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DailyLand: Roberto Burle Marx
The New York Times featured a great retrospective of the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Check out the article and slideshow. Many in the realms of landscape architecture have been influenced by the bold geometry of his designs, as well as the urban integration of landscape into the consciousness of urban dwellers.…
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Oh Joyless Utopia
This quick one found via Modern Mechanix features a ‘City within a City’, featuring New York’s Interstate Commerce Center, envisioned in 1946 as a dreary, hypermobilized utopian hub. “This unique “in-building highway,” 32 feet wide and three-quarters of a mile long, and rising at a grade of only 6%, will be one of the outstanding…
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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: Monterey Eco-Resort
In this modern time there is a metric that is often used to describe certain projects: biggest, brightest, first, etc. One that comes with an immediate dubious reaction is ‘greenest’ – which is a subjective and relatively meaningless term, which even with our current certification systems is a moving and meaningless target. One recent project…
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DailyLand: The Park at Lakeshore East
Some recent stunning imagery from Arch Daily of The Park at Lakeshore East, a new park in Chicago designed by The Office of James Burnett: “…the central amenity of the 28-acre Lakeshore East development in Chicago’s Inner Loop… The landscape architect was engaged early in the project by the master plan architects and helped produce…
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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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Veg.itecture: VIVA le Rooftops
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment VIVA… Rooftop Style. Enjoy. British Library Boston Spa Storage Siteby HOK:: image via SpaceInvading Hijauan Saujana Resort :: image via Urban Greenery AD Futures #1: by ICE, Ideas for Contemporary Environments :: image via ArchDaily Kohinoor Skyscraper by Perkins Eastman :: images via Inhabitat Mermaid 2.0 by JDS architects :: images…
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DailyLand: A Square
In an effort to remedy my bursting archives, I’m instituting a new feature called DailyLand (with apologies to ArchDaily, which does the same in much greater depth and detail). Look for one-a-day in brief for the immediate future, which will also allow me to keep up with the great content out there. “Korean photographer Hosang…
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VIA: Urban Greenery
The blog/tumblr Urban Greenery offers a constant and seemingly endless stream of vegetated architecture in action, call it daily green, thus the theme of this installation of VIA focuses around a bevy of posts from this source (with a few others thrown in for measure). One of the most stunning is from Core77, combining mass…
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White House, Green Garden
No shortage of speculation about the plans for the ‘farmer-in-chief’ and what this means for some instant credibility to the burgeoning urban agriculture movement. Also, the latest search for the White House Farmer is getting the conversation elevated to a new superstar echelon of uber gardeners. Enough to make conservatives cringe and comment on the…