Archive for the ‘Landscape Art’ Category
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Plans have been unveiled for ‘northumberlandia’ a landmark feature designed by world renowned artist charles jencks.
lying at the entrance to south east northumberland, near the town of cramlington, UK she will be up to 30 metres high and 1/2 kilometre in length. most importantly she will be the centrepiece for a 25 hectare public park in the urban fringe between the rolling countryside of mid northumberland and the urban areas of south east northumberland and newcastle to the south.
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Today Metropolis Magazine officially announced the winner of their 2009 Next Generation prize! Titled Wind-it, the brilliant project aims to give our existing energy grid a much needed boost by installing wind turbines in ailing electrical transmission towers. The project is designed for France, but creators Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin, and Raphael Menard believe it could be integrated everywhere, from China’s Sichuan Province to the streets of New York City.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Fading right into the Big Sur landscape, this three-bedroom house is nearly invisible when viewed from certain angles. And that’s just how Mickey Muennig, the mastermind behind the project, wanted it. The 74-year old architect kept the environment in mind when he designed the sod roof and seeded it with native grasses and wildflowers. The roof is part of a garden that starts at Cooper Point, Big Sur, and stretches out to the Pacific Ocean.
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Geotube Faulders Studio, USA with Charles Lee and Jason Chang of Bios Design Collective
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
The winners of the XI edition of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award were announced earlier today. 2967 teams, consisting of 4651 architects from 106 countries, registered for the competition. 926 total projects were received by the deadline. And the winners are…
Dubai is a city full of emblems, Rather than adding another one, we propose to frame them all: to frame the city. Rather than building a massive structure, the purpose of this project is to build a void. This void of 150 meters by 105 meters will continuously frame the development of the current and future Dubai.
First Prize: Dubai Frame by Fernando Donis (Netherlands)
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
We need new leadership from architects, planners and designers.
Yes, we need them to design better buildings, streets and public spaces. But what we may need most from them has little to do with the act of design itself. That’s because we need a massive change in the very way buildings and places are planned, regulated and seen by the public. We urgently need people to re-imagine their cities in very directly political ways, and no one else is as prepared for that job as the talented few who’ve been trained to understand form and space and place.
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
They say that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, in Kaunas it grows on buildings. A curvaceous, luminous, 10-floor office building designed in the form of a LTL 1,000 banknote, Office Center 1000 is being touted locally as one of the Baltic region’s most daring and original construction projects.
Despite what you might think, this is not a temporal installation. The image of the LTL 1000 banknote is brought onto this 10-story building using special enamel paint. During the process the paint turns into a ceramic print that lasts forever. Jonas Plenta, marketing manager of Urmas, the company behind the project, insists that the new structure is not simply a mighty monument to the power of money.
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Every day thousands of cars drive to and from the airport releasing tons of unnecessary carbon dioxide. If everyone parked their car and travelled [sic] collectively, the environment would be much better off. Because the average car in Sweden has 1,2 passengers. A coach can take over 50.
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
It’s still the subject of (extensive) debate whether the electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) produced by appliances, cell phones and high-voltage wires contribute to human illness and cancer. For an academic overview, check out the Human Radiation Effects Group, by Professor Denis Henshaw of the University of Bristol. For a visual illustration, look no further than FIELD by artist Richard Box. It’s a grid of fluorescent light bulbs planted into the ground beneath a series of power lines. When the bulbs glow, it’s not because of a series of buried wires, or a battery– they light up using the ghost power radiating from the wires overhead.
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Children have the inherent knack for making something out of nothing. While waiting for dad or mom to finish up work at the office they’ll find any random object and create a game out of it. My family has home videos of my youngest brother, who had a sack full of toys, but chose to spend hours playing with a plastic bag in the wind.
But this doesn’t mean we can provide the kiddies with grander environments which engage imagination and creative play.
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