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Veg.itecture #27
The next installment of the Vegetated Architecture series – with a grab bag of interesting examples. For starters, the announcement that Jean Nouvel’s winning entry for the landmark tower in Paris’s La Defense district (featured in Veg.itecture #18) bested entries by Liebskind, Foster, and others. Some additional images of the project, and a quote via…
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Mapping Evolution: NY Subway Map
For the record, I don’t read Men’s Vogue on a regular basis – no offense to the magazine – I just am already overloaded with periodicals so need to focus. So I was pleased when The Men’s Vogue Web Team sent me a link to a recent story on the updates to the iconic 1972…
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North Dakota Topography
Having grown up in the flat-ness of North Dakota, and spending 20 winters or so there through the height of the Cold War, I just had to share the recent post from Pruned that outlined an amazing landscape-art/homeland security from an anti-ballistic missile complex. The project stems from an installation for the Safeguard Program –…
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Eikongraphia’s MoPo 2008
In this day and age of exit polls and populartity projections – time for one related to the top architecture blogs out there. A L+U favorite is Eikongraphia, has a great, semi-scientific method for determining the popularity of focused blogs out therer. It’s not mistake that certain blogs have extremely high readership and popularity is…
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Local Aquaculture
The decentralization of agriculture offers a range of potential options for food production, but usually we think of this. City Farmer featured a home-scaled aquaculture as a means to produce high amounts of food, in this case 2000 lbs in a year (38 lbs per week). :: image via City Farmer Tilapia is a common…
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Plants for IAQ
The potential for plants to contribute to remediation of air, water, and soil have all been mentioned at L+U. One item that was discussed in some length was the idea of indoor biofiltration or the use of plants and living walls to provide indoor pollutant reduction. This can be done either passively through introduction of…
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Manual for the Machinic Landscape
I’ve been looking for this book for a while now – anyone know of a source for a copy? In lieu of the actual book, I guess I will be content for now with a recent review, via Archinect: :: image via ArchinectLandscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic LandscapeBy Mohsen Mostafavi (Author), Ciro Najle…
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Veg.itecture #26
Some new additions, as well as revisits to some projects featured previously. While I loved the Parti Wall, Hanging Wall concept – I also jested about the vague resemblance to a bath mat in closeups… A significant amount of more detail of the production and installation offers some interesting ideas. :: images via Archinect Definitely…
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Waterfall Park
An exclusive from Tropolism shows a park/viewing grounds for the previously featured project NYC Waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson. Via Tropolism: “The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy asked dlandstudio to develop a temporary park for the waterfalls. On a Brooklyn budget! Dland’s design includes wide swaths of color painted in stripes over the asphalt to create…
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Integrating Habitats?
Ok, maybe I’m just attempting to pad some posts… but this one is worth another look. Treehugger featured this short story about bears, accessible flexible play, and how to design for it… “They finished building it on Saturday evening, and the following morning, as mom was about to wake up the boys and have them…