Children’s Park wants to play
By Delle Willett After years of planning, the City of San Diego is doing a $6.05 million overhaul of the Children’s Park, giving residents and nearby workers an invitation to come out and play. Children’s [...]
Art on the Land: East Village Green gets the green light
DELLE WILLETT | Art on the Land I wrote about East Village Green in October 2016 and am pleased to see that the park now has a green light to break ground in the summer [...]
Nature play is back with new exploration area
By DELLE WILLETT | Downtown News Photos by Shamli Tarbell When I was growing up, we played outdoors all day long. Luring crabs into our nets with a chicken neck on a string; collecting wagons [...]
Art on the Land: Counting on San Diego’s urban forest
By Delle Willett | Uptown News When landscape architect Tomas Herrera-Mishler came to San Diego four years ago to be CEO and president of the newly formed Balboa Park Conservancy, he was astounded that the [...]
Art on the Land: Block F adds greenscape and open space to East Village
By Delle Willett I recently had the opportunity to get a virtual in-depth tour of Block F in East Village with Amber Lake of Carrier Johnson + Culture, with an emphasis on the landscape architecture [...]
KPBS Feature | Balboa Park Trees Are Stressed, But There’s Hope
By Erik Anderson Bradley Michael Brown knelt over a hole that is home to a newly planted tree in Balboa Park. "And it looks like we're about there," Brown said as he threw another handful [...]
OJB Featured in The New York Times
NEW YORK TIMES, by Gregory Schmidt, Feb. 12, 2019 Bringing Nature Back to the Urban Core Frederick Law Olmsted understood nature’s ability to rejuvenate the mind and body. One of the principal designers of Central [...]
Chapter President’s Letter to the UT: Climate plan should include landscape pro
Read the article here: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/sd-san-diego-trees-lanscaping-climate-action-plan-utak-20190204-story.html The entire letter is below: SD Union Tribune letter to the Editor Re : Planner urges residents to help with tree program 1/25/2019 As a landscape architect I eagerly read [...]
Philip Armstrong New Chapter President of the American Society of Landscape Architects
San Diego—January 8: The American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego chapter (ASLA-SD) has selected Philip Armstrong to be its president in 2019. With nearly 30 years of professional experience as a licensed landscape architect, [...]
Art on the Land: Art of Landscaping
Growing up in Colorado, Marcie Harris loved art, drawing, gardening, hiking, biking and just being outdoors. And when searching for a career, she asked her aunt, “If you could do anything, what would it be?” [...]