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Too Much of a Good Thing
As a follow-up to my previous post that referenced the minor annoyance (ok, maybe not minor) that requires an urban adaptation that residents of Venice must make to navigate the watery public spaces during high water seasons. Through puddles and raised walkways, urban dwellers deal with this in fine form by the age-old tradition of…
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Tree Art
A couple of recent projects take a different look at plants – particularly by juxtaposing the natural with the cultural – providing a way of thinking about urban nature – or our relationship with our ecosystems, in new ways. Firstly, via Dezeen: “Dutch architects NL created a forest of 100 trees planted in shopping trolleys…
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Veg.itectural Mash Note #44
Well, alas I’d like to think my love is more one-dimensional than just swooning over the work of James Corner. Austria, for one, sounds lovely this time of year, i hear. Vegetated architecture on the other hand, is my one true love … and here’s a real mash note to those vertical, vegetated, and very…
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The Notorious H2O
Blue is the New Green – runs the headlines in last weeks NY Times blog, and not a moment too soon for that. Allison Arieff give an explanation: “A range of alternative energy technologies are available to us today; there is, however, no substitute for water. But there are new ways of thinking about water…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 2
Following the big box threads of the previous post, some of the speculative work of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL) offers another viewpoint towards the idea of a tranformed development archetype. :: image via LTL I think half of my interest in LTL is the concepts, the other half is the interesting graphic techniques – many…
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Thinking Out of the Box, Pt. 1
The ubiquitous big box store is a staple of modern life, which, along with it’s associated expansive parking areas eat up a good portion of our cities. The collections of big box stores, known as power centers, exacerbate this phenonmenon by multiplying the footprint and impact of the store uses – creating significant gashes in…
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Tel Aviv Port
Dezeen featured this project recently, and I thought it worth an opportunity to investigate a little further. The Tel Aviv Port by Mayslits Kassif Architects. I was struck by the utter simplicity of form, as well as some of the interesting detailing of this highly trafficked open space, and some of the subtle ways of…
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LAs + Plants
Ok, this is not another post about James Corner (but it does have some more images). Instead, there were some observations from a couple of recent comments that came from ‘Corner(ing) the Market’ a few posts back that I thought worthy of throwing out into the world and seeing what grew. The commentary was particularly…
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Corner Redux
It seems that James Corner is basking in the glow of design press recently… with another feature in New York Magazine that investigates (in depth) the evolution and potential of Fresh Kills Park. While I have yet to see the movie, Wall-E Park by Robert Sullivan alludes to the idealogy implicit in the movie and…
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300!
Blogging is tough sometimes… It’s one of those moments of serendipity – the 300th post happens to coincide with the (almost) one year anniversary of Landscape+Urbanism (the actual post numero uno was 11.26.07) It started slowly (due to my naivety and a certain habitats competition I was working on, but seemed to pick up and…