In 1984, he worked in tandem with the region’s top architects with clients primarily in Lakewood, Bluffview, the Park Cities, North Dallas, Preston Hollow, and Fort Worth. And he went south, too – straight to Texas. “Dad grew trees and shrubs, my mother grew flowers and vegetables, so a love of gardening and understanding of botany was instilled at an early age.” After earning a bachelor of science degree in landscape architecture from Iowa State University, he went to work in Minnesota until the economy went south in 1979. After all, he grew up on a farm in Iowa, where both parents gardened. Nor is it surprising that he became a landscape architect. “Lush” and “inviting” characterize gardens designed by David Rolston, so it’s not surprising his work is seen frequently in national shelter magazines. Armstrong Berger has established a presence in the Southwest as well as in New York City, Long Island, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Hawaii. Armstrong Berger was one of the landscape architects for the Meier-designed Rachofsky house and has collaborated with a veritable who’s-who of the architectural world on other projects: Edward Larabee Barnes, Peter Marino, Frank Welch, Oglesby Greene, and James Pratt. A European influence is present in their landscapes with cobblestones or a mix of paving materials softened by tiny-leaf groundcover. Emphasis on natural materials – copper, slate, stone, anything that looks like it’s been there awhile – makes even new jobs look mature. If drainage is not engineered properly, for example, trees might die or water could flood the terrace. Landscape architects and planners John Armstrong and Bruce Berger say they have been credited with possessing “an uncanny ability to empathize with, and understand, what a client wants and needs and to interpret that into a cogent architectural landscape plan.” To them, hardscape is as important as softscape in practicality of design and respect for the elements. If the answer was yes, they appear in the listing that follows. Finally, we checked references and asked ourselves if indeed these were people we’d want to do business with. We contacted the Better Business Bureau to make certain these firms came up clean, with no complaints lodged. Once we managed to compile a list, we researched the services, pricing, company history, and unique selling propositions of the most highly recommended. Our search began with mothers, friends, teachers – even the patients and staff at our dentists’ offices. It brings to mind how genius loci-the spirit of a place-relies not just on physical form, but also the way people engage with and validate the authenticity of its features.NEW THIS ISSUE: THE BEST LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERSįinding good home services is no easy feat. The atmosphere of this working waterfront is unapologetic about the day-to-day operations amid latte-drinking onlookers. While there’s a smell and sound to the site that isn’t always pleasant, it’s anything but dull. Industrial silos stand as relics on the site and reinforce the scale and purpose of the surrounding machinery and equipment. Old rusted rails splice through a patched concrete promenade and veer off to unobvious end points. The discord of a lunchtime stroll can include the smell of raw fish being loaded into delivery vans, the cacophony of passengers boarding a ferry to Devonport, the thunderclap of dump trucks towing loads of sand, or the shrill of an orbital sander against the hull of a private yacht worth more than my house. Active maritime industries cling to the edges of the site and activate it with a purpose that isn’t sugar-coated. It’s a landscape that has been mopped, but not sterilized. The Wynyard Quarter waterfront in Auckland, New Zealand, is different. The experience may be clean and comfortable, but it’s also terribly bland. In their place, generic recipes are followed for creating comfortable waterfront living: one part cobblestone street, two parts pedestrian walkway, a healthy dose of waterside eateries, with a dash of history through a moored two-mast schooner. But in the effort to maximize development profits, these face-lifts often erase the industrial beauty marks that make these places unique. Left behind is a postindustrial waterfront that’s seen by the city as an opportunity for a glamorous maritime makeover. Facilities are often relocated to larger and more modernized harbors where the machinery is bigger, the roads are closer, and the waters are deeper.
For more than 30 years, shipping activity within historic ports has been in rapid decline.
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