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Veg.itecture: #19
aka. The Pooktre Vegitectural Prize AwardedWell, all the lobbying for Jean Nouvel as one of the pre-emininent Veg.itects of our time has paid off with the recent announcement that he was recently awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008. While not as prestigious as aforementioned PVP, congrats are in order all the same. :: image…
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Parks: With Los Angeles Style
A couple of recent announcements in World Architecture News has definitely aimed the spotlight at Los Angeles for cutting edge parks and open space implementation. And this doesn’t even include the local media-saturated Orange County Great Park (subject of some upcoming coverage of our own here at L+U). The first project is by one of…
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City Farmer News
City Farmer and it’s ‘Urban Agriculture Notes’ has been around offering great urban agriculture links from Vancouver, BC for a number of years at their old, no-frills site and their demonstration garden. I was pleased to visit recently and see the link to the new blog-ish City Farmer News (added to the BlogCheck) site and…
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Green Roof in a Box?
No it’s not the new SNL Digital Short with JT, but a rant about the commercialization of green rooftops. I usually don’t mince words about ‘packaged’ vegetated systems and my disdain for them as a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s not that I don’t think there’s value in the marketplace for an easier to implement solution. I…
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Trend-Spotting: Living Walls
It’s official – green walls are the next BIG thing. Ok, we already knew that – but one reason I say this now? While coverage in the glossy design magazines is one thing, showing up on CNN.com is a good sign of a trend both spotted and confirmed. What’s next? People magazine profiling Patrick Blanc?…
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Transportation and Space
It sounds obvious when you say it (and it has been said many times before) but it is always striking to see how influential modes of transportation are on the shaping of our cities. The magnitude and impacts are immense but also provide a range of new opportunities to explore. The typical figure ground study…
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Urban Ag: The Buzz
If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…
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Veg.itecture #18
A significant number of Vegetated Architecture examples with facade and rooftop greening strategies. I hope no one suffers from sensory overload with this weekends dual Veg.itecture posts, so without further ado, the projects:I spotted this project by Veg.itect Jean Nouvel via Dezain for the “Building C1” in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and it was a pretty interesting…
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Veg.itecture #17
There seems to be a significant backlog of Vegetated Architecture examples I will catch up on in the upcoming week. For this version, we will focus on a typology that we featured previously, some abstracted and representational vegetation forms in buildings and artwork. These span incorporation into building structure and form – as well as…
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100: Seeds Revisited
Well, it’s happened eventually. On this auspicious day, we post the 100th entry to Landscape+Urbanism. It has definitely not been too long since I got over my misguided hatred of blogs and got motivated (and inspired by all the others out there) to start my own. So let’s revisit the simple ideas I threw out…