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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
Wimmer Yamada and Caughey (WYAC) landscape architects provided the landscape and site design for the new development called “The Headquarters” on San Diego’s bayfront, based on the original master-plan design developed by Owen Lang and [...]