Category: competitions
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Integrating Habitats Competition: Urban Ecotones
Well it’s finally official – the announcement of winners and the like for the Integrating Habitats Competition. The celebration was held about a month ago now (Feb 26) and we’ve all been basking in the warm glow of adoration since then… The team and our entry got lot’s of photo ops at the celebration (that’s…
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Veg.itecture: #19
aka. The Pooktre Vegitectural Prize AwardedWell, all the lobbying for Jean Nouvel as one of the pre-emininent Veg.itects of our time has paid off with the recent announcement that he was recently awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008. While not as prestigious as aforementioned PVP, congrats are in order all the same. :: image…
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Parks: With Los Angeles Style
A couple of recent announcements in World Architecture News has definitely aimed the spotlight at Los Angeles for cutting edge parks and open space implementation. And this doesn’t even include the local media-saturated Orange County Great Park (subject of some upcoming coverage of our own here at L+U). The first project is by one of…
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Landscape Urbanism at Shelby Farms
The announcement for the Shelby Farms competition was forwarded to the firm I work for a mere couple of weeks before the due date, which was disappointing as it seemed like a great one. Judging from the finalists, we were not wrong, with strong submittals from Field Operations, Hargreaves Associates, and Tom Leader Studio. Here’s…
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Integrating Habitats: A Competition
Phew. So i seem to have forgotten the toll on everything that occurs when one agrees to enter and invest in a competition, specifically those done on one’s own time. The Integrating Habitats Competition I was working on finished on Monday – thus the long delay in posts. See a small version of our entry…