Category: materials
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Clinton Condominiums
Not specifically ‘landscape’ focused, but a wonderful juxtaposition of materials is found on the Clinton Condominiums at SE by Holst Architecture. I think it’s a great example of mid-density infill within the context of a commercial street corridor. All photos (c) copyright Jason King, 2010 This is one of my favorite buildings in Portland, with…
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PICA Coop Design Competition
Based on the work from last year to create the Chicken Cube – I was recently asked to serve on a design competition jury put on by SERA Architects to design the perfect chicken coop. The competition was aimed at benefitting the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) for their upcoming TADA 2010 Annual Gala…
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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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On Weather
Via InfranetLab, a fascinating book that looks interesting is entitled ‘-arium: Weather + Architecture’ spawned from a research investigation at the University of Toronto. With a cursory glance, it looks to be something of the same genus (at least in overall ideology) to that of Gissen’s recent book Subnature – which provides a focus more…
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Revisit: Fremont Troll
From a recent trip to Seattle, always a good excuse to visit our friend under the bridge. I hadn’t been up there since the roadway was renamed ‘Troll Avenue’… guess it’s easier to find that way and an interesting address to boot. :: image via L+U
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Personal Infrastructures
Working on some link house-cleaning and came up with a few posts that seems to thread together in an interesting narrative. The first of this was a beautiful installation for the ‘Flower Street BioReactor’ via Dezeen: “Los Angeles architects Emergent have designed an installation filled with green algae that produce oil by photosynthesis.” This sort…
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Reading List: Subnature
Another book that engaged me on my hiatus from blogging is one I picked up on somewhat of a whim as it looked like a fascinating read. I wasn’t disappointed, as ‘Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments” by David Gissen, quickly became impossible to put down. The reason? It really tackles some interesting terrain that is definitely…
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Sustainable Sites – Update
From some sneak peeks of the latest update to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (more from L+U here), I was both excited about the next iteration and establishment of more rigorous set of criteria, and a bit curious how it was going to maintain some of the necessary distance, inclusivity and poetry that is lacking in…
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Bilbao Jardín Garden
A wonderful addition to the International Urban Garden Competition “Bilbao Jardín 2009”, by Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates and a design that literally ‘climbs the stairs’ with a undulating vegetated strip and cor-ten walls splaying out in a wider planter at the lowest landing. :: image via Bustler – Photo: Iwan BaanSome of…
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Animal House
An interesting urban habitat from Inhabitat, “…Gitta Gschwendtner’s Animal Wall is for residents of all species in Cardiff Bay, UK. This 50-meter wall includes 1000 houses for birds and bats, and also acts as a textural and geometric sculptural divider between a residential development and a river front.” :: image via Inhabitat I’m not sure…