IOWA CITY, Iowa Steve Ford has joined Stanley Consultants as a senior landscape architect. Based in the companys Iowa City office, Ford serves as the local design professional for Stanley Consultants Denver-based Urban Design team.

Ford has worked in the Iowa City Corridor and eastern Iowa area for more than 30 years.

Fords design and planning expertise includes park/site master planning, trail design, campus master plan design, streetscape design, landscape planting plans and sports fields. In this new position, he will continue to working with existing clients while reaching out to new clients throughout Cedar Rapids, the Corridor and eastern Iowa.

Founded in 1913 in Muscatine, Stanley Consultants is a global consulting engineering firm that provides program management, planning, engineering, environmental, and construction services worldwide.

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Lone Tree will be getting its first community-wide community garden next year and the city wants resident input.

That's why Lone Tree is holding a meeting on Oct. 20 with Michael Buchenau, executive director and landscape architect for Denver Urban Gardens, who will be leading the design of the garden.

Jennifer Drybread, senior planner in the community development department for Lone Tree, said Denver Urban Gardens will be collecting resident input that will inform the garden's uses, purpose and character, or the spirit of the garden, such as what events the community holds at the garden. The non-profit has helped to design and construct 140 community gardens around the Denver Metro area, 35 of which are at local schools. That's important because this new community garden will be located at Lone Tree Elementary, a site Drybread was chosen for its central location.

Angela Hamel of Edgewater waters a garden plot at the Saints Community Garden at Jefferson High School in Edgewater on Monday, July 21, 2014. The garden is part of the Denver Urban Gardens. (Cyrus McCrimmon, Denver Post file)

She said a survey done last year found 212 Lone Tree residents were interested in a community garden.

"When we did the survey we found a lot of people were interested in having a community garden and as the city builds more housing units, there's going to be more of a demand for that," Drybread said.

Drybread said the site would probably accommodate 20-25 plots, plot fees yet to be determined, and the garden would open in spring 2015.

After Denver Urban Gardens finishes a sketch of the new garden, there will be a period of fundraising before its constructed. Lone Tree Mayor Jim Gunning said it was important the city not fund the garden so there was significant buy-in from the community members.

"Our job was to help them find a location so that it can be a community garden," Gunning said. "We didn't want them to have to travel 10-15 minutes outside the community people weren't interested in that. They wanted something that was close enough that they could do something in the middle of the day."

Drybread said the idea has been in the making for a few years and Gunning said there's been a lot of talk in the community about a community garden in recent years.

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Earlier this year, Herman Miller spent $21K to help repaint and restore a playground in Atlanta's Piedmont Park designed by sculptor and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi (of coffee table fame). To commemorate the effort, Herman Miller has published an essay by architecture critic Alexandra Lange that explores how Noguchi's ideas for playgrounds as a "primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious, and evocative; thus educational," influenced how they took shape in America, despite the fact that most of his proposals went unrealized.

A lot of Noguchi's influence was due to his effect on playground pioneers Richard Dattner and M. Paul Friedberg. Built in 1975 as the High Museum of Art's bicentennial gift to the city of Atlanta, Noguchi's one-acre Playscapes embodies his attempts to use simple, sculptural forms to encourage unstructured play. Now that planners are thinking more about playgrounds as "organic" experiencesthink the now ubiquitous "sprayground"it's worth revisiting a play area that doesn't come right out and tell children what to do. It's also nice to see one of Noguchi's works looking so fresh.

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Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) sought familiarity after deciding to build an outlet-style mall in south Elk Grove.

The company used the same building architect and the same landscape architect who seven years ago designed the partially built Elk Grove Promenade mall site near Kammerer Road and Highway 99.

I think all of the design that we proposed in 2006 and 2007 is still applicable today, Emily Gossett, a senior project manager with Dallas-based Beck Architecture, said Oct. 8 during a tour of the facility. We want you to know that youre in Elk Grove, that youre not in any other place or any other outlet center.

During the projects 2007 groundbreaking ceremony on the property, officials declared that the regional mall would be opened by November 2008. But construction on the property came to a halt a few months later when General Growth Properties, developer for the proposed 1.1 million square-foot shopping mall, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The Dallas-based HHC took over the Elk Grove site and several other properties from General Growth Properties during the latter companys bankruptcy.

Elk Grove City Council members on Oct. 8 voted 3-0 to approve a new development agreement with HHC, which plans to include about 100 stores including 12 dining options and a 14-screen movie theater complex.

One provision in the new agreement guarantees the mall would open within four years from the date of the signed agreement. Another provision calls for the mall to include at least 21 tenants from a list of stores frequently found at an outlet mall.

Stores on the list include Forever 21, GNC, Neiman Marcus Last Call Studio, and Perfumania, all of which are at The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk in New Orleans that HHC opened in May.

The company wants to make the outlet mall pedestrian-friendly. Mark Putney, HHCs vice president of development, said during the tour that open spaces would be narrowed while the building faade for the buildings that will remain in place would be extended.

In addition, precast panels and steel from buildings to be demolished will be used elsewhere.

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The area near the Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge on Route 114 in Sag Harbor is, as landscape architect Edmund Hollander described it, derelict.

Now there are plans to turn the area into a vibrant, lush waterfront parkan idea the village is revisiting after more than a decade.

Sag Harbor Cove Park would span about an acre of village-owned land on the south side of the bridge at the embankment and behind the 7-Eleven parking lot on Water Street. It would have walking paths, bike racks and seating areas, as well as native maritime and grass plantings to provide a natural buffer for the beach, and to help filter runoff to improve water quality. The park would be illuminated at night, and visitors would be able to access it from Marine Park and Long Wharf, and from under the bridge.

Right now, the area consists of nothing but trees and approximately 300 feet of beach.

The most unusual aspect of the park, according to Mr. Hollander, would be its immediate access to the water with the help of possibly two boardwalks and docks extending into Sag Harbor Covea feature not many parks on the East End can boast.

It really creates a wonderful, usable area along the waterfront for residents and guests, said Mr. Hollander, who is a Sag Harbor resident but operates his firm, Hollander Landscape Architects, in Manhattan. He and an intern at his firm have offered to donate their time to design the park.

Not only does it provide an area for recreation, for walking, for sitting, for getting out of the water ... it connects the various elements of the Sag Harbor waterfront, he said in an interview on Monday.

While construction costs have not been established yet, as the project is still in a very early stage, Mr. Hollander said he has spoken to local construction vendors about donating unused supplies so that the park will cost little to nothing to build. Village Mayor Brian Gilbride added in a separate interview on Wednesday that the resident-run group Sag Harbor Partnership, formerly known as Serve Sag Harbor, expressed interest in helping raise funds for the project.

A lot of materials get thrown away that we hope we could recycle and reuse, Mr. Hollander said. Were not only trying to recycle this land, if you will ... were also trying to recycle and reuse a lot of the available material there so that when it comes time to build this, it will offset the cost of construction.

This has the real makings of a nice Sag Harbor project with Sag Harbor people, Mr. Gilbride said. The entire board is optimistic this will really be a doable by early spring.

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