Category Archives: Green design

RU’s Wabash Building Reviewed by the Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Michael Bryson

The new 32-story Wabash Building has gotten a lot of buzz within the Chicago architecture scene the last few months as its official ribbon-cutting on May 5th approaches. Today’s lengthy review in the Chicago Tribune by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural … Continue reading →

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An Urban Nature Adventure

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Michael Bryson

This past Saturday, June 11th, students in my PLS 392 Seminar in Humanities online summer course at Roosevelt University took an “urban landscapes” field trip to Chicago’s near Southwest Side, where we visited two city parklands: Canal Origins Park on … Continue reading →

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Killing Turfgrass at RU’s Schaumburg Campus

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Michael Bryson

After April’s prescribed burn of the detention pond wetland, more changes in the Robin Campus landscape are in progress this May. The following update is from landscape architect Bill Bedrossian, of Bedrock Earthscapes, who is heading the campus redesign project … Continue reading →

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Sustainable Landscape Design and RU’s Campus Plan

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Michael Bryson

On Thursday, Feb. 17th, landscape architect Bill Bedrossian of Bedrock Earthscapes visited Mike Bryson’s SUST 210 The Sustainable Future class in Schaumburg and gave a special guest lecture on green landscaping practices. Bill is working with a faculty/staff/student green campus … Continue reading →

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Greening the Schaumburg Campus: A Presentation

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Michael Bryson

  During the Week 4 Thursday class session for my SUST 210 Sustainable Future class in Schaumburg, we will have a guest presentation by landscape architect Bill Bedrossian of Bedrock Earthscapes. Bill is working with a faculty/staff/student green campus committee … Continue reading →

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Joliet Junior College’s Green Opportunity in Downtown Joliet

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Michael Bryson

            Last week as I walked down Chicago Street in downtown Joliet on my way to work, a giant crane — the jaws of its bucket suspended high in the cold gray winter sky — began the demolition of The … Continue reading →

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