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Furnish Green
Picking up some threads of a recent post about some inventive site furnishings, as well as the ongoing obsession with Vegetated Architecture brings another melding of the two. A range of vegetated furniture that ranges from the purely decorative to the downright functional. First, a quick shot from Michael Cannell’s blog at Dwell – with…
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Veg.itecture #21
A few choice projects in the realm of Vegetated Architecture. Also, stay tuned for my review of the innaugural issue of GRHCs ‘Living Architecture Monitor’ of which they were kind enough to send me a copy. I perused it on the bus this evening, and it’s definitely one of the better resources out there (more…
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Grey to Green: Action?
I mentioned previously the announcement of a proposal by Portland City Commissioner (and mayoral candidate) Sam Adams for ‘Grey to Green’… after an epic roll-out – there has been little talk since. Well that has changed in a flash with another big invite to City Council for an event this week to take some action.…
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Earth Day: BYOBlue
One week from today – another yearly affirmation of the trend towards sustainability. So what color best signifies Earth Day? Well, as previously mentioned, there will be a severe shift in the environmental movement away from the color green – as it is has become a cliche. I still don’t buy it – but as…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt.3: Restoration
We complete this aqueous journey (don’t you love when something simple turns into something wonderful?) and we end with some brutal reality and some hope as to our ability to turn the tide of our technological wrong-doing. I would posit that perhaps the most compelling reading of the year so far in landscape architecture were…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt. 2: Provision
Picking up on a previous thread about Water – we deal with a bit more applicable material to large- and landscape-scale interventions and systems. A few of my favorite blogs – BLDGBLOG, Pruned, and Treehugger offered a variety of recent material regarding water – its provision and perhaps with some more time and luck, (and…
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Aqueous Solutions Pt. 1: Use/Reuse
Water is obviously something we rely on for a number of things beyond mere existence. At the root of water, however, is it’s ability to sustain us both physically and spiritually. It’s disheartening then to see how much we take this for granted, or exploit and destroy this seemingly ubiquitous (yet actually very precious) resource.…
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Auroville
I previously focused on the work of Ecocity World Summit 2008 speaker Ken Yeang with this history of bioclimatic design and vegetated architecture. From this post, I recently recieved a heads up about another of the conference speakers, Lalit Bhati, and the community of Auroville – a perhaps too-good-to-be-true but still evolving along slice of…
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No More Suburbs
This has been covered all over the web – and well, it’s just a good story that needed to be told. Perennial provocateur Andrew Maynard, whom appeared on L+U with his Tattoo House, has now developed an intricately woven design for ‘Suburb Eating Robots’. While whimsical – there is a significant amount a truth and…
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Arcology
A recent helpful commenter to a previous post corrected my erroneous assuption as to the roots of the word ‘Arcology’. Alas, it was not from Sim City as I was previously led to believe. The concept is most commonly associated with Arcosanti builder Paolo Soleri, but has some interesting heritage and implications for some of…