July 2008, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

Masonry construction nears completion for the project of the Bout’ficelle, the local day-care of the Pays-d’Enhaut. Collaboration with Martin Ingénieurs Civils | CONSTRUCTION

July 2008, Brookline, MA, USA

VWA finalizes study of a small garden for an architect. Construction to begin in August  | DEVELOPMENT

July 2008, Rossinière, Switzerland

VWA begins to develop the landscape and gardens for the project of Le Bougnon, a proposed small hamlet at the entrance to the village of Rossinière. Collaboration with architect Nicolas Cretegny, RB.CH  | DEVELOPMENT

Summer 2008, Schlieren, Switzerland

VWA is profiled in Idea - Revue sur l’architecture et l’habitation | ARTICLE

July 10, 2008, Charlottesville, Virginia

Terragrams dispatches intervIew of Reuben Rainey, William Stone Weedon Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Architecture Program of Landscape Architecture, co-executive producer of the PBS 10-part series “GardenStory: Inspiring Spaces, Healing Places” and author of Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston and the Suburban Park | INTERVIEW

July 2, 2008, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

The Bout’ficelle day-care celebrates the ground-breaking for its new facilities. Construction completion of the VWA project is scheduled for early 2009 | GROUND-BREAKING

July 2008, Rougemont, Switzerland

VWA completes construction for a small chalet renovation. | PROJECT COMPLETION

July 2008, Sabiñánigo, Spain

VWA submits construction documents for the public spaces to Sabiñánigo’s western urban extension. 1’000 newly planned and zoned units of mixed density collective and social housing will be framed by a 20m wide, 1km long spine of new parks, squares and gardens. The project, a collaboration with Bernabad Arquitectos and ATAIN Inginieros, enters into the process of authorization and construction is hoped to begin in 2009, pending the Spanish housing market recovery. | SUBMITTAL FOR APPROVAL

Summer 2008, Rougemont, Switzerland

VWA engages Stacy Day (Cornell University), Elise Mazareas (University of Virginia), Cláudia Nunes (Technical University of Lisbon) , Elisabeth Rågdahl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna) and François Leroy (HES Lullier, Geneva) for the 8th VWA Summer Internship | COLLABORATORS

May 2008, Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

VWA receives authorization for the project to expand the Bout’ficelle, the local day-care facilities, (photo credit Nicolas Savary)| AUTHORIZATION

May 9, 2008, Harvard GSD, Cambridge

Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes Studio presents projects for final review | FINAL REVIEW

May 9, 2008, Harvard GSD, Cambridge

Woods participates on Verzone + Cannon Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes Studio final review | FINAL REVIEW

May 8, 2008, Harvard GSD, Cambridge

Verzone participates on Paula Meijerink’s final review of the studio entitled Asphalt: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly | FINAL REVIEW

May 6, 2008, The Urban Center, NYC, USA

Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes Studio presents work to the NYCHA, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the Lower East Side Ecology Center as well as to professionals including Leonard Hopper, Dorit Shahar and Paul Friedberg | PRESENTATION

May 1 & 2, 2008, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Verzone participates on the final reviews of Elizabeth Meyer’s Sites + Cities Studio and Anselmo Canfora’s Studio reCOVER | FINAL REVIEW

April 24, 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

“Urban Space Operations”| LECTURE

March 25, 2008, The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture Barcelona Studio, Barcelona

“Urban Space Operations” | LECTURE

March 19, 2008, Mill Valley, CA, USA

Terragrams dispatches intervew of Robert Royston, American pioneer of Modernism in landscape architeture, by Reuben Rainey, William Stone Weedon Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Architecture Program of Landscape Architecture and author of Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston and the Suburban Park. Photo credit, Marc Treib | INTERVIEW

February 2008, Rougemont, Switzerland

VWA announces 8th Summer Internship | REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS

February 2008, Rougemont, Switzerland

VWA launches website designed by Christian Schärmer, Rein Steger and Héctor Sos of ACTAR, Barcelona | LAUNCH

January 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA

Verzone and colleague Charlie Cannon initiate the investigation of the landscape of public housing, public parks and the river-front along the East River in New York City for a graduate-level landscape studio entitled Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes at the Harvard GSD. Visit the website at  http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/luul/| TEACHING