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Landslide2008: Marvels of Modernism

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The Monthly (November 2006)

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“Kaiser Center Features Aerial Garden.” Landscape Design and Construction 7, no. 2 (June 1961).
Mayall, R. Newton. “Kaiser Center’s Garden in the Sky.” Horticulture 30, no. 11 (November 1962).
“New Rooftop Garden in Downtown Oakland.” Sunset (May 1961).
O’Mara, Al. “The Kaiser Center Roof Garden.” California Horticultural Society Journal 26, no. 3 (July 1965).
Osmundson, Theodore H. “The Changing Technique of Roof Garden Design.” Landscape Architecture (September 1979).
-----------------------------. Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Osmundson, Jr, Theodore. “Kaiser Center Roof Garden.” Landscape Architecture (October 1962).
Richards, J.M. “The View from Above.” The Architectural Review 135, no. 804 (February 1964).


 

 

 

List of Marvels

Boston City Hall Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts

Estates Drive Reservoir
Oakland, California

Heritage Plaza
Heritage Park
Fort Worth, Texas

Kaiser Roof Garden
Kaiser Center
Oakland, California

Lake Elizabeth
Allegheny Commons
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Manhattan Square Park
Rochester, New York

Mill Creek Canyon
Earthworks
Kent, Washington

Miller Garden
Columbus, Indiana

El Monte
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

Pacific Science
Center Courtyard
Seattle, Washington

Parkmerced
San Francisco, California

Peavey Plaza
Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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American Society of Landscape Architects’ Indiana, Pennsylvania/Delaware, Minnesota, Northern California, Texas, Upstate New York, and Washington Chapters • Astorino • Charles Butt • Design Within Reach • Topher Delaney • Sandy Donnell & Justin Faggioli • Fathom • Tom Fox • Hillman Foundation • Indianapolis Museum of Art • Lorraine Osmundson • Richard T. Murphy • National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Northeast, Southwest, and Western Offices- with funds from the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation of New York, Dodge Jones Foundation Intervention Fund, and Eastern Massachusetts Preservation Fund • James Richards • Seibert & Rice • Diana & Bruce Shuman • Ann Stack • SWA Group • TBG Partners • Michal and Jeffrey William Tincup • Unilock Inc. • The Woltz Charitable Trust