Category: competitions
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Mind the GAP
The GAP in this case being the Grand Army Plaza, the forecourt space to the north of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, and one of those woefully inadequate urban spaces that perhaps was grandiose at one time – but due to current pressure has become inaccessible and dangerous. :: image via Grand Army Plaza Coalition Or in…
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West 8: Ile St. Denis
Hot off the wire from World Landscape Architect, Landscape+Urbanism favorites West 8 have recently won a competition for the Ecological District Ile Saint Denis. As with most competition entries, the sum total of our understanding comes from a few zoomy images and a snippet of descriptive text. So here’s both, all text images via West…
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West Side Stories
Competitions allow some interesting opportunities. One is the ability for firms to shape up against one another in at least an equitable showdown. Another is that it gives some opportunity for firms to either experiment graphically or flex their artistic muscle. :: Hargreaves Design featuring curled overpass – image via New York Post In a…
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Ecotopia Revisited
Another semi-pointless ranking of US cities names Portland greenest amongst the uber green… which begs the real question… why are there no North Dakota cities in these rankings ever? :: image via TreehuggerThe verdict: “If you live in Portland, you might want to think twice before complaining about the 40-plus inches of rain dumped on…
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Habitat Heresy?
When I first heard the grumbling around Colwood National Golf Course being rezoned as industrial space from it’s current state as an ailing golf course I had the same reaction as others: Do we really want more displacement of open space into industrial lands, especially in NE Portland, which has a legacy of industrial lands…
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What I did on my Summer Vacation…
Summer is a great time to think – specifically in Oregon where August and September are typically the prime season and weather for outdoor activity, as well as conducive to the more cerebral… so what have I been doing? Well primarily watching the Beijing Olympics, working too much and too long, finishing a Fellowship application…
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China’s Urban Forest
Via Bustler, an amazing competition winner at the New Urban Streetscape in Beijing, sponsored by New World China Land Limited. Entitled ‘Urban Forest’ and anchored by SITE New York along with Chinese firm WaHa Studio. :: image via BustlerBustler offers some extensive text, so definitely check out the link and the description. Some highlights: “It…
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Water Worlds
A range of projects featuring water not just as a theme, but a major design element… very disparate in scale and application, but with that common hydrological thread. For starters, one of the typologies of green roofs, discussed previously on L+U, is the concept of ‘blue roofs’ – which use water to provide cooling atop…
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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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Design the 21st Century Street
Well, it’s time again for another competition – gleaned via Death by Architecture. Sponsored by Transportation Alernatives, the Designing the 21st Century Street Design Competition challenges entrants to envision: “…new conceptual and physical approaches to the planning of public streets.” :: image via 21st Century Street The competition focuses on an intersection in Brooklyn, at…