Chris Gent Landscape Studio

07/23/2024

Peaceful sitting on our back porch watching and listening to the rain

06/04/2024

https://mascontext.com/observations/restoring-the-sears-roebuck-companys-sunken-garden

Since Sears, Roebuck & Company left their 1906 headquarters in North Lawndale in 1987, buildings on the campus have been slowly and patiently adaptively reused. What’s next? The restoration of the Sears Sunken Garden.

08/14/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/realestate/gardening-landscaping-ecological.html?trk_msg=0OASM2A1LK64R734MFK9B3AT68&trk_contact=D16COT1H4B3KRG55888AC100IC&trk_sid=OGPI1BB91I7H9EV14IJIIDTR00&trk_link=JCCVEB39SF14T90ESU9MQT6RQK&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=More+plants%2c+more+life%2c+more+pleasure%3a+What+sets+the+best+gardens+apart%26nbsp%3b(New+York+Times)+%26nbsp%3b&utm_campaign=Late+Edition+Midwest%3a+NYCHA+announces+plans+for+“complete+rebuilding”+of+Fulton+and+Elliott-Chelsea+

Having an ecologically responsible landscape doesn’t mean you need to get rid of your favorite plants: “It’s about letting things in.”

01/09/2023

https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2022/12/22/a-piet-oudolf-across-the-street/amp/

Chicago’s historic Sears Sunken Garden is part of a strategy to revitalize a struggling West Side neighborhood. By Zach Mortice That the Sears Sunken Garden, completed in 1907 as part of the 40-acre Sears, Roebuck and Company campus that dominated Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood for decade...

06/19/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/realestate/attract-birds-to-your-garden-bird-friendly-garden.html?utm_campaign=The%20Weekly%20Hubdate&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=89830341&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Z4G0fsNLtPf76gZyTfN5OwyEGfPy_NKCyqNRbGvVOeZbv8fgwbmf7npb1mxSeo6Z0byYI8XV24F2fqpjNMcxFzjh9_w&utm_content=89830110&utm_source=hs_email

Using native plant species helps, but there are two other things you can do to make birds feel at home — and they don’t involve any planting at all.

02/16/2020

Looks like another interesting book to add to my reading list by Doug Tallamy.

Doug Tallamy wants us to rethink our relationship to plants and animals, particularly the idea that “nature” is something separate from our daily lives and something we go to visit.

12/09/2019

http://www.votervoice.net/Shares/BinBcAM0ACRCRA5SJgV7FAA

The Living Shorelines Act will get a floor vote TUESDAY in the U.S. House of Representatives as part of H.R. 729, the Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act. This bill is incredibly important. It would create a grant program to...

06/26/2019

The Park Gables perennial plantings a year after planting.

06/26/2019

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/newsandevents/news/title_720059_en.html

As a member of the Russell Group, our research has an outstanding foundation with world-class research in all subject areas

06/25/2019

A diverse group of bicyclists, joggers and pedestrians share the commuter bridge that crosses four bustling Northwest Side neighborhoods along its 2.7-mile path. One moment, a brown-haired man on a bicycle zips past walkers, his speakers playing “Willkommen” from “Cabaret.” The next, a young...

06/18/2019

Jacobs Ryan did a great job working with CBG to execute Mikyoung Kim's conceptual design.

The Regenstein Learning Campus encourages children’s sensory discovery of the natural world—minus the gaudiness of plastic playgrounds.