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“Well one good thing about now vs. back in the day is that lisps are now accepted.”
 
Roseanne Roseannadanna

Wood : black locust (US sourced, not the eastern European stuff everyone seems to use), Accoya and other heat/chemical treated wood (some of them are now building US plants); in general lumber that isn’t shipped to Canada to be processed and brought back down; reused timbers
Stone: local (though often more costly than Chinese, both for…[Read more]

No Lisp for you (still in the steep learning curve myself), but I have recently come across a couple of LISP libraries online.

Hope that helps…

Part 2 of this first ever video series that highlights the work of landscape architects, and the variety of project types they work on, by highlighting well-known public places around Metro Vancouver.

This episode looks at an award winning play environment and a skate park under a viaduct in downtown…[Read more]

Again, I was able to solve the problem through the process of elimination and swearing (about 3 hours I won’t get back), and I did try something approximating your solution in the first paragraph. Those blocks were fine, so I knew that the problem was in an individual block and not global.
Thankfully, my blocks are not nested within other b…[Read more]

Why don’t you insert one of each plant block that is used in the drawing off to the side – all inserted at a scale of one. select them all and check the properties like Chris mentioned. That way you know if the flaw is within one of the blocks, or if a random block(s) somehow had one of the scale properties adjusted.
 
Are some of your plant b…[Read more]

Thanks for the thoughts. I was able to brute-force a solution this morning similar to your approach above (perennials, trees, shrubs, etc., have unique layers), but need to figure out a lisp routine to get a solution more easily in the future. One &^%$* instance of one &^%$#^ block had a randomly huge z-value, which means that at some point I ei…[Read more]

I don’t have a lisp routine, but I do have a couple of ideas.
Are the plant blocks the only ones in the file (ie, are you getting a false positive from a non-plant block)?  Does the total number bcount result equal the data extraction result?  Are all of the blocks on one layer, or do they contain multiple layers themselves (thinking of ways to i…[Read more]

Hi Peter- what prep course did you take?  I studied for my last section on my own, and it was painful.  I am in the “still waiting on results’ boat on that one and am feeling the 4-6 week pain…

Thank you for  posting! many significant’ LA’s pass without notice..I did not know him, but his  works and reputation influenced my idea of our profession. – Rest in peace, Mr. Van Sweden – your life influenced many many others towards a good ideal.

Very nice, I like the new version, sorry I didn’t see it before. Ready to go I think. Very good indeed. Good look on your journey.

Rich

The long wait time for the test results is a good thing which benefits the candidate. As the questions differ somewhat on each exam, CLARB’s testing guru’s examine the difficulty of the questions, the response patterns and ability of the candidates to answer the questions This time period is for CLARB’s experts to ensure the test questions and an…[Read more]

Thank you but please look at my latest version and let me know what you think.http://issuu.com/akinadekile/docs/issuu3

Dear Mr. Wainner,
Thank you for your reply, but it would be very helpful if you could be more specific about what needs work on my portfolio. Again thanks!
Aida

Hi I like your portfolio and artwork, agree that it is busy, but very nice work. Front cover is a bit loud, I prefer plain, no images in the background including space around the work. Remove any image of yourself, one mistake I was corrected on a long time ago, employers should judge your work which is good and not the person on the cover. And…[Read more]

Mr. Wainner,

Thanks for the response and feedback, both are appreciated.  I agree with you on all those points and will work on making those changes, specifically finding some drawings I am proud of!  Maybe I phrased it wrong about employers looking at portfolios, I was just commenting on the sheer number of portfolios they must have to look at t…[Read more]

Agreed. Dealerships can look decent without sacrificing program goals. My point was that every dealer I have worked for had to be peeled off the ceiling when informed that their municipality required landscape improvements as part of securing the building permit needed to upgrade the 1970’s showroom, citing the reasons described in Alan’s post above.

The fine balance between regulation, visibility, volume parking, being noticed, and maintenance.
 
Here is one (actually 2 and a service center in between) in my neck of the woods … or sand bar as it were.

Take on some auto dealership work to learn exactly how much our profession is appreciated.

I have no idea where this project is, and am glad it’s not mine, but I run into this situation periodically when working for big-box clients from Arkansas who despise the notion of paying for construction administration, and then use my unstamped / unsigned NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION – FOR PLANNING APPROVAL ONLY drawings for… (wait for it)… bidding…[Read more]