LAR STUDENT GALLERY SHOW

by hbrhymes

Come see what our students have been up to at the new location of the Urban Design Center in downtown Raleigh, 220 Fayetteville Street! Suite 200, upstairs. 7-9 PM, THIS FRIDAY APRIL 5!… Read More →

SHIFT: process – Landscape Architecture Student Journal – Call for Submissions!

by dtoronyi

North Carolina State University’s Student ASLA Chapter seeks submissions for it’s 2nd annual professional-reviewed landscape architecture student journal, SHIFT: process. Recognizing that students represent the next generation of leaders and design innovators, SHIFT… Read More →

URBANIZED, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit

by tfowlkes

Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities and the third in a design trilogy by Hustwit, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the… Read More →

Urban Farming coming to Raleigh, North Carolina

by tfowlkes

By Jonathan Carlson NBC-17 March 10, 2012 Excerpt: They are beginning with a plot of land at the intersection of Blount and Franklin Streets in downtown. ” Why not farm downtown. There’s open… Read More →

KEEP SUPPORT FOR STREETSCAPE PROJECTS AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AROUND ROADS AND HIGHWAYS!!

by Leslie Morefield

Senator John McCain (AZ) has offered an amendment to the fiscal year 2012 spending bill that would eliminate several programs from the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program, including eliminating the Landscaping and Scenic Beautification… Read More →

It’s Official!

by tfowlkes

Just opened the October issue of LAM and what do I see on the first page of the student awards? SHIFT:infrastructure with a big ole’ Award of Excellence! Congratulations to all the students… Read More →

ASLA Students participate in SPARKcon

by tfowlkes

Several students from the NC State Chapter of ASLA were downtown this past weekend as part of the sparkCon festivities.  The students gathered the materials to install a “mock bio-retention cell” at the… Read More →

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by dtoronyi

In a ceremony held Friday, August 19, the Landscape Architecture Design-Build (LA 500) class officially cut the ribbon on the Artists’ Backyard. The project, located between Owen and Turlington Halls, is just the… Read More →

SLANT Garden Design Award

by tfowlkes

So I posted a call for entries in March issued by the same organization.  Then the competition dealt with a city block but this time you get the chance to design a garden… Read More →

City of Raleigh implements cost share for water quality devices!

by tfowlkes

Stop procrastinating. Install that cistern, rain garden, or impervious driveway that you’ve been thinking about and have the City of Raleigh pay for half of it. I stumbled across this information a while… Read More →