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Starting at the end of February 09 my ex-company here in Dallas started to dismantel their Urban Design group company wide. This included jobs in LA, DC, Chicago, Madrid, London, and Shanghi. Oh, they kept the planning groups in tact. Being one of the first two to have our positions eliminated I watched as the rest of my former team were slowly…[Read more]

No!
End of January was my 1 year anniversary of unemployment..
I am considering changing professions it looks so bad out therer for us LA’s. I am in the Northeast states.

Yes.

On a related note: Does the ASLA seem woefully out of touch in recession-related discussions to anyone else?
I haven’t seen much at all in LA Mag. and the ASLA conferences are still just as expensive. Are you all members? Do you pay your own membership fees? Can you afford the ASLA conferences? 20-50% unemployment? Why isn’t this a front-page…[Read more]

Erin:

Thanks for the tidbit about the high interest in your firm’s internship offerings at this time, which comes as no surprise.
Can you elaborate a bit more such as:

* What part of the country your firm is located ?
* What the current economic picture is as it affects the design professions.
* Any other anecdotal or tangential observations…[Read more]

Never used it but having lived in the north for most of my life, it looks like a GREAT idea. I wonder if there is any chemical leaching or significant runoff of chemicals….?

I don’t know if we can still be considered ‘front range’ but just a little further up north – Black Hills SD / WY….laid off from a black hills firm October 2008 and started my own company summer 2009. The firm I was laid off from is really really busy, but not hiring anyone new. Most of their work is city/state/federal. I think they are waiting…[Read more]

thanks for your help guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our office had an unprecedented number of applications for the internships we offer. So I assume students are feeling the pressure, too.

Kudos.

I particularly like the fact that you used a blue sheet of stucco netting to contract the landscape with the man-made. Not just a green wall, but a creative artistic statement about the urban condition. Well done indeed!

Shame the wall can’t be seen by the public on the street.

As for the seasonal plants I would think of it as any other…[Read more]

Very nice! I went to the Middle East Magazine and looked at the article. The wall was very well done. That’s interesting that you used a stucco net. Is that working well for you?
I think choosing what to do with your plants over winter is a matter of taste. Some will go into hibernation and change color only to come back in the spring. Others may…[Read more]

Actually, I have completed this vertical garden project. There is a picture among my photos and you can also find an article about it in the internet site of Landscape Middle East Magazine. (http://www.landscape-me.com/show-articles.php?id=4)

For now, it’s still doing fine but we had some rough winter and it snowed a lot here in Istanbul. Some…[Read more]

http://www.landcraftstudio.com/

this is what i have so far, new to website making… does it bug for anyone? when you hover ur mouse over the grassy part toward the bottom?

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hi there – i keep a few blogs and write about green walls as well – check out the following articles – part of your critique should include the maintenance issues – there is a famous green wall here in London that died in Islington at Paradise Park- it looked fab when it first opened and it is now dead!- its often referred to as the ‘living wall…[Read more]