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“I can show you what it was…and what it is,”
Joe Dolce says, delineating the slight, 250-square-foot addition to his Long Island summer home. |
Living in a state that’s saturated with rain for
much of the year, Oregonians rightly have an obsession with sunshine. |
Even before construction was complete, the Stump House was turning heads. |
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On the roof, amidst an array of native wild grasses and shrubs, six banks holding 180 small thermal solar
collection tubes provide hot water year-round. |
Designing a house for this setting was a thrilling puzzle of aesthetics and terrain for a young architect. |
Designing an innovative house is a rite of passage
for many young architects. |
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Classical yet current, Bordeaux is a city that celebrates the details that comprise the whole. Architect Oliver Brochet guides our tour around the accessible tram system, the historic women, and… |
The profession of landscape architecture is very much rooted in the European tradition of garden design, and it didn’t germinate as a distinct profession in the United States until the 19th… |
There’s a common misconception that the scale of domestic projects places them in the realm of “garden designers” rather than landscape architects, but size is not always the… |
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There is such a variety of well-executed residential landscape designs, it is difficult (and arbitrary) to cite one as being superlative. |
Though large projects often garner the greatest attention, Michael Van Valkenburgh agrees that residential projects are also worthwhile: |
Landscape design is a matter of personal taste, but there are some approaches that almost any designer would recommend against. |
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It’s both water-wise and
wallet-wise to consider alternatives to a grassy lawn. |
As housing demographics shift,
so too does our conception of the average American residential landscape. |
Garden design is only a fraction of the landscaping tradition. Residential or commercial it's a balance fo aesthetics and function that makes for sucess, and we take a look into (and upon) the field. |
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Planting a vegetable garden, however, shouldn’t be the end of our transformation of the domestic landscape, as Diana Balmori explains. |
Environment is inspiration for British-born, New Zealand–based David Trubridge, but eco-design is a label he eschews: “We do everything we can, but this greenwashing trend can create a… |
Among America’s notable architectural ruins, few are as singular as the grandstand for Commodore Munroe Stadium, designed by Cuban-born architect Hilario Candela in 1964 and approved for… |
