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GREEN ROOFS ON TOP
Courtesy Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc. Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) presented their Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence at a ceremony in Chicago on Friday. Among the winners...
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A WALK THROUGH VIA VERDE
You may have seen our feature article on Via Verde, a housing development in the South Bronx, in our November issue. The writer Alex Ulam took the videographer Doug Forbes out to walk the site with...
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ROOFTOP FARMING GOES MAINSTREAM
A European honeybee (Apis mellifera) cared for by Urban Apiaries, in Philadelphia. The hives live on the roof of the SHARE Food Program in North Philly. Photo by Lauren Mandel. Lauren Mandel is one of...
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LAND ARCH GETS “COOL” TREATMENT
Shauna Gillies-Smith talks to Cool Spaces! host Stephen Chung about the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s landscape. Photo: Shauna Gillies-Smith The landscape architect Shauna Gillies-Smith has worked on...
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THE QUEUE, JULY 2014
A monthly roundup of the news, dispatches, and marginalia that caught our eye. This month’s issue of the Queue lauds the re-emergence of smart print magazines for landscape architecture, admires a new...
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AUGUST’S LAM HAS ARRIVED!
Click to view slideshow. For the cover story of LAM’s August issue, Jennifer Reut, an associate editor at the magazine, goes on safari in Louisiana with the Dredge Research Collaborative, a loosely...
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ROOF TO TABLE
BY LAUREN MANDEL, ASSOCIATE ASLA Ryerson University’s green roof transformation. From the August 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. In downtown Chicago, the city’s convention center,...
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D.C. IS TURNING GREEN ON TOP
After 10 years of evolution, the green roof of the American Society of Landscape Architects is producing a new and varied crop. We recently came across this piece by Brittany Patterson at E&E...
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SPEAKING OF FREEDOM: LAM’S ON US
Click to view slideshow. July’s LAM looks at the long-needed rehabilitation of Babi Yar Park, a memorial ground in Denver dedicated to the lives lost in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Holocaust, by Tina...
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THE GLOBAL CUCUMBER
BY TIM WATERMAN The Milan Expo 2015 raises unsought emotions about food, cities, the world. From the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. A city like Milan reflects the strivings of...
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AUGUST’S LAM: SUPER SOAK
Click to view slideshow. In August’s issue of LAM, Philip Walsh finds that landscape architects could work harder than they do to restore lost wetlands in the United States. Steven Litt, in Cleveland,...
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GREEN ROOF GOLD
BY LAUREN MANDEL, ASLA Molly Meyer is capitalizing on a surge in demand. From the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Molly Meyer, a Stanford University-trained biogeochemist and the...
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, AUGUST 20
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. There are 12 acres of green roofs and 13 acres of wet native gardens incorporated into the design of the U.S....
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THE WILD GRID
BY GARY HILDERBRAND, FASLA Dan Kiley’s South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago has seasoned over nearly 50 years into a rugged, magical hawthorn canopy. From the October 2015 issue of Landscape...
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THE BIG SPRIG
BY MARK HOUGH, FASLA Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway has finally gotten what it always needed—time. From the July 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Call it the Emptyway. That was the...
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DRIVING CONCERN
BY ALEX ULAM The new Mosholu golf driving range is part of a controversial water filtration plant project built at the edge of the bucolic Van Cortlandt Park. From the July 2016 issue of Landscape...
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NEW AT HQ: THE HQ IS NEW!
BY BRADFORD MCKEE The storefront gallery. Image courtesy of LAM. First, our thanks to the many members and supporters of ASLA who gave their pledges, time, and enthusiasm to help build a new home for...
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THE OBAMA CENTER: NEW VIEWS FOR WHOM?
BY ZACH MORTICE The most important question related to the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side doesn’t have that much to do with its architecture. It is instead: What kind of landscape...
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LAMCAST: ASLA’S NEW HOME SNAPS INTO FOCUS
Filmed over 18 months by Jim Richards Productions of Reston, Virginia, this time-lapse look into the construction of ASLA’s new home begins with a few swings of the sledgehammer by ASLA executive...
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, SEPTEMBER 14
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo courtesy of Lisa Daye. From LAM’s special September 2017 awards issue, Facebook’s green roof in its Menlo...
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