Category: ecology
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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: Oxygenator
“Oxygenator“, 2006-2007 by Joanna Rajkowska. Artificial pond with oxygen fountains. “The main element of this project is a pond of about 150m2 surface area, 1,0m deep, written into the existing lawn. On the surface some water lilies, but not too many, some plants placed at the bottom of the pond and constantly being freed from…
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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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Dubai in the Toilet
There’s been a couple of murmurs regarding the failing infrastructure in Dubai, which has now (temporary) closed the famed Jumeirah Beach due to a preponderance of brown trout. Via Times Online: “A noxious tide of toilet paper, raw sewage and chemical waste has transformed Dubai’s most prestigious stretch of shoreline into a foul-smelling health hazard.…
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Chilean Facades: Consorcio + Concepción
A stunning new example of VIA (i think?) via Urban Greenery presents the The Consorcio Building in Santiago – with an amazing green wall system on significant portions of the facade – which recalls Ken Yeang’s Bioclimatic structures in this tropical climate. :: images via Urban Greenery Located in Santiago, Chile – the green walls…
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Greening the Rails
Portland is well-known for having one of the best light-rail systems in the country. Through an efficient combination of train and streetcar – served by a great bus system, makes getting around the region sans car relatively pain free. A recent post from Inhabitat definitely struck home a point regarding a retrofit that could make…
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Flower: Gaming Urban Flight
A link from the ASLA blog The Dirt offered word of a landscape-oriented game from Playstation 3 entitled ‘Flower’. The gist: “Sony will soon release a new game “Flower,” which explores the path of an urban flower that seeks to escape to the countryside. Sony’s designer says the game is an interactive poem, which uses…
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Questioning EcoMetropolitanism
Perhaps I missed the memo regarding a new found integration of ‘wildness’ into our cities as the 2009 topic to watch. Maybe it started with Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates – jumping to Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and the idea of City Zoo, shifting to the more expansive concept from _urb about Post Humanist Rewilded Eco Ethical…
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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…