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Late architect John Hopkins leaves a legacy in his Shelby Farms vision.
When it's finally enlarged and improved, Patriot Lake will spread out to form the sparkling centerpiece of Shelby Farms Park a scenic gathering point for visitors and a place where concessions, stage events and other attractions generate revenues to fund operations throughout the 4,500-acre park.
That's the plan, at least. But one of the key architects of the lake project and other park improvements won't be around to see his ideas become reality.
John Hopkins, an internationally renowned landscape architect, died unexpectedly at 59 late last month in Philadelphia. Although he was best known for the books he authored and his leading role in the development of innovative parkland at the site of last year's London Olympic Games, Hopkins also was a guiding force in the effort to transform Shelby Farms into a world-class park.
As park officials see it, the lake project in particular will be a large part of Hopkins' legacy.
"He was really a genius in the field," said Jen Andrews, director of development and communications for the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, which operates the park. "He changed the way people look at landscape architecture, making the landscape play a pivotal role."
The British-born Hopkins, who was engaged to conservancy executive director Laura Adams, helped lead workshops in which details of the design of the lake were "stress-tested," as park officials put it, to see whether they were truly feasible.
Now encompassing 54 acres, the lake will be expanded and enhanced as part of a $75 million park master plan, which also envisions an ambitious tree-planting program and the development of diverse landscape "rooms." Several improvements, including the $3.5 million Woodland Discovery Playground, already have been completed.
So far, conservancy officials say, fundraising efforts have netted $52 million. Their goal is to reach the $75 million total by the end of June.
The excavation of the larger lake bed should start in 2014 and take a year to complete, Andrews said, with another year required for adding amenities.
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James Fondren, a landscape architect whose projects ranged from schoolyard plantings to such vast undertakings as Lafreniere Park in Metairie and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in six sites around southeast Louisiana, died Feb. 3 of complications from kidney failure and cancer at River Region Hospice in River Ridge. He was 79.
A Morgan City native who lived in the New Orleans area for about a half-century, Mr. Fondren earned degrees in horticulture at McNeese State College, now McNeese State University, and in landscape architecture at LSU.
Mr. Fondren, who started his own business in 1961, was hired by Tulane University to be its resident landscape architect. He wound up directing a staff of architects and engineers, and was appointed the assistant director of the physical plant for facility planning and construction. He also taught landscape architecture.
At the request of Tulane's Board of Administrators, he prepared a preliminary master plan for the university that served as a prototype for additions to the Uptown campus in the 1980s and 1990s, said Herta Fondren, his wife.
Working with state and federal officials, Mr. Fondren garnered about $56 million in grants for Lafreniere and Jean Lafitte parks. At Jean Lafitte Park, Mr. Fondren not only did the master plan but also designed the park's buildings, his wife said.
On a much smaller scale, he also designed a garden for blind people at Temple Sinai with Braille signs that would tell them what they were sniffing and touching. It was sponsored by the Temple Sisterhood.
For more than 40 years, Mr. Fondren was a member of the Magnolia School's board. In addition to being a member, including a stint as chairman, Mr. Fondren also worked on plants, shrubbery and the school's namesake magnolias, said Joan Dodd, the school's former director.
Because of the contacts he had developed, Mr. Fondren was able to get more than $100,000 for the school from foundations he had worked with, Dodd said.
How he came to be a Magnolia School volunteer was a fluke, his wife said. When Hurricane Betsy hit in September 1965, he was driving along River Road when an oak tree fell across the road, entangling Mr. Fondren and his car in its branches, Mrs. Fondren said. To make matters worse, there was a downed live power wire, too, forcing him to stay in his car for hours until help came.
"While he was trapped, he promised God that if he escaped alive, he would do something good for the rest of his life," she said. "He realized he was in front of Magnolia School, and started working there."
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One of the seven display gardens at the 2013 Yard Garden & Patio Show bears a definite local touch.
The Through Our Ages Thrive Outside showcase garden was designed by Aurora landscape architect P. Annie Kirk.
Its her debut, Kirk says. This was her first time designing a display garden for the Portland show, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center.
Kirk holds a masters degree in landscape architecture and has operated her Red Bird Restorative Gardens for more than 15 years.
Her partner in bringing her design to life was another Aurora enterprise, Living Color Landscape.
I designed this space to draw from the local talents we have in the Aurora-Canby-Woodburn area, Kirk said. They have been our suppliers or loaned their craft or energy to help furnish or build the garden. Its a cooperative in that way.
Not only did the 40-by-40-foot garden have to be built, it had to be built so that it could be broken down and trucked into Portland. They built the garden last week at the Living Color Landscape property on Boones Ferry Road. They started Monday and delivered it to Portland the following Monday.
Kirk chose Through Our Ages Thrive Outside as the theme for her garden, a space showing lifestyles and an interaction with nature.
It speaks to the restorative powers of nature through our lifetime, she said.
Elements of the garden include a sand fort, wishing trees, a garden gym and a swing. The elements converge in the center, which she calls the garden heart.
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Its safe to say South Florida would have a very different look if Jonathan Seymour had never worked his magic on it.
The landscape architect created buildings and outdoor spaces that became some of the areas most iconic and beautiful images: The Country Club of Miami, Coral Gables Miracle Mile, the University of Miami Student Union, the Dade County Jail and Criminal Courts building and a large portion of the Julia Tuttle Causeway are just a few highlights of his portfolio.
Seymour died at his home in Jacksonville Tuesday morning, just 10 days after celebrating his 94th birthday. He had congestive heart failure and was receiving hospice care.
He lived in Miami from 1948 until 1992 with his wife, Elizabeth, who is an artist and also worked as his office manager for more than 40 years.
The couple, who were married for 67 years, met as undergraduates at the University of Georgia, where Jonathan majored in landscape architecture. They were introduced through one of his Sigma Nu fraternity brothers.
Before graduating from UGA, Jonathan served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was stationed in India. He was able to utilize his artistic personality even then, designing decoys out of balsa wood and fabric.
As Coral Gables landscape architect, he helped to transform the city from 1950 to 1956. At that time, he designed the Alhambra Circle entrance, and other entrances and street plantings in the city. He introduced wide sidewalks and ground covers to Miracle Mile.
He moved in on Miracle Mile when it really needed help, and he really gussied it up, said Paul George, a Miami historian and professor at Miami Dade College. Its become a very noteworthy street, with many upscale businesses. ... I would hold him partially responsible for the renaissance of that street.
Seymour opened his professional office in Miami in 1956. Although he designed well-known commercial properties, he was best known for residential projects, often for high-profile clients, including the DuPont and Wackenhut families. In particular, he was recognized for designing unusually-shaped swimming pools that incorporated elements of nature in the 1960s, when many designers were sticking to rectangular shapes.
He often designed in the style of the English garden, but had a diverse portfolio. Most of all, he loved elements of surprise and valued the individual experience of moving through an environment.