Category: art
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PS1 Public Farm Grows
It’s been a well covered and wonderful example of some ephemeral architecture installation with an urban ag twist – the Public Farm at PS1 is now up and running – and it’s an interesting transformation from idea to reality. Seen on Treehugger, the project now has it’s own website at Public Farm 1, showing construction…
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Museum of Nature
I’ve seen these a few times in the past, but recently these images of Ilkka Halso‘s Museum of Nature struck me with a new sort of resonance – specifically in relationship to our architecture/landscape interactions. Inhabitat just featured these again recently: “Using images of landscapes and 3D digital manipulation, this photographic collection captures a future…
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Mapping Evolution: NY Subway Map
For the record, I don’t read Men’s Vogue on a regular basis – no offense to the magazine – I just am already overloaded with periodicals so need to focus. So I was pleased when The Men’s Vogue Web Team sent me a link to a recent story on the updates to the iconic 1972…
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Waterfall Park
An exclusive from Tropolism shows a park/viewing grounds for the previously featured project NYC Waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson. Via Tropolism: “The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy asked dlandstudio to develop a temporary park for the waterfalls. On a Brooklyn budget! Dland’s design includes wide swaths of color painted in stripes over the asphalt to create…
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New Vertical Materiality
It’s been some time since I’ve delved into materials – specifically looking at inventive facades (of the non-vegetated type). A few recent examples are pretty good examples of materials that provide some unique articulation and function – that could also be adapted readily to a number of alternative uses. The first provides a LED media…
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Reading List: Inspired by Nature: Plants
This past weekend, I swung by my local mecca of all things printed word, and as always was both struck and disappointed with the selection of architectural titles. One they had in the newish ‘green building’ section at Powell’s was ‘Inspired by Nature – Plants: The Building Botany Connection’ by Bahamon, Perez, and Compello (published…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt. 2: Provision
Picking up on a previous thread about Water – we deal with a bit more applicable material to large- and landscape-scale interventions and systems. A few of my favorite blogs – BLDGBLOG, Pruned, and Treehugger offered a variety of recent material regarding water – its provision and perhaps with some more time and luck, (and…
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Bat-Yam = Landscape Urbanism
A recent reference reminded me to post something about the Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, beginning April 13th, 2008. A summary via Archinect: “This international event will present 30 outdoor rooms in the public domain. All sites will be open to the public and introduce innovative ways for using urban open spaces, integrating community…
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Take a Seat
Continuing a more focused look at some landscape elements – there were a bunch of interesting seating concepts that have emerged lately – from the grand, to the contextual, to the bovine. Similar to the discussions regarding texture and materiality, furnishings are something we tend to have a hard time evolving as a stylistic component.…
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Materiality: Textured Verticality
It has been a bit since I’ve discussed the concept of texture and materials – and a quick peek through some saved up links made me realize there was a bevy of project images just waiting to emerge. I will attempt to focus this a bit by concentrating on vertical surface texture – spanning a…