Andrew Spiering

Nicely done! It looks like your firm has a lot of sports facilities and parks under their belt.

Hey, we just got two new job listings over on Land8.net! Check them out here – http://www.land8.net/job_listing.php

Likewise here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Thanks for this!

I agree. Cornerstone Gardens is inspiring. Here’s a link – http://www.cornerstonegardens.com/

In SF, you could walk down Market and Mission Street and find a ton of cool projects. For example, Mint Plaza, Union Square, JP Morgan Plaza, Yerba Buena Gardens, Jewish Museum, and Justin Herman Plaza (Halprin).

Caitlin,
Do you have any pictures of the site?

Take a look at DeepRoot. They have a product called Silva Cell that might do the trick. Although, I am not sure how it works with existing trees. Here’s a link – http://www.deeproot.com/products/silva-cell/silva-cell-overview.html

I’m there!

I agree. I used map tacks on a model, as well.

Ben, thanks for the shout out on LI!

Hi Emily,

Glad to hear you are considering the Bay Area. It’s beautiful up here!

Some firms to look at in Marin County (North of SF) are:

April Philips Design Works
SWA – Sausalito
Blasen Landscape Architects
RHAA
Shades of Green

Blasen was just looking for an entry level candidate, so they might be a good place to start. Although, everyone is…[Read more]

Hi Alan,

I am glad to hear you are back in the “real” world! I look forward to seeing you in The Lounge more often… : )

They are still available to view here – http://www.land8lounge.com/jobs

I have added two sub-tabs to the main jobs tab – Land8 Jobs (from Land8.net), and All Jobs (from around the web). Hope this helps you navigate better…

Thanks!
Andrew

Check out Walter Hood’s “Splash Pad Park” in Oakland – http://www.wjhooddesign.com/splashpad.html

Great topic!

I find these cities to be inspirational:
San Francisco
Portland
Barcelona
Roma
Lucca

This discussion is far off topic and will now close. You can continue the discussion on Mike Lin here – http://www.land8lounge.com/forum/topics/mike-lin – however, I’d like to encourage you to talk about ideas rather than people.

Oops. Just saw Wade’s response!

Nick,

if you haven’t already, check out firebug – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

It allows you to view the page source and edit the html and css code…

Haha…You can read the blog post here – http://www.land8lounge.com/profiles/blogs/skyterra-a-towerable-mistake