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Find it First in LASN! There are 66 advertisements or product releases in this issue where the picture or ad has never before been published, what LASN calls "World Premieres." Look for the World Premiere icon in the Product Focus section (pages 24-29) and in red text the Ad Index (pages 138-139, 141-142). Contact LASN for more information on how your new product can be in the World Premiere spotlight! (714) 979-LASN (5276) www.landscapeonline.com World Premiere On the cover: Michels Plaza, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Va. Landscape Architecture by Harvey Design Land Architects. Find 66 World Premieres in this Issue For Details See Page 8 World Premiere w w w . l a n d s c a p e o n l i n e . c o m THE INDUSTRY TRADE MAGAZINE FOR COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPE SPECIFIERS NATIONWIDE! Volume 30 Number 06 June 2014 Volume 30 Number 06 8 Landscape Architect and Specifier News 30 40 54 70 36 46 64 78 f e a t u re s 30 Kent State University Risman Plaza + Student Green This project's primary goal was the transformation of a bleak, pedestrian thoroughfare, bisected by a campus artery that was dated, under used and unwelcoming. The site's greatest deficit was lack of spatial variety. —SmithGroupJJR, Design Lead + Project Management, Project Associate 36 Jersey Student Sanctuary—Union City, High School The Union City High School Board of Education sought a bit of sanctuary for its students, home of the "soaring eagles." The outcome is a 17,000 sq. ft. triangular landscaped area at the main entrance of the high school, a refuge and gathering space from the urban tumult. —Landscape Architecture by Borst Landscape and Design 40 Michels Plaza at Historic Randolph College, Lynchburg, Va. The initial plaza concept was a small, intimate courtyard enclosed by seat walls. The final design was for two bubbling pools at either side of a top row of amphitheater-style seating, with a recirculating fountain feature at the plaza center. —Proctor Harvey, RLA, ASLA, and Nathan Harbin, Creative Director, Harvey Design Land Architects (HDLA) 46 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York IQ Landscape Architects, P.C., has been the landscape architect for Marist College for the past eight years, and has developed wide campus paths to improve pedestrian links between academic buildings and student dorms. The new quadrangle was built over a former parking lot, with walkways integrated with large, sweeping lawn areas and informal student gathering spaces. —IQ Landscape Architects P.C. 54 San Diego Stormwater Strategies Innovative site design at the University of California, San Diego's new Charles David Keeling Apartments for second-year residents established an elegant system that captures stormwater runoff and increases campus sustainability. —Yu-Ju Liu, RLA, LEED AP, Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects 64 Children's Museum of South Dakota, Evolution of a School Campus Confluence worked closely with the owner and design consultants to develop this 3.45-acre outdoor exhibit space, which included adjacent streetscape improvements. Nature play was the unifying theme. —Landscape Architecture by Confluence—Editor Michelle Medaris, LASN 70 Salmon Bay Autism Inclusive Playground Johnson+Southerland worked with Seattle public alternative school Salmon Bay K-8 to redesign their playground. Special design attention went to kids in the Autism Spectrum Disorder program, although it's not an autism-only playground. —Johnson+Southerland, Architects and Landscape Architects, Maggi Johnson, Principal 78 Harvard Kent Elementary Schoolyard, Charlestown, Mass. The design for the school play area was shaped by the community's desire to have a theme. The near proximity of the Charlestown Navy Yard and the historic USS Constitution, a wooden-hulled, three-mast frigate built in 1795, was the thematic inspiration. —Design by CBA Landscape Architects, LLC