Tag: urban design
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What is the future of landscape?
I have not finished reading it yet, but I thought that I would share the recent Landscape Futures book written by BLDGBLOG author Geoff Manaugh. The book explores speculations on landscape that touch on how we read as well as intervene in our environment. The methods discussed represent an interest in landscape for measuring, recording
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The End of the Metropolis Era: Edward W. Soja, Open Lecture at the University of Greenwich
On Monday 18 November, 6:00pm, Edward W. Soja, one of the world’s leading urban geographers, will be speaking at the University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus, King William Building, KW315. Urban restructuring over the past thirty years has been leading to a sea change in the very nature of the urbanization process. Signs of this change
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Dan Pearson Exhibition at the Garden Museum
As the Dan Pearson exhibition at the Garden Museum, in London, nears its close, MA student Giacomo Guzzon reflects on the designers work. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition called ‘Green Fuse’: The work of Dan Pearson at the Garden Museum in London. Dan Pearson is a plants-man, garden
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Forgotten Spaces Exhibition at Somerset House
As the Forgotten Spaces competition enters its third year Ellen Orchard reviews the exhibition at Somerset House. With so much current emphasis on new projects and installations in the realm of landscape architecture, an exhibit like Forgotten Spaces is worth a studied look. Set in the crypt of Somerset House, the exhibit has an air
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Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape
Next month, the Van Alen Institute is launching Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, a new, multi-year inquiry of competitions, public programs, and research to explore the experience of escape in the urban environment. Elsewhere will guide the Institute’s upcoming competitions, public programs, and research to investigate key questions of the contemporary urban experience: How and why do we
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Building it up – then burning it down: Arne Quinze presents…
Last night Arne Quinze presented his portfolio of artwork at the University of Greenwich. The artist renowned for his dramatic timber and metal installations gave a captivating account of his work process and inspiration. His Uchronia project for the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert gained worldwide attention in 2006.
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Grounds for Optimism – Designing Resilient Landscapes in London
On November 6th Johanna Gibbons and Neil Davidson of J & L Gibbons LLP, will be at the Garden Museum to talk about their recent exciting projects, including their winning entry to RIBA and Vauxhall BID’s ‘Vauxhall Missing Link Competition’ to redesign the public realm in the Vauxhall area of Nine Elms on the South
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Elevating the Public Realm – New Landscape Competition
ENYA 2014, Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm, is focused on re-imagining the linear landscape of the Queensway. Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm will support Friends of the Queensway and Trust for Public Land in their efforts to transform an abandoned rail right-of-way into a greenway that serves diverse neighborhoods in central and southern Queens. This
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New skatepark for Southbank Centre?
Rick Mather has been appointed to oversee a new skate park on the South Bank in London. No images or details yet – but an announcement: “Drawing on ideas suggested by local skateboarders as well as on their own expertise, they identified that the prime use of this site would focus on street skateboarding as
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A Grimm City? Check it out at the Design Museum
2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. As a group of young architects and designers they planned and built the ‘Grimm City’
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