Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2014
Landscape Design The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
So I was going to do a blog today and strange and bizarre landscape design and gardens, but when i came across The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, I had to step back and say "Wow, this is a blog all unto itself!"
So here we go. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is located in Scotland on the private estate of architect and architectural critic Charles Jencks and is only open to the public for viewing once a year. Inspired by science, math and modern physics, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation took nearly two decades to complete.
Jenncks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, an expert on Asian garden design, are the brain children behind this 30 acre spectacle called a garden. From double-helix spiral staircases to sculptures to pyramid-esque landforms that reflect is still ponds offer up an Alice in Wonderland type feel when you view the gardens themselves.
Sculptures abound and you can feel the juxtaposition and contrast of how science meets nature in this garden of wonders. Fractals and swooping curves are everywhere in The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
The only thing in our opinion missing here is an outdoor burning system to pair with the elegance of the waterscapes. There is something about the blending of fire and water in modern landscape architecture that brings a balance and completeness to outdoor design.
So if you decide to ever visit The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, be sure to get there at the crack of dawn, because from what we hear, the streets come to a stand still this grand single day per year when the general public can view the grounds.
For more information on custom outdoor burning systems, please visit us online, or call us today! 1-877-556-5255
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So here we go. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is located in Scotland on the private estate of architect and architectural critic Charles Jencks and is only open to the public for viewing once a year. Inspired by science, math and modern physics, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation took nearly two decades to complete.
Jenncks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, an expert on Asian garden design, are the brain children behind this 30 acre spectacle called a garden. From double-helix spiral staircases to sculptures to pyramid-esque landforms that reflect is still ponds offer up an Alice in Wonderland type feel when you view the gardens themselves.
Sculptures abound and you can feel the juxtaposition and contrast of how science meets nature in this garden of wonders. Fractals and swooping curves are everywhere in The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
The only thing in our opinion missing here is an outdoor burning system to pair with the elegance of the waterscapes. There is something about the blending of fire and water in modern landscape architecture that brings a balance and completeness to outdoor design.
So if you decide to ever visit The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, be sure to get there at the crack of dawn, because from what we hear, the streets come to a stand still this grand single day per year when the general public can view the grounds.
For more information on custom outdoor burning systems, please visit us online, or call us today! 1-877-556-5255
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Calgary Landscape Designers
ULS Maintenance and Landscaping are the best Calgary Landscape Designers
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Established in 1989 ULS Maintenance and Landscaping has built the reputation for being the best Landscape Designers in Calgary providing year round services. As one of the largest and most progressive landscaping Companies in Canada, they provide Landscape, design, construction and maintenance to clients both commercial and residential. Creating close relationships with clients they are committed to their mission in constructing and maintaining beautiful urban Landscapes.
In addition to being the best Calgary Landscape Designers the Company is also members of several associations such as the International Society of Arboriculture , Canadian Nursery Landscape Association, Snow and Ice Management Association and more. With a large network of experienced subcontractors the Company provides qualified experts for an outstanding value. In their devotion to excellent business the Company employs a range of qualified professionals working together to provide breathtaking Landscape design. Service professionals available include ISA Certified Arborist, Horticultural Consultants and Designers, CSP Certified Snow professionals and others. Taking pride in exceeding expectations every time USL Maintenance and Landscaping has earned the Consumers Choice Award as the best Calgary Landscape Designers.
The Consumers Choice Awards use an elite form of Consumer study that surveys Consumers and asks them to name their choice of community Companies such as the best Calgary Landscape Designers. A large volume of response is received yet in order to insure the information is valid, Consumers are questioned a second time in the form of a vote. Popular business names received from the survey are placed on a ballot containing the names of the top five Companies in each category. Ballots are distributed for a community vote and majority vote is used to name businesses best in class just as ULS Maintenance has been deemed the best Calgary Landscape Designers. Receiving the coveted award is a hard earned honor resulting from constant competition to provide the ultimate in product and service. By inspiring Companies to focus business on customer satisfaction the Consumer Choice Awards help to invite future clientele and increase local sales. The Consumers Choice Awards conduct a valuable service to communities across North America by allowing Consumers the opportunity to voice their opinion and using it to create a welcoming business climate. ULS Maintenance and Landscaping have been granted the Consumers Choice Award for being the best Landscape Designers in Calgary.
Congratulations to ULS Maintenance and Landscaping for being honored as the best Landscape Designers in Calgary, thanks to the Consumers Choice Awards and their continual quest to promote business excellence. Visit the best Calgary Landscape Designers located on 235120 Ryan Road, or call (403) 235-5353 to speak with a courteous service representative. Contract ULS Maintenance and you will find they are the best in Calgary Landscape design.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Landscape PING!
So I think I need to start with the boring stuff. What’s this blog about? Other than allowing me somewhere to spout off my sometimes, irrational views about the modern world (like who the hell thought that flavoured water would be a good idea?). Anyway, as I’m a Chartered Landscape Architect and hence spend quite a lot of time thinking about this, it seemed not a bad starting point for me to write about landscape architecture.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm, but there’s a problem here, isn’t there? You don’t know what landscape architects do or what landscape architecture is about, do you? What do you think it is then?
No! Don’t say that word, godammit!!!
OK. *Takes deep breath*
Well for a start don’t worry, I suspect you’re in good company here, as not many people seem to know what a landscape architect does either. Sadly, I’d probably include many of the people I seem to encounter through work in that too. But where can you find out, you cry?!?
Well you would think a good place to start would be the Landscape Institute’s website, http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/, seeing as how they’re like, the people what look after landscape architects (including me of course). Hmmmmmm, not a lot of explanation of what we do there, but there is the lovely slogan, “The Landscape Institute – Inspiring great places.” Not really inspiring an understanding of landscape architect unfortunately. Handily, it also has a link to http://www.iwanttobealandscapearchitect.com/. This is the Landscape Institute’s propaganda site for grooming children into the profession; luring them to their gingerbread house on Great Portland Street with pictures of fountains, fopps and fauna. To be honest, you’ll actually have to look pretty hard amongst, “The Genius of Place” and “The Power to Change”, before you find some sort of definition, but here it is:
“Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people and natural systems. The range of ways in which landscape architects work is staggering.”
It continues in that vein for some time and then if were beginning to get some sort of idea about the subject, it then has videos of a whole load of landscape architects, giving ‘their definition’ of landscape architecture. Anyone would think we are a little bit unsure ourselves. Personally, I think it’s ‘staggering’ that we can’t all agree on a common definition. So here’s mine.
Landscape architecture is the design of exterior space.
Easy and inclusive of trees, planting, paving, management, urban design, masterplanning, ecology, public realm and a whole heap of stuff that is not immediately springing to my befuddled, mind. Crucially for me, it has nothing to do with landscaping.
You see landscaping, pronounced, “land ·skeyp ·PING (see what I did there?) is often assumed to be one in the same with landscape architecture, and there our problems start.
We all like gardening and some people think landscape architects are gardeners. Gardeners are game amateurs - cheery, ruddy faced types, with muddy fingers, no bra’s and who turn up at your house unannounced and makeover your garden, accompanied by the Batley Colliery Brass Band. But would you want Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock involved with your multi-million pound urban regeneration scheme?
Landscaping is the commercial end of gardening, but their reputation is less cosy. You see landscape-ping is closely associated with tarmacing. People who do tarmacing turn up at your house unannounced, tell you they they’re doing some landscaping round the corner and that they can do you a great deal on a new drive, before edging your house with flapjack, slapping you with the Royal Bank of Scotland’s debt and threatening to sell your Granny to the white slave trade if you don’t pay up.
So you see, people round the country are assuming that landscape architects are either bumbling amateurs or the type of people you see running away from Roger Cooke. I hope you see my problem and why I hate the term landscaping with such vehemence.
My solution is simple.
The first rule of landscape architecture is, you do not talk about landscaping.
The second rule of landscape architecture is, you DO NOT talk about landscaping.
Finally, if you really have to say that word, adopt an incredulous expression and pronounce it “landscape-PING!?!”, as if you’ve never heard it applied to your profession before.
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Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm, but there’s a problem here, isn’t there? You don’t know what landscape architects do or what landscape architecture is about, do you? What do you think it is then?
No! Don’t say that word, godammit!!!
OK. *Takes deep breath*
Well for a start don’t worry, I suspect you’re in good company here, as not many people seem to know what a landscape architect does either. Sadly, I’d probably include many of the people I seem to encounter through work in that too. But where can you find out, you cry?!?
Well you would think a good place to start would be the Landscape Institute’s website, http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/, seeing as how they’re like, the people what look after landscape architects (including me of course). Hmmmmmm, not a lot of explanation of what we do there, but there is the lovely slogan, “The Landscape Institute – Inspiring great places.” Not really inspiring an understanding of landscape architect unfortunately. Handily, it also has a link to http://www.iwanttobealandscapearchitect.com/. This is the Landscape Institute’s propaganda site for grooming children into the profession; luring them to their gingerbread house on Great Portland Street with pictures of fountains, fopps and fauna. To be honest, you’ll actually have to look pretty hard amongst, “The Genius of Place” and “The Power to Change”, before you find some sort of definition, but here it is:
“Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people and natural systems. The range of ways in which landscape architects work is staggering.”
It continues in that vein for some time and then if were beginning to get some sort of idea about the subject, it then has videos of a whole load of landscape architects, giving ‘their definition’ of landscape architecture. Anyone would think we are a little bit unsure ourselves. Personally, I think it’s ‘staggering’ that we can’t all agree on a common definition. So here’s mine.
Landscape architecture is the design of exterior space.
Easy and inclusive of trees, planting, paving, management, urban design, masterplanning, ecology, public realm and a whole heap of stuff that is not immediately springing to my befuddled, mind. Crucially for me, it has nothing to do with landscaping.
You see landscaping, pronounced, “land ·skeyp ·PING (see what I did there?) is often assumed to be one in the same with landscape architecture, and there our problems start.
We all like gardening and some people think landscape architects are gardeners. Gardeners are game amateurs - cheery, ruddy faced types, with muddy fingers, no bra’s and who turn up at your house unannounced and makeover your garden, accompanied by the Batley Colliery Brass Band. But would you want Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock involved with your multi-million pound urban regeneration scheme?
Landscaping is the commercial end of gardening, but their reputation is less cosy. You see landscape-ping is closely associated with tarmacing. People who do tarmacing turn up at your house unannounced, tell you they they’re doing some landscaping round the corner and that they can do you a great deal on a new drive, before edging your house with flapjack, slapping you with the Royal Bank of Scotland’s debt and threatening to sell your Granny to the white slave trade if you don’t pay up.
So you see, people round the country are assuming that landscape architects are either bumbling amateurs or the type of people you see running away from Roger Cooke. I hope you see my problem and why I hate the term landscaping with such vehemence.
My solution is simple.
The first rule of landscape architecture is, you do not talk about landscaping.
The second rule of landscape architecture is, you DO NOT talk about landscaping.
Finally, if you really have to say that word, adopt an incredulous expression and pronounce it “landscape-PING!?!”, as if you’ve never heard it applied to your profession before.
Landscape masonry edicate
As I have always mentioned before... Landscape Architecture is about using materials from an existing structure to bring into the landscape and tie things together. This particular project was about just that...
The homeowner was very fun to work with from the start. When I first arrived on his project he asked me to drive up and down his street and pay attention to all the homes on his street....look at all the landscape ideas they have done....then come back and show him something different!!! (I like a challenge!)
I did exactly that and came up with the walls and pillars matching the stonework on the home. I decided to go with squares and rectangles as the paving shapes for the pathway rather than sweeping curved lines.
In the end, the client was very pleased and the look of the landscape was said to bring a bit of the old Forest Hill in Toronto look... into the Suburbs of the G.T.A. (Greater Toronto Area).Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Landscape Design Ideas Add Character to Your Home
If you have just bought a new home or are planning to add some character to your existing home, you know just how important landscape design ideas can be. You sure are excited about adding your personal touch to the home. So where do you get started?
Landscaping can make a big difference to your home. It adds character and makes your home a special place that is a reflection of your tastes and personality. The first look of your home is what leaves an impression on your visitors and all those passing by and thus, Landscaping is what you need to bring in the desired effects to transform your home into a dream space. Landscaping does not mean having to shell out a huge amount and getting in professionals who charge an enormous sum as consultation fees. With all the material available online and in the form of books, you could get started with your ideas all on your own. It surely gives a lot more satisfaction putting things together all on your own.
There are also a number of software today that allow you to design your landscaping project before you actually begin with the work. Landscaping projects is an area where good planning is required or else you would end up spending a lot of time and money and still not achieve the desired effects. Good planning and good research to back the work would ensure that you are able to put your ideas into practice and that too within your budget.
Landscaping design ideas can actually transform the home giving it a personality and character that you would fall in love with. The exterior of the home needs careful attention and the colors that you use would have a great impact on the overall appearance of your home. Make out a complete plan before beginning with the action. Checking out on the possible colors and the combination is important. There are also special paints for exteriors that can withstand the harsh weather conditions. Coming to the next stage of the greenery, it is important to make the right choice when it comes to the plants that you would like to use for beautifying your garden.
It is important to choose plants that are suitable to the specific weather conditions and regular maintenance and care is essential to keep them happy and smiling. Fountains, building walkways, a beautiful lawn and some good lighting are some other landscaping design ideas that can give a face lift to the overall appearance of your home. Make sure that you have every little detail planned and all material ready before you begin work. It is important to have harmony in thoughts and ideas and have a clear understanding of the bigger picture.
Landscape designing ideas can actually transform the home giving it a personality and character that you would fall in love with. dont you interested to know these fantastic ideas? Get them here Landscape Design Ideas
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There are also a number of software today that allow you to design your landscaping project before you actually begin with the work. Landscaping projects is an area where good planning is required or else you would end up spending a lot of time and money and still not achieve the desired effects. Good planning and good research to back the work would ensure that you are able to put your ideas into practice and that too within your budget.
Landscaping design ideas can actually transform the home giving it a personality and character that you would fall in love with. The exterior of the home needs careful attention and the colors that you use would have a great impact on the overall appearance of your home. Make out a complete plan before beginning with the action. Checking out on the possible colors and the combination is important. There are also special paints for exteriors that can withstand the harsh weather conditions. Coming to the next stage of the greenery, it is important to make the right choice when it comes to the plants that you would like to use for beautifying your garden.
It is important to choose plants that are suitable to the specific weather conditions and regular maintenance and care is essential to keep them happy and smiling. Fountains, building walkways, a beautiful lawn and some good lighting are some other landscaping design ideas that can give a face lift to the overall appearance of your home. Make sure that you have every little detail planned and all material ready before you begin work. It is important to have harmony in thoughts and ideas and have a clear understanding of the bigger picture.
Landscape designing ideas can actually transform the home giving it a personality and character that you would fall in love with. dont you interested to know these fantastic ideas? Get them here Landscape Design Ideas
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Satya_Narayan_Das
http://blogspot.com/
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