Gallery: Saving Water Is So Hot Right Now in Landscape Design

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    According to the American Society of Landscape Architects's annual survey, people are overwhelmingly concerned with water conservation. The property seen here, Cedar Creek, is a Trinidad, TX property done by Hocker Design Group.
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    The seven-acre site includes a permeable gravel motor court, which lets water infiltrate into the ground in a natural way instead of letting it run off.
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    Flying Point Residence, by Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design, is in Southampton, NY. This coastline deals not with drought, but an excess of water. The architects decided not to plant ornamental gardens and manicured lawns.
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    The architects had to restore the sand dune by the beach house. They used 8 feet of sand and removed invasive exotic species.
  • 300 Ivy in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood is a mixeduse development of housing and commercial properties.
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    300 Ivy, in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood, is a mixed-use development of housing and commercial properties.
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    Fletcher Studio did the work, and included stormwater treatments and a lot of bamboo outside the building.
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    Mill Creek Ranch, in Vanderpool, TX, was done by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc. The ranch house has a cascading storm water and creek purification feature in the courtyard, and native grasses that cleanse rainwater prior to entering the creek and spring.
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    The Sweetwater Spectrum Residential Community for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders, in Sonoma, CA, was completed by Roche+Roche Landscape Architecture. The site has storm water management, pervious gravel for the parking lot areas and driveways, and is surrounded on three sides by bio-swales, which remove pollution from runoff water.
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    The property includes a 1.25 acre organic vegetable garden and orchard with greenhouse and chicken coop.
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