Continuing her award-winning landscape architecture, Patricia Trauth, principal landscape architect with URS Corp., is applying her expertise to San Diego International Airport’s development on the north side of the airfield, just south of the Marine [...]
Barrio Logan Graced with Gateway Sign Dedication Ceremony Highlights Community Input Artist Hector Villegas grew up in Barrio Logan and remembers when it was “labeled as the place you stayed away from.” Young men wearing [...]
The American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter, announced their 2014 Design Awards at an awards event— Celebrating the Power of Place—on Dec. 4 at the new Central Library. These awards are the ultimate [...]
Building owners making use of outdoor spaces to give office workers a break from the cubicle in San Diego. The “green” movement is hitting old-style office towers. Outdoor spaces that were nothing much more than [...]
Through evidence-based research, health care providers have come to value the restorative powers of nature. Research has shown that exposure to natural landscapes offers stress relief, enhances mood, increases concentration, and offers an improved sense [...]
Two ASLA members win an Orchid Award for the U-T San Diego Architecture Critiques. Check out the Alexandria Center for Life Science at Campus Pointe by Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects and County Waterfront Park by Hargreaves Associates [...]
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/
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
