Category: materials
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Plants + VOCs
A recent, somewhat hyperbolic title from Treehugger, “Bad Green: Some Indoor Plants Release Volatile Organic Compounds” provides a snippet from some recent research that mention, gasp, that plants, particularly indoor ones, release volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It’s a strange conceptual notion indeed, as there has been much research and information on the ability of indoor…
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Reading List: Andrea Cochran: Landscapes
I’ve had the book ‘Andrea Cochran: Landscapes’ for a while now, since Princeton Architecture Press (2009) sent me a copy. I’ve paged through it numerous times, but figured I’d get around to reading it at some point, at least formally, before putting the review together. Well, for a review I have to admit that I…
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Spanning: Bridge Houses
A couple of projects, picking up on the recent post ‘A River Runs Through It‘, feature a pair of amazing buildings spanning waterways. I guess the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright is alive and well in architecture. The first via Arch Daily, is Bridge House, a design in Adelaide, Australia by Max Pritchard Architect. This…
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Plant Power
We often discuss the types of ways vegetation can be of benefit to humans – for instance phytoremediation. A few posts that loosely collect into a narrative regarding some unique opportunities to engage plants in our social and environmental structures in inventive ways. The benefits are myriad and wonderful. Read on. Crime PreventionVia Treehugger: “Suginami,…
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A River Runs Through It…
A kind reader named Chris Keller alerted me to a very cool project in California called Kaweah Falls. From his email: “We just finished a house renovation at the base of the Sequoia National Park in central California that I thought might interest you. A river flows underneath our dining room. Literally, you can watch…
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DailyLand: INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ
INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ asp landschaftsarchitekten > info via Vulgare :: images via Vulgare A paving pattern perhaps only Q*Bert could love… :: image via Wikipedia
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DailyLand: Sensational Park
Sensational Park – Nabito Architects Frosinone, Italy > info via Arch Daily, Inspiration Wall “The five human senses are the main theme of the space in which materials and vegetation are related to them. The equipped green area and urban garden is due to be completed this month.” :: images via Arch Daily
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DailyLand: Crack Garden
Crack Garden CMG Landscape Architecture > See and read more at Pruned and Inhabitat > 2009 ASLA Honor Award Winner – Residential Design :: image via Pruned :: image via Inhabitat Text excerpt from ASLA: “The Crack Garden is an exploration of the identity of site and the clarity of intervention. Pre-existing places have an…
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Dwell Does Landscape
Recently there was a cadre of posts from the Dwell blog focused on the landscape – as part of the 101 Landscape. The content was mostly passable, with some information on this history of the profession, and an interesting article on lawn reduction… amongst some others. :: image via Dwell I was particularly interested in…
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Escape to Book Mountain
As a self-professed bibliophile… I was excited by the recent visuals fo MVRDV‘s Book Mountain – the coolest library I’ve seen since the Seattle Public Library by Koolhaas . Check out more from World Architecture News, with some description of how the project “…will feature the literal translation of ‘a mountain of reading’ by creating…