Author: Jason King
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Digging in with SO-IL
This one caught my attention today by combining the love of urban agriculture and rooftop gardening in one visually stimulating package. Spotted via Dezeen: “Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City.” :: images…
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What I did on my Summer Vacation…
Summer is a great time to think – specifically in Oregon where August and September are typically the prime season and weather for outdoor activity, as well as conducive to the more cerebral… so what have I been doing? Well primarily watching the Beijing Olympics, working too much and too long, finishing a Fellowship application…
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China’s Urban Forest
Via Bustler, an amazing competition winner at the New Urban Streetscape in Beijing, sponsored by New World China Land Limited. Entitled ‘Urban Forest’ and anchored by SITE New York along with Chinese firm WaHa Studio. :: image via BustlerBustler offers some extensive text, so definitely check out the link and the description. Some highlights: “It…
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NYC Rooftops
A photo stream from Bill Badrick (a local architect/illustrator whose cartoony drawings of visionary bridges in Portland has been featured on L+U a few times) entitled Rich People Rooftops NYC… some nice stuff here. Enjoy… and thanks for the link Bill. :: images via Flickr – jwilly
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Water Power
It was interesting, in some research for a project at work, I looked up the cost of water in Portland to calculate the additional cost of irrigation for expanded landscape area on a rooftop. The idea was that we needed to factor in the additional cost of 20000 gallons of water to be used for…
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Water Worlds
A range of projects featuring water not just as a theme, but a major design element… very disparate in scale and application, but with that common hydrological thread. For starters, one of the typologies of green roofs, discussed previously on L+U, is the concept of ‘blue roofs’ – which use water to provide cooling atop…
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Andrea Cochran Interview
I do have a certain unreserved fondness for the designs of Andrea Cochran, and was excited to see this Dwell Design Leaders video, via Andrew Spiering from the steadily growing and informative Land8Lounge… check out the video, as well as the lounge… you won’t be sorry with either.
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Ten Books on Veg.itecture
A recent office desk move (and slogging multiple boxes of books in my personal library) made me think, that although I do an occasional review of books periodically – it would behoove me to summarize some of the classic tomes that define some of the key themes on the blog. While I intend to continue…
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Curvy Playscapes
As I dug through some posts that I had saved for future uses from the great blog Playscapes, I was struck as well with the study from Treehugger, discussing the fact that near-sightedness (myopia) is a new side-effect of children not playing outside… From the article reference in The Hindustan Times: “…while playing outdoors seems…
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Materiality: Concrete Solutions
Concrete is one of those amazingly malleable and adaptable materials. I’ve mentioned the concept of air purifying concrete, permable features, as well as interesting textures and board-forming techniques. Here’s a few new examples from around the globe. Starting off, I absolutely love the rough facade treatment (via Arch Daily), from Architect: Marcio Kogan in Sao…