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SITE Videos
A Daily Dose of Architecture continued my retro kickback weekend – with some amazing videos related to the 1970s and 1980s big box stores designed by James Wines and his firm SITE. Some of the most known of these are retail stores for the now defunct BEST Stores which I guess wanted an exterior to…
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Playgrounds in the Sky
The great retro-blog Modern Mechanix is a great visit down memory lane. As a kid that poured through issues of Popular Mechanics and the like dreaming of inventions and innovations, the content is pretty compelling – predominantely to connect some of the ‘visonary’ new ideas with their historical precedents. A recent interesting post ‘Playgrounds in…
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No Shortage of Site Furnishing Options
The eternal quest for more innovative furnishings always leaves mean amazed by the constant and never-ending iterations of a flat or semi-flat slab, 15-18 inches high, and able to last in outdoor situations and be cleverly placed or comfortable enough to place ones ass on for a spell. Different materials, configurations, and just plain oddities…
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Five Things…
Another indication of the trend of 2009… a post by The Architects Journal offers five things to do for January 12th… the first of which is to Veg out: :: image via Archispass “Ken Yeang seems to be the current king Vegitect. It’s true that Michael Sorkin first used the word ‘vegitecture’ in a 1979…
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Sunday Crossword
As an obsessive crossword addict that spends a portion of Sundays on the couch working on the NY Times puzzle of the week, (and time-permitting some of the weeks puzzles as well) I couldn’t resist this interesting installation that arcady over at gardenhistorygirl dropped on her site last week. Call it at-grade green roofing meets…
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Our Crumbling Infrastructure [aka Call Before You Dig]
[UPDATE: 01.10.09 – As mentioned, I recieved this as an email forward – one of those ubiquitous things that get pitched around in our digital age – thus had no context in which to verify the story. Thus, it turns out that the pics are from a corrosion-related rupture of the high pressure gas line…
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Veg.itecture #49: VIVA + VIA
As promised, a slight modification of the Veg.itecture posts – due both to the enormous amounts of projects out there, but also based on a need for some different needs for both built and design projects. So, as promised – in the upcoming 50th post on the series on Vegetated Architecture, an evolution of sorts…
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Garden Ratings Made Easy
There has been a number of posts from landscape blogs in the past two days regarding the NY Times article related to the Sustainable Sites Initiative, the initiative to broaden the scope of site issues related to green building and design. It’s great that the initiative is getting ink, and definitely take the time to…
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Blackburn Gateway
A quick email from Jem at Eaton Waygood Associates in the UK offered a couple of pics of a current project for a gateway for Blackburn. As I’m a sucker for anyone named Jem, I thought I’d drop a few photos into a post. From the email: “The work has a masonry side, (drystone wall,…
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China’s Mixed Signals
The explosive growth of China has offered a dichotomy – on one hand the speed and voraciousness of development has created unprecedented impacts from natural resource consumption and pollution; on the other, the country has created a number of evocative potential eco-city planning examples that have excited and intrigued – giving hope that amidst the…