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SW Oregon Architect (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living - watercolor by Sam Rusek As was the case in November 2008 , the program for this month’s AIA-SWO chapter meeting featured the current research being conducted by members of the faculty of the School of Architecture & Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. An objective of the AIA-SWO chapter board is to sustain a mutually beneficial relationship...
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GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
*Click on photos to enlarge* Monkey Business Shown left, this new rose from Jackson & Perkins won the company's Floribunda of the year award. A deep banana-yellow color, it has a strong licorice or anise scent that can fill an entire room. The blooms appear on stems about 12 inches...
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Postcards from Detroit (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Belle Isle Nocturne III click here to bid oil on linen/panel, 2009 , 5x7" Today's painting is a nocturne of Belle Isle with reflections. Belle Isle was purchased by the city in 1879. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The same landscape architect that designed Central Park in New York City Click on image for larger view. #784
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GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Nov 3- Jan 3, Holiday Train Show, Atlanta, GA Atlanta Botanical Garden, 404-876-5859 Nov 20-Dec 30,Fantasy in Lights, Pine Mounain, GA Callaway Gardens, 706-663-2281 Nov 21-Jan 10, Holiday Train Show, Bronx, NY NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700 Nov 21-Jan 3, Winter Show, Cleveland, OH Cleveland Botanical Garden, 216-721-1600 Nov 25-Jan 3...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Photo by David Paul Ohmer . No sooner had the Chicago Park District made news for considering layoffs and fee increases to balance it's nearly $400 million budget than it made news again, this time for asking the park board to greenlight a $4.2 million project to redesign 25 acres of the north end of Grant Park , from Millennium Park to Lake Shore Drive. The project involves hiring New York-based...
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
St. Louis has tried everything to invigorate its urban core: Revitalizing its riverfront entertainment district, luring residents downtown with converted-warehouse lofts, a new baseball stadium. But maybe all they needed to do was plant a garden. Citygarden , a sculpture garden that unfurls like a rippling green carpet leading to the Gateway Arch has done more than just add a swatch of color to downtown....
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Malaysiads.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Bumi Hijau Landscape – Malaysia Landscape Contractor – Supplier of Turf (Cow Grass & Carpet Grass), Landscape Plants, Trees & Top Soil. The professionals at Bumi Hijau Landscape can enhance your living or working environment by providing landscaping design for your garden to create a sense of peace and tranquility…right at your doorstep. Have a landscaping idea [...]
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Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is about many things: war, religion, education, love, ambivalent sexuality, class, landscapes, architecture, alcoholism, art, snobbery, friendship, family, nostalgia. I suppose all books are about a lot of things, really, or they wouldn’t be interesting, but this book seemed to have an especially long list, and it’s not that many pages [...]
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Places and Spaces (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today's notes may be abbreviated... Jim Consolloy, Grounds Manager, Princeton University Beatrix Farrand and Landscape Gardening at Princeton University Jim Consolloy got his BS in Biology at Upsala College with an emphasis on environmental sciences and continued in Horticulture, mostly as it relates to woody plants. He worked on his masters in Horticulture at Rutgers in 1969 and 1970 before he was...
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GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In my years as a landscape designer, I’ve only had a couple of clients who were interested in high-maintenance gardens, and they’re just alike: They love to spend time working outdoors in the garden, favor unusual and hard-to-find plants, and are passionate about the way their garden looks. But the...
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Christian Writer/Reader Connection (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Let's give a warm Christian Writer/Reader Connection welcome to author, Kristen Heitzmann . Be sure to read the whole post. There's a surprise at the end! 1. The Edge of Recall featured a Labyrinth Landscape Architect. How do you come up with such unique ideas? My daughter, Jessie, and I were going to write The Edge of Recall together, and she actually chose the characters' professions. A history major,...
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Hub and Spokes (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
OK, I really like Portland. So much, that it was on the short list of places to relocate last year. Ultimately the Twin Cities won out (I am very happy in my new home). SF Streets blog has this great write up on the streets of PDX . Portland still has its issues to work through, but I like the direction they are heading. Portland's greenstreet facilities often take up multiple on-street parking stalls...
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Architecture (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Some useful links from a thread from pushpullbar for your reference. For those who not yet a member of pushpullbar. Do participate for it's great resources available for you. ::Five Most Recent Entries:: Ruby Scripts - The SCF Power Toolbar at Quarr-IT One of most well-thought toolbars for SketchUp. Go to "Ruby" section and don't forget to watch "Tutorials". Blog - Ronen Bekerman...
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Nazent Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
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Latest News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Landscape architect Scape Design Associates has been appointed to create a new public square in a major west London shopping area after beating off shortlisted rivals Gillespies and Burns & Nice.