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 ...

ASLA is developing a new Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan for the landscape architecture community. A five-member Task ...

Description: The City of St. Louis seeks a qualified firm to lead the Green Infrastructure Design component of its CDBG-DR-funded program by providing architectural ...

Are there vertical farms in practice now, or are they all in the concept / design phase? No, there are no vertical farms in existence as we speak. This is now April 2009, but what there are lots of ...

Site plan and regenerative design strategies for three sections along the shore: to stop soil erosion, renew dying vegetation, rehabilitate the damaged shoreline, and recover a wetland through an ...

Through this RFP, the City seeks to fund two planning activities to assess disaster recovery needs and mitigate flood hazard risks throughout the City; a Regional Flood Mitigation and Green ...

Puget Sound, WA, USA | Team: Dominique Alviar, Associate ASLA; Colleen Brennan, Student ASLA; Byron Brink, Associate ASLA; Shan Gao, Student ASLA; Shuyi Gao, Student ...

People and Places. This project compared the quality of landscape features at assisted living facilities, with actual levels of outdoor usage by residents. The purpose was to determine whether ...

Committed to innovative and energetic public engagement reaching broad and diverse communities, the design team used strategies that included large public meetings, targeted briefings, partnerships, ...

Figure-ground diagrams of the urban fabric within half a mile of the 46th Street Station (left) and the Temple Regional Rail Stop (middle) reveal a significantly more discontinous use pattern than is ...

Piers Park plays important dual roles as both a significant neighborhood park and a city-wide destination park. The original seawalls were built in 1870 and the current park was completed in 1995. The ...

Purpose: To recognize an individual landscape architect who has produced a body of exceptional design work at a sustained level for a period of at least ten years. Eligibility: The individual must be ...