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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
This renewable energy generating tower located on the coast of Rio is one of the first buildings we’ve seen designed for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and boy, is it crazy! (In case you didn’t notice, it’s also a waterfall.) The Solar City Tower is designed by Zurich-based RAFAA Architecture & Design, and features a large solar system to generate power during the day and a pumped water storage system to generate power at night. RAFAA’s goal is that a symbolic tower such as this can serve as a starting point for a global green movement and help make the 2016 Olympic Games more sustainable.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Portland Fire and Rescue in partnership with Portland State University’s School of Architecture announced the winner of a competition to design the Portland Firefighters Memorial. After an eight month, two-stage competition with input from firefighters and the general public, the selection committee members unanimously selected the design by Aaron Whelton / Whelton Architecture as the competition winner.
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Finding somewhere in Madrid with Autumn at its best was hard but in the end we did. It was in a far-away park in the Moratalaz district.
The night of the 3rd November was awesome, it wasn´t at all cold and nobody walked about in the park then, just after midnight. We were able to enjoy 3 hours of absolute calm, sitting among the fallen leaves, composing our work.
For the installation An Almost ephimeral Autumn we lit 200 dry leaves and lifted them from the ground until it seemed as if a truly soft breeze of light had made the Autumn fallen leaves raise into the air.
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Normally at a big construction site, an ugly OSB wall plastered with posters provides a barrier between the site and the rest of the city. Typically thought of as eyesores, these walls are anything but pleasing to the eye. But what if they could be transformed into living urban spaces full of plants and systems that provide both an environmental and social benefit to the people walking by? The Symbiotic Green Wall, by Kooho Jung & Hayeon Kelly Choi, could do just that!
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Diana Balmori of New York-based Balmori Associates was invited to create a garden. Dr. Balmori chose to sit the garden on the steps between two Arata Isozaki towers leading to Santiago Calatrava’s footbridge over the Nervión River.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
The question, “what will our cities of the future look like?”, is a question that has captured the imagination of many minds, at many times.
After all, here we are in the 21st century, a millennium ahead of us for testing and witnessing just how far the lines between science fact and science fiction will blur.
At the ground level in little ole Aotearoa we all have reason to despair at a lack of focus on our urban futures and the design of those urban futures. We don’t do “urban” as well as we need to.
A suggestion for Auckland’s Queens Wharf
Abstract from Urban Logic’s Article in the Idealog Magazine
Delaying the doing is a fine art. The tools are many and varied. Take time for a lavish display of consultation; commission a report or, even better, commission a scoping study for a possible report. Form a working party, a subcomitteee, perhaps a Commission (that’ll be productive). Wait while facts are found, legislation is passed, funds are freed or an election is held. If that doesn’t work, urban planners everywhere have another option: hold a design competition. Invite the world to enter. Now you have years before anything needs to be done.
Read the full article here at Idealog.co.nz
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The field of geo-engineering has launched all kinds of outlandish ideas for combating climate change, from dumping iron into the world’s oceans to shooting mirrors into space. A report published last Thursday from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) suggested that a forest of 100,000 artificial “trees” could be “planted” near depleted oil and gas reserves to trap carbon in a filter and bury it underground. The carbon suckers look more like fly swatters than actual arbors, but researchers say that once fully developed, the “trees” could remove thousands of times more carbon than a real tree.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Architecture photographer Iwan Baan has been documenting the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a series of temporary structures commissioned to renowned architects that sits on the Gallery’s lawn for three months, hosting a series of public talks and events at the park. And now he just shared with us his photo set for this years pavilion, which opens to the public tomorrow July 12th, and will stay open until October 18.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
The vision: When Kahn glimpsed the 535 Mission parcel, “the white field reminded me of Mono Lake … what a cool opportunity to squander the better part of a city block on something useless but glimmering, for reasons of beauty and aesthetics.”
This impulse translated into a scheme that would take the concave concrete seal on the excavated site and use it as the frame for what Kahn likens to “a trampoline for the wind, a soft and compliant surface.”
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
I’m a fairly regular camper. Growing up in southern Ohio afforded me plenty of open space and woodlands to explore the wild and in a small way disappear from society for a brief time. Now in southern California, I am a short drives distance from some of the greatest camping spots in the country. by Adam E. Anderson DUS
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