Something about this light post base puts me in mind of a stage set. Perhaps it’s the fact that while the base looks as if it’s a heavy iron casting, this tear reveals that it’s really made of a kind of fiberglass or resin. This kind of material for a light post base is all [...]
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Not what it seems
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Materials, Miscellaneous, tagged cast iron, street furniture on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Parking among the locusts
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Materials, Places, What we're thinking, tagged courtyard, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, linkedin, tree planting, trees on August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s not just Gothic architecture that makes a good foil for honey locusts. I’ve always been fond of the Romanesque St. Paul’s parking court designed by Burck Ryan Associates. When it empties of cars, it’s a pleasantly proportioned and detailed plaza space punctuated with honey locust trunks; when the cars arrive, it becomes a shady [...]
more resources for understanding and preserving stone walls
Posted in Materials, Walls, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, stone, stone wall legislation, stone walls, stone walls in massachusetts on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The DCR has a publication here on the preservation of stone walls, with lots of references to good historical and legal resources. They write: How do we learn to recognize these features when toppled stone boundary markers or collapsed and tree-filled cellar holes often go unnoticed in the woods? Even when identified, it may be [...]
Tilted planes
Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged Cornell Arts Quad, engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, linkedin, sensory experience of landscape, spatial design, tilted planes, turf panels on August 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
To digress just a little from the line discussion: That Parc Citroen photo puts me in mind of the Cornell Arts Quad, around which are ranged some of Cornell’s most historically and academically significant buildings. The Arts Quad is huge (obviously not what it has in common with the Parc Citroen lawns shown), and there [...]
New Hampshire stone walls
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Materials, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged landscape, legislation, New England landscape, stone, stone walls, weathering on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Boston Globe just published this piece about stone wall theft throughout New England. It describes the just-passed New Hampshire law that will assess triple damages for the restoration of a stolen wall — plus attorneys’ fees — against those who steal that stone wall. That’s a lot of spondulix. The article is worth a [...]
No photos here
Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged arboriculture in landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, spatial design, tree planting, trees on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is a landscape architect doing writing about these methods of tree planting and moving? Well, for one thing, I don’t like to waste woody plants. Planting an ingrown-root tree (or even a healthy one) in a new landscape without attending to the tree’s requirements — for rooting space, for decent soil porosity, for adequate [...]
Meta note
Posted in Gristmill, Materials, Miscellaneous, tagged stone, stone walls on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just checked Taking Place’s stats, and find that hits spiked for the “Stone Walls For The Taking” post. They really spiked. It baffled me, and then I Googled “stone walls for the taking”, and discovered that post as the first and second entries on Google. Apparently a lot of people are looking for free [...]
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