Category: portland
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Veg.itecture: Flat + Graceful
Picking up the previous thread (and continuing to clean out some languishing archives of projects), a few additional projects that offer some formalistic solutions, via building form, size, and representation.A project shown in Jetson Green offers a view of the potential sustainability, building greening, and most importantly – spectacularly poetic form. As covered previously in…
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Public Farm 1: Work Architecture Company
While aiming not to be redundant with other resources out there, I just really like this project quite a bit, and have to expand on the previous post. ‘Public Farm 1’ is the Young Architects Program at PS 1 Project by Work Architecture Company has been covered extensively by a number of sources: originally the…
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Eco-Planned Communities
It’s not a surprise for those of us in the Pacific Northwest bubble that tend to live and bleed green, but always good to get some positive reinforcement that we’re doing some things right. The latest was in the form of an article in Popular Science magazine, which, through somewhat generalized scoring system, named Portland,…
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Fakery is the New PoMo
Paper or Plastic… Fake or Real. No, these are not the perennial Christmas question, or a variation of the paper or plastic debate, but another round of abstractions of all things landscape. I stumbled upon an old post on Strange Harvest that had some amazing images of design for Montreal’s 1967 World’s Expo (aka Expo…
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Project Promotion, via others
A marketing philosophy I struggle with is the concept of self-promotion (ok, not really). Doing good work and telling the world about it is a natural reaction. It’s easier when others beat you to the punch. Jetson Green seems clued into the great work of the firm which I love (and in the spirit of…
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Urban Ag: Sans Dirt
The need for food production in urban areas is challenged by one significant barrier: lack of land. In this version of Urban Agriculture, we explore three methods for solving this dilemma by using interiors and exteriors of building in inventive ways. Kicking off is a local example of rooftop agriculture. The Rocket, a slim addition…
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Public Squares: Past, Present, Future
The Walrus Magazine recently published an overview of six international public squares. Read the full article for information, but the graphics alone are fabulous. Here’s a couple of examples of the significant spaces – Kiev’s Independence Square (top) and Salt Lake City’s Temple Square (bottom): :: images via The Walrus Locally, this reminds me of…
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Finding SoWa’s Soul
Under the radar, a series of South Waterfront District Artist in Residence events have been happening at the South Waterfront District, with an eye to honing in on some sense of place in our cities newest neighborhood. AiR Studio is hosting, Linda K. Johnson, wants to provide a sense of history for a place that…
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Portland CityShrinking
Portland landscape architect extraordinare Dave Elkin, offers this take on City Shrinking, noted in the Landscape Urbanism year-end review… This photo of Portland’s Sandy Green Street Project in miniature uses the techniques outlined by Ben Thomas in this Adobe Design Center interview, so you too can wield the power. I have yet to try but…
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Resources & Blogs Galore
It was time for some reevaluation of the goals and objectives of the site, which should actually begin to take shape. In the interim, this just in… a bevy of recent readings that have required some study to determine if they are worthy… still a dearth of landscape blogs.1. Rumors have been floating around, so…