Category: art
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New Landscape Architecture
It seems that urban agriculture, veg.itecture, and ecoplanning take a good bit of the attention span of myself, this blog, and the media. I forget sometimes to feature that bastion of landscape and urbanist principles rolled out in one neat package – quality urban landscape projects. There are many, from the recent ASLA national award…
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Materiality: Textured Panels
As I mentioned back in March – the application of art, architecture and other detailing can have a significant influence on how we express landscape and urban interventions. While many materials are somewhat specific to architecture, or are artistically used in ways that aren’t typically functional – there are some great examples that have real…
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‘Agriculture’
This old(er) post from Tropolism offers some great maps of the US in relation to agricultural production. Linked from radical cartography (a great site!), this work by Bill Rankin: “Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the “meat lobby”?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the…
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Stupid Plant Tricks
This site features a lot of great, inventive ways to use landscape materials in urban areas. On the flip side, there are a lot of very, very strange ways to use plants as well. Read on for a summary of some of the more ‘odd’ varieties of plant manipulations I’ve gleaned. Grass ‘photographs’ at Wimbledon,…
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Parc del Centre de Poblenou
Architecture as art. Art of Building. Vegetated Architecture. There are a lot of blurry lines out there between themes in design… and this often leads to cross-pollination and perhaps overstepping of turf sometimes. Taking the multi-disciplinary approach a bit further, Coolboom recently featured Jean Nouvel recently in the design for the Parc del Centre de…
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More Pop-Up Park
A few more images of the recently opened Pop-up Park courtesy of Susannah Drake from dlandstudio. It’s obviously a popular spot – and it’s probably not just to see the Waterfalls. :: images via Susannah Drake, dlandstudio Susannah said people are particularly excited by the haybale plantings – and I imagine they will be more…
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Stupid Furniture Tricks
Catchy title, no? OK, there’s some fun things out there that make you do a double take, aside from the inventive planter or two… A few recent ones: The first, via Designboom is a flexible bench by Giulio Iacchetti: “Flexible bench is a special seat for urban furnishings. through the rotation of the seat/seat back…
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Wave Cloud Tree Zoo
Not random word association, Wave Cloud Tree Zoo is one of three finalists in a competition for the NY Aquarium at Coney Island. The collaboration between WRT & Cloud 9 Architecture (along with a host of others) envisions a verdant and sinuous waterfront… :: image via Wave Cloud Tree Zoo Here’s a project description with…
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Pop-Up in Real Life
A little while back I showed some work via Tropolism of the Pop-Up Park in New York City by dlandstudio – and recieved an email today from Susannah Drake showing off some pics of the park in action. A refresher, and cool image of the park from the Brooklyn Bridge: :: image via Tropolism As…
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Vertical Garden DIY
Ok, not as ‘how-to’ as I’d like, but a good example of removing the shroud of mystery from vertical greening. From Metropolitan Home, via Dwell, a project that “…shows how one couple planted a vertical patch (above) of echeverias, aeoniums, sedums, and kalanchoes.” :: image via Dwell More from Metropolitan Home: “First, they sketched out…