News2018-08-22T13:38:20-05:00

Upcoming Lectures for Lisa Delplace and Eric Groft

In the coming months OvS Principals Lisa Delplace and Eric Groft will have the opportunity to speak to both industry colleagues, students and amateur gardeners about the firm’s unique strategies.

OvS Staff Attend ASLA Headquarters Demolition Event and Joins Design Team for Renovation

Spring is on the Horizon

Look around – there are signs that spring is nearly here. Hamamelis x intermedia Arnold Promise is beginning to bud and spring bulbs are sending up green shoots.

English Excursion in Commemoration of the 300th Birthday of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown

Plans to Redesign Pershing Park Announced

Pershing Park features plantings designed by OvS amidst the open urban plaza planned and designed by Modernist landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg. The park, located two blocks from the White House in Washington, DC, is a seminal piece of OvS’ portfolio from the 1980s. Last week the World War I Centennial Commission announced architect Joe Weishaar and sculptor Sabin Howard as winners of the design competition to redesign Pershing Park as a national monument.

OvS Organics

OvS, working with Seibert & Rice, a leading importer of artisanal terra-cotta pots, has designed a line of historically-inspired terra-cotta vessels for the New Jersey-based company’s American Collection. In true OvS style, rather than design a single pot, the firm fashioned a variety of vessels that can be used to choreograph vignettes that fully display the exuberance of the plantings.

OvS Wins Four AIA DC Awards in 2015

Keep Growing: CBG Plant Evaluation Program Announces Green Roof Findings

Five years ago, the OvS-designed green roof at Chicago Botanic Garden’s Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center, began plant evaluation trials on the 300 different taxa of native and adaptive species housed on the twin 8,000-SF roofs. The taxa, planted in four, six, and eight inches of soil, are evaluated on their performance. Factors such as wind speed and direction, temperature, light intensity, and moisture content are measured. Scientists determined by the end of the 2014 trial, 86 percent of the 216 varieties of woody and herbaceous plants installed between 2009 and 2011 had survived conditions on the roof.

Senior Associate Stacilyn Feldman Presents at ASLA Meeting

OvS employees participate in activities of the American Society for Landscape Architects throughout the year, and the Annual Expo and Meeting in Chicago gave Senior Associate Stacilyn Feldman the opportunity to advise those who will soon sit for the Landscape Architect Registration Examination (LARE).

OvS Highlighted in Autumn Issue of Garden Design

Oehme, van Sweden & Associates and Principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace and Eric Groft were profiled in the Autumn  2015 issue of Garden Design. The Designer Portfolio feature included more than 37 full-color images of the firms most celebrated gardens.

Principals Discuss OvS Future and Past at National Building Museum Panel Discussion

OvS Principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace and Eric Groft will participate in a panel discussion at the National Building Museum on December 3, 2015, from 6:30 to 8 PM. Spotlight on Design: Oehme, van Sweden will provide an inside view on the firm’s legacy and present successes.

OvS Goes to ASLA’s Annual Meeting & Expo

The American Society of Landscape Architects’ Annual Meeting and Expo takes place in Chicago beginning this week. Billed as “the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world,” the Expo features more than 130 continuing education courses and workshops and an exhibit hall featuring hundreds of products, services, technology applications and design solutions.

Opening Night of The New American Garden at National Building Museum

The evening of October 15, 2015 was a momentous night for OvS. The firm was celebrated in the exhibition “The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden” in the National Building Museum’s largest monographic display in its history, and a festive reception. The exhibition tells the story of Founding Partners Wolfgang Oehme and Jim van Sweden through archival materials, photographs and inspirational artwork from the firm’s 40 year history, and runs through April 2016. More than 150 guests, including former clients, friends, employees, and the staff of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, the co-sponsor of the exhibition, enjoyed good company and conversation as they stood beside the museum’s four colossal Corinthian columns—among the tallest classical columns in the world.

Eric Groft and Robert Johnson Attend Storm King Gala in NYC

OvS Principal Eric Groft and Associate Robert Johnson attended the Storm King Art Center’s Gala and Live Auction on Thursday, October 1. Storm King Art Center, located on 500 acres in the lower Hudson Valley, is one of the world’s leading sculpture parks.

Eric Groft Lectures at the 2015 Perennial Plant Symposium

 

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