Category: dailyland
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DailyLand: Secret Landscape Garden
An interesting visual exploration of space in this competition entry. I’m interested in what readers think about the success of this story/illustration (with a book illustrator) in telling this particular tale. Personally, aside from the plan graphic, I’m not feeling it and find it distracting from the overall concept, but that’s the beauty of expression…
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DailyLand: Crack Garden
Crack Garden CMG Landscape Architecture > See and read more at Pruned and Inhabitat > 2009 ASLA Honor Award Winner – Residential Design :: image via Pruned :: image via Inhabitat Text excerpt from ASLA: “The Crack Garden is an exploration of the identity of site and the clarity of intervention. Pre-existing places have an…
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DailyLand: Taekwondo Park
I’m going to reimplement, now that there’s some space with the Veg.itectural sidebar, the idea of DailyLand… as it’s something that I think has been lacking in the L+U content. These will be simple posts on an almost daily basis with a link to more information from outside and a couple of pics. The aim…
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DailyLand: June Callwood Park
Bustler recently announced the winning entry the international design competition to provide a vision for Toronto’s June Callwood Park. The competition was won by Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 for their ethereal design that mixes forms of bands, waves and groves together in their entry for the ‘Super Real Forest’ – patterning light…
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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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DailyLand: Copenhagen Waterfront
I was pleased to see the issue of Topos 65, which featured one of the recent DailyLand projects, the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain as well as a veg.itectural gem at the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center. There are a few choice projects to look for soon as well. For this installment, another waterfront project that I…
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DailyLand: Parc Nus de la Trinitat
Parc Nus de la Trinitat, Barcelona, 1993 by Joan Roig & Enric Batlle found via VULGARE. “…is in north east Barcelona, inside a circular motorway junction. The scale of the six hectare park is definad by a framework of trees forming a spactially effective filter between the motorways and the park. A circular gallery divides…
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DailyLand: Promenade Samuel-de Champlain
The Promenade Samuel-de Champlain in Quebec, Canada by Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement provides open space along the St. Lawrence river. From Arch Daily: “…the project delicately weaves a sequence of diverse experiences and atmospheres, navigating from the boundless visual expanse of the river and the scale of the territory,…
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DailyLand: “Pinar de Perruquet” Park
“Pinar de Perruquet” Park is a project in La Pineda (Vila-Seca), Spain by ARTEKS Arquitectura, featuring some undulating edges remind one of the work of Roberto Burle-Marx. :: images © Pedro Pegenaute – via Arch Daily An interesting feature of the park is the architectural canopy, which offers a veg.itectural analog of the surrounding wind…
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DailyLand: Roberto Burle Marx
The New York Times featured a great retrospective of the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Check out the article and slideshow. Many in the realms of landscape architecture have been influenced by the bold geometry of his designs, as well as the urban integration of landscape into the consciousness of urban dwellers.…