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Stanford’s Spring Lecture Series in Architecture + Landscape + Urban Design with Sara Zewde

June 2 @ 5:00 pm

The University Architect / Campus Planning and Design Office sponsors a spring lecture series in architecture and landscape architecture. The purpose of the series is to bring together community enthusiasts, [...]

ASLA-NCC Giants Night

September 16 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Save the date and join us for the Giants vs. Dodgers baseball game! Details announced this summer.

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Spread the word: the application deadline for the ASLA-NCC Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Scholarship has been extended until June 10th! 🌿 This scholarship will support two BIPOC emerging professionals on their journeys of career growth and involvement with ASLA. Check out this post and the link in our bio for more information about the JEDI mission and how to apply ✨

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ASLA-NCC is excited to partner with Stanford’s University Architect / Campus Planning and Design Office to host a webinar with Sara Zewde of @studio_zewde as part of this year’s lecture series themed “The Architecture of Joy”.

Studio Zewde is a landscape architecture, urban design, and public art practice based in Harlem, New York City. Named to the Architectural Digest AD100 and a 2021 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, the studio’s work is lauded for its design methodology that syncs site interpretation and narrative with a dedication to the craft of construction.

✨Click the link in our bio to register!✨

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The Bay Area LARC (Landscape Architecture Resources Community) is excited to announce that our webpage is now live as part of the NCC website! On our webpage, you can find “Resource Spotlights” which are article posts that highlight landscape architecture resources. Our resources spreadsheet can also be accessed from our webpage. Thank you to those who have suggested resources and have helped us grow our digital library. Visit our webpage to learn more about our LinkedIn book club, volunteer opportunities, ways to connect with us, and more.

How to access: from the NCC website homepage, go to drop down menu “Professional” and find “LARC”!

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Thank you for joining us this past month while we celebrated our amazing chapter members and the results of their hard work! ✨We're already looking forward to next year's award submissions 😍

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Located in San Francisco’s design district, 100/150 Hooper Street provides a home for a new complex of artisan workshop and manufacturing spaces. At the ground level, roll up doors create seamless connections between workshop spaces and the shared plaza that connects the project’s two buildings, cultivating a communal atmosphere of exchange and engagement. The landscape attests to the movement of the site – of materials, of people, and of ideas – and pays homage to the nearby Mission Creek Channel. A network of planters defines informal gathering spaces and collects stormwater run-off, showcasing the performative functions of the site while framing lush perennial garden views from the interior workshops. Formerly a tractor trailer parking lot, large pieces of concrete were salvaged, polished and sandwiched together to create a collection of site furnishings and monuments that can be found throughout. The result is a balanced conversation between natural and industrial processes, giving the space a serene, creative atmosphere.⁠
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👏Congratulations @sdisf!⁠⠀ #WLAM2022 #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitectureawards #ASLANCC #thisislandscapearchitecture #environmentCA #getoutside #design

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Two city blocks wide and traversing 20 feet of grade change, the Margaret Hayward Playground reconnects the Western Addition with the pastoral Jefferson Park. Flanked by sports facilities on the east and west, the central clubhouse and playground provide a community hub and strong pedestrian connection to the park amenities from the adjacent neighborhood while skillfully navigating the topography. Colorful, bold, and creative, the integrated design of the play space and clubhouse offers a seamless indoor-outdoor experience for community activities and events. This significant redesign provides a much needed recreational hub to a community historically impacted by racial segregation and redevelopment.⁠
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👏Congratulations @sfpublicworks!⁠⠀ #WLAM2022 #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitectureawards #ASLANCC #thisislandscapearchitecture #environmentCA #getoutside #design ⁠

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The addition of outdoor spaces in the historic Capwell department store in downtown Oakland transforms the large internal building into a modern office environment. At the building’s center, a new interior courtyard allows sunlight to all floors and welcomes the public into the heart of the building with a ground floor atrium filled with palms and elegant seating. ⁠
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Each of three roof terraces creates a different and authentically local connection to the history of the building and the site. The individual floors highlight different aspects of history and geography and support an integrated view of health that emphasizes individuals, ecology, and community. On the sixth floor, a meadow references Lake Merritt and the parklands of Oakland and provides spaces for being surrounded by plants and nature. On the seventh-floor outdoor workspace and lounges designed with a tiled floor pattern and overhead trellis evoke the Capwell department store’s tearoom. Below the billboard sign and on the eighth-floor a large wood stoop has views to the historic roofscape and reconnects the building users to the broader city.⁠
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🦋🌻This suburban lot was transformed to provide not only native habitat for flora and fauna, but an aesthetic wild experience for the homeowner as well. A large lawn was torn out, re-graded and planted to create a native meadow and meadow stream. A plant palette of native grasses, perennials, shrubs and trees was installed, while retaining several existing shrubs. Consulting with the homeowner, who is a geologist and avid hiker, special soils and stone were imported to extend the wet margins of the artificial stream, which created a more natural, seamless boundary between water and meadow. Several species of native birds, insects and other wildlife have been supported by the native plants and stream environment in this converted backyard. The homeowners enjoy sitting out on their deck and patio in the late afternoon, taking in the mini wilderness and the wildlife it attracts.⁠
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👏Congratulations HUETTL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE!⁠⠀ #WLAM2022 #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitectureawards #ASLANCC #thisislandscapearchitecture #environmentCA #getoutside #design ⁠

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The intimate scale of Santana Row has created a vibrant, mixed-use South Bay destination with some of the highest performing retail in San Jose. Shaded, walkable streets, outdoor dining, and an eclectic mix of uses has yielded a “village within a city,” creating a regional draw rivalling downtown. ⁠
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🚗➡️🚶The design of 700 Santana Row completes the Santana Row landscape by replacing a large asphalt parking lot with a plaza that serves as the terminus for the Row. The challenge was to design a new plaza that weaves together the original Mediterranean-inspired buildings with a large-scale uncompromisingly modern office building conceived for a new generation of Silicon Valley workers. This plaza and roof terrace embody the design language of voluptuous classic modernism to extend the much-loved intimate scale of Santana Row while ushering in a new phase with a fountain, ample seating and shade, a newly raised street, and widened sidewalks.⁠⭐⁠
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🌳🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️⁠As Shanghai’s grandmother river, the Suzhou Creek runs through the center of Shanghai and has always been closely related to the lives of its citizens. For a long time, due to the constraints of the city’s flood control problems, a continuous, nearly human-high flood wall has been erected at the riverbank, which has caused bunch of problems - interrupting the pedestrian circulation on both sides of the creek, cutting off the city’s connection with nature, and compressing the public space along the creek. This has prompted us to reflect on a better flood control measure - one that is both ecological and people-friendly.⁠
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With the change of concept from water-retaining to water-friendly, a more livable flood wall replaced the traditional one, creating a three-lane circulation system for people, reconnecting city to nature and providing high quality public spaces on both sides of the Suzhou Creek. The new flood wall becomes a container for urban life, which not only brings urban vitality, but also builds a more humanized resilience.⁠
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🌳🍷🍇A wine-making family’s Sonoma Valley estate is perched on a ridge amidst the rolling foothills of the Mayacamas Mountain Range with sweeping views of the vineyards in the valleys below. The clients requested a landscape that would anchor their home to the land, the agrarian context of the region, and the existing oak woodland on the site. ⁠
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The structures frame courtyards for outdoor living and provide opportunities for experiencing varied connections within this wine country estate. The locally sourced stone walls create a welcoming sense of arrival and define spatial frames while olive, fig, and pistache trees create shade above outdoor living and dining spaces. The pool and pool house provide a respite in the sun-drenched landscape, and culinary plantings spill from raised steel planters in the entry courtyard while plantings of rosemary, dwarf olive, and restored native grassland envelop the site in a seamless composition⁠
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Parkhill Greens project is a hub that unites local residences, schools, retail, streets, and pre-existing vegetation into a socially and environmentally conscious green space. Located on a hillside of the Jiangangshan neighborhood in southern China, this newly constructed 7,000-square-meter public realm presented challenges in its relatively small size and slope condition. ⁠
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The site focused on a strong central gathering gesture with lush planting surrounding each area. The design of the site mitigated the grade change by adapting it to maximize social, recreational, and sustainable benefits for a diverse range of people. Now a civic space full of vibrancy, social interaction, and environmental stewardship, the site has made significant contributions to its neighborhood and is embraced by users of all ages.🏀🌳⁠
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🍬🍬🍬 Paying homage to the sugar refinery that formerly occupied the site, Liquid Sugar is a garden for residents and a visual landscape for passerby. Liquid Sugar is a multi-family residential complex adjacent to the Emeryville Greenway. Prior to completion in 2002, the site had been home to an industrial factory that turned granulated sugar into a colorless liquid used in food production. ⁠
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Curiosity motivated us to understand the former industrial process that took place on site. Contamination from the process and a resulting soil cap three feet below grade forced us to think creatively and inspired our design process. A series of mounds and perforated walls now interrupt the linear space. In the evening hours the walls take on an ephemeral character, twinkling or sparkling like the namesake Liquid Sugar for residents and greenway passerby to enjoy.⭐⁠
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👏Congratulations @groundworksoffice!⁠ #WLAM2022 #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitectureawards #ASLANCC #thisislandscapearchitecture #environmentCA #getoutside #design

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🌳East Evelyn Campus is a workplace retrofit project that transforms an introverted 1980s-era suburban office park of lawns and fountains into a landscape built around performance. The landscape design focuses on hacking the existing site assets and recodes them into a connected hierarchy of spaces for a new urban sensibility. ⁠
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The master plan approach avoids the faux urbanism of many Silicon Valley campuses and instead builds a framework through which the site can become truly urban over time, embracing a people-first functionality. Through a network of plazas, streets, alleys, gardens, and parks, the new site has all the richness of character and complexity one would find in a dense urban district.⁠
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