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Photo Credit: Richard Mandelkorn
Like this Spring our newsletter is a bit late! Spring has finally arrived after a stormy and snowy start. I am reflecting as I visit a VBD site in Muskoka this morning - a few short weeks ago we still had snow on the ground. And yet other sites still have snow! At this moment, a kingfisher is winging along the lake’s rocky shore as the ice floes pass the Point - a harbinger of warmer temperatures to come. We are delightfully engaged in some wonderful projects as landscape construction hits full swing. Thank yous go to the crews and contractors - unsung heroes who work in all kinds of weather and handle the curve balls that Mother Nature and the construction process brings. I am looking forward to an excellent year and wishing all a happy spring.

Light to all,

Virginia Burt Designs Recipient of a 2018 CSLA National Award of Excellence
Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, of Virginia Burt Designs (VBD) is delighted to announce that VBD has been selected as a recipient of a 2018 National Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). The awards were announced in an official press release: CSLA Announces the Recipients of the 2018 Awards of Excellence. They were officially presented at the National CSLA Gala. The National Award of Excellence presented to Virginia was for Roth Garden: A Modernist Reflection in the category of Residential Landscape Designed by a Landscape Architect.

Pictured below at the National CSLA Gala (left to right): Nastaran Moradinejad, BCSLA (CSLA President), Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, Alan Tate, FCSLA (CSLA Awards Coordinator), Vincent Asselin, FCSLA (CSLA Past President).
CSLA | OALA Conference - Presentation with Richard Mandelkorn
Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, and  professional photographer, Richard Mandelkorn, presented together at this years CSLA | OALA Conference on Saturday April 7th. The presentation entitled: Digital Excellence: Telling the Story in Images, a real world look at how professional images bring landscape architecture projects to life.

Virginia Burt was quoted as saying:
"The presentation was a conversation about elevating our profession, creating wonderful images that tell a story - all while taking both landscape architect and the person who views the images on a journey of deeper understanding of our natural world."

Richard Mandelkorn's brilliant photograph portfolio: richardmandelkorn.com
Winter Bones

VBD is delighted to be a part of a new Rizzoli book coming out in September – Garden Design Master Class with Carl Dellatore. Below is a winter photo of the Roth Residence garden taken this past January. A brief hint of our topic:
 
Great gardens never slumber through the winter season. Even beneath thick blankets of white or beside the bare branches of plants in dormancy, the form of a thoughtfully constructed garden can capture our eye and imagination -  revealing their true value and strength. Winter tests the quality of design when, as many parts of North America have an off-season lasting several months, the garden is stripped down to its “bones” with the underlying structure remaining to embody the experience.

Stay tuned!
Martin Luther King Library Competition
Rendering by Darcstudio
Virginia Burt Designs is honoured to participate on one of the 3 finalist teams for the Design Competition for the new Cleveland Public Library - Martin Luther King Jr. Branch in University Circle, Cleveland.The team includes Bialosky Cleveland, Vines Architecture, WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA) and BuroHappold Engineering. The work of the team is on display at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch Library – 1962 Stokes Blvd. Please read about the competition here: cleveland.com - Cleveland Public Library unveils....
Fogo Island Inn Update
The Fogo Island Inn project is progressing as we wait for pack ice to leave the harbour. Currently, we are moving toward completing the working drawings for this project. The results will be amazing! Virginia Burt Designs is very fortunate to have such challenging opportunities as the coastal barrens of Fogo Island.
University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Alumni Association
April 5th, 2018 - Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, the current President of the Landscape Architecture Alumni Association (LAAA), was on-hand to welcome the attendees and kickoff the event. The inaugural LAAA event was attended by Landscape Architecture professionals and graduates of the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) program. We are looking forward to holding another event next year, stay tuned for more from this growing alumni association. Thank you to OAC and the Alumni Association for their support.
Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, has been featured in the March 2018 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. This feature article entitled; Mind, Soul, Design was written by Katarina Katsma, ASLA of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Read it here: MIND, SOUL, DESIGN
Celebrating our profession, April was World Landscape Architecture Month. Celebrate landscape architecture reach out to your community, increase awareness of our profession and encourage public participation.
Virginia Burt, FCSLA, FASLA, is committed to elevating the work of landscape architects and she firmly believes that landscape architects have the power to elevate the human condition. A devoted volunteer, Virginia now sits on the Stewardship Council of The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF). The TCLF connects people to places. The Stewardship Council comprises landscape architects and allied professionals, former TCLF Board Members, community leaders, and other supporters who marshal their collective experience and knowledge to help promote the foundation’s mission of "connecting people to places."
 
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