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High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines
In searching for some new landscape-related links to explore, I stumbled across the blog for Design Trust for Public Space (aka I (heart) Public Space) and their 2005 publication High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. :: image via Design Trust This “…detailed handbook describes practices for creating sustainable city streets, sidewalks, utilities, and urban landscaping. Following the…
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Fusionopolis by Ken Yeang
Well, it’s not a secret that I am an admirer of Ken Yeang, and his unique brand of Bioclimatic Architecture – mostly because of its reliance on multiple tenets of the Veg.itecture concept: 1) use of vegetation for environmental systems; 2) use of vertical and horizontal surfaces; and the mixing of these concepts for aesthetic…
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Serendipitous L+U
In the midst of writing a rave review of Alan Berger’s fine tome Drosscape (look for it in the next week), a very brief post from Pruned with the cryptic text ‘We ♥ P-REX‘ appeared, and sent me to the site of Berger’s Project for Reclamation Excellence, which has a ton of great information… after…
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People who live in Grass Houses…
This one via Arch Daily is quite odd… I’m strangely fond of the form of the Amalia House by GRID Architects in it’s very modern form, as well as the verdant color of the building skin. I was also mesmerized by the glowing green facade – and wondering, maybe, if it was something vegetal.:: image…
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Veg.itecture #34
Time for another installment… a good amount of new projects, both interior and exterior vegetation. The first, shown a while back in Veg.itecture #31 has gotten a lot of press of late (and some new images) – under the moniker Xeritown. Sounds kind of dry…? :: images via Xeritown A little bit of greenery atop…
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A Trio of Landscape Sites
These may not be new to everyone, but a few new links added to the sidebar under ‘Blog Check’. As landscape architecture gains more visibility on the web, it’s exciting to see more sites pop up to offer information and criticism around the profession. This builds on the solid work of sites such as Pruned…
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New Landscape Architecture
It seems that urban agriculture, veg.itecture, and ecoplanning take a good bit of the attention span of myself, this blog, and the media. I forget sometimes to feature that bastion of landscape and urbanist principles rolled out in one neat package – quality urban landscape projects. There are many, from the recent ASLA national award…
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Landscape Criticism from the Hipster Writer Crowd
To preface the following, may I say I heart and cherish my tomes stack in an end table of McSweeney’s Quarterly – each with a different style and shape and format… some impenetrable, some trite – all amazing and wonderful literature. I love Dave Eggers work (with the exception of the ‘let’s be serious’ for…
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Sky Farm Replay
It’s interesting to see how trends seem to hone in on one person that becomes the locus of most of the attention around a subject. Patrick Blanc and vertical gardens, Fritz Haeg with the ‘revolutionary’ idea of tearing up the lawn and planting vegetables, Michale Pollan and well, everything related to food – and now…
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Materiality: Textured Panels
As I mentioned back in March – the application of art, architecture and other detailing can have a significant influence on how we express landscape and urban interventions. While many materials are somewhat specific to architecture, or are artistically used in ways that aren’t typically functional – there are some great examples that have real…