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Tell Me About It…
Good news for all those purveyors of Landscape Architecture.Bad news for those who like having time to blog… 🙂 Landscape architects staying busyPOSTED: 03:20 PM PDT Monday, May 19, 2008BY SAM BENNETT From the Oregon DJC: “A majority of landscape architects, nationally, remained busy in the first quarter of this year. In the latest quarterly…
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Media Good & Bad = Rant
Ok, perhaps the last post on Integrating Habitats. Oh, probably not. Anyway, the best part of competitions is the joy of having freedom to explore ideas outside of the confines of either client or constraint (wherever these may come from). The second best thing is working to create a winning entry, and then sitting back…
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Veg.itecture #25
A new crop of Vegetated Architecture from the world – from small to large, vertical to horizontal. For starters, a fav blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, with an archidose featuring one of my fav projects – “Tower Flower” by Edouard François. :: image via Archidose Next I go again to the newish blog _urb_…
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Agro-Urbanism
There is a promising new blog _urb_ which focuses on all things urbanism – including a lengthy post on AgroURBanism, which is defined as follows: “There have been many proposals in the last couple of years for different types of agricultural based infrastructures that can be integrated into nurban areas, what I am calling AGRO-URBANISM.…
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Void Metabolism
Eikographia is an amazing site. If you haven’t yet, add it to your list of regular visits, as it comes with some stellar and comprehensive overviews of projects, and an added twist of in-depth analysis of the remnant (or overt) iconography present in the work. A recent multi-part example covering a 2007 competition The Great…
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Green Roof (and Wall) Design Awards
Caroline Nolan from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) was kind enough to send me the recent winners of the 2008 Green Roof and Wall Design Awards. A few of the winning projects have been featured here on L+U as models of the ongoing Veg.itecture series. A few others are new information for me. Read…
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Hot Seat
I did some posts on the High Line in NYC back in March (along with it’s fine French predecessor) – and have been tracking it for a bit. There’s been some movement in construction, which I will get to in a bit, for now – I just love this one too much not to post…
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The Power of Plants
It never ceases to amaze me the wonder of plants in all of their many forms and functions. A few night back I caught the end of a special on Nova about the search for the ‘First Flower’ – which highlighted the story of Archaefructus liaoningensis, the “…ancient plant discovered in the fossil beds of…
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New Vertical Materiality
It’s been some time since I’ve delved into materials – specifically looking at inventive facades (of the non-vegetated type). A few recent examples are pretty good examples of materials that provide some unique articulation and function – that could also be adapted readily to a number of alternative uses. The first provides a LED media…
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Rooftop Play
Veering away from pure Vegetated Architecture (a bit), let’s hone in on some examples of usable green space – particularly in the realm of sports. :: images via Marshu While a tennis match between Agassi and Federer atop the helipad of a Dubai hotel sounds lovely (and a bit dangerous?) – there’s a number of…