Celebrating World Landscape Architecture Month
By Cristina Senjug, Partnership Manager, Next Level Stormwater Management
Every April, landscape architects across Canada join colleagues around the world to celebrate World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM).
This is a time to recognize the important work landscape architects do to help design many of the outdoor spaces we use and pass through daily, from parks and neighbourhoods to campuses and city streets.
Working alongside urban planners, architects, and engineers, landscape architects help shape cities to be functional, sustainable, safe and welcoming.
Designing Gardens in the Sky
As Canadian cities grow denser through increased development and construction, landscape architects are essential in planning and designing resilient urban environments and responding to climate challenges such as urban heat, flooding, and biodiversity loss.
Green roofs are an exciting and innovative area of landscape architecture. Also known as vegetated roofs, green roofs transform unused rooftop spaces into vibrant, living ecosystems. They’re an example of how landscape architects combine ecology and hydrology to design thriving ecosystems to to provide environmental and social benefit. Through careful design and implementation, these vegetated rooftops manage stormwater, mitigate flooding, reduce urban heat, support biodiversity and restore much‑needed urban green space.
Next Level Stormwater Management is proud of our collaboration with landscape architects by consulting on and supplying millions of square feet of green roofs on hundreds of projects across Canada.
Below are recent aerial videos of some landmark green roofs.
Video of Biodiverse Green Roofs
Learn More about Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture matters because it creates safe, healthy, and beautiful outdoor spaces where people, wildlife, and communities can thrive.
If you’re interested in landscape architecture where creativity and design blends with science and climate action, visit Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) or check out one of several accredited landscape architecture programs across the country.
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (MLA) | Vancouver, BC
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL (MLA) | Montréal, QC
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (MLA) | Calgary, AB
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (BLA/MLA) | Guelph, ON
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (MLA) | Winnipeg, MB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (MLA) | Toronto, ON
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