Category: humor
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Bad Idea of the Week
This interesting product appeared last week from Inhabitat, consisting of small squares of grass for your desk or home. “These grass squares were designed at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel, in 2009 as a way to combine nature and architecture.” While a laudable concept in theory, the idea of bring in grass…
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Food for Thought Winners
The winners for the competition ‘Food for Thought’ sponsored by 24-7 sandwich shop have recently been announced, and it seems as if the organizers were successful in providing some provocative visions of a new culture of food. The winning entry ‘Connection Wall’ comes from Milos Milivojevic from Serbia and envisions a digital diner where virtual…
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Blackness is the new Green. Sigh…
Well, I can’t exactly find any examples of this fact in the groups of people I know, it turns out that Portland is America’s Unhappiest City, at least according to Business Week. Even amidst the downturn in the economy, we’d all be perplexed by this, if we weren’t so busy wallowing in our black hole…
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From the Archives: Urban Habitat
One of the more interesting urban legends (which happens to be true) is the story of the coyote that decided to hitch a ride on Portland’s MAX light rail – recently reemerged on the Seattle Transit Blog. :: image via Seattle Transit Blog Some more info via the strange Dogs In the News – from…
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Be Careful What you Wish For…
Just kidding… I can’t think of anything better in the world to do. Plus we are multi-talented: Via Topophila: I Want to be a Landscape Architect“Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people and natural systems. The…
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Daily Double + A Flurry of Darts
I’m typically not one to focus on my own doings terribly often on the blog – but I had to laugh at the fortune of this press double-play today from my home city of Portland. First, from writer Sam Bennett from the Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce – investigating the potential of the Sustainable Sites…
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Welcome to Portlandia
Is Portland European, or is Europe Portlandian? Hmmmm….
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Veg.itectural Mash Note #44
Well, alas I’d like to think my love is more one-dimensional than just swooning over the work of James Corner. Austria, for one, sounds lovely this time of year, i hear. Vegetated architecture on the other hand, is my one true love … and here’s a real mash note to those vertical, vegetated, and very…
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300!
Blogging is tough sometimes… It’s one of those moments of serendipity – the 300th post happens to coincide with the (almost) one year anniversary of Landscape+Urbanism (the actual post numero uno was 11.26.07) It started slowly (due to my naivety and a certain habitats competition I was working on, but seemed to pick up and…
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Sendak, Pre-Vegitect?
One of my favorite children’s books when I was a kid was the Maurice Sendak classic ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (probably a close tie with Ferdinand the Bull). As many know, this tale of Max as the kid with the wild imagination and awesome wolf costume (which by god I will do for halloween…