Category: projects
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Vancouver CC Green Roof Videos
As promised some more coverage of the new Vancouver Convention Centre and it’s massive green roof – this time in a pair of videos. First, a video featuring extensive interviews with the landscape architect, Bruce Hemstock from PWL Partnership, as well as Reece Rehm, planting supervisor for Holland Landscapers. Enjoy. Thanks James from Radar DDB…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Roofs
As the dialogue around green roofs shows that we’ve come a long way in vision and implementation. There seems a veritable cornucopia of projects and thinking on the subject. Read this interview with green roof plant expert Ed Snodgrass via Skygardens, and some more reinforcement of habitat potential for rooftops via Treehugger for some applied…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Walls
As I recently mentioned, there is a steady parade of visuals promoting the veg.itectural – which make sense. The distance from idea to implementation is a common theme, and requires an amazingly large amount of coordination, client will, and ingenuity. We are constantly underwhelmed by the result – but more often amazed by what is…
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Host Analog
The insertion of ecological artworks into the urban patterns offers opportunities to confront our relationship in nature in new ways. Additionally, the location in proximity to density and multi-modal traffic (versus, something tucked away in a far-off location) also gives artists a significantly larger audience to express concepts to. One very central piece in Portland…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 3
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) continues with some amazing examples (and not to mince word, there are shitloads of them on the web). Perhaps a trend, perhaps overexposed, or perhaps we’ve finally reached the point where we’ve transcended the original and just become purveyors of the mundane. A quick snippet of the amount of blog…
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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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Slices of Eco-Art
The connection between environmental art and landscape architecture is dynamic… making it a common theme here at L+U. These ecological artworks and installations provide stylistic and conceptual frameworks that are less possible or legible in the traditional boundaries of applied landscape design (practical art) – this freedom gives rise to limitless potential opportunities. Landscape architecture…
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Reading List: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design
As always, the holiday season came with a typically literary bent, as family and friends know of my bibliophilic tendencies – and I have a free moment or two to read – so look forward to some book reviews that have been waiting in the wings for a couple of months. One tome that was…
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Blackness is the new Green. Sigh…
Well, I can’t exactly find any examples of this fact in the groups of people I know, it turns out that Portland is America’s Unhappiest City, at least according to Business Week. Even amidst the downturn in the economy, we’d all be perplexed by this, if we weren’t so busy wallowing in our black hole…
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Map Regression
A great and informative post on some garden history from none other than gardenhistorygirl explores the idea of map regressions, in particular the Mikhailovsky Garden in St. Petersburg. This time-based approach captures moments of design through particular eras, showing how public space and garden design is influenced (although sometimes with a bit of a lag)…