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Mangrove Gates, a Boynton Beach Art in Public Places project at the PNC Bank at 1620 S. Federal Highway, won the Unsolicited Award for Planting in a Public Space by the Florida Federation of Gardens Clubs.
As one of four categories under the unsolicited landscape design awards, the award recognizes well-designed and well-maintained landscaped areas in the public sector.
Barbara Hadsell, a member of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs in District X, said, "We are intrigued by the landscape architect's concept and vision of the design encompassing the whole bank area, and not just a feature at the entrance."
"The project is well conceived, requires little maintenance and translates information about native and indigenous Florida plants to the public," she said.
The Boynton Beach Garden Club submitted the entry to the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs District X, which covers the area from Sebastian to Boca Raton.
Submissions were judged by first impressions, suitability of design to purpose, design, implementation, maintenance and final impressions.
Inspired by the Mangrove Park and boardwalk in Boynton Beach, Matt Rowan, environmental artist and designer, and Jonathan Toner, landscape architect, set out to create a thought-provoking and evolving piece of environmental art and bring awareness of the larger environment to the public.
The installation comprises sculpturally undulating supports emulating the rivers of grass in the Everglades, and the water and winds that create constant movement.
Part of Rowan's goal was to integrate the natural world with the man-made world and to engage the building as an organic growth and a reminder of the interplay between man-made structures and the natural environment.
"Mangroves and the sensitive coastal environment are kind of magical," Rowan said by phone from his office in Washington, D.C.
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Anyone passing by the park space outside the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre at Burrard and Nelson in downtown Vancouver isnt likely to miss the fuchsia-coloured fabric partly wrapped around the trees or ribbons of fabric gently blowing in the breeze above its waterfall feature.
Its as if a fuchsia highlighter has been applied to the parks main elements.
And thats exactly what the team of volunteers from the B.C. Society of Landscape Architects intended for their temporary park art installation, called Project Urban Fabric.
The temporary park makeover serves to both mark the societys 50th anniversary, and act as a gateway to the 3rd B.C. Land Summit conference happening at the Wall Centre from Wednesday through Friday. The B.C. Society of Landscape Architects is one of the conferences five sponsors. (The others are the B.C. Institute of Agrologists, the Real Estate Institute of B.C., the B.C. chapter of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and the Planning Institute of B.C.)
We wanted to find an interesting way to engage the public, said landscape architect Jacqueline Lowe, president of the society and chairwoman of the art installations organizing team.
Lowe said about 10 landscape architects on the team donated more than 1,000 hours of time and spent six months organizing the installation, which also has white lights wrapped around trees and white lanterns to represent ephemeral elements. The colour blue was used to represent how people move through a space. Blue painters tape was used to cover the stairs and blue fabric covers milk crates brought in to serve as seats. Theres also a blue stage that has been created for the use of the public and 10 new blue Adirondack chairs.
We wanted people to understand what landscape architects do and we said theres this beautiful park, of course designed by a landscape architect back when the Wall Centre was constructed. So we highlighted the design in the space, she said. Anything form-related like an object or an element has been highlighted in fuchsia.
The B.C. Land Summit, first held at the University of B.C. in 2004, runs every five years. This year, more than 1,000 people are expected to attend, according to B.C. Land Summit Society chairwoman Tara Culham.
She said the four main topics to be discussed include water and the land, law and the land, food agriculture and natural and built environments.
Its about collaboration and connections. Its the five land-use organizations coming together to share ideas and solutions so we can better understand each other, she said.
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The Department of Canadian Heritage has selected Daniel Libeskinds design for the new National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. Libeskind is part of Team Lord of Toronto, whose winning submission is titled Landscape of Loss, Memory and Survival. The proposal chosen from six finalists integrates architecture, landscape, and art to communicate the hardship and suffering of the victims while conveying a powerful message of humanitys enduring strength and survival, according to the design statement.
The monument takes the form of a star created by six triangular volumes that are arranged around a large gathering area. Each triangle will offer a distinct theme and a setting for interpretation and reflection. Visitors enter the monument and descend between two tilted geometric structures. One is polished concrete, and the other is a mesh screen that references the incarceration of Holocaust victims behind fences. Photography taken covertly by victims and survivors will be embedded into the monuments concrete surfaces.
In addition to Libeskind, Team Lord includes Gail Dexter-Lord, co-president of Lord Cultural Resources; artist-photographer Edward Burtynsky; landscape architect Claude Cormier; and Doris Bergen, subject-matter advisor.
The monument is scheduled to open in fall 2015.
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The design of Canadas National Holocaust Monument will be led by the architect associated with New Yorks Ground Zero and Berlins Jewish Museum.
Daniel Libeskind has won a design competition for the Ottawa project, in combination with photographer Edward Burtynsky, landscape architect Claude Cormier and museum planners Lord Cultural Resources.
The decision was announced Monday in Ottawa by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages Shelly Glover at the site of the monument - a field across from the Canadian War Museum, on the LeBreton Flats about a kilometre from Parliament Hill.
The federal government announced the monument in April, 2013, as a permanent place to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and honour Canadian survivors; Canada currently has no such site. It will be overseen by the National Capital Commission. A fundraising council is aiming to raise $4.5-million for the construction of the project, with matching funds from the government of up to $4-million.
The plans for the project combine architecture, landscape and art. Visitors will take a journey through a star - a concrete structure that, viewed from above, resembles a six-pointed star, the symbol of Jewish identity. It consists of several triangular spaces; according to a statement from the design team, these are meant to evoke the triangular badges used to classify prisoners in concentration camps, including Jews, Roma, gay people, and mentally and physically disabled people.
"Its very much designed as an experience - its not a monument that you just look at from afar, but it draws you in as a visitor, explains Dov Goldstein, a principal consultant at Lord and the projects coordinator.
Within the monument, original photographs by Burtynsky of Holocaust sites, death camps, killing fields and forests, will be embedded into concrete. And a landscape surrounding the monument, designed by Cormier, will include a forest of coniferous trees growing out of rocky ground, a nod to the forests of eastern Europe and a living symbol of how survivors and their children have changed Canada.
The project will be a significant piece of architecture and urban design in Ottawa, and notable because of the international reputations of all four players - especially Libeskind (who was born in Poland but lives in the U.S.) and the Canadian Burtynsky. They were brought together by Lord Cultural Resources, which organized what Goldstein calls a multidisciplinary and multicultural team for an integrated process including historian Doris Bergen.
Goldstein praises Libeskinds brilliant architecture and his sensitivity to the subject matter. (Libeskinds parents both survived the Holocaust and each lost most of their extended families.) His aesthetic touch is clear. The proposal's complex structure employs Libeskinds trademark crystalline forms, which first appeared on his Jewish Museum in Berlin, completed in 1999. That museum building is a zigzagging and jagged form that is notoriously difficult to program. It employed architectural symbolism for the fate of Europes Jews and other victims of the Holocaust: It is a series of shards, pierced by voids, and visitors end up in a "Garden of Exile.
Libeskind is also closely associated with the most significant memorial project of the past 20 years - Ground Zero in Manhattan, where he designed a master plan for the site of the 9/11 attacks that was capped with a 1776-foot-tall Freedom Tower. Libeskind saw these ideas embraced by the public in New York, but his role in the redevelopment project was reduced dramatically.
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Frederick Law Olmsted is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. However, he contributed much more to the American people than the many public parks he was instrumental in designing.
After graduating from Phillips Academy in 1838, sumac poisoning weakened his eyes so he gave up college plans. His parents wanted young Olmsted to enroll at Yale College; however, he was not able to attend.
Olmsteds disability did not hinder him from accomplishing a great deal of good works that would benefit future generations of Americans.
As a journalist he traveled to England in 1850 to visit the public gardens, where he was greatly impressed by Joseph Paxtons Birkenhead Park. From this experience Olmstead wrote and published, Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England. The publication of his book in 1852 was responsible for Olmsted to receive additional work in landscaping public areas.
It was the charismatic Andrew Jackson Downing, the landscape architect from Newburgh, New York, who first proposed the development of New Yorks Central Park in his role as publisher of The Horticulturist magazine.
After reading Downings magazine article, a friend mentioned to Olmstead that he thought that, with assistance from English-born architect Calvert Vaux, the two of them could design an elaborate park in New York City.
A contest was formed for different landscape architects to submit their plans for building the park. It was Olmsted and Vaux who convinced the landscape committee of New York that their plans should be accepted.
The design of Central Park embodies Olmsteds social consciousness and commitment to giving all citizens equal access to the park when completed. Olmsted believed that the common green space must always be equally accessible to all citizens. The principle is now fundamental to the idea of a
public park, but at that time was not assumed as necessary by the wealthiest citizens of New York City. However, Olmsteds tenure as park commissioner in New York convinced many others of his ideas.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Olmsted took leave as director of Central Park to work as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The
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