Category: green roofs
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 2
Following the big box threads of the previous post, some of the speculative work of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) offers another viewpoint towards the idea of a tranformed development archetype. :: image via LTL I think half of my interest in LTL is the concepts, the other half is the interesting graphic techniques – many…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 1
The ubiquitous big box store is a staple of modern life, which, along with it’s associated expansive parking areas eat up a good portion of our cities. The collections of big box stores, known as power centers, exacerbate this phenonmenon by multiplying the footprint and impact of the store uses – creating significant gashes in…
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Veg.itecture #43
Once again, with feeling… I have green roofs on the brain right now, because upon cracking open my new (and god-awful expensive) copy of Steven Cantor’s Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design – to find a double spread of Multnomah County’s green roof on chapter one… a design I did while at my previous employer…
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Pruning AAgrotecture
Most readers have no doubt seen Alexander Trevi’s great quartet of projects in an ongoing series on AAgrotecture over at Pruned. Part of a Vertical Studio from the Architecture Association (AA) in London taught by Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos – the purpose was to address a central question: “Can extremes of programmatic effectiveness…
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20+10+X = the World
A press release announcing the 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards, a unique process of culling through what is no small feat – the best projects in the world architecture community. Aside from being a comprehensive online portal: “… WA is an “online community” initiated by Suha Özkan and 200+ invited Honorary Members, and a growing…
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Veg.itecture #42
It has been a while since we’ve had an opportunity to showcase some Vegetated Architecture. You missed it, didn’t you? Well, I did lose all of my accumulated links on my old computer – but it didn’t take long to accumulate some more gems. And well, it’s not all eye candy, as there has been…
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Hell Freezes Over
Ok, maybe a tad of hyperbole, but I definitely did a doubletake when reading this article in the NY Times about the Greening of the Big Box. ‘Green Plans in Blueprints for Retailers,‘ 11.07.08 – outlines some of the sustainable strategies being implemented around the country by the most unlikely of sources. I’ve seen a…
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Secret Garden
The National Geographic Channel is set to air a show on the construction of the One Bryant Park. Titled Man Made: Ultimate Skyscraper, this series offers a rare glimpse at green building in process. :: image via National Geographic ChannelFrom their press email: “National Geographic Channel gives viewers an exclusive look at the design and…
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Down with People… NW Style
Shameless self- and blog- promo… via Ultimate NW Magazine… p.38… Enjoy. :: images via Ultimate NW (Click to Enlarge)
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Flip This Strip…
Perhaps the timing is perfect amidst our current economic downturn – the award winners have been announced for the very interesting Flip a Strip competition sponsored by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (smoca). These entries expand the conversation and definitely deliver in potential opportunities and visions for these zones of urban and sub-urban blight,…