Category: competitions
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Veg.itecture #33
Clearing the files of backed up projects (to make way for the new, of course)… a brief, in text, and long, in photos, version of Veg.itecture… it’s definitely got variety, although you can see the disparity between built and representative projects… A colorful green roof atop ECOSpace, in Dunfermline, United Kingdom, by RMJM (now about…
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Veg.itecture #32
Time for another installment, and no slowing down of the Veg.itectural trend. As this phenomenon evolves it will be continually interesting to see the differences between the imagery that is presented in concept – and the actual project build-outs for these vegetated architectural creations. Starting with a recent post from my new favorite site, Arch…
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Wave Cloud Tree Zoo
Not random word association, Wave Cloud Tree Zoo is one of three finalists in a competition for the NY Aquarium at Coney Island. The collaboration between WRT & Cloud 9 Architecture (along with a host of others) envisions a verdant and sinuous waterfront… :: image via Wave Cloud Tree Zoo Here’s a project description with…
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Revisiting the High Line
Continuing the coverage of NYC’s High Line project, which has been featured in detail here, and minimally here, as well as a study of one of the precedents in France here… Curbed has a multi–part feature showing the project evolving from idea, with some new renderings of Phase II. I’m trying to track down some…
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Portland – Top Ten Design City
The buzz of the week is all over BusinessWeek’s listing of the ‘Top Ten Cities for Design in America’ – and I just want to throw out my plug for Portland as the long-shot entry. Why is that? Well here’s the list, via the article (with my superimposed population for Metropolitan area figures in parentheses…
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Green Branding, Literally
If you are like me, you have a wee bit of antipathy to the urban blight we know as the billboard. While many of use would like to see some Edward Abbey-style billboard eradication, or at least some creative Billboard Liberation, an interim step just may be vegetation. While bordering on greenwashing, or one of…
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Parking sans Car
Somedays it seems parking will take over the world – either in reality or in project programs. While a necessary evil the slow deterioration and need for automobiles (can we say $4.29 / gallon gas anyone?) will inevitably lead to chaos and anarchy (or, creative solutions). Imagine the group Rebar on steroids – with free…
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A Trio of Bikes = A Tricycle?
A couple of landscape-related bicycle designs encompassing the crossover potential for design into transportation and even ecology. One of the winners of the competition for the competition results for the Design 21: Power to the Pedal contest is entitled Bloom : peddling green by Society Creative llc. Designers Matthew Boyko, Christina Ng envision a bike-mounted…
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Landscape House sans Landscape
Ok, maybe this is a conceptual gap or just landscape architectural griping (similar to the use of the term ‘architectural plantings’, or ‘value engineering’ perhaps) but there’s nothing remotely ‘landscape’ about the Landscape House for an Ecologist, seen via Inhabitat. Designed by Raphaelle and Alfredo Maul, of Maul Dwellings in San Sebastian, Spain, the project…
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Veg.itecture #28
It’s spring, and there’s been a bumper crop of vegetated architecture examples from around the globe. I’ve been neglecting the posting – and now they’ve piled up into a major collection of projects – and it’s inevitable to be a multi-part series of Veg.itecture posts to get all of the great projects in there. So,…