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news page 2009
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IFLA News Brief #21
   
3D street artist Edgar Mueller
   

Re-Building in Extreme Fire Zones
Concepts and Recommendations

Bruce Mackenzie, May 2009

   
Good Parks are Good for the Economy
   

Company name change

from Monday 29th June , McGregor Partners changed it’s name to

McGregor Coxall Pty Ltd

   
A different perspective on the park experience
   
ASLA - the Dirt - always a good read
   
UK still second-worst greenhouse gas emitter in Europe
   

Interview with Os Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

   

The Gold Coast Urban Design Awards

closes 4pm Friday, 3 July, 2009

   

AILA 2009 AGM

Call for nominations for 2009 - 2011 National Council

   
PLACE Magazine - Adelaide Review
   
IFLA News Brief #20
   
Creating Water Sensitive Cities in Australia
   
White Tail Plaza
   
join the world and 160 members from Australia on Land8Lounge.
   

The Sydney Forums Sustainable Built Environment Discussions

June 25 2009:
Our Urban Future: Adaptation through Innovation and Creativity

   

NCCARF Seminar Series:

‘Climate threat and urban response: an Australian perspective’

Brisbane - Wednesday 24 June 2009 4pm-5pm

   

Landscape Architect in the NEWS

NSW State President does advocacy for the profession

(downloadable podcast available for a month)

   

Landscape Architect in the news

Adrian McGregor included on Sydney Creative Catalyst List

   

AILA Congrats one of the 2009 National Conference Supporters

Coomes Consulting Group is now CPG.  On Monday 18 May 2009, Coomes Consulting Group rebranded to CPG Australia Pty Ltd, uniting with their New Zealand and Singapore based sister companies.

CPG offers specialised services in the urban development, water, transport, resources, energy, building and agribusiness sectors, with an international network of over 3500 professionals across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. (click on logo for more)

   

Landscape Architect and an Award

mcgegor + partners  - 2009 Topos Landscape Award win

   

Landscape Architect in a Report

Lucinda Hartley on Asian Cities

   
IFLA News Brief May 2009 (pdf)
   
July release of new book
   

Last Call for entries

IFLA - ASIA PACIFIC Awards

Receipt of entries by courier or post by 12.noon I.S.T/ 1st June 2009.

   
FOR LEASE
New Studio Space
Level 1 / 142 Smith Street Summer Hill NSW
   
AILA National Conference Speaker (Walter Hood) wins US Design Award
   
A temporary landscape designed by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, A Clearing in the Streets
   
Are there vertical farms in practice now, or are they all in the concept / design phase?
   
IWC Water Leader Scholarships now open
   

Gallery of Australian Design (Canberra)

A new partnership by the AILA

 

   

Landscape Architect in the news

Jason Prior - National Conference speaker

   

AILA seeks 2009 conference pics

here is the first image received from a delegate
Taken nearby to the conference
it says it all!

we look forward to more....

   
Another web link re May Lin's Wave Field installation from the NY Times
includes a video and slide presentation (sent in by a  member)
   
Monumental Work by Maya Lin
   
about carbon offsets - an article of interest
   

2 CPD events

Minimising Carbon Price Impacts through Planning

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

   
IFLA News Brief April 2009 (pdf)
   

Mothers Day at Cruden Farm

make a post conference visit?

   

Is Adelaide Architecture Boring? The Debate Continues..

Landscape Architect poses the question in May 2009 PLACE magazine

   

Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant

   

Salt, reeds and dunes

Landscape architect in the news

   
Head-turning Sculpture Reshapes the Horizon in England
   

UNSW - Lindsay Roberston Memorial Award 2010

<< click image  for pdf     or      here for link

   
and why not?
   
AIA NSW May CPD Programs
   
Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga Urban Regeneration Project
Expression of Interest : Design Review Panel
   
Landscape Architect in the NEWS
   
Greenest Nation - the USA
   
Urban Logic: a website for the Planning,  Engineering, Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture  professions around the world.
   
What the future holds for landscape architects - a US article
   

CPD opportunity (click on image for invitation and details)

visit the AILA medal winning project - 1st May

The Nungatta Station Land Management  Project

   
British Homes Award Sustainable Landscape Architecture
   
Student Competition   ( USD $20,000)

Open to students worldwide, with finalists to compete for USD 20,000 prize money at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona.

EDAW’s Urban SOS: Distressed Cities, Creative Responses competition is offering USD 20,000 in prize money to encourage creative interventions that have potential for lasting improvement. The competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at all levels from all countries, in the design and planning fields – including landscape architecture, urban design, architecture, landscape urbanism, economics, geography, engineering, environmental studies and related fields.

   

Call for submissions - Public Domain Awards

entries close 31 March

   
2009 INCHEON IFLA APR CONGRESS
September 1-4, 2009
Incheon, Korea
   

Landscape Architect in the news

Ken Maher awarded Architect Gold Medal

   

Landscape Architect in the news

Working in Vietnam

   
<< Ifla 2009 Student design competition
   

Landscape Architect in the news

Kongjian Yu at 2009 IFLA World Congress

   

World Leadership Conference in Singapore

JUNE 8 - 12, 2009

Environment and Economics

   
queensland landscape architect in the news
   
A lonely tree cries out for a drink in a city ruled by uncivil engineers
   
Victorian Fires: Maddison's Benefit
   

Food and Vegetable Gardens Growing as Green Alternative to Traditional Lawns

   
Pacific Nature Conservation Roundtable Coordinator
   

Our shrinking backyards (click on image for newsaper article)

and view the full paper online at LApapers

   
IFLA News Brief March 2009
   

Feb 26 2009

eNews for professionals in natural resources and environment management

   
international ideas competition for a new urban park (spain)
   

Australian Japan Foundation grant program

Applications close on 17 March 2009

   
UK Landscape Institute's new web site
   

A story on the current Dubai experience

see also the four links at the bottom of the page when it opens

   
Lake Burley Griffin Survey response
   
walkability index and New Orleans
   

 

Le Corbusier - creator of the modern world

Just in case you are visiting the UK

 

   
UK - public space and climate change
   

Landscape Architecture Australia prize for unrealised landscapes

closes 27 Feb 2009

   
IFLA News Brief February 2009
   

landscape architect in the news

adrian mcgregor on sydney's 'missing link'

   

Canberra Public Art Commission

(The commission is valued at $178,000 + GST.)

   

A story about iceland and a case study on the financial crisis

rebecca solnit

   
CCAA Public Domain Awards close on March 31
   

International  Green Roof Congress

25 - 27 May 2009
Nuertingen/Germany (20% discount AILA/IFLA members)

   

Marion Griffin Lecture, Canberra

6pm Thursday 12 February, National Library

To be introduced by
Bob Debus, Minister for Home Affairs

   
SHARED OFFICE SPACE – Material Landscape Architecture

We seek someone to share up to half our delightful 210 sqm Surry Hills
studio with built in desks for 8-12 work stations and excellent facilities.

If interested, please click on image to visit our web address
   

Landscape Architect in the News

Jim Osborne, 2008 NSW Medal winner, interviewed about his winning project and the diversity of future practice.

Please note: Jim's interview is the second article (New Life for an Old Farm) on Wed 28th January and these programs are usually available for only a month to download and listen in your own time - so download now!

   

Open International Ideas Competition for Noise Barrier/Enclosure Design

(registration extended till 20 Feb 2009)

   

Landscape architects in the news:

Laura Bush enthusiastic about landscape architect for presidential library

 

   

Landscape architects in the news:

Art Museum to open new parking facility noted for green design and landscape features

   

Call for entries

IFLA - ASIA PACIFIC Awards

Receipt of entries by courier or post by 12.noon I.S.T/ 1st June 2009.

   
IFLA News
   

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Urban Design Conference
Survival: Implementing Tomorrow's City
Gold Coast,  Australia,

2nd to the 4th of September 2009

   

Open International Ideas Competition for Noise Barrier/Enclosure Design

(registration extended 20 Feb 2009)

   

Marion Griffin Lecture, Canberra

6pm Thursday 12 February, National Library

To be introduced by
Bob Debus, Minister for Home Affairs

   

redeveloping New Orleans riverfront

   
Business Acquistion Opportunity - Cairns
   
   
 

and here for call for papers flyer or here for the web page

call for papers closes 31 March 2009

   
<< Ifla 2009 Student design competition
   

Standardising greywater treatment technologies

<< click image for site and information and/or here for the PDF

   
WA senior registered landscape architect appointed to river protection strategy committee
   

A White House veggie garden? We can only hope

   
Sydney Smart Light Festival - call for entries (close 26 January)
   

Celebrating Urban Light

call for uploads of submissions

   

Torsanlorenzo International Prize

LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND PROTECTION

 
SHARED OFFICE SPACE - ANNA VAUGHAN ARCHITECTS

We occupy 120sqm of a warehouse space in Rushcutters Bay.
We wish to sublease an open plan area of 4-6 desks.
Enquires:    kerstin@annavaughanarchitects.com.au
   

Landscape Architecture Australia prize for unrealized landscapes

closes 27 Feb.

   

2009 Environmental Art Residency Program 

application deadline February 23, 2009

   

Is Sustainable Affordable?

who is to do the ever more complex green domestic designing?

   
The Pacific Connection: trade, travel and technology conference will be
held at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building
and Planning from 19-22 February 2009
   

Walkable by Design

Planning Commission Approves Proposal to Make LA Downtown More Pedestrian-Friendly

   

holiday viewing

                        the story of a tree

   

Can Cities Save the Planet?

Scientists are skeptical. Planners are hopeful.

The Dutch are pragmatic.

   
Tribute to Robin Edmond
   
Interview with Kongjian Yu (ASLA interview)
   

A Resounding Vote for Open Space (New York Times)

   
IFLA News Brief #13
   

Landscape architect Tom Oslund discusses the making of a memorial, his Zen time, and ecology vs. aesthetics.

   
design for sustainability (ASLA article)
   
conference  speakers to access (CPD opportunity)
   
The most radical thing you can do... is?
   
Landscape architect in the news
   

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