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Design Workshop Launches Landscape Architecture Archive with USU
Design Workshop, Inc., a leading international landscape architecture firm, has partnered with Utah State University to create the Design Workshop Landscape Architecture Archive and Digital Collection.
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Cherry Creek North Facelift Set to Start
Design Workshop's work in Cherry Creek North was highlighted in the August issue of "Life on Capitol Hill".
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Creating a Habitat for Plants, Wildlife and You
Organic Gardening Magazine, Feb/Mar 2009
A dynamic residential water garden is featured for its effective use of space.
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ASLA Show Recap
Landscape Architect Magazine, December 2008
Joe Porter, a founding principal of Design Workshop, is honored with the 2008 ASLA Medal.
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Building Better in Latin America
Urban Land Magazine, September 2008
Synergy among developers, designers, governmental agencies, and the private sector can result in communities that nurture the spirit, raise the standard of living, educate the public, and stabilize the economy of the country.
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With Nature
Colorado Expression Magazine, Summer 2008
The Aspen offices of Design Workshop created an integrative, innovative and environmentally sound designed landscape that bows to Mother Nature and Garnered on of landscape architecture's top honors.
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The Best List
Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, August 2008
Design Workshop receives the Editors' Choice for Landscape Designer.
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Old Sites Made New Again: Denver Home to Brownfield Redevelopment
Homebuilder Magazine (Homebuilder Association of Metro Denver), May 2008
Featured Eliot Hoyt and the Cherokee Gates Redevelopment Brownfield project.
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Legacy Architecture: The Locus of Community, Art, Economics, Environment
AIA Architect, March 14, 2008
The landscape architecture firm Design Workshop orchestrates their projects within a four-ringed comprehensive and collaborative approach that balances the elements of art, community, economics, and environment. The projects that are most successful, Chair Kurt Culbertson says, are the ones that fall in the center of the Legacy rings, where the elements are in balance. The theory is the outgrowth of an academic notion of practice that led the designers to form their partnership 35 years ago.
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Celebrating the Landscape
Recent Project in Arizona and Colorado
National ASLA Award Winners in our Region
Sources + Design, March/April 2008
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42 Gardens Getaways
Great Backyards Premier Issue, March 2008
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Riverfront Park
Denver, Colorado, USA
Korea Magazine, March 2008
Overview Planning for Riverfront Park began in the early 1990s, on the heels of several failed plans for the remediated site. As demographics began to shift and the city's sprawl and traffic congestion worsened, city fathers decided to make a major reinvestment in the urban core, including a commitment to mass transit. This helped support a vision for a plan that is translating a 65-acre former rail yard into a 21-block mixed-use urban village centered on a multi-modal transit center – a new district that will build on the assets of the surrounding urban core and link to the city's dynamism. Already, the project has stimulated a return of private investment in the area.
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Sustainability in Strategy
WW.DI.NET, Jan/Feb 2008
The focus on building “green” and green products is now ubiquitous. Builders, designers, corporations, and even individuals are at least giving sustainability lip service and at best making every effort to obtain LEED certification for their projects. Designing or building green is no longer a distinguishing factor in the marketplace – it is expected and often demanded.
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