Nothing About The Bakken -- Environmental Landscaping -- April 9, 2017

Nothing about the Bakken. For the archives. Personal interest. Two nice articles in today's Dallas Morning News. 

First: "The Shape of Things To Come", Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, April 9, 2017. Data points:

• Frederick Law Olmsted
• father of landscape architecture in the United States
• arrived in Dallas, 1855
• his works include
• Central Park, Manhattan, NYC
• Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC
• the Emerald Necklace of Boston
• White House grounds, Washington, DC
• Capital grounds, Washington, DC
• The article comes at a time when there is a movement in Dallas to "re-wild" the Trinity River, to let natural ecologies one again take over the space between the levees. My reading of the tea leaves: Olmsted would have said "no." Or perhaps, "hell, no."

Second: Peter Walker, landscape architect, first recipient of the Richard Brettel Award in the Arts, Dallas Morning News, data points:

• first recipient of this award
• $150,000
• Dallas philanthropist Margaret McDermott, recently celebrated her 105th birthday, donor behind the award
• Brettel occupies the Margaret M. McDermott chair of art and the aesthetic studies and the Edith O'Donnell distinguished university chair at the University of Texas at Dallas
• also the art critic at The Dallas Morning News
• writer considers Walked the dean of American landscape artists; currently active; in his 80s
• his firm is active worldwide
• educated at UC-Berkeley; the University of Illinois; and, Harvard University
• first major work: his firm designed the overall landscape for the incipient Dallas Arts District
• then, the corporate community of Solana northwest of DFW
• then, the landscape master plan for the University of Texas at Dallas
• that led to designing the landscape for Clements University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center
• he has designed a landscape master plan for the University of Texas at Austin
• his signature landscape: the National September 11 Memorial in New York City
• others:
• Barangaroo Reserve Park, Sydney, Australia
• Sony Headquarters, Berlin
• Jamison Square, Portland, OR
• Harvard, Boston, MA
• Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia
• Glenstone, Maryland
• Cleveland Clinic 
• two immense landscape/architectural environments under construction will crown his storied career
• the Transbay Transit Square, San Francisco: one block wide, a quarter mile long, and four stories above street level
• the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore: a five-story circular tropical garden in a totally air-conditioned space inside the airport; for airport travelers to relax