Category: representation
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 2
Part 2 of the Conceptual Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA), showing off some of the latest representations of building greenery on the web. I’m holding onto the Evolo Skyscraper winners, as well as a proposal for a modern vegetated ‘vision city’ for their own posts… In the interim, here’s the latest representations… Extreme Birding –…
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DailyLand: Copenhagen Waterfront
I was pleased to see the issue of Topos 65, which featured one of the recent DailyLand projects, the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain as well as a veg.itectural gem at the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center. There are a few choice projects to look for soon as well. For this installment, another waterfront project that I…
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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…
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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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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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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.…
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DailyLand: Monterey Eco-Resort
In this modern time there is a metric that is often used to describe certain projects: biggest, brightest, first, etc. One that comes with an immediate dubious reaction is ‘greenest’ – which is a subjective and relatively meaningless term, which even with our current certification systems is a moving and meaningless target. One recent project…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA le Rooftops
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment VIVA… Rooftop Style. Enjoy. British Library Boston Spa Storage Siteby HOK:: image via SpaceInvading Hijauan Saujana Resort :: image via Urban Greenery AD Futures #1: by ICE, Ideas for Contemporary Environments :: image via ArchDaily Kohinoor Skyscraper by Perkins Eastman :: images via Inhabitat Mermaid 2.0 by JDS architects :: images…
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Transportation Dump
I’ve been doing a ton of research lately on green streets, so that’s cause some focus beyond the general bigger picture of transportation. And with all of the upcoming spending on infrastructure through stimulation – it will be interesting to see how much of this will be green, how much will be grey, or at…