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DailyLand: Sensational Park
Sensational Park – Nabito Architects Frosinone, Italy > info via Arch Daily, Inspiration Wall “The five human senses are the main theme of the space in which materials and vegetation are related to them. The equipped green area and urban garden is due to be completed this month.” :: images via Arch Daily
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DailyLand: Flowing Garden
Flowing Garden: Xi’an World Horticultural ExpoPlasma Studio> more at Arch Daily, Bustler, SpaceInvading, Inhabitat :: images via Arch Daily Some description: “Although the buildings are experienced as individual elements, they are connected through the relationship they each have with the landscape. The buildings are specifically situated into the site at certain points to illustrate specific…
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Meadow Spotted Runing Amok in NYC: Film @ 11
I’m a big fan of the Onion, so loved the semi-hyperbolic headlines reporting this, okay, I’ll say it, ‘cute’ installation NYC showing a snippet of meadow captured for the viewing: “Coupling urban restoration and indigenous plants, Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, both landscape designers, were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to design and construct…
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DailyLand: Secret Landscape Garden
An interesting visual exploration of space in this competition entry. I’m interested in what readers think about the success of this story/illustration (with a book illustrator) in telling this particular tale. Personally, aside from the plan graphic, I’m not feeling it and find it distracting from the overall concept, but that’s the beauty of expression…
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Urban Chickens Build – 3
A crappy weather weekend, but some major progress today… :: the roof framing goes in :: the front plate is where the removable ecoroof will attach :: plywood goes on (window to the right, egg hatch capture door to the left) – giant shrubbery attacking the roof is from my overzealous pruning of the lilac…
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DailyLand: Crack Garden
Crack Garden CMG Landscape Architecture > See and read more at Pruned and Inhabitat > 2009 ASLA Honor Award Winner – Residential Design :: image via Pruned :: image via Inhabitat Text excerpt from ASLA: “The Crack Garden is an exploration of the identity of site and the clarity of intervention. Pre-existing places have an…
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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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Freshkills Park Video
An email from Bijan Rezvani from thirteen/wnet in NYC offers a short video as part of ‘The City Concealed’ series. The installment of Freshkills Park Project – outlining the innovative work of Field Operations and team in transforming the former world’s largest landfill into this long-term process to create an amazing large park. The City…
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Yard Sharing
An article in today’s Oregonian has a bevy of local resources for one of the cooler trends of the urban agricultural movement, garden sharing, “… a trend that appears to be spreading roots across the metro area as apartment dwellers and landowners, strangers and neighbors unite to grow their food at a time when seed…
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DailyLand: Taekwondo Park
I’m going to reimplement, now that there’s some space with the Veg.itectural sidebar, the idea of DailyLand… as it’s something that I think has been lacking in the L+U content. These will be simple posts on an almost daily basis with a link to more information from outside and a couple of pics. The aim…