Category: landscape architecture
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Alan Berger on Landscape Waste
Via World Landscape Architect a two-part video of Alan Berger: “CUSP Conference organisers recently posted a two part video of Alan Berger’s presentation at the 2009 CUSP Conference on Landscape Waste. An interesting look at landscapes waste resulting from industrial processes.” Check out part 2 here.
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This WILL Cut Down on Blogging Productivity
Aside from the (at least impending) fact of summer, and general busy-ness at work – I thought I’d share my primary reason for the recent decline in blogging. Recipe: Take one laptop. Add one dog running by and catching the cord bringing the works to the ground. The result – one really beautifully broken lcd…
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Rooftop Agriculture
I’ve purposely steered away from the pure rooftop farms in discussions of vertical farming solutions recently featured (here, here, here, and here). This isn’t due to any particular reason other than I think that rooftop farms area a separate typology in it’s own right – as it is focusing on a separate area of emphasis…
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Landcast by Christian Barnard
Dubbed with simple terms as ‘the voice of contemporary landscape culture’ – LANDCAST is a new series of podcasts from fellow landscape architect and blogger Christian Barnard that approaches landscape media in a brand new way. With the help of radio documentarian Adrien Sala, the podcasts aim to be an irreverent and informative way to…
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Reading Owens Lake
One of my favorite chapters of the great Infrastructural City (read my review here) is the chapter by Barry Lehrman entitled ‘Reconstructing the Void: Owens Lake’ which delves into the ‘accidental preservation’ of the Owens Lake basin due to the depletion of water resources as they were diverted to Los Angeles. As part of the…
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An Experimental Landscape Architecture
Coverage of some of Alan Berger’s work with P-REX on the Pontine Marshes has appeared on mammoth, the most refreshingly non-architectural of architecture blogs, borrowing a note from BLDGBLOG and Pruned in their fascination with the large-scale landscape infrastructural interventions that don’t seem to make the pages of all but a few ‘landscape architecture’ media…
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The Park: Dallas
Following up on the post about freeway capping, a reader alerted me to The Park, a Dallas, Texas based project aimed at reclaiming spaces atop the existing freeway corridor: “Five acres of shared, public green space will deck over the existing Woodall Rodgers Freeway, bringing new traditions, shared experiences and FUN to the center of…
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Urban Crossings – Los Angeles
Picking up on the threads of the Vegitecture post on ‘Crossings‘, a post on The Dirt made mention of the plans to cap a number of freeways throughout Southern California. “According to The Architect’s Newspaper, there are four separate projects being considered across L.A.: one in Hollywood, one in downtown LA, and two in Santa…
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Natural Stone Permeable Paving System
[L+U NOTE: This is a guest post from Miles Chaffee from Milestone Imports] “With the rising popularity of permeable pavement systems in residential and commercial landscape designs, it is important for landscape professionals to educate themselves about the different materials available for paving options. Natural stone is increasingly used as a permeable paver because of…
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Bell Street Park – Seattle
A new project recently via the Daily Journal of Commerce unveiled by SvR Design Company in Seattle shows a pair of proposals for Bell Street Park: “The project will affect the area from First to Fifth avenues and create 17,000 square feet of park space. The city is converting one lane of traffic to public…