Tag Archives: landscape architecture

wednesday vignettes 5/2/18

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Denise

More Palm Springs-style landscape architecture from the recent Pasadena Garden Conservancy Open Days, in this case overlooking a deep arroyo, with some of the foothills’ iconic bridges in the distance. The landscape design zealously protects views and is as much … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, climate, design, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Garden Conservancy Open Days, landscape architecture, Nord Eriksson, Pasadena | 3 Comments

Garden Conservancy Open Days season (Pasadena)

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Denise

The Garden Conservancy Open Days season is upon us, and I want to go to every single open garden, from here to Maine. Be sure to check the schedule for when gardens reasonably close to you will be included on … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, climate, design, garden travel, garden visit, pots and containers | Tagged Garden Conservancy Open Days, landscape architecture, Nord Eriksson, Pasadena | 7 Comments

Modernism Week, Palm Springs, Calif.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Denise

Feel like drying out before the next storm blows into town? Well, we’re in luck. It’s Modernism Week in Palm Springs, ongoing since February 16 and ending this Sunday, February 26, 2017. “Mid-Century Makeover” by Lisa Gimmy, Landscape Architecture

Posted in design, garden travel | Tagged California, LA, landscape architecture, Lisa Gimmy, Modernism Week 2017, Palm Springs | 4 Comments

my new earrings (via collaboration of Molly M Designs & Roberto Burle Marx)

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Denise

You know how one thing leads to another, and before you know it there’s a new pair of earrings coming in the mail? Let me explain. There’s a Roberto Burle Marx exhibit right now at the Jewish Museum in New … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden travel | Tagged "Revisiting the Constructed Edens of Roberto Burle Marx" by Holland Cotter for NYT, "The Builder of Jungles" by Martin Filler, Brazil, Jewish Museum, landscape architecture, Molly M Designs, Rio de Janeiro, Roberto Burle Marx, Summer Olympics 2016, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times | 8 Comments

Fernando Caruncho’s Design Studio

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Denise

Images from Architectural Digest of the design studio of the Spanish landscape architect who resolutely insists on being called a gardener. As with stripping down occupations to their mythic essence, Caruncho does the same for gardens, revealing anew the power … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, climate, design, photography | Tagged "A Landscape Designer's Airy Studio in Madrid", Architectural Digest, Fernando Caruncho, landscape architecture, Simon Watson photography | 5 Comments

completion of the High Line September 21, 2014

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Denise

“Before it was constructed, the New York Central Railroad had operated a rail freight line at grade, or street level, along Tenth Avenue, and men on horseback (“West Side cowboys”) had ridden ahead of the train with red flags or … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, photography | Tagged air rights, Friends of the High Line, Joel Sternfeld, Joshua David, landscape architecture, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York City, Piet Oudolf, Robert Hammond, The High Line Park, Transferable Development Right, urban planning | 12 Comments

the new courthouse

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Denise

Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, Long Beach, California The old, crumbling, brutalist-era courthouse where I did a lot of jury duty time was finally, mercifully shuttered, its broken escalators never to confound us again, and the new courthouse went up a … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, climate, design, driveby gardens, succulents | Tagged AECOM, artemisia, Berkeley Sedge, Carex tumulicola, COR-TEN steel, FASLA, Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, Hesperaloe parviflora, ipe wood, Joseph E. Brown, landscape architecture, LEED buildings, miscanthus, raised planters, Senecio mandraliscae, Superior Court of Los Angeles County | 8 Comments

hillside with Schwentker Watts Design

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Denise

I was in a wonderful garden the other night, but was caught flat-footed as far as having any photos to show for it. Although only 7:30ish, twilight doesn’t last long in this Los Angeles neighborhood but is quickly swallowed up … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, climate, design, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Bocconia arborea, Cupressus macrocarpa 'Citriodora', Franco-Giacomo Carbone, Harvey Watts, James Schwentker, landscape architecture, Los Angeles, MB Maher, mediterranean climate, Schwentker Watts Design, Silverlake, The Los Angeles Times | 5 Comments

Lili Singer’s Thursday Talk with Isabelle Greene

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Denise

“Sixteen years ago I was writing only prose and what I consider now traditional garden writing for magazines. And then one day I was in my office looking at a landscape architecture magazine, turned the page, and there was an … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden visit | Tagged Greene & Greene, Hazel White, Isabelle Greene, landscape architecture, Lili Singer, Longwood Gardens, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, The Gamble House, UCBG "Natural Discourse", Women in the Dirt | 2 Comments

scenes from Versailles

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Denise

As promised, photos of the gardens of Versailles, the apogee of the French formal garden style, designed by landscape architect Andre Le Notre for King Louis XIV of France (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715). With itinerant photographer MB … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Andre Le Notre, formal gardens, French garden design, garden history, Hugh Johnson's The Principles of Gardening, Inventing the Garden, landscape architecture, Louis XIV, Matteo and Virgilio Vercelloni, Versailles | 7 Comments