Glen Schmidt, FSALA, Schmidt Design Group, discusses the meaning of sustainability and his company's credo in the San Diego Business Journal. The article is spread over three pages in the pdf's below. Page One Page [...]
Marty Poirier of Spurlock Poirier talks about their latest project, Fault Line Park, in San Diego's East Village, where kids can dig, ride scooters and gyrate on wavy poles. Read the full Union Tribune article [...]
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, [...]