Category: parks
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DailyLand: Imperial War Museum North Exterior
Imperial War Museum North ExteriorManchester, UKTopotek 1> more via Bustler:: image via Bustler From the description: “The camouflage patterns used by the military are an abstraction of landscapes of combat. These patterns represent a visual average of the natural environment: the muted green, brown, and ocher hues of typical camouflage are a graphic summary of…
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Detroit: Urbanist Opportunity
An interesting post via the Sustainable Cities Collective from Kaid Benfield asks the provocative question “Is Detroit (the city) a lost cause environmentally? Altogether?” and again makes me wonder why it is that Detroit seems to always get framed in thoughts of negativity, versus thinking of it as a potential opportunity to redefine the way…
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Cause & Effect
Early in my career, I had the great opportunity to work at a firm that specialized in park and recreation planning, which not only gave a fabulous perspective on municipal planning (and reinforced my love of both the large ad the small scale) as well as the inventive use of mapping to illustrate particular schema.…
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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: Secret Landscape Garden
An interesting visual exploration of space in this competition entry. I’m interested in what readers think about the success of this story/illustration (with a book illustrator) in telling this particular tale. Personally, aside from the plan graphic, I’m not feeling it and find it distracting from the overall concept, but that’s the beauty of expression…
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Freshkills Park Video
An email from Bijan Rezvani from thirteen/wnet in NYC offers a short video as part of ‘The City Concealed’ series. The installment of Freshkills Park Project – outlining the innovative work of Field Operations and team in transforming the former world’s largest landfill into this long-term process to create an amazing large park. The City…
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DailyLand: Taekwondo Park
I’m going to reimplement, now that there’s some space with the Veg.itectural sidebar, the idea of DailyLand… as it’s something that I think has been lacking in the L+U content. These will be simple posts on an almost daily basis with a link to more information from outside and a couple of pics. The aim…
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High Line Goes Public
In one of the most exciting bits of news lately, Section 1 of the L+U favorite High Line will open to the public next week. This on the heels some travel press from across the pond, and the announcement of a large gift from some local celebs.. couldn’t be better timing, as today’s post reveals…
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Reading List: Wilderness & The American Mind
Taking a break from the computer and the endless array of blog posts gives one an opportunity to reconnect with the written word in a different way. (For full disclosure, I hate reading on the computer – so really have to slog through text heavy posts and articles…) A couple of interesting books that I’ve…
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Freshkills Park Blog
A recent discovery via blog linking, the Freshkills Park Blog, offers some insight into the workings of the major large-scale and long-term landscape urbanist project of North America. “Freshkills Park Blog is compiled by members of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation team working to develop Freshkills Park. Blog entries represent the…