Category: art
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Slices of Eco-Art
The connection between environmental art and landscape architecture is dynamic… making it a common theme here at L+U. These ecological artworks and installations provide stylistic and conceptual frameworks that are less possible or legible in the traditional boundaries of applied landscape design (practical art) – this freedom gives rise to limitless potential opportunities. Landscape architecture…
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DailyLand: Green Island
Somewhat of a visionary departure for the DailyLand feature, these visions of ‘green’ urbanism in the literal Green Island proposals of a vegetated Tokyo are both confrontational and thought provoking. It makes me think directly of the previous post wishing for green transit, and taking it a whole city further. Specifically I ask… would cities…
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The Cold Seat
I recently received an email from Hongtao Zhou, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Artist/Designer that recently installed a project on Lake Mendota with an environmental statement and a frigid ends – something a person who grew up in North Dakota can appreciate. Enjoy! :: Ice & Snow Furniture Raised From Lake Mendota – image via Hongtao…
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Water Dump
There’s been a lot of activity around water – predominately its use and inevitable misuse. In this version of the dump… some choice bits worthy of another look. :: Big Squirt – image via Treehugger An interesting ephemeral art-piece, “STREET FOUNTAIN by HELMUT SMITS, 2002: Small water pumps in existing pot-holes in the road surface.…
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DailyLand: A Square
In an effort to remedy my bursting archives, I’m instituting a new feature called DailyLand (with apologies to ArchDaily, which does the same in much greater depth and detail). Look for one-a-day in brief for the immediate future, which will also allow me to keep up with the great content out there. “Korean photographer Hosang…
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Energy Dump
Not a lot festering here in terms of energy links, but a couple of interesting ideas related to our electricity infrastructure – coming from two different worlds. The first takes a look at our existing power structure – namely the ubiquitous grid. From InfraNet Lab, this post announces the ‘Power of Ecosystems/Ecosystems of Power’ –…
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The Moss Room
Check out the yummy new project shown off in the latest issue of Metropolis. Back to the California Academy of Sciences building, the Moss Room by Lundberg Design is the subterranean restaurant that fittingly sheathed in a mossy covered green wall. There seems to be a lag between the print and online versions over at Metropolis…
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Eco-Art Dump
In a combination of post overload and just good stuff, I am faced with a dilemma. Dump a bunch of stored up links in mass posting summaries or just plain dump them for good – missing an opportunity to collect some great material in the blog. So in a compromise fitting for L+U, I will…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA la Revolution
As promised, the counterpoint to the recent posts related to Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) are the more conceptual illustrative examples in the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) posts – which offer a more sparsely informative overview of the visions of vegetated architecture and the many graphic forms that it takes. The dichotomy between vision and…
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Seiwooo = Graphic Bliss
An email from Mannisi Alban alerted me to some of the fine graphic work that is present on the Seiwooo site – a portfolio of work spanning the past ten years. It’s rare to find a wide range of different graphic techniques in one spot, so these are definitely worthy of a look – if…