Category: resources
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Andrea Cochran Interview
I do have a certain unreserved fondness for the designs of Andrea Cochran, and was excited to see this Dwell Design Leaders video, via Andrew Spiering from the steadily growing and informative Land8Lounge… check out the video, as well as the lounge… you won’t be sorry with either.
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Ten Books on Veg.itecture
A recent office desk move (and slogging multiple boxes of books in my personal library) made me think, that although I do an occasional review of books periodically – it would behoove me to summarize some of the classic tomes that define some of the key themes on the blog. While I intend to continue…
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Materiality: Concrete Solutions
Concrete is one of those amazingly malleable and adaptable materials. I’ve mentioned the concept of air purifying concrete, permable features, as well as interesting textures and board-forming techniques. Here’s a few new examples from around the globe. Starting off, I absolutely love the rough facade treatment (via Arch Daily), from Architect: Marcio Kogan in Sao…
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Ground to Sky Connection
The idea and concept of connecting landscape from ground to sky (from terra firma to veg.itecture, if you will)- offers some great possibilities in the integration of site and building. This offers access to open space (with the obvious safety precautions) as well as the potential for aesthetic opportunities, and habitat linkages. And similarly to…
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Details: Illuminated Paving
I’ve seen some examples of in-pavement lighting – and interesting idea for plazas and more subtle… from working on a competition, and doing a few streetscape projects at work, these alternative pavings (and recent post about new(er) forms of adaptated lighting) are some great tools in the designers arsenal. First, last year when in Seattle,…
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Details: Light up the Streets
I am working on a couple of streetscape/Main Street redevelopment projects and it’s definitely focused my attention on the ways in which trends of street furnishings get adopted and perpetuated through environments. I think we all know about the unfortunate ‘cobra head’ and the ubiquitous ‘acorn’ light fixture – meant to span the utilitarian and…
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Unnatural Waters
This post stems from a fascinating post I spotted a while back on Treehugger. The topic was the Foreclosure Fish… a resultant reaction from the abandonment of homes, and more specifically swimming pools. “The mortgage crisis is not only wrecking peoples’ lives, it’s not doing much good for the environment, either. The swimming pools of…
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High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines
In searching for some new landscape-related links to explore, I stumbled across the blog for Design Trust for Public Space (aka I (heart) Public Space) and their 2005 publication High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. :: image via Design Trust This “…detailed handbook describes practices for creating sustainable city streets, sidewalks, utilities, and urban landscaping. Following the…
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Fusionopolis by Ken Yeang
Well, it’s not a secret that I am an admirer of Ken Yeang, and his unique brand of Bioclimatic Architecture – mostly because of its reliance on multiple tenets of the Veg.itecture concept: 1) use of vegetation for environmental systems; 2) use of vertical and horizontal surfaces; and the mixing of these concepts for aesthetic…
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Serendipitous L+U
In the midst of writing a rave review of Alan Berger’s fine tome Drosscape (look for it in the next week), a very brief post from Pruned with the cryptic text ‘We ♥ P-REX‘ appeared, and sent me to the site of Berger’s Project for Reclamation Excellence, which has a ton of great information… after…