Category: humor
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Best of… the Rest
Well, finally back at it after a bit of time off and some flurry of activity around Parking Day 2009. More to come on our ‘award winning’ most playful entry to the Seattle People’s Parking Lot, and the beauty of oversized Connect Four – and stay tuned for more posts upcoming. :: 4-Play – image…
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Urban Urinals
Well in defense of the scatological, peeing in urban areas (or other specific displays of a variety of bodily functions) is something of a way of life (often in the doorway of our downtown office). Portland has become another in a line of cities experimenting with public toilets in the inner city for use by…
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Thoroughly Modern Landscape
I’m a big fan of modern architecture, as well a the simplicity of modern landscape design. But, I thought the days of artful boxes placed atop generic landscaped fields with little to offer in the way of beauty, poetry, or function was long over as people understood the relationship between building and site in new…
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Hot in the City
Sitting in front (or anywhere near) a computer in the past week has been somewhat trying… a lowdown of the past 5 days (via National Weather Service)…July 29: 106July 28: 106July 27: 103July 26: 93July 25: 90The prediction for the next few days are hovering around 100… FYI, our average high temp at this time…
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Annals of Artifice
This project made me think specifically of the MOMA rooftop garden by Ken Smith… something about artifice that seems somewhat contrived… but I guess that’s the point 🙂 Via Treehugger: “Purists sneered at this garden made out of plasticine when it was first exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by the star of Top…
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Hoax of the Week
:: image via curbed This one was pretty good and definitely had a bunch of folks going (via urbanism.org > via curbed)… The concept: “Bulldoze under Central Park and replace it with a modern, international airport. The idea is so simple, so beautifully elegant, so inevitable that it’s hard to believe we didn’t think of…
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Interactive Architecture
This one should be done for every building designed, as part of design review. An installation called ‘walking berlin’ by fantastic norway was recently featured on DesignBoom (go the link for much more): “The walking houses are man-sized models of our latest architectural project: a tourist destination located on the northern west coast of norway.…
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Meadow Spotted Runing Amok in NYC: Film @ 11
I’m a big fan of the Onion, so loved the semi-hyperbolic headlines reporting this, okay, I’ll say it, ‘cute’ installation NYC showing a snippet of meadow captured for the viewing: “Coupling urban restoration and indigenous plants, Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, both landscape designers, were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to design and construct…
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Bad Idea of the Week
It’s almost summer in Portland (aka the Rose City), thus time for the annual schlock-fest we like to consider the Rose Festival… in that spirit, the bad idea of the week goes to the tacky Neon Rose atop the John Yeon designed building (that previously was the visitor’s information center and has sadly sat partly…
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Plant Propaganda
A recent visit to the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center in Beaverton offered the added bonus of some interesting signage about native plantings… While I’m not a native purist by any means, I like the inventive way of conveying the idea. :: images by CWS – photos by author Stay tuned for some pics…