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Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (March 16 - 31) 03/31/2015 by J.R. Taylor WATERFRONToronto / Quadrangle Architects, aLLDesign, Janet Rosenburg Studio New City Design Can Help Reclaim a Lost Way of Life - China Daily, 3/18/15 "When landscape architect Sean O'Malley finds himself on a site for the first time, he looks for what stands out, what defines the place. This could often mean a mountain, a river, a system of wetlands. Whatever it is that defines the landscape's character. Case in point: the Shunde New City Plan, located at the Pearl River Delta, and hour-and-a-half ferry ride from Hong Kong and the second- largest bird migration delta and estuary in Southeast Asia" Give Hong Kong's New Towns Character, Says Architecture Academic - The South China Morning Post, 3/23/15 "A landscape architecture academic has demanded new towns are given 'character' to avoid replicating developments from the 1970s. Assistant professor Vincci Mak Wing-sze, of the University of Hong Kong, unveiled alternative designs for the new towns after she asked her final year undergraduate students to come up with more creative ideas."
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Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (March 16 -31)
03/31/2015 by J.R. Taylor
WATERFRONToronto / Quadrangle Architects, aLLDesign, Janet Rosenburg Studio
New City Design Can Help Reclaim a Lost Way of Life - China Daily, 3/18/15
"When landscape architect Sean O'Malley finds himself on a site for the first time, he looks for whatstands out, what defines the place. This could often mean a mountain, a river, a system of wetlands.Whatever it is that defines the landscape's character. Case in point: the Shunde New City Plan,located at the Pearl River Delta, and hour-and-a-half ferry ride from Hong Kong and the second-largest bird migration delta and estuary in Southeast Asia"
Give Hong Kong's New Towns Character, Says Architecture Academic - The South China MorningPost, 3/23/15
"A landscape architecture academic has demanded new towns are given 'character' to avoidreplicating developments from the 1970s. Assistant professor Vincci Mak Wing-sze, of the Universityof Hong Kong, unveiled alternative designs for the new towns after she asked her final yearundergraduate students to come up with more creative ideas."
5 Proposals Reimagine Toronto Ferry Terminal and Waterfront Park - Arch Daily, 3/24/15
"Waterfront Toronto has unveiled five proposals for the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and HarborSquare Park design competition. The finalists were tasked with transforming Toronto's waterfront byrevitalizing the existing ferry terminal and park through an extensive gradually-implemented masterplan"
How Good Old American MarketingSaved the National Parks - NationalGeographic, 3/24/15
"When President Ulysses S. Grantsigned the bill creating Yellowstone in1872, he established the first nationalpark anywhere in the world. But 40years later, the parks that exemplified'America's best idea' were a mess."
Landscape Architect Kate Orff Takesthe Helm of Columbia's Urban DesignProgram - Fast Co. Design, 3/31/15
"Landscape architect Kate Orff, ASLA, has been selected as the next director of ColumbiaUniversity's urban design program, within the school's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning,and Preservation."
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