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Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect posted an update in the group
Graphics 15 years, 6 months ago
I have an idea for all of you graphics enthusiasts…..maybe we should all render the same graphic using our techniques and compare and contrast all of our different styles and influences…..Does anyone have any thoughts on this idea? I am open to any suggestions as well!
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Rick Anderson posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 6 months ago
Elif;
All the ideas written to you are good/great. I would also like to add how important relationships are, especially the more involved/complicated/pricey a job goes.History shows that the great designers were also people who were great “relaters”. Be personable, be authentic, be passionate, and be honest with your clients . . . it’ll carry…[Read more]
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Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 6 months ago
Hi Elif,
Glad that you found my comments helpful. 🙂 -
Elif Tekeli Bonelli posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 6 months ago
Thank you very much. It’s always nice to get suggestions from experienced Landscape Architects as yourselves. I’ll try to follow and let you know about the result.
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Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Hi Elif,
I have always maintained that there is a profound difference between ‘planning’ a space and ‘designing’ a space. A good design trancends a good plan, but a good design must be based on a good plan.Part of what makes a design a good design is its uniqueness or as you call it, its identity.
In my opinion the first person to whom you need…[Read more]
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Lucas A. Werft posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Hi there,
I’m new to land8lounge and this is my first group to have joined.
Hope to explore all of these web-site’s features and to get in touch with a lot of new collegues…Greetings from Croatia
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Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Hi Elif,
Now this is an interesting discussion, and I agree with a lot of what Michelle has to say, and I would like to add some of my own comments just as soon as I have time , perhaps over the week-end. Greetings from Ireland.
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Michelle Derviss posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Elif,
Not all well healed clients speak the language of art or architecture.
If you use stories to relate your design charrettes then you have to speak to them in a language that they understand.
If your client is a doctor use medical metaphors. In essence you are meeting your client at a level that they feel comfortable and knowledgeable in.In…[Read more]
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Elif Tekeli Bonelli posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Thank you very much Chris. I probably share a common problem with other Landscape Architects. Hopefully in time, it will change!
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Elif Tekeli Bonelli posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Thanks for the suggestion.
I also prepare images and perspectives. What I wanted to ask was: Generally the client doesn’t know what they want and when you come up with new ideas rather than the usual concepts, they don’t understand it. Therefore I develop a story for them. For example, I say ” It’s a Mondrian Garden and the design structure is ……[Read more] -
Dan Barnes posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
Elif,
I hope I understand your question, here’s goes. When I present a project to a client I bring pictures of plants and I try and draw quick perspesctives or elevations of the job. A lot of people can not visualize a plan view into a real life project. They have not had the training we have and don’t look at plans as we do. When I go to their…[Read more] -
Elif Tekeli Bonelli posted an update in the group
Residential Design Group 15 years, 7 months ago
I have a question!
Each time I prepare a project, I write a story for it. I try to present it telling this strory. I don’t simply say “Here a group of shrubs you like and some other here!”
My clients are quite high level people but I don’t know why they don’t understand much when I try to give an identity to the design I prepare for them.
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Justin Roger Burns posted an update in the group
Green Streets 15 years, 7 months ago
iT IS MOSTLY CULLET DISPOSAL AND HEAVY METALS (LEAD), MOST OTHER CONTAMINENTS WHERE FULLY REMOVED. I WAS ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN BIO – PHYRO REMEDIATIONS BUT HAD NOT FOUND A GREAT DEAL OF INFO ON THEM.
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Michelle Derviss posted an update in the group
BUSINESS HELPS 15 years, 7 months ago
Hello Chris,
In regards to your question about marketing at a home or trade show, I have some experience in this realm.
20 years ago I designed and installed a small intimate garden exhibit at the San Francisco Garden Show. I had just recently moved to the Bay area and wanted to open my own design practice.
The show was a success for me.
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Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group
DESIGN 15 years, 7 months ago
Hi Barlow…hmmmmmmm sweeping statement, but none the less there is some merit in what you say, but surely it is not simply an american[USA] problem. I guess it depends on whose work you are looking at, and at what stage they are at in their careers. It takes time to develop individuality.
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barlow posted an update in the group
DESIGN 15 years, 7 months ago
Dear Brandon and others;
Why are all american sketches the same and why are all american designs the same? It’s like copy – paste. -
mohd yusri mohd yusof posted an update in the group
DESIGN 15 years, 7 months ago
hi justin…why dont you look at landscape park duisburg nord in german…maybe it will help you for your case study
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Justin Roger Burns posted an update in the group
Green Streets 15 years, 7 months ago
Ya i defentenly plan on trying to use Bioretention techniques, but this is not a exectly a mitigation techniques it is a stormwater solution, i need some way to extract or mitigate the heavy metals that are with in the soil and water on site, bioretention will help in preventing them to go to the stream but then they are still on site in the soil.
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Philip (PJ) Benenati posted an update in the group
Green Streets 15 years, 7 months ago
Bioretention is a technique that can be used in nearly any environment, including brownfields, as a water quality control. This may be getting too technical for your project, but depending on the amount of on-site contamination, I would recommend that you wrap all of your stormwater BMPs with an impermeable membrane to help control the spread of…[Read more]
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Justin Roger Burns posted an update in the group
Green Streets 15 years, 7 months ago
i am a landscape architecture student working on my senior project, which is a brownfield site ( old glass manufacture), and curious to see if any one had unique design, mitigation techniques and or a case study i should look in to.
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