Category: projects
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Best of… the Rest
Well, finally back at it after a bit of time off and some flurry of activity around Parking Day 2009. More to come on our ‘award winning’ most playful entry to the Seattle People’s Parking Lot, and the beauty of oversized Connect Four – and stay tuned for more posts upcoming. :: 4-Play – image…
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Urban Urinals
Well in defense of the scatological, peeing in urban areas (or other specific displays of a variety of bodily functions) is something of a way of life (often in the doorway of our downtown office). Portland has become another in a line of cities experimenting with public toilets in the inner city for use by…
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Animal House
An interesting urban habitat from Inhabitat, “…Gitta Gschwendtner’s Animal Wall is for residents of all species in Cardiff Bay, UK. This 50-meter wall includes 1000 houses for birds and bats, and also acts as a textural and geometric sculptural divider between a residential development and a river front.” :: image via Inhabitat I’m not sure…
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EcoCity Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s new planned EcoCity by TecArchitecture and Arup has received a lot of attention as of late… let’s take a look::: image via WAN Wind turbines… check. Green roofs and walls… check. Water and futuristic, semi-biomorphic building forms… check. Reuse of structures… check… Multiple green rating systems… check! Looks like an eco-city… Ok, I’m…
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Reading List: Andrea Cochran: Landscapes
I’ve had the book ‘Andrea Cochran: Landscapes’ for a while now, since Princeton Architecture Press (2009) sent me a copy. I’ve paged through it numerous times, but figured I’d get around to reading it at some point, at least formally, before putting the review together. Well, for a review I have to admit that I…
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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Park(ing) Day
One month to go… should be the best ever. We are joining the folks up in Seattle from People’s Parking Lot(s) as they take over a parking lot and transform it into Central Park(ing) with festivities, designs, small businesses, renewable energy, a design charrette and more. We shall see how many goodies we can pack…
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LEED Sustainable Sites
I was fortunate enough recently to be chosen for the US Green Building Council’s Technical Assistance Group for Sustainable Sites (SS TAG). This appointment will allow me to be directly involved in defining how sustainable site strategies are integrated in existing determinations and future iterations of various LEED rating systems. The following is an interview…
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DailyLand: Pier 57
This project has been around the blogs lately, and it’s an interesting meshing of site and architecture – driven by the unique opportunity of creating space atop a pier in New York City. Via Bustler, the team includes LOT-EK, with developer Young Woo & Associates The project “…foresees a rooftop park crowning a small shopping…
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More from the Ecotone
I am a fan of the conceptual parti of the ‘ecotone’ as seen from the Integrating Habitats competition award winner ‘Urban Ecotones’ from 2008. The use of this landscape ecology principle, which is defined as a transitional zone between distinct plant communities, offers a lot of mileage as an evocative strategy within it’s original sphere…