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(...) "Elegantly Wasted: A Fashion Forward Ecosystem for the Hoosic River" part of I AM SEARCHING FOR FIELD CHARACTER, produced by Bureau for Open Culture , opens May 28 at Building 8 at MASS MoCA . (...) Zelkova Square , a proposed memorial to the 2008 Russian-Georgian War in Gori, Republic of Georgia.
Designed by the Dutch urban design & landscape architecture firm West 8 , Miami Beach SoundScape is a new 3-acre urban park in the cultural and civic heart of downtown Miami Beach. Capturing the spirit and vitality of Miami Beach, it is a flexible, multi-use space adjacent to the new Frank Gehry -designed New World Center, and serves as both an urban oasis and a gathering place for cultural and special events. In 2009, West 8’s winning design for Lincoln Park was unanimously chosen by the Miami Beach Commission. The park is part of the New World Symphony Campus, which includes a concert hall and a conservatory where young talent coming to study and perform. Photo: West 8 urban design & landscape architecture
Bustler: Grand Opening Miami Beach SoundScape / Lincoln Park
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Water wall : An interactive fountain system in which falling streams of water can be controlled by digital means. The wall will be urban-scaled, like a canal running through the city, but twisted into the vertical plane, so that it can be observed from a distance. (+ information PDF) Digital bus stops : an interactive model that will provide information and maps about the route that each citizen wishes to take, it will permit the use of display screens, activated by touch or by mobile phone and it will provide wireless connectivity. It also has variable architecture which will permit the shape and position of some of the elements of the arcade to change in agreement with the climatological needs of the moment and the number of users in the place. (+ information PDF)BLDGBLOG
[Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Breaking Out and Breaking In: A Distributed Film Fest of Prison Breaks and Bank Heists —co-sponsored by BLDGBLOG, Filmmaker Magazine , and Studio-X NYC —continued recently with Papillon (1973), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. [Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Papillon remains one of my favorite films, since first seeing it as a teenager (though I will come back to that at the end); however, as usual for this series, I will try to limit myself to the spatial and/or architectural themes of at play in the movie. In a nutshell, Papillon tells the story of Papillon (played by Steve McQueen), imprisoned in the overseas penal colony of Caribbean French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America.
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("Happy feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring" being one of the alternative titles cheekily used by performers of Sibelius' Finlandia in its early performances , in order to escape Russian censorship.) We arrived in Helsinki in the Finnish Spring, fresh from the Australian Late-Summer. Before long, the Finnish Summer announced itself with glorious sunshine and warmth creeping across southern Finland. Helsinki in summer could be surprisingly warm, touching the mid-thirties on the streets around our apartment. On holiday in the UK in July, I found myself saying something I thought I never would: I miss the heat of the Helsinki sun. By September it was deeply Autumnal, though.flow-n
The car is undoubtedly still the superstar of capitalist cities ; with solid growth in personal income all societies have witnessed a steep growth in car ownership. The arrival of the car swept aside public transit on the West Coast of the United States early in the twentieth century, the same happened later on the East Coast and then in Europe in the 60s and 70s. Similar patterns have developed in Russia after the fall of the Communist regime, where prior to 1989 the modal share of the car was only 4%, and even more recently in China, where the car has progressively replaced the bicycle in the city fabric. This model is now proving to be fundamentally wrong, since it generates profoundly anti-urban environments. Currently, the Western world is looking to find an alternative solution to an energy intensive and anti-urban transport system focused on the automobile.
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[the radford army ammunitions plant- RAAP- and the New River] Obsolete military installations rightly receive a good deal of attention from designers these days, and this trend has only increased in the last year with all of the focus on national parks and their role in making the territory . On a recent episode of the terragrams Casey Brown makes a compelling argument for landscape designers turning their sites toward functioning militarized landscapes.Copenhagenize.com - Bicycle Culture by Design
The Bicycle as a symbol of progress, of renewal, of promising times ahead. This is not a new concept. Indeed it has been around since the invention of the bicycle. Many bicycle posters at end of the 19th century featured promising themes like liberation, progress, freedom. Here's an example:
Coming this summer as well is the launch of landscape urbanism (dot) com - which aims to be "a space for interactive dialogue about landscape urbanism and what it means to design landscapes and urban spaces today. The creation of this site stems from a diverse team of designers, academics, professionals and thinkers around the globe." In the spirit of dialogue and understanding, this critical forum will be very welcome in providing a multi-faceted perspective on what has become a hot topic of late.
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introduction: Extending Landscape Urbanism’s History In practice, landscape and urbanism have often been held apart by the professional boundaries between them, which are reinforced by divergent tactics and working scales. Joining these two terms into a hybrid methodology, as landscape urbanist practitioners have recently done, can be generative, sparking new ways of approaching the condition of cities as vast horizontal networks. Landscape urbanism promotes a “disciplinary realignment where landscape supplants architecture’s role as the basic building block of urban design.”1 This collision of terminology and methodology has contributed greatly to current design discourse. At the same time, what seems to be a prevailing effort to present landscape urbanism as a new, emergent discipline obscures a lineage of thought that would only bolster its credibility, if not its claim for originality.
lunch : The University of Virginia School of Architecture
Cinema and Synthetic Biology: Project Aim
CISYNBIO will analyse science fiction block busters and contributions to our science film festival regarding their depiction of synthetic biology narratives. The central questions that will guide the analysis of the films will be: Which aspects and issues of synthetic biology are primarily approached by films? What image and impression is conveyed to the spectator? What are the hopes and fears brought up by the films?Yeni Mimar
“ Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı'nın 2007 yılında, Türkiye Turizm Stratejisi Eylem Planı (2007-2023) kapsamında marka kent olmasını hedeflediği on beş kentten biri olan Bursa, 2008 yılında, yaklaşık altı ay süren çalışmalar sonucunda hazırlanan 'Marka Kent Bursa Eylem Planı' ile birlikte sanayi kentinden turizm kentine dönüşüm sürecini hızlandırdı. Bu dönüşüm, Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin 2010-2014 Stratejik Planı'nda da vurgulandı; Belediye'nin vizyonu, ..The Dirt
In honor of National Landscape Architecture Month , the April issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) is free. Also, be sure to check out the new LAM Web site . At Cal Poly Pomona, Michael Woo can see change coming to an overwhelmingly white profession. As the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona, Michael Woo is bringing up one of the most diverse student bodies in design and preparing the students for professions, including landscape architecture, that are not historically very diverse. As it happens, the school’s landscape architecture students are prolific winners of ASLA student awards—they have won as many as Penn’s students (14) and more than Harvard’s (12) in the past five years.Writer, philosopher and longtime “deep green” environmental activist, David Orton died at his home in Watervale, Pictou County, New Brunswick on May 12th, 2011. He was 77. Orton, who founded the Left-bio movement, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March.