No tour of sustainable approaches to water in Portland is complete without mentioning Tom Liptan, FASLA, a far-sighted landscape architect at the Bureau of Environmental Services who evolved ...
Landscape architecture combines art and science. It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land. Landscape architecture has strong roots in the U.S., and early examples, such as ...
Roof produced a 10 percent decrease in building energy use over the winter months. The temperature on the green roof on the hottest summer days can be as much as 59 degrees cooler than conventional ...
The Sebou River Basin. The city of Fez is located within one of Morocco’s most fertile valleys, the Sebou River Basin. Data reveals that the river is relatively clean before reaching the medina and ...
Any residential landscape can be designed to both reduce flooding during storms and conserve water in times of water scarcity. Homeowners can use green infrastructure approaches, like bioswales and ...
Section 1 of the High Line extends over nine city blocks from Gansevoort Street to West 20th Street on the west side of Manhattan. View of the Gansevoort entry, looking north. The existing cut at the ...
Current recreational facilities are built on the floodplain that can only be used at certain times of the year / 80% of the site is on 100 year floodplain while 20% of the site is on 500 year ...
Manila, Philippines | Team: Julio F. Torres Santana, Student ASLA; Yinan Liu, Student ASLA; Aime Vailes-Macarie | Faculty Advisors: David A. Rubin, ASLA ...
A dramatic cliff condition inspired the siting and approach to the spa that related its size, form, and materials directly to the site: In concept the spa became a water-filled "negative boulder" ...