New York’s Landscape Architects Toast the Architect’s Newspaper

The Architect’s Newspaper recaps the ASLA-NY Chapter President’s Dinner: “During the ceremony, ASLA President Laura Starr, principal of Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects, kept a focus on the discipline’s civic role, a role she sees expanding in post-Hurricane Sandy New York.”

Curbed visits Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 1400-square foot rooftop terrace atop the Fisher Building, planned and designed by Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects.

The Brownstoner visits and overviews the new Brooklyn Academy of Music Building, complete with a courtyard terrace, designed by Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects.

The Dirt describes Starr Whitehouse’s Water Street Report as a project that will “redistributing the public space, creating a new boulevard, strengthening the connection to the water, and redesigning the public ground floor spaces to enhance street life will help turn Water Street into a sustainable, regenerative urban space.”

Laura Starr is featured in this article about urban nature parks. This article describes the importance of nature parks in order to provide opportunities to connect people to nature and also provide environmental services.

Laura Starr is the featured guest on the Urban Design Podcast 178. She speaks about Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, the importance of urban parks, and the maintenance of these parks.

“Late yesterday developer Durst Fetner Residential issued the official press release on what is being called West 57th, saying it will have 600 rental apartments, each one with a bay window and/or a balcony… Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects has come aboard to handle all that greenery”

“In collaboration with SLCE Architects, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects, Thornton Tomasetti, Dagher Engineering, Langan Engineering, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, and Glessner Group, BIG develops a scheme that’s meant to reflect a hybrid of European perimeter block — courtyard enclosed by mid-rise apartment building — with the archetypical tower plaguing the NYC groundscape and skyline, an output from an architectural vernacular Bjarke has labeled “pragmatic utopianism.”

Starr Whitehouse’s design for the BQE trench wins Curbed’s 2010 “Outlandish Urban Plan of the Future” award. The design calls for a “steel canopy covered in energy-producing photovoltaic panels.”

“Starr Whitehouse developed the designs in consultation with the community through workshops and were seen as ‘…an achievable vision for enhancing the pedestrian and cyclist environment above the BQE, adding green components and improving the physical connection and sociability among adjacent neighborhoods’.”