The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans will be hosting a "Renovator's Happy Hour" event on Thursday, June 29th, at the construction site of SMM's new office in Uptown New Orleans. More info here: https://prcno.org/event/renovators-happy-hour-goes-lower-garden-district/

— Gabrielle Gaspard posted on June 28 2017

SMM's current Fitzgerald Neighborhood Revitalization project was featured in an article on Curbed Detroit. To read the full article, visit: http://detroit.curbed.com/2017/4/5/15191290/ fitzgerald-redevelopment-plan-announced

— Gabrielle Gaspard posted on April 28 2017

Bowen Place Crossing has received the prestigious 2016 Australia Award for Urban Design, Delivered Outcome - Small Scale and the Planning Institute of Australia ACT 2016 Great Place Award.

— Douglas Robb posted on October 20 2016

Wes Michaels was interviewed for The Dirt's article on the recent flooding in Louisiana called Uniting the Built and Natural Environment: How Can Louisiana Build Back Smarter? To read the full article visit: https://dirt.asla.org/2016/08/23/how-can-louisiana-build-back-smarter/

— Emily Bullock posted on August 24 2016

SMM's work to transform vacant land in the Northwest Detroit neighborhood of Fitzgerald is featured in the Architect's Newspaper. To read the artcile visit: http://archpaper.com/2016/08/detroit-rfp-vacant-lots/#gallery-0-slide-1

— Emily Bullock posted on August 16 2016

Elizabeth Mossop delivered the keynote presentation at the GA200+ Forum in July. The subject of the forum was What is it about living in Sydney? The subject of Elizabeth's presentation and subsequent article are on The Case for Urban Parks. Read the full article here: http://tinyurl.com/held9s5

— Emily Bullock posted on August 16 2016

SMM is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Mossop was recently named Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology in Sydney. Elizabeth will begin the position in mid-2016.

For more information visit: http://architectureau.com/articles/elizabeth-mossop-appointed-uts-design-architecture-and-building-dean/

— Emily Bullock posted on March 1 2016

Elizabeth Mossop recently contributed to Sasaki Associates' blog. The piece also appears as the forward to a newly released book Emerald Networks: Reviving the Legacy of City Parks. To view the blog post visit: http://www.sasaki.com/blog/view/660/

— Emily Bullock posted on November 18 2015

Elizabeth Mossop's interview is featured in a new publication, Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World, by Jared Green.

To read a review of the book visit: http://spacing.ca/national/2015/06/16/book-review-designed-future-80-practical-ideas-sustainable-world/

— Emily Bullock posted on June 19 2015

Singleton Council has captured the construction of Singleton Town Centre Revitalisation using timelaspe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7-hAFkSqI

— Sally Bryant posted on May 25 2015

A lot of progress is being made in Singleton. New stone kerbs, light poles and rain gardens are starting to go in.

— Sally Bryant posted on March 17 2015

SMM's Seth Rodewald-Bates recently completed construction of his home which he built using two shipping containers. His home was featured this week in the Times-Picayune.

To see more photos of Seth's innovative house and read the full article visit: http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2015/03/an_uptown_couple_converts_a_fo.html#incart_river

— Emily Bullock posted on March 12 2015

Elizabeth Mossop was recently interviewed by New Orleans Public Radio's Coastal Desk about the role of landscape architects in stormwater management and green infrastructure. To view the entire piece visit: http://wwno.org/post/coastal-rundown-landscape-architect

— Emily Bullock posted on November 21 2014

Campbell Street Cycleway is now open

— Sally Bryant posted on November 6 2014

The new entry bridge leading to Couturie Forest in New Orleans City Park has been lifted into place. The new bridge and parking area will be open to the public in September. Couturie Forest is an arboretum and popular birding destination within the park and has a series of recreational trails which visitors can explore.

— Emily Bullock posted on August 6 2014

SMM's Taronga Zoo Enclosure provides new home to endangered monkeys.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/troupe-of-criticallyendangered-cottontop-tamarin-monkeys-will-get-up-close-and-personal-with-visitors-at-taronga-zoo/story-fni0cx12-1226910596980

— Sally Bryant posted on June 6 2014

SMM's work on the Baton Rouge Downtown Greenway and study of vacant lands in New Orleans are featured in the article "Tactical Landscapes" in the May 2014 issue of Architect's Newspaper. To view the article visit:

http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7329

— Emily Bullock posted on May 23 2014

Spackman Mossop Michaels is participating in Art in Bloom at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The event is an annual springtime celebration featuring floral arrangements inspired by works of art in NOMA’s galleries. SMM did a take on Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture and filled the words “Eat Me” with wild, edible plants from Louisiana in honor of this year’s theme, “Perfect Palette: Celebrating the Flavor of New Orleans.” The event runs March 19 – 23.

— Emily Bullock posted on March 20 2014

The Louisiana SPCA recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of their campus in Algiers. The LA/SPCA’s facility was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and they have been operating in a smaller building since that time. The new facility will add 40,000 square feet to their current space. SMM is the landscape architect on the project and designed a series of courtyard spaces with outdoor dog enclosures and an adoption courtyard where potential adopters can interact with adoptable animals.

— Emily Bullock posted on January 15 2014

Redfern Park has been awarded the 2013/2014 Green Flag Award. This award is given to projects which meet the 8 key criteria indentified in raising the standard of public open spaces. These include; a welcoming place, healthy safe and secure, well maintained and clean, sustainable, conservation and heritage and community involvement.

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 26 2011

“Ready Solutions,” an article in the February issue of Metropolis, included SMM's work on revitalizing the Dwyer Canal in New Orleans. The article looks at several recent projects and examines how designers “can reduce our impact on the planet and protect life and property in times of crisis.”

To view the article visit:

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20130207/ready-solutions

— Emily Bullock posted on February 22 2013

Wes Michaels, along with co-author Brad Cantrell, received the 2012 ASLA Award of Excellence in Communications for their book Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture. The jury commented, “It’s the first drawings book that’s contemporary and clear. A very impressive piece of work for student and professionals both.”

To see the award submission visit:

http://www.asla.org/2012awards/168.html

— Emily Bullock posted on October 2 2012

Wes Michaels and Elizabeth Mossop will both be presenting at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Phoenix next week.  Elizabeth will be speaking on a panel called “The Evolution of the Award-Winning Design Office.”  The presentation will focus on how firms evolve as they grow and which approaches to practice have been successful and which haven’t.

Wes will be speaking with Brad Cantrell (LSU), Nadia Amoroso (University of Guelph) and David Fletcher (Fletcher Studio) about the role of design computing beyond graphic representation in a session called “Environmental Illustration, Simulation and Parametrics in Landscape Architecture.”

— Emily Bullock posted on September 25 2012

The Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center reopened in April 2012 in New Orleans.  SMM was responsible for the landscape design which included a reading garden and stormwater garden.  The journey to rebuild the library and the Broadmoor neighborhood is detailed in an article titled "Out of the Water" in the July edition of Metropolis.

To view the article visit:

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20120720/out-of-the-water

— Emily Bullock posted on August 23 2012

SMM collaborator and native plant expert, Marc Pastorek, was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal piece about meadow plantings.  The article The New Lawn: Shaggy, Chic and Easy on the Mower can be read here:

lhttp://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754904577530851855675044?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303754904577530851855675044.html

— Emily Bullock posted on July 24 2012

Viet Village has been featured in the latest Editoriale Lotus. This edition looks at, the city’s relations with the countryside present a number of unexpected phenomena. On the one hand we see almost a desire of the city to turn into countryside, while on the other the themes of landscaping tend to favor the country as an area in which to realize those pragmatic ideals that the recent predominance of the visual has ended up neglecting.

 http://www.editorialelotus.it/web/item.php?id=190

— Georgia Falconer posted on May 3 2012

The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) have posted an interview they did recently with Elizabeth Mossop. In the interview she discusses her involvement with the Louisiana State University (LSU) Coastal Sustainability Studio, works completed by Spackman Mossop Michaels (SMM) in New Orleans and the role of landscape architects in society today. Please click on the link to read the full interview.

http://www.asla.org/ContentDetail.aspx?id=33855

or at

http://dirt.asla.org/2011/12/07/interview-with-elizabeth-mossop-on-how-landscape-architects-can-protect-new-orleans/

— Georgia Falconer posted on December 6 2011

This year SMM have helped raise $5000 for the MS Sydney to Wollongong bicycle ride. 18 riders were a part of the team, riding the 90km in 4 hours. It was a very hot day and at the end everyone enjoyed their cold beer. It was a fantastic effort by the team and we look forward to doing it again.

— Georgia Falconer posted on November 8 2011

Elizabeth Mossop recently attended a symposium where she discussed the recent Coastal Sustainabilty studio undertaken at LSU. Which looked at strategy for South Lousianna at the delta scale and exploring how these scenarios play out at the metropolition and the scale of the neighbourhood.

The symposium was structured around a series of dialogues, exhibits, workshops and talks with intentions to re-imagine our relationship with water, challenge current visualizations, and probe projects and design thinking that constitute water, its visible and invisible presences, in fresh ways.

See link below to view her discussion on New Orleans, Session 7.

http://terrain.design.upenn.edu/video

— Georgia Falconer posted on October 20 2011

Elise Aldworth recently rode from Taronga Zoo to Dubbo Zoo with the Zoo2Zoo team, helping to raise over $100,000 for the Blackdog Institute an education, research, clinical and community orientated facility offering specialist expertise in mood disorders.

We are all very impressed by her efforts and having riden over 450km in three days. Fantastic effort Elise!

— Georgia Falconer posted on October 20 2011

We have entered the Sydney Rides Challenge, a competition run by the City of Sydney to encourage workplaces to ride a bike. The challenge is based on participation (not kilometres), so the aim is to encourage as many of our colleagues as possible to ride a bike for at least 10 minutes between Monday 26 September and Sunday 16 October 2011.

— Georgia Falconer posted on October 6 2011

Sydney, NSW September 16, 2011 — In cities around the globe today, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called “PARK(ing) Day.”

Spackman Mossop Michaels, in collaboration with Place Partners created a pop up park in a parking space along Oxford Street in Paddington. The space was very successful, activating the street frontage, many people lingering in the space, enjoying their lunch or just actively enjoying the space playing snakes and ladders.

— Georgia Falconer posted on September 15 2011

Wes Michaels recently published Digital Drawing in Landscape Architecture (Wiley 2010). Co-authored with LSU colleague Brad Cantrell, the book has been widely praised internationally and had become a standard for best practice in landscape representation. Many of the book’s images are taken from the SMM portfolio.

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 26 2011

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National Council has awarded a Fellowship to Michael Spackman in recognition for his commitments to the AILA, his on-going participation on industry panels and for services to the NSW Chapter as State President and numerous committees and juries. The Fellowship recognises Michael’s national practice leadership with particular focus on regional and environmental strategies as well as award winning urban design outcomes.

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 26 2011

Spackman Mossop Michaels were engaged by Department of Housing NSW to prepare concept and documentation drawings for 80km of Street Trees within Greater Western Sydney.

So far with the Department of Housing we have successfully planted 2425 trees in Campbelltown, Liverpool and Randwick, NSW.

The project objectives are to provide a more comfortable and pleasant residential environment for Greater South Western Sydney through the use of large street trees. The trees are to improve the aesthetics of the streetscape, encourage wildlife into the area as well as improving environmental amenity consistent with the local context.

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 12 2011

Associate Director Catherine Dung was awarded her PhD in Architecture and Design (Urban Design) from RMIT University. Entitled "Public Space Combinations", her research was conducted through a series of design projects at RMIT's Urban Architecture Lab. The work explores new ways of creating public space in contested urban situations and demonstrates how landscape architectural practice can operate as an active agent for initiating urban change.

— Georgia Falconer posted on August 8 2011

Michael Spackman, Elizabeth Mossop and Wes Michaels are speaking at the ASLA National Convention in San Diego in October. Their talk will be on SMMs sustainable transit projects particularly cycleways in Sydney and New Orleans. A major point of the talk is that physical change must be matched by cultural change.

Elizabeth will also be speaking at the conference with Jason Prior (AECOM) and Thomas Paine (Ager Group) on ‘Lessons from Abroad: the Profession Beyond North America’. The presentation will canvas different perspectives on international practice.

October 2012

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 26 2011

Elizabeth has been invited to speak at LABash 2012: Urban Oasis being hosted by Florida International University in Miami. This conference brings together students from programs all over North America in discussing the future of the discipline.

— Georgia Falconer posted on July 26 2011