Category: projects
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Packaged Vertical Garden
The ‘Garden for a not too distant future‘ is an installation that is part vertical garden, part statement about the lack of green space in cities and the preponderance of overpriced, difficult to maintain vertical walls. :: image via luzininterruptus Via luzininterruptus: ” With the installation Packaged vertical garden, we wanted to promote the preservation…
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Telectroscopic Connections
A post by Varnelis mentioned a couple of interesting ideas of crossing space, both virtually and physically through various modern forms of communication. Three items come from his post: 1. Chatroulette—a site that pairs you with a random person somewhere on the Internet so that you have a webcam conversation… which to me just seems…
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Piggy-back Big-Box
An interesting hybrid assemblage of big box behemoths in Baltimore, shows a trend away from the sprawling power centers to a more . Via the Baltimore Sun, the development will place a Walmart atop a Lowes store in a piggy-back move: “The new location will be unusual for Walmart because it will be built on…
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Thickened Waterfront from AALU
An email from Jorge Ayala from the AALU shows off some recent Landscape Urbanism work, in this case an academic workshop with a focus on designing a Contemporary Garden in Xi’an, China. I’ve included the full text from Jorge, and some of the images of the project that were sent. Thickened WaterfrontAA Landscape Urbanism Garden…
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Take Back the Streets 2
A follow up to the story from Korea and the daylighted stream that was realized upon the removal of a highway, this ephemeral project from San Francisco (via Streetsblog SF) takes the same idea of remnant roadway and thinks of it in terms of gardening: “A few weeks ago in San Francisco, a number of…
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Field Ops is Hot (Still)
In addition to being named on the top 10 list in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architecture Companies (the only LA on the list) and the major success of the High Line, a couple of recent wins have pushed James Corner Field Operations fully from the realm of the theoretical provocateur, to competition all-star to full-fledged…
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Green Street Video
Via Causecast, a video about Green Streets in Portland: “Net Green News reports on how Portland Oregon handles their rainfall in a more natural, sustainable way. Portland receives an annual 37 inches of rain per year… and one way to help prevent overflooding of streets and rivers is to build curbside “green streets,” which are…
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Elements of Urban Agriculture
I had the opportunity today to see a presentation by local urban agriculture guru Marc Boucher-Colbert (the man behind the Rocket Restaurant rooftop garden here in Portland). Instead of focusing directly on rooftops, he outlined a broad version of urban agriculture through an investigation of a range of possible strategies for our cities. This is…
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Reading List: Beyond No. 1
Perfect airplane fare, on a recent trip I had an opportunity to borrow Beyond No. 1, entitled Scenarios and Speculations, featuring a range of short stores on the ‘post-contemporary’, edited by Pedro Gadanho. An interesting idea, the slim volume takes a different tack: “…dedicated to new, experimental forms of architectural and urban writing, a bookazine…
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Bilbao Jardín Garden
A wonderful addition to the International Urban Garden Competition “Bilbao Jardín 2009”, by Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates and a design that literally ‘climbs the stairs’ with a undulating vegetated strip and cor-ten walls splaying out in a wider planter at the lowest landing. :: image via Bustler – Photo: Iwan BaanSome of…