Put on annually by the San Diego Architectural Foundation, Orchids & Onions is a longstanding San Diego tradition aimed at educating the public and professionals about the secret to good urban design and development. The [...]
When landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his business partner Calvert Vaux designed Niagara Falls State Park in 1885, they anticipated a half million visitors a year. Last year the park had 8.5 million visitors [...]
The Building Industry Association (BIA) of San Diego announced the winners of the recent 2015 Icon Awards, which honored the region’s top new communities and building-industry professionals. Best Landscape Design-Multi-Family Residence — Urbana Apartments, H.G. [...]
It will have two dog parks and a “Bark Bar” catering to dog owners, a children’s garden, community center, performance stage, interactive fountain and underground parking. This is East Village Green, a 4.1-acre gathering place [...]
From June 28th to July 1st of this year, San Diego hosted the U.S. Green Building Council’s Convergence (mid-year conference). The USGBC is globally recognized for its LEED green building rating system, which (to the delight [...]
Featured in San Diego Home & Garden Lifestyle magazine, August 2015: Robin Shifflett, San Diego landscape architect for the city, curates a timeless garden for her North Park historical home. While a handful of original [...]
OCEANSIDE — A local group of professional landscape architects is helping design the Veterans Honor Garden at the Veterans Resource Center run by the nonprofit Veterans Association of North County in Oceanside. The American Society [...]
Park-starved Mission Valley can look forward to a new public playland by early 2017 now that construction has begun at the 14.3-acre Civita Park. The $2 billion master-planned community, begun by Sudberry Properties in 2010, [...]
Every Californian knows about the San Andreas Fault, but closer to home and not so well known is the Rose Canyon Fault, which makes a journey through La Jolla, Coronado, and Downtown San Diego, where, [...]
Tim Smith, President of ASLASD and Glen Schmidt, Founding Principal of Schmidt Design Group, Inc., discuss the role and work of landscape architects; saving water during the drought: what to do and what not to [...]