Category: art
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What are they trying to catch?
Sorting through some archived posts, I thought this was somehow more funny than stunning… Via BDonline: “This sculpture, named Temenos, will be the first of five giant sculptures to be erected in the Tees Valley at a total cost of £15 million. At nearly 50m tall, it will be three times the height of the…
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Hundertwasser
The Austrian Artist Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser is not a household name in either architecture, art, or landscape – but his contributions to all of these disciplines – and dare I say a unique brand of Vegitecture – is worth a look. L+U had a previous post that showed one of his most known works…
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This says it all…
Via arcady: playscapes: swissmiss: wireandtwine. Buy a T_shirt to Support the Children and Nature Network… or better yet… go outside and play 🙂 :: image via playscapes
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Arbores Laetae
Oh hell yeah, spinning trees!!! Via Archidose, from the Liverpool Biennial: “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Arbores Laetae playfully reinvents the tradition of the public park. The work transforms a brownfield site, situated on a key route into city centre, into a beautiful wooded space for contemplation.”:: image via Liverpool Biennial “Consisting of 17 vibrant hornbeam…
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Veg.itecture #37
About time to purge the bursting folders of Vegetated Architecture projects that have been zooming through the blogosphere lately. As well a few resources, include this [cringe] DIY Guide to Green and Living Roofs as well as good overview post on the ‘Arbortectural’ via Design Under Sky. Overall, a wide range of types and scales…
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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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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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Details: Illuminated Paving
I’ve seen some examples of in-pavement lighting – and interesting idea for plazas and more subtle… from working on a competition, and doing a few streetscape projects at work, these alternative pavings (and recent post about new(er) forms of adaptated lighting) are some great tools in the designers arsenal. First, last year when in Seattle,…
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Details: Light up the Streets
I am working on a couple of streetscape/Main Street redevelopment projects and it’s definitely focused my attention on the ways in which trends of street furnishings get adopted and perpetuated through environments. I think we all know about the unfortunate ‘cobra head’ and the ubiquitous ‘acorn’ light fixture – meant to span the utilitarian and…
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Olympic Topiary Gone Wild
It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan and proponent of vegetation occupying the vertical spaces in our lives. Perhaps it’s the ubiquitousness of the natural surroundings, but the jarring use of landscape that confronts us the way great architectural materials does – makes my day. On the other hand, perhaps this can be…