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Reading List: Materials for Sustainable Sites
It’s rare to find a must-read book for the profession of landscape architecture. This is not to say that there aren’t a bunch of amazing books to highlight a diversity of works – including projects, theories, styles and interests. It is, however, rather uncommon for the topical nature of a text to be able to…
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Got Rust?
My undying love of rusted cor-ten metal should not be a surprise to regular readers of L+U (here, here, and here, for instance). And Andrea Cochran riffs about it here. There are a couple of local examples here in Portland I will post soon – but until then, a few examples that use this fabulous…
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Sendak, Pre-Vegitect?
One of my favorite children’s books when I was a kid was the Maurice Sendak classic ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (probably a close tie with Ferdinand the Bull). As many know, this tale of Max as the kid with the wild imagination and awesome wolf costume (which by god I will do for halloween…
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Veg.itecture #40
I have a folder where I keep upcoming items to disseminate in the intermittent Veg.itecture series – and it usually tops out at 15 or so items before I get around to a weekly or bi-weekly compilation – which make for a somewhat lengthy but manageable post. In this case, today I noticed 50+ items…
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Eco-Boulevard Redux
Some more on a project I have touched upon this project a bit in a previous post, Eco-Boulevard, from Spanish innovators Ecosistema Urbano. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to delve into some more of the eye-candy from Arch Daily… and definitely don’t miss Ecosystem Urbano’s great blog as well… which gleans some great urban…
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Should the Next President Listen to this man?
ArchNewsNow tipped me off to an article by Mitchell Joachim, visionary architect and educator – as well as partner in the non-profit Terreform 1 – a firm whose work has been referenced on L+U previously. The link to a short article on Wired was interesting, and worth reading. As one of the 2008 Smart List,…
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California Academy of Sciences is the Pinnacle, Pt. 2
In Part 2 of our coverage of the California Academy of Sciences Building – we hit the NY Times coverage,and a review from Nicolai Ouroussoff that reinforced the thought of the week it seems: “… if you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to the…
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California Academy of Sciences is the Pinnacle Pt. 1
Is the Renzo Piano California Academy of Sciences Building the apex of green architecture and green roof design? That may be a moot question, at least this week – as everyone fawns with with the imminent opening of the building, and a range of sneak previews from, amongst other, Metropolis, The New York Times, and…
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Missing the Trees for the ‘Forest’
A bit under a year ago, my beginning as a fledgling blogger had a start as a blog reader – and my two favorites were Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG and Alexander Trevi’s Pruned. It’s been a long while since I’ve been able to glean anything of use from the intermittent BLDGBLOG (I blame Dwell :)… as…
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West Side Stories
Competitions allow some interesting opportunities. One is the ability for firms to shape up against one another in at least an equitable showdown. Another is that it gives some opportunity for firms to either experiment graphically or flex their artistic muscle. :: Hargreaves Design featuring curled overpass – image via New York Post In a…