Category: plants
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DailyLand: June Callwood Park
Bustler recently announced the winning entry the international design competition to provide a vision for Toronto’s June Callwood Park. The competition was won by Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 for their ethereal design that mixes forms of bands, waves and groves together in their entry for the ‘Super Real Forest’ – patterning light…
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Seattle’s Big Green
Portland has financial incentives, FAR bonuses, and saavy public agencies that promote green roofs. Seattle, has the Gates Foundation. Fueled by massive amounts of capital that has done amazing good around the world – and turns this trend towards their home base in the construction of one of Seattle’s largest green roofs atop the parking…
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Landscape on the Brain
Landscape is good. Landscape is healthy. Landscape is necessary. We all know this, innately, but a refresher is never a bad idea. This post made the rounds a few months back, quoting a study and article from the Boston Globe, ‘How the city hurts your brain, and what you can do about it.’ delves again…
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Planting Air: Thigmotrope
One can’t help but be impressed by the creativity of landscape professionals in coming up with inventive new ways to express the concept of vertical greenery. The latest, spotted via Land+Living and later picked up on ASLA’s blog The Dirt – this link to a NY Times article shows the use of varieties of Tillandsia,…
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Reimagining Shade
A couple of active competitions address a similar and pressing issue – reimagining the function and form of trees in our urban areas. árboles urbanos First, via Urbanarbolismo, the árboles urbanos competition, sponsored by asa, provides the following challenge (via translation, so apologies for any misrepresentation): “The Urban Trees Asacción is organized around a design…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 2
Part 2 of the Conceptual Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA), showing off some of the latest representations of building greenery on the web. I’m holding onto the Evolo Skyscraper winners, as well as a proposal for a modern vegetated ‘vision city’ for their own posts… In the interim, here’s the latest representations… Extreme Birding –…
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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…
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DailyLand: Parc Nus de la Trinitat
Parc Nus de la Trinitat, Barcelona, 1993 by Joan Roig & Enric Batlle found via VULGARE. “…is in north east Barcelona, inside a circular motorway junction. The scale of the six hectare park is definad by a framework of trees forming a spactially effective filter between the motorways and the park. A circular gallery divides…
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DailyLand: Promenade Samuel-de Champlain
The Promenade Samuel-de Champlain in Quebec, Canada by Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement provides open space along the St. Lawrence river. From Arch Daily: “…the project delicately weaves a sequence of diverse experiences and atmospheres, navigating from the boundless visual expanse of the river and the scale of the territory,…
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DailyLand: “Pinar de Perruquet” Park
“Pinar de Perruquet” Park is a project in La Pineda (Vila-Seca), Spain by ARTEKS Arquitectura, featuring some undulating edges remind one of the work of Roberto Burle-Marx. :: images © Pedro Pegenaute – via Arch Daily An interesting feature of the park is the architectural canopy, which offers a veg.itectural analog of the surrounding wind…