Category: water
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A River Runs Through It…
A kind reader named Chris Keller alerted me to a very cool project in California called Kaweah Falls. From his email: “We just finished a house renovation at the base of the Sequoia National Park in central California that I thought might interest you. A river flows underneath our dining room. Literally, you can watch…
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Amphibious Architecture
Somewhat related to the concept of global climate change that will potentially innudate significant portions of urban areas (or maybe just a way to deal with growing land prices) the idea of inhabiting floating barges or houseboats is both new and old. I first heard the term amphibious architecture in reference to Dutch developments that…
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Biophilic v. Technophilic Solutions
As part of an ongoing mapping project of green building and sites being conducted through a group of local architectural and environmental groups, a small side-committee of Oregon ASLA members is looking at dissecting the idea of sustainable sites. To this end, we are using the Sustainable Sites Initiative (as well as some other systems)…
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Crown, King of the Streets
A comment from Desmond to the post on SEA streets led me to a great ‘country lane’ prototype in Vancouver, BC – located on Crown Street. :: image via City of Vancouver From the site: “This stormwater management and traffic calming project was completed in February 2006. Instead of the standard curb and gutter, this…
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Drawing Water
This great image (from BLDGBLOG) featuring a proposal from EDAW for a 2008 exhibition from the London Festival of Architecture entitled ‘If I could design London I would…‘ As pointed out on the BLDGBLOG post, the poster features some compelling retro-futuristic graphics that look at the water-based configuration of London. :: image via BLDGBLOG A…
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Fungi Perfecti
Greetings… after a short pause from posting due to conference presentations and work (both paid and yard) – a breather to drop a few lines as a retrospective on the Soak it Up conference from last week. More to post in coming days, but a chance to rave about a pioneer and his book related…
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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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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: Oxygenator
“Oxygenator“, 2006-2007 by Joanna Rajkowska. Artificial pond with oxygen fountains. “The main element of this project is a pond of about 150m2 surface area, 1,0m deep, written into the existing lawn. On the surface some water lilies, but not too many, some plants placed at the bottom of the pond and constantly being freed from…
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Dubai in the Toilet
There’s been a couple of murmurs regarding the failing infrastructure in Dubai, which has now (temporary) closed the famed Jumeirah Beach due to a preponderance of brown trout. Via Times Online: “A noxious tide of toilet paper, raw sewage and chemical waste has transformed Dubai’s most prestigious stretch of shoreline into a foul-smelling health hazard.…