Landscape+Urbanism

  • Vancouver Olympic Village

    Following up on a post regarding the recent article that featured the work of PWL Partnership, some more in-depth coverage of the work surrounding the Southeast False Creek Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Beyond ‘green’ as a strategy, this site is literally green with rooftops and open space around a dense…

  • Design the 21st Century Street

    Well, it’s time again for another competition – gleaned via Death by Architecture. Sponsored by Transportation Alernatives, the Designing the 21st Century Street Design Competition challenges entrants to envision: “…new conceptual and physical approaches to the planning of public streets.” :: image via 21st Century Street The competition focuses on an intersection in Brooklyn, at…

  • Landscape Wallflowers

    A client sent me this article from the Vancouver Courier: ‘Landscape architects shape our most ‘livable’ city’ – which outlines the role of landscape architecture in the shaping of our urban areas. The article focuses on the work of Margot Long, a principal at PWL Partnership in Vancouver – and her most recent award-winning work…

  • ‘Agriculture’

    This old(er) post from Tropolism offers some great maps of the US in relation to agricultural production. Linked from radical cartography (a great site!), this work by Bill Rankin: “Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the “meat lobby”?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the…

  • Stupid Plant Tricks

    This site features a lot of great, inventive ways to use landscape materials in urban areas. On the flip side, there are a lot of very, very strange ways to use plants as well. Read on for a summary of some of the more ‘odd’ varieties of plant manipulations I’ve gleaned. Grass ‘photographs’ at Wimbledon,…

  • Veg.itecture #33

    Clearing the files of backed up projects (to make way for the new, of course)… a brief, in text, and long, in photos, version of Veg.itecture… it’s definitely got variety, although you can see the disparity between built and representative projects… A colorful green roof atop ECOSpace, in Dunfermline, United Kingdom, by RMJM (now about…

  • Living Walls: Systems Approach

    We’ve all seen them in action (sort of), so now it is time to check them out on a new level and get at least a cursory look at the different off-the-shelf options out there for living walls. A few select companies are offering systems that are available to North American buyers and beyond. Here’s…

  • High Density Growth

    A fusion of vertical greening and urban agriculture, this interesting ‘product’ was spotted from Treehugger. A company by the name of Valcent Products developed this system for high-density gardening by, you guessed it, going upwards. Some images from the company’s El Paso facility: :: images via Valcent Products Via Valcent: “The HDVG system grows plants…

  • The Power of Wind

    Not particularly focused on landscape per se, but the idea of building integrated wind is fascinating, and there are a bunch of interesting examples I thought I would compile here, with some minimal explanation. Much like urban ag, wind is a hot topic, specifically small(er)-scale turbines technology. Check these out. A Portland project for a…

  • 200 Seeds: Anything Germinate?

    Happy weekend. Wow – it’s happened so fast. 200 posts strong – and pretty much on-goal for 2008. There have been some lulls, some work-related slow periods, and some just plain I don’t want to write anything periods – which have caused me to re-think and allowed Landscape+Urbanism to do well nonetheless. Some would argue…

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