Category: plants
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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Thoroughly Modern Landscape
I’m a big fan of modern architecture, as well a the simplicity of modern landscape design. But, I thought the days of artful boxes placed atop generic landscaped fields with little to offer in the way of beauty, poetry, or function was long over as people understood the relationship between building and site in new…
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DailyLand: Rapid Palace
Location: Gothenburg, Swedenby Visiondivision Okay, I’m a sucker for interesting landscape graphics… and these are pretty cool. Some definitely questions about the viability of this for security and safety… but pffft… how can you argue with the graphic magical realism of these images. :: images via Arch Daily
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DailyLand: Pinar del Perruquet Park
Pinar del Perruquet ParkTarragona, Spain 2008Artek Arquitectura :: images via Vulgare
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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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Meadow Spotted Runing Amok in NYC: Film @ 11
I’m a big fan of the Onion, so loved the semi-hyperbolic headlines reporting this, okay, I’ll say it, ‘cute’ installation NYC showing a snippet of meadow captured for the viewing: “Coupling urban restoration and indigenous plants, Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, both landscape designers, were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to design and construct…
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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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Biophilic v. Technophilic Solutions
As part of an ongoing mapping project of green building and sites being conducted through a group of local architectural and environmental groups, a small side-committee of Oregon ASLA members is looking at dissecting the idea of sustainable sites. To this end, we are using the Sustainable Sites Initiative (as well as some other systems)…
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Tree Art Revisited
I did a series of posts back a year or so related to tree art – as I find these explorations terribly interesting to provoke understanding or look at different ways on perhaps one of the ubiquitous and overlooked workers in our urban landscapes. Here’s a selection of some newer additions to this eco-artform. ::…
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Bad Idea of the Week
This one from Treehugger made me question what the actual point of this exercise was in the grand scheme of landscape and furnishings… “Michel Bussien has designed a new way to help you get up close and personal with nature–by turning it into furniture. The “Growing Chair” shown is a sharply designed mold that allows…