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Claude Cormier: Hell of Fun

Landscape Architecture Magazine

When the refurbished park opened last summer, Cormier told the Montreal Gazette, “All my best projects have been rejected at the beginning.” A Menagerie of Joyful Projects Cormier’s portfolio is like a menagerie. There had not been a fountain in the park previously, but Cormier thought it would make a fitting focal point.

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What Was the City Beautiful Movement?

Santa Cruz Architect

promoted beauty not only for its own sake, but also to create moral and civic virtue among urban populations. Coral Gables has many parks and a heavy tree canopy with an urban forest planted largely in the 1920s. The movement, which was originally associated mainly with Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and Washington, D.C.,

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Bridging Traditions and Modernity: The Cycling and Pedestrian Bridge in Bohinj Slovenia

Architizer

Project Status: Built Year: 2020 Size: 1000 sqft – 3000 sqft Budget: 100K – 500K Cycling and Pedestrian Bridge in Bohinj Slovenia – The footbridge is a structure, added to our recycled Bohinj Cycling path (designed 2009), that links people and two banks of the river. Ostan from Atelje Ostan Pavlin to learn more about this project.

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Explorers at Home

Landscape Architecture Magazine

“We wanted that project so badly,” a friend told me when I mentioned my upcoming visit in May to the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon. The friend, a landscape architect, said her office had vied for the project during a 2014 competitive solicitation, but, obviously, didn’t get it. He called it a “little jewel” and kept it.

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One Rendering Challenge 2022: The Finalists (Part 4)

Architizer

“Mitoshi Church is located on the hills of Mount Agora, close to the Sagano bamboo forest. . “Mitoshi Church is located on the hills of Mount Agora, close to the Sagano bamboo forest. Because of this, it is considered a live member of nature in Agora forests. This is a manmade structure. But they will find it.

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Fairfield by Marriott unlocks rural Japan with seven new openings

Hotel Designs

Accessible by ferry from Kagoshima is the island of Yakushima, where the ancient cedar forests and natural landscapes inspired the Studio Ghibli animated film ‘Princess Mononoke.’ Fairfield by Marriott was created on the principles of warmth, comfort and simplicity.

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2.9. THE TEMPLE – A REAPPRAISAL

The Architecture Professor

The bottomline for him was that his designs met the client’s program as well as the design problem he had set for himself in a particular project. . Left: Burnham & Root, Masonic Temple, 1890. Hoffmann, Root ); Right: LeRoy S. Buffington, 28-story Cloudscraper, Minneapolis, 1888. Inland Architect , July 1888). Burnham & Root.

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