Category: landscape
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Worlds Largest
Via, Dezeen, a post about Rafael Viñoly design for The Hills at Vallco, along with landscape architecture firm Olin, to redevelop the “…Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino into a vast mixed-use development featuring a 30-acre (12 hectare) green roof.” Billed as the ‘largest green roof in the world’, a title of which is somewhat arbitrary and ambiguous,…
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Vegetal Cities
Continuing the theme, I spotted this post on Treehugger, showcasing the amazing work of Luc Schuiten, a Belgian architect who offers “…a visionary approach to rethinking cities, in a biomimetic fashion. In his lush and fantastical renderings of what he calls “vegetal cities,” urban centers are transformed into living, responsive architectures that merge nature with…
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Vegitecture Throwback
Oh, it’s been a bit since i’ve posted something in the category of Vegitecture (aka Vegetated Architecture). I still follow the trend closely and although more ubiquitous, there are still some showstoppers here and there. I thought it good to do a quick throwback to some interesting ones i’ve spotted recently, from an post from…
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San Francisco Hidden Hydrology
A project of note that made the rounds over the past month resonated with the concept of Hidden Hydrology. The project ‘Ghost Arroyos‘, proposed as part of the Market Street Prototyping Festival paints the town blue, in a sense. I definitely like this idea, as we’ve discussed doing a similar exploration of Portland’s Tanner Creek.…
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Language of Landscape
A great article in the Guardian on an upcoming work (Landmarks) by nature writer Robert Macfarlane on the ‘rewilding of our language of landscape’. I was not familiar with Macfarlane, but the takeaway of the connection between language and understanding of natural systems is captured in the subheading: “For decades the leading nature writer has…
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Bioclimatic Design
Good article in the USGBC+ magazine related to Bioclimatic Design and some projects that focus on the integration of vernacular strategies (and forms) to increase responsiveness to the local environment in which they are built. This is nothing new for many designers, and builds upon centuries of knowledge, but I’m mostly interested in how it…
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Hidden Hydrology Origins 1: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek
Originally published on Terra Fluxus – 01/15/2011 As I mentioned in the previous post, there have been a number of inspirations that led to the current work on the Hidden Hydrology of Portland. I will take this week outlining a few of the past words and images that have led to the current work. A…