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Accidents & Opportunities
I always seem to be looking for/at imagery from magazines, blogs, books and websites in searching for Vegetated Architecture examples and other inventive ways of blending landscape and urbanism. Via computer generated graphics, photos, and drawings, the media and message is varied in form and success. There are moments where this documentation, either through accident…
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Veg.itecture: More New Additions
I have sifted through and expanded the list of resources (see sidebar to the right), which exposed some new Vegetated Architecture projects. The Design Blog, one of these new additions for L+U, featured The Montenegro Residences, is an 8000 square meter development aimed at providing views of the surrounding vistas. Designed by Bjarke Ingells Group…
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Urban Ag: A Variety of Techniques
It is garden planning season, and my plan is to double the 200 s.f. first year garden from last year, and build up some raised beds as well. I wonder, how large does a backyard garden have to get to qualify as a farm? Perhaps I should be more careful to plant what I can…
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New Suburban Landscape
There are some things that make me pine away for being in close proximity to Minneapolis. One is some really good friends that I went to school with that reside there. The other is the Walker Art Center, which seems to address landscape much more often than is done here in Portland. Maybe they have…
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Eco-Planned Communities
It’s not a surprise for those of us in the Pacific Northwest bubble that tend to live and bleed green, but always good to get some positive reinforcement that we’re doing some things right. The latest was in the form of an article in Popular Science magazine, which, through somewhat generalized scoring system, named Portland,…
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World Architecture News
Our dilemma: having the time to spend daily on keeping up with the frenetic pace of design in todays world . Always a challenge, and in searching out more resources, I stumbled upon a great site yesterday, World Architecture News (WAN) featuring at least daily updates to a wide range of buildings world-wide. While building-centric,…
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Jean Nouvel: Veg.itect
From Curbed LA a series of articles on Jean Nouvel‘s current work in Los Angeles, and beyond. This project is slated as luxury condos in Century City, which judging from the existing skyline is not a hotbed of zoomy vegetated architecture. I appreciate Nouvel’s use of vegetation on this project as a mediator between indoors…
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Ken Yeang: Veg.itect
Defining the concept of Vegetated Architecture led me to identify some of the key players in the field. Rather than continue the segregation of disciplines, Veg.itecture spans disciplines, further blurring the lines of established practice regimes. This does not demark territories where only the few architect/LA dual practicioners are allowed to have this mantle, but…
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Veg.itecture: Defining Moments
Vegetated Architecture (aka Veg.itecture, VegArch, Building/Landscape Fusion) is a common theme on L+U. The working definition of this fusion of architecture and landscape has been swirling around in the back of my brain for some time, and I thought it appropriate to give some further definition of what this is. :: Terreform Treehouse – image…
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Fakery is the New PoMo
Paper or Plastic… Fake or Real. No, these are not the perennial Christmas question, or a variation of the paper or plastic debate, but another round of abstractions of all things landscape. I stumbled upon an old post on Strange Harvest that had some amazing images of design for Montreal’s 1967 World’s Expo (aka Expo…