Category: art
-
Veg.itecture: VIA Olive 8, Joost, Mission, + Busan et.al.
VIA: Vegitecture in Action: As promised, the inevitable death of posts related to Veg.itecture has spun, in this auspicious 50th post, into a new series that will investigate the dual sides of the concept – the VIA and the VIVA, if you will (explained here in detail). For this inaugural installment of Veg.itecture in Action…
-
SITE Videos
A Daily Dose of Architecture continued my retro kickback weekend – with some amazing videos related to the 1970s and 1980s big box stores designed by James Wines and his firm SITE. Some of the most known of these are retail stores for the now defunct BEST Stores which I guess wanted an exterior to…
-
Playgrounds in the Sky
The great retro-blog Modern Mechanix is a great visit down memory lane. As a kid that poured through issues of Popular Mechanics and the like dreaming of inventions and innovations, the content is pretty compelling – predominantely to connect some of the ‘visonary’ new ideas with their historical precedents. A recent interesting post ‘Playgrounds in…
-
No Shortage of Site Furnishing Options
The eternal quest for more innovative furnishings always leaves mean amazed by the constant and never-ending iterations of a flat or semi-flat slab, 15-18 inches high, and able to last in outdoor situations and be cleverly placed or comfortable enough to place ones ass on for a spell. Different materials, configurations, and just plain oddities…
-
Sunday Crossword
As an obsessive crossword addict that spends a portion of Sundays on the couch working on the NY Times puzzle of the week, (and time-permitting some of the weeks puzzles as well) I couldn’t resist this interesting installation that arcady over at gardenhistorygirl dropped on her site last week. Call it at-grade green roofing meets…
-
Blackburn Gateway
A quick email from Jem at Eaton Waygood Associates in the UK offered a couple of pics of a current project for a gateway for Blackburn. As I’m a sucker for anyone named Jem, I thought I’d drop a few photos into a post. From the email: “The work has a masonry side, (drystone wall,…
-
To Infinity and Beyond
A concept of landscape architecture and site design involves the acknowledgement of desire paths, those etched remnants of the accumulation of thousands of footsteps over a particular planted area. While often this idea is used to determine the future location of pathways – there are millions of urban ‘desire paths’ that are created by the…
-
Vertical Gardens
Via Topophilia, a competition right up our alley… from Exit Art: VERTICAL GARDENS – DUE JANUARY 15, 2009 The past decade has seen an emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens created by artists, designers, architects and urban gardeners to combat the lack of flora in the city. Buildings around the world — from the…
-
Tree Art
A couple of recent projects take a different look at plants – particularly by juxtaposing the natural with the cultural – providing a way of thinking about urban nature – or our relationship with our ecosystems, in new ways. Firstly, via Dezeen: “Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys…
-
Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 1
The ubiquitous big box store is a staple of modern life, which, along with it’s associated expansive parking areas eat up a good portion of our cities. The collections of big box stores, known as power centers, exacerbate this phenonmenon by multiplying the footprint and impact of the store uses – creating significant gashes in…