2.9. Landscape management and design
Issues of Landscape Architecture Magazine were
examined in a search of how landscape architects have
addressed sustainable development, or environmentally sensitive design in industrial areas. There are
currently no examples of landscape architecture
addressing EIPs, but there were examples of environmental
corporate design. The results of the search
were disappointing. `Paci®c Bell Administration'
(1989) Center was supposedly designed to ®t the site,
with attention to solar orientation, prevailing winds,
preservation of native vegetation, and visual quality. It
was alleged that you could not tell the difference
between the native and man-made landscape. That
image is not conveyed in the photographs of the site.
What is conveyed is a sleek, high maintenance corporate
design. The same is true of the IBM Precinct at
Solana (Design Honor Award, 1983), where a prairie
restoration and use of wild¯owers in the landscape are
considered innovative.