Verdant Design

The Louisville Downtown Management District embarked in 2002 to issue artistic bike racks around the downtown.  It raises the awareness of the arts, funds artists in the city, and supplies needed bike racks to the urban core.  The LDMD just finished another round of art bike rack submittals.  To see the current bike racks, go to Louisville Downtown Management District website. The map in the center shows where the bike racks are located. By clicking on the surround pictures, one can see an enlarged photo of the bike racks. Below is a bike rack design submitted by Verdant Design which references Brad White’s bike rack.

Pink Folly

The Smith Residence shows how a very steeply sloped back yard can become its greatest feature. Rain barrels capture the water for planting beds near the house. New terraces shaped like arcs create level ground. Places where erosion occured become a focal point as a dry creekstone bed.
This is a 3D view of the conceptual design.

A client needed a landcape inspection report in order to wrap up their project.  Photos from the final landscape can be seen below.  Click here for more on the project.

Sketches tell a great deal about the thought process and intent before it becomes a polished final design.

This is a 3D view of a rain garden design.

Work on the Highland Baptist Church Master Plan was a challenge in coreographing the history and sacred spaces in a meaningful way for the 21st century. The spaces shown are conceptual, since they will develop as small projects over time, yet they need to make sense collectively. The best way to explain the new grounds were to take viewers on a walk, so a 3D movie of the proposed changes proved to be the best choice to show the proposed changes.

Park(ing) Day is a day to emphasize the need for public open spaces, especially in urban areas. The basic idea is to “rent” a spot — a parking space — to create a temporary “park”. Sometimes the parks are literal (grass and trees), sometimes they are more for the fun of it. More information can be found at Trust for Public Land. Check out what the Kentucky Chapter of Landscape Architects did last year for Park(ing) Day: