Category: projects
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DeWinging: Dragonfly
Ok, let me start off by saying I’m a big fan of wildly speculative work that pushes the boundaries of thought and expands the thinking of our urban spaces and landscapes. That said, I’m started to chafe at the preponderance of overwrought schemes flown about under the guise of skyscraper or vertical farming (previously discussed…
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It’s a Quantity Thing…
It’s interesting to see the yardstick in which trends are measured… in the case of green roofs, it’s pretty easy to add up square footage and declare a winner. A recent post on Land8Lounge showed the annual sizing up of metropolitan areas in North America… and impressive listing for sure with a total of over…
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Clean Water Services – Field Operations Center
A recent trip out to a meeting at the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center yielded some interesting images of some of the innovative stormwater ideas that were implemented into this project, which opened in 2003. The design was completed by Pivot Architecture from Eugene, along with Murase Associates from Portland as landscape architect. ::…
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Portland City Hall Garden
Portland definitely has a bug for urban agriculture. Wherever you look there are community gardens, victory plots in street rights-of-way, rooftop and balcony planters, and farmer’s markets. The dichotomy of urban living and productive rural ag space is being redefined as more people grow and raise their own food within the City, cutting down on…
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London Bridge, Updated
The idea of habitable or living bridges keeps popping up in proposals, and the idea has a lot of merit in our desire to provide density, connectivity and ultimately, increased livability of urban areas. Another recent proposal uses the old/new idea in London to build a bridge including retail and residential uses and is being…
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Bad Timing? Pig City
MVRDV’s proposal from a few years back (2001) for ‘Pig City’, a set of towers with pigs raised in the ultimate high density strikes a more recent chord with our current fascination with all things urban gardening and vertical farming – and perhaps a dischord in the recent Swine Flu pandemic. While the tongue-in-cheek nature…
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3 New Blogs
A few interesting new blogs that have either been pointed out to me or I’ve stumbled upon in the last weeks… do you have a blog that would be worth a cross-link? Let me know.Fitting nicely into the Veg.itectural, I got an email from blogger Will Gorman about his blog ‘Cleaner Air through Green Roofs’…
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VIA: 11-20
And more from Veg.itecture in Action… VIA 11: Living with Skin :: images via Greenmeme VIA 12: Green Roof Maintenance:: images via Urban Greenery VIA 13: Parliament House Canberra :: images via Gardenvisit VIA 14: Penn State Green Roof:: images via Treehugger VIA 15: Brooklyn Green Roof :: images via Urban Greenery VIA 16: Bostons…
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VIA: 1-10
Taking time off from blogging is wonderful – but the backlog of great projects to catch up on is a bit daunting. At the risk of Veg.itectural overload – I’m packing up 10 projects per post, in both the Veg.itecture In Action (VIA) category and the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessement (VIVA) categories (read here to…
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The Future is Now
The Wall Street Journal asked a trio of designers to imagine the ‘Green House of the Future’, with energy efficiency as a point-of-departure. This group came up with some inventive visions – although it’s telling that all of these ideas and problems could be envisioned right now with our available technology and materials. Nonetheless, the…