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Urban Ag: The Pulse
It’s been a while since I’ve done a significant post on urban agriculture. This is somewhat purposeful – for one everywhere you look the topic has caught fire. A quick summary shows recent articles in the LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, American City, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, Granville, Dwell, Slate…
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Parc del Centre de Poblenou
Architecture as art. Art of Building. Vegetated Architecture. There are a lot of blurry lines out there between themes in design… and this often leads to cross-pollination and perhaps overstepping of turf sometimes. Taking the multi-disciplinary approach a bit further, Coolboom recently featured Jean Nouvel recently in the design for the Parc del Centre de…
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Veg.itecture #32
Time for another installment, and no slowing down of the Veg.itectural trend. As this phenomenon evolves it will be continually interesting to see the differences between the imagery that is presented in concept – and the actual project build-outs for these vegetated architectural creations. Starting with a recent post from my new favorite site, Arch…
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Veg.Arch Daily
Definitely take some time to check out a new(?) blog [at least to me] ArchDaily – with rich content related to Architecture with some really great features – including many, many pictures. I’ve had only a chance to take a peek (and look at another ranking of ‘Architecture’ sites – which I’m again pissed not…
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More Pop-Up Park
A few more images of the recently opened Pop-up Park courtesy of Susannah Drake from dlandstudio. It’s obviously a popular spot – and it’s probably not just to see the Waterfalls. :: images via Susannah Drake, dlandstudio Susannah said people are particularly excited by the haybale plantings – and I imagine they will be more…
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Stupid Furniture Tricks
Catchy title, no? OK, there’s some fun things out there that make you do a double take, aside from the inventive planter or two… A few recent ones: The first, via Designboom is a flexible bench by Giulio Iacchetti: “Flexible bench is a special seat for urban furnishings. through the rotation of the seat/seat back…
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Wave Cloud Tree Zoo
Not random word association, Wave Cloud Tree Zoo is one of three finalists in a competition for the NY Aquarium at Coney Island. The collaboration between WRT & Cloud 9 Architecture (along with a host of others) envisions a verdant and sinuous waterfront… :: image via Wave Cloud Tree Zoo Here’s a project description with…
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Spotted: Pay Phone Planter
We’ve all seen them, although less and less with the popularity of cell phones – the ubitquitous phone booth. Recently on a site visit, I was walking by an adjacent property and spied some great makeshift plastic planters. I’d been looking at prefab products to use for rooftop agriculture, so did a double-take on these.…
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Namba Parks
It’s funny those particular projects that fly under the radar, even when you are looking straight at them. Treehugger has a case in point, from a post on Green Roofs in Osaka, particularly with the Namba Parks project. :: image via Treehugger Built in 2003, “Jerde Partnership Architects “conceived Namba Parks as a large park,…
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A Panopoly of Green Roofs
I heard recently of a conversation where one person said that green roofs are dead. I’m guessing the person that said this either had tongue planted firmly in cheek, or was sadly misinformed. Our awe and excitement has transformed itself into innovation and adoption on a wide scale. While living walls are definitely the vegitectural…