The Frick Collection's plan to remove its Russell Page–designed viewing garden ahead of its proposed 60,000-square-foot expansion will soon be heard by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Cultural Landscape Foundation's Charles Birnbaum on the issue: "In the past 50 years we have seen an expansion and professionalization of the landscape preservation movement, and with this maturation we have seen a valuation for holistic stewardshipone that no longer excludes the historic designed landscape. Will these advances factor into the Commission's decisions about the Frick?" More of Birnbaum's thoughts on landscape stewardship here. [ArchNews; previously]
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