Check out the Top 10 designs from the Land8 T-Shirt Design Contest!  We narrowed down the list of our favorites from over 60 design submissions, now it is your turn to select the winner!  Head over to our facebook page and click…

Created to commemorate the birthplace of the United Parcel Service (UPS), Waterfall Garden Park is a private pocket park tucked away in an assuming corner of Main and Second Street. Designed by Sasaki, Dawson and DeMay—Masao Kinoshita of the Sasaki office served as the primary designer—Waterfall Garden Park may be small (it measures 60 by 80 feet), but the space imparts a strong,…

Land8's next foray into Member Spotlightdom involves an interview with Steve Martino. Martino has been practicing for 30 years in the southwest United States. His work focuses on the vernacular of this more arid region, using native plant materials and xeriscaping while also celebrating…

The Land8 Webinar: Forgiving Landscape Details and Detailing for Ease of Construction featuring Thomas Ryan provided a much needed look at the adapting field of detailing. Details are a Landscape Architect's bread and butter. Consideration, intuition, and final construction are why we're hired. The material…

Built atop a formerly contaminated industrial site, Tanner Springs Park is considered "an experiment in sustainable park design and management." This innovative park is located in the Pearl District of northwest Portland, an area that was once a wetland and a lake. As the population grew in the late 19th century, however, the wetland and lake were filled in, Tanner Creek was…

Between 1926 and 1955, landscape architect Fletcher Steele and his client Mabel Choate created many new gardens for Naumkeag, the Choate family summer estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The second film in the LALH America by Design series chronicles this long and intimate collaboration, which produced an unforgettable place. We posted it on our…