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Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, Oregon

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Wilbert Davies, who later became a notable California-based landscape architect, was retained by the Leach family to develop landscaping plans. John, a pharmacist, and Lilla, an accomplished botanist, devoted their energies to cultivating a private garden that showcased their fascination with plants.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The beat goes on at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Upstate New York, the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival. On the one hand, it’s a seemingly well-oiled operation offering an impressive lineup of mostly musical acts, with the landscape shaped to facilitate the smooth running of events. By Jane Margolies.

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ACLA Redesigns Buhl Community Park and Emphasizes the Importance of Community Connection

Architizer

Year: 2015. Buhl Community Park – After winning a national competition to redesign the plaza in front of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum ACLA began to work on integrating our design concepts with the physical realities and cultural context of the site. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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The A+List: Architizer’s Top Architecture and Design Firms to Watch in 2024

Architizer

Archermit’s core concept is to create new multidimensional spatial experiences. This multifaceted approach is evident in projects such as Kia Lab, which take a holistic view of the programmatic brief, embedding the building’s function with the broader urban and cultural environment.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Greece

Architizer

This vocabulary has influenced countless architects of later periods, from Vitruvius to today’s contemporary designers. And evidence of Antique architecture can still be appreciated by visiting the countless archeological sites dispersed throughout the Greek mainland and surrounding islands.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Her view was that the mass-produced houses dotting the British landscape — structures she nicknamed “Noddy Boxes” — were cramped and poorly designed. The studio has unique design approach to blur the boundaries between architecture and interiors, to allow the space to grow on its very own narrative. Sharon Davis.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Iran

Architizer

It is vastly characterized by its diverse cultural heritage and history and distinct landscape topology. Founded in 2015, the practice manifests architecture across diverse scales of design with superlative craft, detail and materiality. Iran is the second largest country in the Middle East.