Category: representation
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Eco-NoDak?
A new(ish) blog called TerraMode is a collective of three designers, James Fink, Kavan Donohue, and Michael VanBeek. Their premise is simple and good: “Landscape Architects interested in design communication and it’s influence on the profession.” While posting has been spotty, there’s a trio of North Dakota based project images that were posted initially on…
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Veg.itecture #47
As we delve into this installment of Veg.itecture – it dawns on me that the current format of this feature may be ringing a little hollow and venturing into cliche after a year or so of it’s existence. It is definitely a valuable viewpoint to push forward these projects and visions, and I’ve definitely tried…
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Viva le Cité
The holiday season has given me a chance to catch up on a LOT of reading, so stay tuned for a mash-up of some of the most notable new work in the coffers… as well as a few book reviews and other little projects that I’ve been trying to finish up to no avail. One…
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Got Maintenance?
As regular visitors know, L+U comprehensively covers the broad range of vegetated architecture. While there are many technical issues at play, often the coverage skims the surface with some choice excerpts and some snappy graphics. This is not to imply that there is not a critical eye towards the functional side, and as a designer…
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Veg.itecture #46
A double-dose this week, as there are a number of recent impressive projects, and the preponderance of press picking up the terminology on the sub-genre of Veg.itecture. Also, recently, Landscape, The First Specialised Landscape Magazine in the Middle East was kind enough to publish my article, The “Veg.itecture of Ken Yeang”. Check out the online…
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Vertical Gardens
Via Topophilia, a competition right up our alley… from Exit Art: VERTICAL GARDENS – DUE JANUARY 15, 2009 The past decade has seen an emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens created by artists, designers, architects and urban gardeners to combat the lack of flora in the city. Buildings around the world — from the…
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Architectural Sub-Genre?
My daily email of clipping from Arch News Now made me do a double take when I scanned the word Vegitecture in the title of a post by Dan Stewart on Building blogs ‘Drawn State’ entitled ‘Vegitecture – whose idea was it, anyway?’ :: EDITT Tower, Ken Yeang – image via Drawn State From Drawn…
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Holes | Sites
One of the main contextual starting points of site design is the topography of sites… flat, sloped, steep, gradual – all influence the eventual end. What do we do when there is a significant depression – either natural, or created via cultural activities. Whereas we consider the malleability of the site as a generic field…
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Veg.itecture #45
It is time again. While these may be just pretty pictures, I feel strongly that these projects represent a new awakening of the potential meshing (not the disconnect) between the professions of architecture and landscape architecture. The project of the moment is actually one I feel a bit sheepish in saying I actually like –…
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High Line Double
I just couldn’t resist discussing the High Line in some sort, after a week of withdrawls… keeping it professional, a couple of great resources. A few days ago I stumbled upon the High Line Blog – which features a range of posts from the great folks at Friends of the High Line. :: image via…