Category: resources
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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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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…
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Parasitic Architectures
A new blog that I stumbled upon is Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, which is geared towards ‘Exploring the Consequences of Fantastic, Perverse, and Underrated Urbanisms” – which at least gets a nod for original mission statement. After some headaches related to the 3 narrow-column format – I did find a number of interesting posts. One that…
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Another Utopia: Victory City™
There are many diverse versions of utopia that have been proposed over the years… from Wright’s Broadacre City, Howards Garden Cities, Callenbach’s Ecotopia, Soleri’s Arcosanti and Corbu’s La Ville Radieuse (to name a few) – a long history of attempts to synthesize urban perfection have been attempted. Most of these ideas are either merely thought-exercises…
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Too Much of a Good Thing
As a follow-up to my previous post that referenced the minor annoyance (ok, maybe not minor) that requires an urban adaptation that residents of Venice must make to navigate the watery public spaces during high water seasons. Through puddles and raised walkways, urban dwellers deal with this in fine form by the age-old tradition of…
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The Notorious H2O
Blue is the New Green – runs the headlines in last weeks NY Times blog, and not a moment too soon for that. Allison Arieff give an explanation: “A range of alternative energy technologies are available to us today; there is, however, no substitute for water. But there are new ways of thinking about water…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 2
Following the big box threads of the previous post, some of the speculative work of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) offers another viewpoint towards the idea of a tranformed development archetype. :: image via LTL I think half of my interest in LTL is the concepts, the other half is the interesting graphic techniques – many…
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Flossin’ – Site Style
The Urban Dictionary is a fabulous resource for staying current on the constantly evolving lingo (alongside a weekly dose of William Safire). One new addition to my lexicon, via a tricked out SUV rolling by a few weeks back is the term Flossin‘ (that’s sans g, in the Palin tradition). The short of it, it’s…
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Veg.itecture #43
Once again, with feeling… I have green roofs on the brain right now, because upon cracking open my new (and god-awful expensive) copy of Steven Cantor’s Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design – to find a double spread of Multnomah County’s green roof on chapter one… a design I did while at my previous employer…
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20+10+X = the World
A press release announcing the 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards, a unique process of culling through what is no small feat – the best projects in the world architecture community. Aside from being a comprehensive online portal: “… WA is an “online community” initiated by Suha Özkan and 200+ invited Honorary Members, and a growing…