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Ground-02-FINAL.Pdf 02 Landscape Architect Quarterly 10/ Deconstruction Drawing on China 14/ Features Riding the Asian Express Publication # 40026106 Spring 2008 Messages .02 03 Letters to the Editor President’s Message Congratulations to the entire editorial team—the magazine is The OALA’s 40th anniversary conference and AGM, Realizing the fantastic! The group has done a truly spectacular job—it looks Dream, was a great success. Our special thanks go to Lawrence good and has great content. After being a member for twenty- Stasiuk, Conference Chair, and his Conference Team, who creat- plus years, I am finally keeping my copy of the magazine! ed, produced, and presented a wonderful conference in celebra- DONNA HINDE tion of the OALA’s 40th Anniversary. This was a job well done! OALA, CSLA THE PLANNING PARTNERSHIP TORONTO The Recognition Awards Luncheon attendees included our full members, associates, Honorary and Emeritus members, The magazine as a whole looks great and is very award winners, and leaders of both municipal governments of interesting—I read it from cover to cover. The editorial team Waterloo and Kitchener who were recognized by the OALA for should be very proud. their outstanding contributions to sustainable design. The SCOTT TORRANCE OALA, CSLA Conference Gala Presentation paid tribute to OALA past SCOTT TORRANCE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT INC. TORONTO presidents and honoured Robert N. Allsopp with the esteemed OALA Pinnacle Award. The summer issue of Ground will feature Congratulations to all involved in putting out such a coverage of these awards. beautiful publication. Worth the wait! Keep up the promise! BRAD JOHNSON At the conference, keynote speakers included Dr. Eugene Tsiu OALA (EMERITUS), FCSLA, RCA BRAD JOHNSON + ASSOCIATES LIMITED from California, a published architect whose thought-provoking CHAFFEY address opened our minds to the global environmental crises and presented his ecological design and architectural solutions. Robert I love the new look, it really feels like a “design magazine.” Gibbs, an urban planner from Michigan, captured our attention I am not only pleased to hear that the OALA is using recycled with his presentation on the theories of retail marketing and paper, I am proud that the OALA has pushed the envelope and advertising. Each keynote speaker challenged us to think gone beyond Forest Stewardship Council Certification. outside the box and look for design solutions beyond our SCOTT MASON, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER CORUSH, SUNDERLAND, WRIGHT LTD. normal experiences. OTTAWA This past season has provided many opportunities to promote Congratulations—what a fine job on the new format. This will not the work of our members and the profession. Several landscape only engage the membership but look good on the profession. architects received design awards at the 2008 Canada Blooms JOHN WRIGHT OALA, CSLA, MCIP, RPP, PRINCIPAL Show and the OALA gained greater recognition with our new CORUSH SUNDERLAND WRIGHT LIMITED OTTAWA information booth featured in the main garden area of the show. OALA actively participated in World Landscape Architecture Month What a huge upgrade from the old days! Stunning really. My only by accepting the challenge from the CSLA, to See the Future, negative comments: I hate that fiddly folding thing at the front and Be the Future. the ink really stinks, it smells like window putty. TOM RIDOUT During this 40th anniversary year, I challenge you to envision our OALA, CSLA FLEISHER RIDOUT PARTNERSHIP next 40 years—and strive to ensure that the OALA remains at the TORONTO forefront of landscape architecture in Ontario. Together we can make this happen. Congratulations on Ground. Speaking as a reader (and not a ARNIS BUDREVICS, OALA PRESIDENT landscape architect, by the way), I found it exciting and interesting. [email protected] Speaking as an advertiser, I am happy to support a publication that makes such an effort to communicate new ideas through pictures, words, and drawings. Very much in tune with our objective, which is to bring new ideas to the attention of your audience. DOUG CARTER DURISOL INC. HAMILTON Up Front .02 04 PARKS lands in Guelph, we don’t have the 01 designing for pollinators resources to do maintenance,” says Pathak, noting that the pollination park, There’s a buzz in Guelph and it has every- with its array of meadow plants, will thing to do with insects. Plans are under- require ongoing management to keep way to create the world’s first pollination invasive weeds in check. As Landman puts park, a place specifically designed to pro- it, referring to the need to weed out any vide habitat for pollinators. “As far as we plants that might root deeper than the clay know, this is a first,” says Karen Landman, cap, “The maintenance level will be more a professor of landscape architecture at like that of a garden.” the University of Guelph and one of the driving forces behind the project. Last fall, All agree, however, that the end result Landman organized a design charrette for will be worth the effort. “The public is very first-year MLA students at the University of much on side,” says Landman. “People Guelph, who toured the site—a decom- are calling to see how they can missioned landfill—participated in a work- get involved.” shop, developed concepts, and presented their plans to city staff and Guelph Councillors. “Eight weeks into the program and the students had a real client,” says Landman. “It was quite a boost.” Jyoti Pathak, OALA, CSLA, a parks planner with the City of Guelph, is responsible for overseeing the project. The landscape architecture firm Schollen & Company was recently hired to proceed with a concept design for Pollinators’ Park and to run a public process in order to develop a mas- ter plan. “This is an excellent opportunity to increase public awareness and provide environmental stewardship,” says Pathak. “We’re looking for something that will serve as a model worldwide—turning this scarred landscape, what used to be a garbage dump, into a bloom-filled 0A haven for butterflies, birds, and other BIRDS pollinating insects.” 02 habitats and homes The 200-acre site (100 acres of which will Bent silver cutlery re-purposed into perch- Up Front: be an active community park, the other es, holding seeds for indigo buntings. 100 acres for the pollination park) presents Discarded take-out coffee lids and stir a number of unique challenges. There sticks shaped into a plausible pine cone, Information are 60 gas extraction wells that collect home for pine warblers. An upside-down methane on site, and these will need to plastic water bottle wrapped in wire mesh, be protected. As well, any planting will enticement for boreal chickadees. on the need to be done with species that don’t Definitely not your regular bird feeders. compromise the integrity of the clay cap The twenty-five creations swaying in the covering the landfill. And ongoing mainte- Scotts Wild Bird Habitat garden at Canada Ground nance and management are a concern: Blooms were the result of an unusual “Where we have large, naturalized park- design brief: the “clients” were birds, the Up Front .02 05 species, many of them rare or in decline, that have died in this way. Relatively sim- ple design adjustments, however, can help. For landscape architects, four sec- tions of the bird-friendly guidelines have particular relevance: exterior lighting, mirrors or glass windbreaks, ventilation grates (another deadly hazard for injured fallen birds), and transparent noise barri- ers. Each section includes suggested improvements that take birds into account. Along with helping birds, the guidelines are also garnering recognition for the city: the prestigious Canadian Urban Institute recently gave the Working Group that developed the guidelines an Urban Leadership Award. According to Kelly Snow, the City staff lead on the project, 0B “One of the remarkable things is that the people who sat on the Working Group designers were youths and students GUIDELINES were volunteers—it was a civic initiative.” 03 bird-friendly design (youths from the Evergreen Mission, and Snow notes that the guidelines will be reg- students from Ryerson University’s first- ularly updated, adding, “I hope that land- It was a grisly tableau: hundreds of dead year Architectural Science program and scape architects will be interested in work- birds lined up in depressing rows, dis- Landscape Design Certificate students ing with us.” For more information, see played at Toronto’s Metro Hall in an effort from the Chang School of Continuing www.toronto.ca/lightsout/guidelines.htm. Education), and the goal was to transform to raise awareness of the dangers migra- everyday discarded materials into one-of- tory birds face in the urban environment. a-kind bird habitats. Margery Winkler, This stark lesson, however, was also OALA, and Shawn Gallaugher, Associate intended to publicize more encouraging Member, OALA, were team members in news: Toronto is now one of the few cities the collaborative exercise, which paired in North America to develop “Bird-Friendly homeless youths from the Yonge Street Development Guidelines.” Released in Mission with students for an intense week March 2007 as part of Toronto’s “Green of design work, culminating in the bird Development Standard,” the guidelines feeders on display at Canada Blooms. suggest ways that designers and man- “Architects design buildings. The Yonge agers of buildings and landscapes can Street Mission dreams of habitat. mitigate the threats to birds migrating Together, they made habitats for birds,” north in the spring and south in the fall. says Gallaugher, connecting the During their biannual flyovers, birds metaphoric threads of this unique project. become confused by the combination of Though clearly pleased that the garden light pollution and the effects of glass in won an award at Canada Blooms (an the urban environment, which results in OALA “Up and Coming Award”), significant numbers of birds colliding with Gallaugher measures the project’s suc- buildings.
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