Category: planning
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Urban Ag: The Pulse
It’s been a while since I’ve done a significant post on urban agriculture. This is somewhat purposeful – for one everywhere you look the topic has caught fire. A quick summary shows recent articles in the LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, American City, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, Granville, Dwell, Slate…
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Wave Cloud Tree Zoo
Not random word association, Wave Cloud Tree Zoo is one of three finalists in a competition for the NY Aquarium at Coney Island. The collaboration between WRT & Cloud 9 Architecture (along with a host of others) envisions a verdant and sinuous waterfront… :: image via Wave Cloud Tree Zoo Here’s a project description with…
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SillyPads
Wow – this one has exploded in the past few weeks. I refer you to LilyPads by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. I was planning on including it in the last version of Veg.itecture #30 – but it seems as if this needs some of it’s own space to breathe. This project has been everywhere, and has…
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Green Branding, Literally
If you are like me, you have a wee bit of antipathy to the urban blight we know as the billboard. While many of use would like to see some Edward Abbey-style billboard eradication, or at least some creative Billboard Liberation, an interim step just may be vegetation. While bordering on greenwashing, or one of…
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Battersea Power Station
A good amount of buzz about Rafael Viñoly and his new Battersea Power Station development master plan. A comprehensive look from WAN shows a range of images and some descriptions of the features of the development. “The masterplan, unveiled today by Treasury Holdings UK on behalf of REO, will regenerate an area of London that…
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Chicago: Bridge to Nowhere
It’s tongue and cheek, but of course I couldn’t resist taking a friendly barb at Chicago. It’s like you want to cross Lake Michigan, but decide it’s not going to work, and going back to Chicago seems like a good plan. C’mon, they can take it, as it IS the cultural creative capital of the…
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Portland: Bridge to Commerce
Via Mike Thelin’s blog at Portland Spaces, a recent proposal from local firm Path Architecture envisions a new bridge across our Willamette River. Not an actual proposal, but a visionary idea that aligns with the proposed future crossing of the new MAX Orange-line light rail alignment, along with bus, bike, and pedestrian. A very car-less…
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Mapping Evolution: NY Subway Map
For the record, I don’t read Men’s Vogue on a regular basis – no offense to the magazine – I just am already overloaded with periodicals so need to focus. So I was pleased when The Men’s Vogue Web Team sent me a link to a recent story on the updates to the iconic 1972…
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Waterfall Park
An exclusive from Tropolism shows a park/viewing grounds for the previously featured project NYC Waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson. Via Tropolism: “The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy asked dlandstudio to develop a temporary park for the waterfalls. On a Brooklyn budget! Dland’s design includes wide swaths of color painted in stripes over the asphalt to create…
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Regional Green
A busy week, and apologies for lack of posting. I’m well under my once-a-day quota for March, but alas – work is hopping with exciting projects in the region. As I mentioned in a previous post, we tend to take for granted the innovative projects that come out of the Pacific Northwest. The recent National…