Category: projects
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Google Earth Ecoroof Tour
One of the fun elements of Google Earth is the steadily growing library of buildings that have been modelled in a simplified 3-D format (perhaps by many of the unfortunately unemployed with time on their hands). I stumbled upon the Multnomah County Green Roof (Amy Joslin Memorial Ecoroof) and thought it was pretty cool. ::…
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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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The Cold Seat
I recently received an email from Hongtao Zhou, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Artist/Designer that recently installed a project on Lake Mendota with an environmental statement and a frigid ends – something a person who grew up in North Dakota can appreciate. Enjoy! :: Ice & Snow Furniture Raised From Lake Mendota – image via Hongtao…
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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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Veg.itecture: VIA Reality Check
A load of Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from the bustling coffers of the web. For starters, there’s been some talk about some of the incentives, economics, applicability, holiness, and just plain ridiculousness of green roofs. There is the new bill running through congress offering some green roof stimulation as well (thanks Ms. Cantwell). And there’s…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 1
There seems a never-ending parade of Veg.itectural visuals on the web… many more than I can possibly try to keep up with in any meaningful way… in less than a week, I’ve accumulated over 35 examples of projects fitting the representational characteristics of Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) as well as a similar amount for…
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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…
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DailyLand: Roberto Burle Marx
The New York Times featured a great retrospective of the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Check out the article and slideshow. Many in the realms of landscape architecture have been influenced by the bold geometry of his designs, as well as the urban integration of landscape into the consciousness of urban dwellers.…
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Oh Joyless Utopia
This quick one found via Modern Mechanix features a ‘City within a City’, featuring New York’s Interstate Commerce Center, envisioned in 1946 as a dreary, hypermobilized utopian hub. “This unique “in-building highway,” 32 feet wide and three-quarters of a mile long, and rising at a grade of only 6%, will be one of the outstanding…
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Water Dump
There’s been a lot of activity around water – predominately its use and inevitable misuse. In this version of the dump… some choice bits worthy of another look. :: Big Squirt – image via Treehugger An interesting ephemeral art-piece, “STREET FOUNTAIN by HELMUT SMITS, 2002: Small water pumps in existing pot-holes in the road surface.…