faced by housing organisations around the world, it will focus on best practice rather than policy and deliver practical solutions.

Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture

Four World Habitat Award winners and finalists showcased at the XII International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 3rd to 10th October 2009.

World Habitat Day 2009

The World Habitat Awards were presented on the 5th October 2009 by Mrs Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, at this year’s global celebration of World Habitat Day in Washington, D.C.

World Habitat Awards 2008/09 – Winners announced!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 cycle of the World Habitat Awards:

UNDP event on South-South Cooperation

Invitation: United Nations ECOSOC Innovation Fair Side Event, Palais des Nations, Geneva

NYC opens first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Greenway

Digital Landscaping — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:39:55 +0000

Bloomberg unveils first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park greenway

The first sections of the Brooklyn Bridge Park greenway have opened, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today, connecting Old Fulton Street to Pier 2 along the East River with a 2,000-foot bicycle and walk lane. The 30-foot wide greenway, which is being developed in conjunction with the Brooklyn Bridge Park, will stretch approximately 14 miles along the waterfront when completed. An additional five acres of park space was also opened today at the Brooklyn Heights recreation space. Once completed, Brooklyn Bridge Park will be roughly 85 acres in size, according to Bloomberg. So far, the city has committed $194 million to the project, while the state has contributed $85 million

Brooklyn Bridge Park is a component of the Administration’s Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy to revitalize New York City’s more than 500 miles of waterfront. Since 2002, more than 500 acres of new parkland have been opened.

“The opening of the next five acres of the park makes it an even more attractive place to visit, and moves us one step closer to our goal of building the full 85-acre park,” Bloomberg said.

In order to provide continuous public access to the portion of the park already open at Pier 6 on Atlantic Avenue, the new section is connected to an interim path on the uplands of Piers 2, 3 and 4. Such connection includes a two-way bike lane and a 10-foot wide pedestrian path.

The new sections of the park include a tidal salt marsh with an adjacent seating area composed of granite blocks salvaged from the old Willis Avenue Bridge in the Bronx. The tidal marsh will be home to marine and aquatic bird life.

Fresh water gardens and a series of weir bridges were established in Pier 1. . The ravine-like setting is the park’s most pastoral landscape and many different kinds of flowers and bushes were planted there.

“This opening highlights two wonderful aspects of Brooklyn Bridge Park – its scenic beauty and its multi-faceted functionality. The salt marsh and fresh water gardens are extraordinary scenic amenities that also serve important environmental and sustainability functions,” said Brooklyn Bridge Park President Regina Myer.

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape.

Digital Landscaping — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:37:05 +0000

Book:

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape. MoMA.

This book presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment.

The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their outstanding design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as program, social function, and the transformation and reclamation previously industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-color plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation, and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings, and models.

Includes work by George Hargreaves, Martha Schwartz, Peter Walker, James Corner, Peter Latz, Ken Smith, Tom Leader, and others. Essay by Peter Reed.

Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in./168 pgs / 300 color and 30 b&w.

APLD 2010 International Landscape Design Awards

Digital Landscaping — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:37:16 +0000

The APLD International Landscape Design Awards recognizes excellence in the field of landscape design. For 2010, the entry process will continue to be electronic and the entry categories have been expanded to allow for recognition of show gardens. APLD also recognizes that sustainability is an increasingly necessary component in all landscape design, and it will be considered in the judging of all pertinent categories.

The best entries, judged by a distinguished international jury, will receive a gold award. Other deserving entries will receive a merit award. The judging criteria will total 100 points. A score of over 90 is needed to be awarded gold, and a score over 80 is needed for the merit award. There can be more than one gold, or merit, in each category. This places the entrants in competition within the bar of excellence, as opposed to competition within the pool of entries.

From the gold award entries, the judges will choose the 2010 APLD International Landscape Designer of the Year. Awards will be presented during the awards banquet at the 2010 APLD International Landscape Design Conference in Dallas, Texas, in September 2010. The APLD International Landscape Designer of the Year will receive free conference registration.

An additional award, the Distinctively Better® Plant Design Award, sponsored by Monrovia Growers, will be chosen from the winning entries. The award recipient will receive $2,000 worth of Monrovia products. APLD would like to thank Monrovia for its continued support of the International Landscape Design Awards. The APLD Student Landscape Design Awards Program recognizes excellent student projects in landscape design. The program builds upon landscape design projects already assigned by an educational institution

Jardins de métis: International Garden Festival – 11th Edition – 2010

Digital Landscaping — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:02:51 +0000

International Garden Festival – 11th Edition – 2010

Métis-sur-Montréal | Broderie buchée
Philippe Nolet

The grass is greener
Habitation

The 11th edition of the Festival will be held from June 26 to October 3, 2010. Ranked among the leading garden festivals in the world, the International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens presents temporary gardens at the cutting edge of garden design, landscape, architecture, design and environmental art. Launched in 2000, the International Garden Festival has presented over 80 gardens by more than 200 designers from fifteen countries and has attracted more than 800,000 visitors. It is an exceptional showcase and launching pad for the participating designers from a host of disciplines. This artistic and tourism event also gives visitors a chance to discover inspiring gardens by some of the best designers working in the landscape

Oursins
NIPpaysage

Festival | 2010 Edition

The International Garden Festival enters its second decade with a program of gardens and special events for the 11^th edition. The 2010 Festival display a record 21 gardens on the Festival site as well as extra-mural gardens in Montréal, Calgary and Toronto. The theme of this year’s Festival is “Paradise”. Berlin is the invited city. The program includes the broadcast of the new documentary film, Twice Upon a Garden, as well as culinary, musical, cultural and artistic events throughout the summer.

Le jardin de bâtons bleus
Claude Cormier, architecture de paysage + Design urbain

List of gardens for the 2010 edition

Bascule : les ondées aratoires
Cédule 40

Bois de biais: Ces jours-ci je suis fier de mon petit paradis
Atelier le balto

Bon arbre au bon endroit
NIPpaysage

Dymaxion Sleep
Jane Hutton & Adrian Blackwell

Every garden needs a shed and a lawn!
Deborah Nagan

forest.SQUARE.sky.
Suresh Perera

Fractal Garden
Legge-Lewis-Legge

HAHA!
spmb (Eduardo Aquino et Karen Shanski), Ralph Glor, Matt Baker, Martin Gagnon

Jardin de la connaissance
Thilo Folkerts – Rodney Latourelle

Le jardin de bâtons bleus
Claude Cormier, architecture de paysage + Design urbain

Métis-sur-Calgary | Passe-moi un sapin Rita
Rita

Métis-sur-Montréal | Broderie buchée
Philippe Nolet

Oursins
NIPpaysage

Pomme de parterre
Angela Iarocci, Claire Ironside, David Ross

Réflexions colorées
Hal Ingberg

Réflexions suspendues – Sospese riflessioni
Francesca Moretti, Federico Brancalion, Rodolfo Roncella, Mirando Di Prinzio

Round Up (d’après Monet) / Double serpent
Legge-Lewis-Legge

Seedling
Mateo Pinto, Carolina Cisneros, Victoria Marshall

The grass is greener
Habitation

Tiny Taxonomy
Rosetta Sarah Elkin

Tree Stands
relais Landschaftsarchitekten

Veil Garden
Studio Bryan Hanes – DIGSAU

Violence of the Garden (LAND USE OBSERVATORY)
TOPOTEK 1

Read More at Source:
http://www.refordgardens.com/english/festival/edition.php

3rd International Urban Design Conference

Digital Landscaping — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:26:18 +0000

“Designs On Our Future”

Australia’s population is projected to increase by 60 per cent in the next 40 years, what impact will this have on our existing cities?
What impact will the debate over sustainable population for Australia have on our existing cities? The conference will examine how our new cities are conceived and our existing ones are adapted, re-designed and managed.

Dates: 30th August to 1st September 2010

City: Canberra, Australia

Location: National Convention Centre

The conference will focus on a variety of themes and topics:

Growth
Demographic change
Housing diversity and affordability
Settlement patterns
Preparedness
Resilience
Infrastructure and sustainability in the “New” Australia
Transport system requirements
Energy efficient building design
Effective governance and leadership
Sustainable higher density development
Renewable development
Managing the carbon footprint of new and existing cities
The future of public spaces
Food and resource vulnerability

Who Should Attend

The Conference attracts delegates from a wide range of backgrounds including:

• Policy makers
• Politicians
• Senior public servants
• City Governance personnel
• Development Industry
• Design professionals
• Architects

• Landscape Architects
• Engineers
• Town Planners
• Urban Designers
• Consultants
• Social planners
• Demographers

More info at source: http://www.urbandesignaustralia.com.au/

2010 International Conference on Biology, Environment and Chemistry (ICBEC 2010)

Digital Landscaping — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:10:32 +0000

CBEC is an international forum for state-of-the-art research in Biology, Environment and Chemistry. 2010 International Conference on Biology, Environment and Chemistry (ICBEC 2010) will be held in Hong Kong during 28-30 December, 2010.

It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Biology, Environment and Chemistry.

It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Biology, Environment and Chemistry related techniques.

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program.

All the registered papers will be published into conference proceedings by IEEE, and distributed at the conference. The proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore, and indexed by INSPEC, Ei Compendex and Thomson ISI.

A selection of the best papers will be invited for a special issue in a mainstream journal.

ICBEC 2010 includes also plenary invited presentations by experts from academia and industry.

Important Date

Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2010

Author Notification: September 25, 2010

Final Camera-Ready Submission: October 10, 2010

Author Registration: October 10, 2010

Conference date: December 28-30 , 2010

Any problems please feel free to contact icbec@cbees.org.

6th European Biennal of Landscape Architecture

Digital Landscaping — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:43:09 +0000