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Landscape Architecture Magazine “Go Wild, Oregon Child”

“It’s no surprise that the nature based play movement, which in recent years has taken off across North America, has found fertile ground in Oregon.”

The March 2015 edition of Landscape Architecture Magazine features three Oregon nature-based play areas including Mayer/Reed’s Outdoor Adventure at the Portland Children’s Museum. Where some nature-based play areas redefine play equipment, author Katharine Logan says, “the Portland Children’s Museum challenges the need for playground equipment at all.”

eg Magazine Features Vancouver Community Library

Vancouver Community Library is the cover feature of the November edition of eg, the award-winning magazine focusing on visual communications in the built environment. The magazine is published quarterly by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD). EG_VancouverLibrary “A new community library opens its books and its doors with a building design and wayfinding that welcome the future.”

Just Launched – The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Portland

ASLA National has launched a mobile friendly, online guide to over 48 significant landscapes in Portland. The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Portland is organized into tours under categories such as grand parks, social equity, wildlife, water, and health. It includes site reviews along with addresses, maps, bike and transit routes.

As one of 11 local landscape architects who contributed, I was asked to be the guide for the Water Tour and demonstrate how Portland leads the nation with the development of green infrastructure. The Water Tour showcases a range of public open spaces that highlight ways Portland experiences, expresses, treats, uses and celebrates water. To tell this multi-faceted story, I reviewed Tom McCall Waterfront Park, the Water Pollution Control Laboratory, the Rain Garden at the Oregon Convention Center, Sandy Blvd. Streetscape, and the Amy Joslin Memorial Eco-roof at the Multnomah County Building.Portland is a walkable, bikeable tour-friendly city. It’s a city without a single, stand-out landmark; yet increasingly we see visitors on the streets with maps and mobile devices exploring our many nooks and crannies. Through the eyes of visitors, this is an opportunity to ask ourselves, what has Portland done right? What can other cities learn from Portland? What is Portland doing to maintain our quality of life and continue to become even more sustainable?

Publication: Wayshowing > Wayfinding

We are honored to have two projects featured in a new book by Per Mollerup, Wayshowing>Wayfinding: Basic & Interactive. The firm’s visual communications work for Tri-Met Portland Transit Mall and the Vancouver Community Library are featured as examples of successful wayshowing from around the world.

The book is a follow-up to the 2005 edition, Wayshowing: A Guide to Environmental Signage which also featured Mayer/Reed’s work. Per Mollerup is Professor of Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne and author of several books on design.