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Category Archives: Landscape Architecture
Atlanta’s Cook Peace Park
Atlanta’s Rodney Cook Sr. Park has been in construction for several years to honor 300 years of Georgia peacemakers and the role of Atlanta in the civil-rights movement. The late Mr. Cook was a businessman and Republican politician who actively … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Tagged Andrew Young, Atlanta GA, Catesby Leigh, City Journal, Civil Rights Movement, Cook Park, Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Martin Luther King Jr., National Monuments Foundation, Rodney Cook Sr., Rodney Mims Cook Jr., Tomochichi, U.S. Fine Arts Commission
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First, kill all the leaf blowers
Reminiscent of Shakespeare’s line about lawyers, the New York Times used that headline to introduce a guest column, published today, against leaf blowers. ‘Tis the season, right? It does not specify whether we should kill leaf blowers or just the … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape Architecture
Tagged Capital Punishment, Deportation, Illegal Aliens, Leaf Blowers, Noise, Snow Blowers
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Landscape urbanism revisited
*** Not long ago, in response to my post “Steuteville’s public square,” a pile of emails and comments was generated by my query as to whether something called landscape urbanism still exists. One email called for another look at its … Continue reading
Save secret park in Lisbon
One of the worst things that can befall a dear old municipal park and garden is for “preservationists” to ride to its rescue. First, it may not be in need of rescue. Second, the preservationists are likely to want to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Tagged Lisbon, Palacio das Necessidades, Petition, Portugal, Preservation, Renovation
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Don’t maul the Mall, cont.
The good news out of Washington is that the Fine Arts Commission has expressed reservations about the latest iteration of the Bjarke Ingels Group plan to renovate the Mall near the Smithsonian’s crenelated, betowered headquarters. Good, but not good enough. … Continue reading
Prov’s City Beautiful parks
Catherine Zipf’s piece in today’s Providence Journal, “Bus proposal is appalling,” is dead on. The more you think about it, as Zipf has clearly done, the more difficult it is to imagine a rational reason for the state’s proposal to … Continue reading
Saving the history underfoot
Robin Williams, an architectural historian at the Savannah College of Art & Design, delivered a TED talk to explain “How Historic Street Pavement Modernized the City.” Williams has a pleasant manner that conveys his conviction that historic pavement is a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Historic Pavement, Providence RI, Robin Williams, SCAD, TED talk, Video
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Providence PVDfest today!
We adventured into downtown Providence late this afternoon for PVDfest, the city’s second annual international arts festival (last year’s shindig was the Providence International Arts Festival – deemed too big a mouthful). Day was grayish but without any seeming threat … Continue reading
The Palladio Awards of 2016
The Palladio Awards may not get the attention of the Driehaus Prize, which does not get the attention of the Pritzker Prize. But the Palladios are the first and only national architecture award that recognizes specific traditional projects and their … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Active Interest Media, AIM Media, Architecture Competitions, Arthur Ross Award, Bulfinch Awards, classical architecture, Driehaus Prize, Modern Architecture, Palladio Awards, Pritzker Prize, Stanford White Awards
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