A look at 2024’s landscape architecture products with style. Edited by Kristen Mastroianni. Every month, LAM’s Goods column features new products of interest to landscape architects, selected by the Goods editor. Sleek benches, fire pits, water features, lighting, and play equipment are some of the product category standouts.

Jun 6, 2024 · What landscape architects need to know. Miami’s Vizcaya Museum and Gardens recovers from design drift and rising seas. By Kelly Enright When the chief horticulturist Ian Simpkins began work at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami in 2007, he faced many challenges. As a public park, it had been more managed than preserved, reducing the integrity of the garden’s original

Aug 22, 2024 · Inspired by the Netherlands, Montreal is adopting water squares to mitigate urban flooding. By Katharine Logan The water square’s central basin slowly releases stormwater into the plaza’s deeply carved rain gardens.

Nov 6, 2024 · Courtesy Raymond Jungles. Phipps Ocean Park is an 18-acre stretch of Palm Beach, in South Florida, donated to the public in 1948 by the Phipps family, heirs of Carnegie Steel partner Henry Phipps.

Mar 14, 2013 · Michael Van Valkenburgh on managing landscape architecture designs through the years. By Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, with William S. Saunders. Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time.

Oct 1, 2024 · Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, provides respite while reflecting on the long history of racial injustice. Once a city dump on the Mississippi waterfront, Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is now a landmark park. The design provides downtown Memphis with a destination playground, water features, hammocks, art installations, new climate-adaptive trees and native shrubs, and a restored ...

Dec 3, 2024 · A look at 2024’s landscape architecture products with style. Edited by Kristen Mastroianni. Every month, LAM’s Goods column features new products of interest to landscape architects, selected by the Goods editor. Sleek benches, fire pits, water features, lighting, and play equipment are some of the product category standouts.

May 9, 2012 · What landscape architects need to know. Ten ways the new ADA regulations will affect landscape architects. By Daniel Jost, ASLA A major upgrade to the fine points of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has gone into effect, and landscape architects will have to take note of the many changes that will affect their work. March 15 was the compliance deadline

Jun 13, 2019 · What landscape architects need to know. The collaborative power of information-driven modeling software. By Aidan Ackerman, ASLA It’s a familiar scene in landscape architecture offices of all sizes: Around a conference table, a debate arises about the benefits and drawbacks of adopting a Building Information Modeling (BIM) work flow. The advantages of BIM adoption are rarely as obvious as ...

Sep 25, 2024 · Two landscape architects create a multimedia platform encouraging Californians to rethink their relationship with fire. This multimedia advocacy platform by two University of California, Davis professors encourages Californians to rebrand their relationships with wildfire and intentional fire.