More people: More parks?
Panel critiques local approach to park planning, management. From the U-T San Diego article: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/26/parks-citizens-coordinate-planning-urban-growth/
Art on the Land: Landscapes for honoring
The joy of being a landscape architect is having opportunities to do so many different types of projects, from private homes to entire communities. San Diego is filled with gardens and parks designed to commemorate [...]
Art on the Land: The art of urban planning
Vicki Estrada spent lots of time growing up in and around Downtown San Diego. Hand-in-hand with her grandfather, she walked through city streets, from Sherman Heights down to the Harbor to see the tuna boats, [...]
ASLA SD Calls for 2014 Design Awards Entries
The San Diego Chapter of the American Society Landscape Architects is conducting the 2014 Design Awards Program to recognize professional excellence for outstanding works of landscape architecture and environmental planning. “The ASLA design awards are the [...]
Art on the Land: What’s up at the waterfront
I recently met with landscape architects from San Diego’s Schmidt Design Group, Inc., “landscape architects of record” for the new Waterfront Park on the Embarcadero, for some after-opening stories. Here’s what Glen Schmidt (Principal-in-Charge), Marney [...]
Art on the Land: Making a first and lasting impression
For those who travel by air from city to city, state to state, country to country, or continent to continent, the airport is their first impression of the place they are visiting. Its architecture, physical [...]
Art on the Land: An inspirational learning environment
Architects design buildings. Landscape architects design the space the buildings live in and the spaces in between. “To be a landscape architect you have to be part architect, part engineer, part sociologist, part biologist, part [...]
Art on the Land: Offering homeless youth a beautiful place to learn
Founded in 1988 as the first of its kind in the nation, the Monarch School has continuously served the educational needs of San Diego’s homeless children ranging in age from 4 to 19 attending grades [...]
Art on the Land: San Diego’s urban canyon
On Broadway, bordered by Front and State streets, stands the Edward J. Schwartz U.S. Courthouse. Built in 1994, it is one of the busiest federal courthouses in the nation.Also on the property is the U.S. [...]
Art on the Land: Reviving Horton Plaza
San Diego’s founding father, Alonzo Erastus Horton, wanted Horton Plaza to provide a central, commodious and attractive place for public purpose; where all public questions might be discussed with comfort, open-air concerts might be given, [...]