The Hamamelis planting in the last post raises the issue of mass plantings, which have long been a favorite of many landscape architects. I remember a mass rose planting, no longer extant, in a very public location in downtown Boston. One time I went out to do a little guerilla pruning in it with an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘landscape’
Greenery en masse
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, Plant management, Plants, pruning practices on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Vulgare and Landezine
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged landscape, landscape architecture, landscape image bank, vulgare on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Two good places to go for landscape images: There are lots and lots and lots of photos and drawings of designed and vernacular and imaginary landscapes at Vulgare. And Landezine, though its archives aren’t as deep, has lots of photos of recent landscape architecture too.
New stone, old stone
Posted in Materials, Miscellaneous, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, landscape, stone, stone walls on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In that last post, I don’t mean to imply that all veneer stone walls come from shady dealings, by any means, or that they are bad in and of themselves. I use veneer stone walls in plenty of my projects, and veneer is a valuable construction method in any number of applications. Often they are [...]
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