Author: Jason King
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DailyLand: June Callwood Park
Bustler recently announced the winning entry the international design competition to provide a vision for Toronto’s June Callwood Park. The competition was won by Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 for their ethereal design that mixes forms of bands, waves and groves together in their entry for the ‘Super Real Forest’ – patterning light…
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Slices of Eco-Art
The connection between environmental art and landscape architecture is dynamic… making it a common theme here at L+U. These ecological artworks and installations provide stylistic and conceptual frameworks that are less possible or legible in the traditional boundaries of applied landscape design (practical art) – this freedom gives rise to limitless potential opportunities. Landscape architecture…
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Reading List: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design
As always, the holiday season came with a typically literary bent, as family and friends know of my bibliophilic tendencies – and I have a free moment or two to read – so look forward to some book reviews that have been waiting in the wings for a couple of months. One tome that was…
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Blackness is the new Green. Sigh…
Well, I can’t exactly find any examples of this fact in the groups of people I know, it turns out that Portland is America’s Unhappiest City, at least according to Business Week. Even amidst the downturn in the economy, we’d all be perplexed by this, if we weren’t so busy wallowing in our black hole…
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Map Regression
A great and informative post on some garden history from none other than gardenhistorygirl explores the idea of map regressions, in particular the Mikhailovsky Garden in St. Petersburg. This time-based approach captures moments of design through particular eras, showing how public space and garden design is influenced (although sometimes with a bit of a lag)…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Dancing Apartment
The overtly veg.itectural is always worthy of attention on L+U, so I just had to feature the new project spotted on Designboom called Dancing Apartment. The project: “…has been designed by korean firm unsangdong architects. located in dong-a ilbo serial, south korea the apartments are built using obliquelines in which each unit consists of a…
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Seattle’s Big Green
Portland has financial incentives, FAR bonuses, and saavy public agencies that promote green roofs. Seattle, has the Gates Foundation. Fueled by massive amounts of capital that has done amazing good around the world – and turns this trend towards their home base in the construction of one of Seattle’s largest green roofs atop the parking…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Flowerbox
Flowerbox is a building in NYC with a vertically stacked set of horizontal planters at the floorplates. Completed in September 2007. The garden consists of over 500 plants and 80 different species. The building is designed by Derek Sanders, with landscape from Mac Carbonell from Verdant Gardens Design. :: images via Flickr – maccarbonell Check…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Seeing Greens
More Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from around the world. For those in NYC looking for the practical, the New York Botanical Garden will be hosting a symposium Creating Green Roofs: The Next Steps on March 6th. More from NYC on a L+U favorite, the High Line – with some choice words about the prosaic and…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Evolo Skyscrapers
Nothing elicits more interesting ideas and visuals than a futuristic and visionary design competition for the 21st Century Skyscraper. That has one word: eVolo. I featured a few of the entries from last years competition – so thought I would do the same for the more veg.itectural (and there are many, as pointed out in…