Nebraska/Dakotas Chapter's @nationalasla Instagram Takeover!
World Landscape Architecture Month Instagram Takeover!
Join the Nebraska-Dakotas Chapter as we share the perspective of landscape architects from Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota! It’s World Landscape Architecture Month, and we’re taking over National ASLA’s Instagram. Check it out!
As stewards of the environment, landscape architects assume the roles botanist, educator, and explorer.
Toadstool Geologic Park - Oglala National Grasslands, NE
Contributing Member: Rachel Anderson, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
https://plantnebraska.org/
GF&P Outdoor Campus West – Rapid City, SD
Contributing Firm: Wyss Associates, Inc. www.wyssassociates.com
Several months of design development and meetings with the Department of Game, Fish and Parks and the public Development Committee resulted in specific outdoor educational amenities specific to the unique and wonderful site. Some of the designed facilities include a beach, casting doc, water side stone stepping area around the lake, five major outdoor classrooms including a picnic shelter, two shade canopies covered seating areas, a treehouse and pavilion, and a variety of other features. The campus is centered around the “Heart of the Campus”, a two acre area where a natural playground, large native grass lawn and other facilities make a fun and active place to focus planned outdoor activities. The majority of the site is left as a natural area with both natural surface and crushed stone pathways connecting a native garden, boardwalks through a wetland, and to the adjacent city Wilderness Park. The project was completed in the fall of 2011.
Platte River State Park – South Bend, NE
Contributing Member: Zack Fergus, Lamp Rynearson
https://lamprynearson.com/
Hitchcock Nature Center – Honey Creek, IA
Contributing Member: Zack Fergus, Lamp Rynearson
https://lamprynearson.com/
The firms in our chapter engage in various project typologies. They shape the environments in which we work, play, and learn.
Good Samaritan National Campus – Sioux Falls, SD
Contributing Firm: Stockwell Engineers https://www.stockwellengineers.com/
Stockwell Engineers provided landscape architecture services for the campus expansion of the Good Samaritan National Campus. The design included native prairies, a reflection pond, two outdoor patios, a prayer garden, an outdoor amphitheater and more.
Cerner Innovations Campus
Kansas City, MO
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
University of Nebraska Omaha
Omaha, NE
Contributing Member: Rachel Anderson, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
https://plantnebraska.org/
Centennial Mall - Lincoln, NE
Contributing Member: Rachel Anderson, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
https://plantnebraska.org/
University of South Dakota - Vermillion, SD
Contributing Firm: Stockwell Engineers https://www.stockwellengineers.com/
Stockwell Engineers provided landscape architecture services for the University of South Dakota, including an expanded sidewalk system, a complete landscape overhaul, and improved surface drainage across the campus.
Landscape architects design for pedestrians while understanding the implications of vehicular traffic. When it is done well this relationship appears seamless.
Northern Pacific Avenue – Fargo, ND
Contributing Firm - Land Elements http://www.landelements.com/
Streetscape Design for Northern Pacific (NP) Avenue in Fargo, ND culminated from the results of a larger corridor study for NP Avenue and 1st Avenue in Downtown Fargo calling for the conversion of a one-way pair of streets to right-sized two-way streets. Land Elements collaborated with the City of Fargo’s engineering department from the conceptual design through construction to develop Fargo’s first complete street, where people move in harmony in an urban setting.
Raven Industries Corporate Office – Sioux Falls, SD
Contributing Firm: Confluence
http://www.thinkconfluence.com/
20TH St. Streetscape – Kansas City, MO
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
City of Grand Forks Town Square – Grand Forks, ND
Contributing Firm: RDG Planning & Design
https://rdgusa.com/
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs
Stillwell Inclusive Playground – Johnson County, KS
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
Target Green Infrastructure – Kansas City, MO
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
Students Design Presentation
Memorial Landscape at Prairie Pines
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Public Design Studio – Grand Forks, ND
Contributing Firm: RDG Planning & Design
https://rdgusa.com/
Student Charrette – Cather Pound & Neihardt Complex
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer
Jester Park Natural Playscape – Granger, IA
Contributing Firm: RDG Planning & Design
https://rdgusa.com/
North Dakota State University Students & Faculty – 2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture
Harmodon Park – Sioux Falls, SD
Contributing Firm: Stockwell Engineers https://www.stockwellengineers.com/
Stillwell Inclusive Playground – Johnson County, KS
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
One of the most impressive skills that landscape architects possess is the ability to communicate a complex idea through the use of lines and language.
Concept Diagram of the Memorial Landscape at Prairie Pines – Lincoln, NE
Contributing Member: Rachel Anderson, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
https://plantnebraska.org/
Contemporary Park Model – South Dakota State University Students
Hand Rendering – Omaha, NE
Contributing Firm: Lamp Rynearson
https://lamprynearson.com/
Contemporary Garden Model – South Dakota State University Students
Student ASLA Collaboration Night – North Dakota State University Students
Perspective Sketching Workshop – South Dakota State University Students
Stillwell Inclusive Playground – Johnson County, KS
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
Future Landscape Architect – Omaha, NE
Contributing Member: Zack Fergus, Lamp Rynearson
https://lamprynearson.com/
“The process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages and planning for the provision of municipal services to residents and visitors.”
– Berkley Planning Journal
Centennial Mall - Lincoln, NE
Contributing Firm: Clark Enerson Partners
https://www.clarkenersen.com/
Cerner Innovations Campus - Kansas City, MO
Contributing Firm: VIREO
https://www.bevireo.com/
Love Library Rendering – University of Nebraska Lincoln
Contributing Firm: Confluence
http://www.thinkconfluence.com/
Concordia College – Moorhead, MN
Contributing Firm - Land Elements http://www.landelements.com/
The Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) Integrated Science Center and surrounding common areas were designed to teach sustainability firsthand. This LEED certified project required a solution to manage the stormwater from the building’s roof. The living lab at the building’s entry features native plants to demonstrate how to manage stormwater in a sustainable way.
Investing in our common future is not simply done through design.
The Nebraska-Dakotas Chapter is proud to support three Student ASLA chapters through relationships with North Dakota State University, South Dakota State University, and University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Reforesting the Red River – Fargo, ND
North Dakota State University Student ASLA
Paver Pattern Design
South Dakota State University Student ASLA
Tree Planting Volunteer Event
North Dakota State University Student ASLA
Students & Faculty at the Conference on Landscape Architecture
North Dakota State University Student ASLA
