Category: art
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DailyLand: Pinar del Perruquet Park
Pinar del Perruquet ParkTarragona, Spain 2008Artek Arquitectura :: images via Vulgare
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Meadow Spotted Runing Amok in NYC: Film @ 11
I’m a big fan of the Onion, so loved the semi-hyperbolic headlines reporting this, okay, I’ll say it, ‘cute’ installation NYC showing a snippet of meadow captured for the viewing: “Coupling urban restoration and indigenous plants, Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, both landscape designers, were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to design and construct…
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Amphibious Architecture
Somewhat related to the concept of global climate change that will potentially innudate significant portions of urban areas (or maybe just a way to deal with growing land prices) the idea of inhabiting floating barges or houseboats is both new and old. I first heard the term amphibious architecture in reference to Dutch developments that…
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Tree Art Revisited
I did a series of posts back a year or so related to tree art – as I find these explorations terribly interesting to provoke understanding or look at different ways on perhaps one of the ubiquitous and overlooked workers in our urban landscapes. Here’s a selection of some newer additions to this eco-artform. ::…
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Mapping Green
An interesting post from Treehugger points out the power of ‘maps’ as inventive ways to capture the complexity of ecological systems and provides education and support for ideas. An article mentioned (via core77) in Communication Arts entitled ‘Mapping Power’ references this idea in detail (and worth a careful read). :: image via Treehugger One example…
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North Dakota – Mobile Chaplet
It is not too often that North Dakota architecture gets the nod from Some recent coverage from Bustler featured one of the 2009 AIA Small Projects Awards for the ‘Mobile Chaplet’ by Moorhead & Moorhead. :: image via Bustler“Mobile Chaplet is one of six portable spaces for reflection commissioned to travel to rural communities around…
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Bad Idea of the Week
This one from Treehugger made me question what the actual point of this exercise was in the grand scheme of landscape and furnishings… “Michel Bussien has designed a new way to help you get up close and personal with nature–by turning it into furniture. The “Growing Chair” shown is a sharply designed mold that allows…
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DeWinging: Dragonfly
Ok, let me start off by saying I’m a big fan of wildly speculative work that pushes the boundaries of thought and expands the thinking of our urban spaces and landscapes. That said, I’m started to chafe at the preponderance of overwrought schemes flown about under the guise of skyscraper or vertical farming (previously discussed…
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Bad Idea of the Week
It’s almost summer in Portland (aka the Rose City), thus time for the annual schlock-fest we like to consider the Rose Festival… in that spirit, the bad idea of the week goes to the tacky Neon Rose atop the John Yeon designed building (that previously was the visitor’s information center and has sadly sat partly…
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Host Analog
The insertion of ecological artworks into the urban patterns offers opportunities to confront our relationship in nature in new ways. Additionally, the location in proximity to density and multi-modal traffic (versus, something tucked away in a far-off location) also gives artists a significantly larger audience to express concepts to. One very central piece in Portland…