Category: films
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Quest for the Livable City
For an upcoming seminar class that myself and my colleague Brett Milligan are teaching in the Winter Quarter at the University of Oregon Architecture Program here in Portland, I’ve been doing a good bit of research on our local planning. Look for some upcoming posts here and at Brett’s blog FAD on the topic of…
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Freshkills Park Video
An email from Bijan Rezvani from thirteen/wnet in NYC offers a short video as part of ‘The City Concealed’ series. The installment of Freshkills Park Project – outlining the innovative work of Field Operations and team in transforming the former world’s largest landfill into this long-term process to create an amazing large park. The City…
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Vancouver CC Green Roof Videos
As promised some more coverage of the new Vancouver Convention Centre and it’s massive green roof – this time in a pair of videos. First, a video featuring extensive interviews with the landscape architect, Bruce Hemstock from PWL Partnership, as well as Reece Rehm, planting supervisor for Holland Landscapers. Enjoy. Thanks James from Radar DDB…
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Welcome to Portlandia
Is Portland European, or is Europe Portlandian? Hmmmm….
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SITE Videos
A Daily Dose of Architecture continued my retro kickback weekend – with some amazing videos related to the 1970s and 1980s big box stores designed by James Wines and his firm SITE. Some of the most known of these are retail stores for the now defunct BEST Stores which I guess wanted an exterior to…
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Go Swift-ly into that Goodnight
A local Portland phenomenon that seems to grow exponentially each year is the pilgrimmage to Chapman Elementary School to witness the bedding down of the Swifts… and if it sounds dull, you will be sadly mistaken. A week ago, a small group met up for a birthday pre-celebration, including the finest in boxed wine and…
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Helvetica | Manufactured Landscapes
These documentary films have been in theaters for a bit. I recently was able to get both for home viewing, and found that they were definitely focused, at least tangentially, on design and landscape – both urban and rural. HELVETICAAs a self-described font nerd, the first documentary Helvetica did not disappoint. Spanning the history of…