Creating Beauty Blog
Why create beauty?
April 6th, 2009
It's a question that is especially timely today given our feelings of uncertainty due to the global financial crisis, climate change, the tenuous state of imbalance we have in our relationships with the natural world or any number of things that give us a feeling of "dis-ease". ... [ MORE ]
SHOWCASE
Terry Fox Mile 0 Commemorative Garden
April 12, 2010 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Terry Fox’s legendary Marathon of Hope cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Terry started ...More
Terry Fox Mile 0 Commemorative Garden
April 12, 2010 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Terry Fox’s legendary Marathon of Hope cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Terry started his run at the east end of St. John’s Harbour on property owned by the St. John’s Port Authority. The Port Authority, in association with Parks Canada and the City of St. John’s, are developing a lasting commemoration to Terry’s legacy. This week take a moment to reflect on just how much Terry Fox changed our perception of cancer!
Landscape Architecture : Garden Design : Site Planning : Project Management
Landscape Architecture is the profession committed to the creation of meaningful and vital outdoor places and to the sustainable management of our environment.
“What, then, should the term landscape architecture be taken to mean? It will be understood here to mean the art - or the science, if preferred - of arranging land, together with the spaces and objects upon it, for safe, efficient, healthful, pleasant human use.”
Norman T. Newton, Design on the Land, 1971
Garden Design is the art and process of designing creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license.
Site Planning refers to the organizational stage of the landscape design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, privacy, security, shelter, land drainage, and other factors. This is done by arranging the compositional elements of landform, planting, water, buildings and paving and building.
Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.