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Quarry Garden 矿坑花园 | Shanghai, China
Were it not for its honor award in the 2012 ASLA General Design Awards, I might not have ever heard of the Quarry Garden, much less been willing to make the trip out to visit its rather remote location in Songjiang District--it took me over two hours on public transportation to get there from Pudong (foreign tourists…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on May 14, 2013 at 12:30pm — 8 Comments
Discovery Green | Houston, TX
No longer the undeveloped concrete eyesore it once was, Discovery Green has been transformed into a 12-acre, LEED Gold certified public park located in Houston's dense urban core. Opened in 2008, the park was the result of a successful public-private partnership between the City of Houston and Discovery Green Conservancy and has been incredibly well-received by millions of visitors. …
Added by Lucy Wang on March 7, 2013 at 8:00am — 2 Comments
San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden | San Antonio, TX
The San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, also known as the Chinese Sunken Gardens, is a registered Texas historical landmark with over 90 years of rich history. Formerly an abandoned limestone quarry, the site was the source of limestone for much of San Antonio, and thus played a prominent role in the development of the cement business. In recognition of the site's…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on February 18, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments
Henry C. Beck Park | Dallas, TX
Winner of the 2006 ASLA General Design Award of Honor, the Henry C. Beck Park is a privately-owned public space created in tribute to Henry C. Beck, Jr., founder of Beck Construction and one of Dallas’ great and innovative contractors of the 1960’s.…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on February 6, 2013 at 8:00am — 2 Comments
Waterfall Garden Park | Seattle, WA
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,…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on January 18, 2013 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
Tanner Springs Park | Portland, OR
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…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on January 10, 2013 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments
California Academy of Sciences Green Roof | San Francisco, CA
The California Academy of Sciences Green Roof sits on top of the world's greenest LEED-Platinum museum with the tagline that it's "the only place on the planet with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, and a 4-story rainforest all under one living roof."…
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Citygarden | St. Louis, MO
Citygarden drew me to St. Louis.
In 2010, I attended a National Building Museum: Spotlight on Design lecture led by Warren T. Byrd, Jr., FASLA, of the Charlottesville, VA-based landscape architecture firm…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on December 12, 2012 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
Gary Comer Youth Center Green Roof | Chicago, IL
The Gary Comer Youth Center (GCYC) is a boldly designed and heart-warming community center located in Chicago's South Side. Sited one block away from Revere Elementary, GCYC provides a safe, educational haven for inner-city youth and runs extracurricular programs to help young adults graduate high school and prepare for college and future…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on November 30, 2012 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
The Village of Yorkville Park | Toronto, ON
Decorated with numerous awards including a recent 2012 ASLA Landmark Award of Excellence, Yorkville Village Park is a popular and celebrated series of gardens tucked into Toronto's high-end shopping district. Originally a parking lot built over a subway, a design team composed of Martha Schwartz, Ken Smith,…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on October 25, 2012 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
Chop Stick
Chop Stick functions as a concession stand, but it’s a far cry from what you might find at your local skating rink. Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the innovative Swedish architecture duo vision division carved the outdoor pavilion/concession stand (with swings) almost entirely out of a single, massive 100-foot-tall…
Added by Lucy Wang on October 10, 2012 at 6:00am — 1 Comment
Downtown Detroit Springs to Life with Lafayette Greens
Hi! My name is Lucy Wang and I'm a recent landscape architecture grad from the University of Maryland. I'm currently traveling the U.S. (and parts of Canada) by public transportation for the next several months in search of great, publicly-accessible landscape architecture sites, as well as…
ContinueAdded by Lucy Wang on October 4, 2012 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments
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Andrew Garulay, RLA replied to Greg Byrer's discussion 'Design Fee Shock'"When someone gives a $600 proposal to design a half million dollar job it is telling me that there was no confidence, or at least extreme doubt, that this client valued design. Subconsciously, the client did not pass the pre-qualifying screening,…"
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