Author: Jason King
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New Light on No Man’s Land
Joyce van den Berg, a Dutch landscape architect, has some interesting plans to memorialize the thin strip of land that divided East and West Germany. From Spiegel Online: “The “death strip” or No Man’s Land was the ground between the two Germanys. In the inner city the border consisted of an actual concrete wall, the…
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Radical Cartography
A very cool site that was reintroduced to me recently is Radical Cartography, one of the most interesting collections of maps out there (with the exception of maybe the wonderfully oddball collection over at Strange Maps). I had lost touch with the site, after this cool post on Agriculture maps of the US from back…
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Reinterpreting a Classic
Via Treehugger: “In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art–she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only this time in the east end of London. A derelict site has been planted with…
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Soundtrack for Spaces?
A brief lull in posting due to a visit from family, and a kick-ass barbecue last weekend – which culminated in the inaugural usage of the new backyard fire pit. As an aside… this past Friday, we took a short half-day trip to a popular hiking spot in the Columbia River Gorge, with the route…
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The Writing on the Wall
The ability to use public art as a form of expression is quite rare. Installations are often visual or have a tacit (or expressed) ‘do not touch’ policy – creating the idea of public without the opportunity for real interation. A few installations try to break this boundary – offering a platform for expression. One…
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DailyLand: Rapid Palace
Location: Gothenburg, Swedenby Visiondivision Okay, I’m a sucker for interesting landscape graphics… and these are pretty cool. Some definitely questions about the viability of this for security and safety… but pffft… how can you argue with the graphic magical realism of these images. :: images via Arch Daily
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New Blogs
It’s been a while since I posted a list of new (or at least new to me) blogs that I’ve stumbled across in my travels. I’ll add them to the sidebar soon. There are definitely a good amount of upstart Landscape Architecture and related blogs – which is good to see – and I’m hopeful…
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Do You Rule the Sewer?
I’ve been remiss in posting about the interesting WPA 2.0 competition and it’s alluring tagline: “whoever rules the sewers rules the city” as I was debating about entering because it is just amazingly compelling in idea. So alas, due to summer and time constraints (I know, lame, but I’ll explain later) I’m passing on the…
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Bat Yam 2010
I posted here about the 2008 Bat-Yam international biennale of landscape urbanism, and was pleased to get an email annoucing the upcoming 2010 version focusing on Urban Action. The Bat-Yam Biennale functions as a laboratory through which attitudes in and towards urban space are examined. A variety of sites throughout the historic city of Bat-Yam…
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Paradigm Shift?
I was frankly a bit thrilled by this little news nugget on Designboom announcing that uber-firm West 8 had replaced Frank Gehry for the the Miami Lincoln Park project. “The 2.5 acre park will serve as an entrance to the gehry designed new world symphony scheduled to open in january 2011. it will also provide…