Category: representation
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Portland: Bridge to Commerce
Via Mike Thelin’s blog at Portland Spaces, a recent proposal from local firm Path Architecture envisions a new bridge across our Willamette River. Not an actual proposal, but a visionary idea that aligns with the proposed future crossing of the new MAX Orange-line light rail alignment, along with bus, bike, and pedestrian. A very car-less…
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Museum of Nature
I’ve seen these a few times in the past, but recently these images of Ilkka Halso‘s Museum of Nature struck me with a new sort of resonance – specifically in relationship to our architecture/landscape interactions. Inhabitat just featured these again recently: “Using images of landscapes and 3D digital manipulation, this photographic collection captures a future…
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Mapping Evolution: NY Subway Map
For the record, I don’t read Men’s Vogue on a regular basis – no offense to the magazine – I just am already overloaded with periodicals so need to focus. So I was pleased when The Men’s Vogue Web Team sent me a link to a recent story on the updates to the iconic 1972…
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Plants for IAQ
The potential for plants to contribute to remediation of air, water, and soil have all been mentioned at L+U. One item that was discussed in some length was the idea of indoor biofiltration or the use of plants and living walls to provide indoor pollutant reduction. This can be done either passively through introduction of…
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Veg.itecture #26
Some new additions, as well as revisits to some projects featured previously. While I loved the Parti Wall, Hanging Wall concept – I also jested about the vague resemblance to a bath mat in closeups… A significant amount of more detail of the production and installation offers some interesting ideas. :: images via Archinect Definitely…
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Waterfall Park
An exclusive from Tropolism shows a park/viewing grounds for the previously featured project NYC Waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson. Via Tropolism: “The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy asked dlandstudio to develop a temporary park for the waterfalls. On a Brooklyn budget! Dland’s design includes wide swaths of color painted in stripes over the asphalt to create…
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Agro-Urbanism
There is a promising new blog _urb_ which focuses on all things urbanism – including a lengthy post on AgroURBanism, which is defined as follows: “There have been many proposals in the last couple of years for different types of agricultural based infrastructures that can be integrated into nurban areas, what I am calling AGRO-URBANISM.…
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Void Metabolism
Eikographia is an amazing site. If you haven’t yet, add it to your list of regular visits, as it comes with some stellar and comprehensive overviews of projects, and an added twist of in-depth analysis of the remnant (or overt) iconography present in the work. A recent multi-part example covering a 2007 competition The Great…
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New Vertical Materiality
It’s been some time since I’ve delved into materials – specifically looking at inventive facades (of the non-vegetated type). A few recent examples are pretty good examples of materials that provide some unique articulation and function – that could also be adapted readily to a number of alternative uses. The first provides a LED media…
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Veg.itecture #24
I decided to clean out the archives of great vegetated architecture – partly from necessity and partly spurred a special Architectural Element feature on Vertical Gardens from A Daily Dose of Architecture and by the recent coverage in the NY Times Design & Living 2008 special mag, featuring the likes of Ann Demeulemeester’s vegetated Seoul…