Posted in South Carolina, landscape architecture on April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Every so often I have been fortunate enough to meet the man whose work I have come to respect and study. In this field of Landscape Design this had/has happened to me several times. Robert Marvin was one of those people.
Mr. Marvin died in 2001 after getting along to the age of age 81, of [...]
Posted in South Carolina, design principles, landscape design, nature on March 6, 2007 | No Comments »
That means the take home is around $170 million dollars in tonights MegaMillions drawing. Congratulations you’ve won! You now have to build a Botanical Garden somewhere in the World. Where would you build it? What kind of Garden would it be? Who would you hire to help build your dream?
[How about a Taj Mahal? [...]
Posted in Construction in-progress, Einstein, South Carolina, hardscape design, pergola, terrace on February 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This pergola was designed to guide visitors down a small, simple, straight walkway around to a small hidden seating area, and utility space. It was important that the pergola create some visual interest from afar because it sat at the end of a driveway.
What I would like to point out about this pergola is that [...]
Posted in South Carolina, hardscape design, stone on December 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
posted, 11/27/06
From the yard, a look before final facing
Comments, e-mails, even a phone call. Thought I would show a few more shots of this rather large bench. You can see part of the walkway, a combination of pavers, sandstone slabs, and wood for the bridge.
A look from top of walkway:
This is a look of the [...]
Posted in Ascension, Construction in-progress, South Carolina, stone on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 07/22/06
[Moving a small one]
I posted about this project on Wednesday the 19th, and mentioned something about putting more photos online-well then go here if you have some time to kill.
There are images for the drawings I completed for the proposal and many shots of the job in action, including a traffic jam [...]
Posted in Ascension, Construction in-progress, South Carolina, stone on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 07/19/06
I have just put up what I am going to call a “project page” on my website. It concerns this sculptural piece that I named Ascension It is on a hillside going into a large city in South Carolina, and I had hoped it would look like whitewater tumbling off the hillside.
In the above [...]
Posted in South Carolina, stone on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 06/30/06
Here’s a few shots thrown together of a few projects that I had put together with some sandstone.
The bench in the upper-right is a sandstone called Tennessee Web-wall. I guess the locals have named it as such because the striking rings of mineral elements in the sandstone look like webbing. I’ve not use any [...]
Posted in Ascension, South Carolina, conceptual drawing, stone on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 05/00/06
This was the drawing I had to show the City Council to receive final approval to work the project. See previous post. This was back when most of my concept drawings were completed in black and white.
I would still prefer to do them all this way, but the client likes looking at renderings [...]
My hope is to use this site to spread some info about the art and practice of Landscape Design. It is a very misunderstood profession; I do not cut grass like the next door neighbor's cousin who carries 3 mowers and a blower in the back of his truck.
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