Category: representation
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Re:Vision Dallas = Vertical Green
The annoucement of three winners for the Re:Vision Dallas Competition on Bustler was telling in some of the interesting forms, and the consistency of veg.itecture as a vital building element – particularly the use of roof and walls faces for environmental, aesthetic, and productive means. Check out the full array of info and pics on…
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Dwell Does Landscape
Recently there was a cadre of posts from the Dwell blog focused on the landscape – as part of the 101 Landscape. The content was mostly passable, with some information on this history of the profession, and an interesting article on lawn reduction… amongst some others. :: image via Dwell I was particularly interested in…
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Horizontal v. Vertical Farming
As a continuation of a common recent theme, Treehugger offers some additional questions, as well as a really cool example of a horizontal farm – The Zuidkas, by Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter from the Netherlands. The post makes the case for horizontal vs. vertical farming as perhaps a more realistic opportunity for integrated urban agriculture.…
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Escape to Book Mountain
As a self-professed bibliophile… I was excited by the recent visuals fo MVRDV‘s Book Mountain – the coolest library I’ve seen since the Seattle Public Library by Koolhaas . Check out more from World Architecture News, with some description of how the project “…will feature the literal translation of ‘a mountain of reading’ by creating…
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Illustrating the Urban Condition
From a representational point-of-view, it is interesting to see some of the ways in which representation plays a vital role in communication. I’ll inevitably revisit this some more, as it’s a topic worth exploring, but these examples span the photographic to the planimetric, while encapsulating a wide range of messages. To begin, it’s always interesting…
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Bad Idea of the Week
It’s almost summer in Portland (aka the Rose City), thus time for the annual schlock-fest we like to consider the Rose Festival… in that spirit, the bad idea of the week goes to the tacky Neon Rose atop the John Yeon designed building (that previously was the visitor’s information center and has sadly sat partly…
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Urban Typologies – Freeway Field Guide
This was one of those posts you immediately fall in love with as someone with a penchant for infrastructure and urbanism. We love naming typologies and objets d’urbanity, so when poignantly topical blog The Infrastructurist offered this two-part series on ‘A Field Guide to Freeway Interchanges’ I decided to devour it, then share some of…
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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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Models, Now and Then
Spotted on Places and Spaces, this ‘lifelike’ 3-D model of Portland posted in Digital Urban offers a glimpse into the new wave of modeling, cobbled together from a variety of sources and punctuated by some visual fly-throughs that are quite stunning. This model was created by local firm Newlands & Company (aka NC3D), the cream…
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VIVA: 11-20
More from the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment… VIVA 11: Mas sobre el Pabellon :: imagesvia Platforma Arquitectura VIVA 12: Bouwkunde Building :: images via The Design Blog VIVA 13: Babcock Ranch :: image via Jetson GreenVIVA 14: Annie MG Schmidt House Competition :: images via Bustler VIVA 15: University of Sheffield :: image via Urban…