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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 2
Part 2 of the Conceptual Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA), showing off some of the latest representations of building greenery on the web. I’m holding onto the Evolo Skyscraper winners, as well as a proposal for a modern vegetated ‘vision city’ for their own posts… In the interim, here’s the latest representations… Extreme Birding –…
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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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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…
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Google Earth Ecoroof Tour
One of the fun elements of Google Earth is the steadily growing library of buildings that have been modelled in a simplified 3-D format (perhaps by many of the unfortunately unemployed with time on their hands). I stumbled upon the Multnomah County Green Roof (Amy Joslin Memorial Ecoroof) and thought it was pretty cool. ::…
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DailyLand: Parc Nus de la Trinitat
Parc Nus de la Trinitat, Barcelona, 1993 by Joan Roig & Enric Batlle found via VULGARE. “…is in north east Barcelona, inside a circular motorway junction. The scale of the six hectare park is definad by a framework of trees forming a spactially effective filter between the motorways and the park. A circular gallery divides…
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The Cold Seat
I recently received an email from Hongtao Zhou, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Artist/Designer that recently installed a project on Lake Mendota with an environmental statement and a frigid ends – something a person who grew up in North Dakota can appreciate. Enjoy! :: Ice & Snow Furniture Raised From Lake Mendota – image via Hongtao…
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DailyLand: Promenade Samuel-de Champlain
The Promenade Samuel-de Champlain in Quebec, Canada by Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement provides open space along the St. Lawrence river. From Arch Daily: “…the project delicately weaves a sequence of diverse experiences and atmospheres, navigating from the boundless visual expanse of the river and the scale of the territory,…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Reality Check
A load of Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from the bustling coffers of the web. For starters, there’s been some talk about some of the incentives, economics, applicability, holiness, and just plain ridiculousness of green roofs. There is the new bill running through congress offering some green roof stimulation as well (thanks Ms. Cantwell). And there’s…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 1
There seems a never-ending parade of Veg.itectural visuals on the web… many more than I can possibly try to keep up with in any meaningful way… in less than a week, I’ve accumulated over 35 examples of projects fitting the representational characteristics of Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) as well as a similar amount for…
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DailyLand: “Pinar de Perruquet” Park
“Pinar de Perruquet” Park is a project in La Pineda (Vila-Seca), Spain by ARTEKS Arquitectura, featuring some undulating edges remind one of the work of Roberto Burle-Marx. :: images © Pedro Pegenaute – via Arch Daily An interesting feature of the park is the architectural canopy, which offers a veg.itectural analog of the surrounding wind…