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PICA Coop Design Competition
Based on the work from last year to create the Chicken Cube – I was recently asked to serve on a design competition jury put on by SERA Architects to design the perfect chicken coop. The competition was aimed at benefitting the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) for their upcoming TADA 2010 Annual Gala…
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Transparent Cells
Arch Daily offers some great imagery from a project by Aristide Antonas, along with collaborators Katerina Koutsogianni & Yannikos Vassiloulis called ‘Transparent Cells’ which shows a proposal for proposal for a the Architecture School at Delft featuring pixelated spatial arrangements that can be reconfigured as necessary to accomodate new programs. The Hundertwasser-esque vegetal compartments are…
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Perils of Urban Chickens
An amusing proposal from Vancouver BC, which recently allowed urban chickens for single- and multi-family owners after a long-standing ban. Via the Vancouver Sun: “Anticipating a wave of buyers’ remorse, city staff are recommending the city build a special shelter for hens they expect will be abandoned by owners having second thoughts.” I assume this…
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Rooftop Habitats – Dusty Gedge
Urban ecologist Dusty Gedge came to Portland recently for a series of lectures discussing biodiversity for ecoroofs – a topic in need of exploration in our region. His inspiring work in London is an example of the impact that policy and design changes on habitat in urban areas.:: image via Dusty Gedge Via KGW: “Wednesday,…
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Urban Crossings – Los Angeles
Picking up on the threads of the Vegitecture post on ‘Crossings‘, a post on The Dirt made mention of the plans to cap a number of freeways throughout Southern California. “According to The Architect’s Newspaper, there are four separate projects being considered across L.A.: one in Hollywood, one in downtown LA, and two in Santa…
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[Fill in the Blank] Urbanism
I attended a pow-wow recently – aimed at discussing the state of landscape urbanism theory and it’s past, present, and future implications for planning, urban design and landscape architecture. Amongst many other interesting thoughts (more to come on this), one aspect of the conversation that stuck in my brain stuck was the recent (maybe?) upswing…
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Packaged Vertical Garden
The ‘Garden for a not too distant future‘ is an installation that is part vertical garden, part statement about the lack of green space in cities and the preponderance of overpriced, difficult to maintain vertical walls. :: image via luzininterruptus Via luzininterruptus: ” With the installation Packaged vertical garden, we wanted to promote the preservation…
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Monu #12 – Real Urbanism
Just when I thought someone couldn’t come up with a more disturbing journal cover than the aforementioned Kerb 17 – the folks at MONU found a way to top this in art for the latest issue on ‘Real Urbanism’ Contents: (browse the entire issue on YouTube) Luxury Space By Jason Lee;The World According to Mr.…
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FLOW: A Competition
Winners of the international competition „FLOW“ arrived via an email today. The european competition is: “… for students in the last two years of architecture, engineer, art, landscape, town planning, sociology and young architects were born after December 31st, 1975 in Europe.” The subject area of the competition is the City of Brussels, covering the…
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Smart Wayfinding
A very interesting project spotted on Designboom: “….as part of the lighting plan in montreal, the quartier des spectacles explores the possibilities of light for creating signage and expressing identity. lead by designers ruedi baur and jean beaudoin from montreal architectural design studio intégral, this recent pilot project experiments with projecting light onto the pavement…