Weekly Roundup

This Week on Landscape Design: Leaders in engineering, horticulture and landscape design share their part in the creation of an iconic piece of landscape architecture. Green Varnish, designed by New York-based Nomad Studio, is the first major, transformational...

This Week on Landscape Design: The 28. Října Square (October 28th Square): Town council decides to hold an architecture competition to create an open public space suitable for all the types of activities. Netzvilla: a climbing frame resembling a multi-story villa,...

This Week on Landscape Design: Make gardening and landscaping more fun and easier by choosing the right plant for the right place. Read more. Urbanization destroys the natural habitat of certain wildlife. Increasing biodiversity is possible by linking landscape design...

This Week on Landscape Design: New Zealand man spent 4 years growing a church from trees. Are you ready to check out the article? Yes take me there. Scientists have since studied the relationship between human behavior and the environment. How does our environment...

This Week on Landscape Design: James Corner: The Landscape Rock star and his $32 million Public Square makeover. Read full story here. Peak Experience - A flexible, culturally-unique and educational multi-use playful terrain inspired by San Francisco’s topography was...

This Week on Landscape Design: When at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Nature rewards the bold. A great gardening motto. Click here to read the full article. A forest where you can draw and express your feelings is dedicated to the victims of violence in...

This Week on Landscape Design: How to make the most of your green space in the city? Click here to find out. Will an ambitious new project make Minnesota a global medical-tourism destination? Check it out in this blog post. There is a connection between landscaping...

This Week on Landscape Design: What did David Alexander do to improve operation and company morale at TruGreen? Find out in this article. The new Novo Disk Nature Park is so full of, well… nature. Check it out in this post. A building’s design is critical in the...

This Week on Landscape Design: Do you love nature? Then you must love gardens. Check out these 10 enchanting gardens found all over the globe. Many gardeners dislike tulips as the foliage becomes unattractive as it ages. Still, spring wouldn’t be complete without...

This Week on Landscape Design: See how Seattle layers nature and infrastructure. This is the first part of a series of posts. Free the Bears, a group which fights illegal live bear trade, opened a store made of bamboo. Check it out in this post. Renowned architect Sou...

This Week on Landscape Design: Check out this green paradise right in the heart of the city. The project called Tanner Springs Park is located in Oregon and was designed and accomplished by Atelier Dreiseitl. Learning how to say “no” to clients can be good for you and...

This Week on Landscape Design: Check out this building which was awarded six stars for sustainable design. Should we have more buildings like this? Find out what the time in the prison garden meant to the prisoners. It not just a way to pass the time. Check out these...

This Week on Landscape Design: Have you ever heard of a long-distance interior designer? Think we’re joking? Read on here. Ideally, landscape designs should have regionally appropriate plants but it is actually hard to find regional plants at your local growers. Read...

This Week on Landscape Design: New designers came up with their own solutions for a future train station in Canberra as part of Young Designers Light Rail Ideas Competition at the University of Canberra. Read more about it here. Use Hicks yew to emphasize your annuals...

This Week on Landscape Design: Green walls are the new design trend. Let’s look at some examples. When it rains, it pours? Hardly. In this design, rain brings out some amazing street art. Storytelling using architecture – This design tells slavery’s violent story...

This Week on Landscape Design: Street Wisdom – Do you have it in you? Designers were asked to visualize a redesign for Toronto Ferry Terminal and Waterfront Park. Check out the results. Good ol’ marketing strategy saves national parks. Find out how. Landscape...

This Week on Landscape Design: After almost a decade of hard work, Toms Creek finds success as a nursery and a landscaping company. Old hand crafted stone walls – find them in different parts of the world. Planters galore – Check out these building that showcase...

This Week on Landscape Design Looking for a plant that drives in extremely hot weather, other than cacti, there’s Blue Elf aloe. Newsweek interviews landscape architect Martha Schwartz. Her company focuses on activating and regenerating urban sites and city centres....

This Week on Landscape Design Find out how a landfill called “Mountain of Crap” is turned into a lovely park Quality of food is relative to how the crops are grown. Let’s take a look at how local farmers grow our food. Here are some new ideas on how to decorate with...

This Week on Landscape Design Check out some of the best land arts around the world. A coffee cup that turns into a seed packet after use so you can plant a tree hits Kickstarter. Will it garner support? $500,000 grant awarded to RFC to provide free training programs...