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Redefining the Urban Jungle"Thanks to French botanist Patrick Blanc, Plant Walls—vertical gardens attached to hotels and museums—are sprouting up in cities worldwide."
Thinking outside the boxSean Godsell's award winning "elevated box" beach house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia.
NY Times "Style" Magazine 2006Lots of design schtuff, including an architecture slideshow - "Celestial Inspiration: Architects have often looked to the heavens for inspriation."
God hates IKEAA construction crane collapsed this morning at IKEA's Red Hook site - where (as previously discussed here) IKEA is bulldozing all traces of the area's history to build their big box.
Vacuum cleaner musicCeleste Boursier-Mougenot's Harmonichaos is an interactive sound installation made of 13 vacuum cleaners fitted with a harmonica and a sound frequency analyzer.
Landscapes of Aerial Invention"Artist Natalie Czech's Blattschnitte, from 2002, presents us with aerial views of cluttered landscapes – which Czech has since combined, sutured, and overlain with other views of cluttered landscapes."
Landscape Architecture salaries up by 20 percentSo says the preliminary results of the ASLA 2006 National Salary Survey and Business Indicators Survey.
Born again buildings in LA"A church, power substation, firehouse dormitory, water tower, train car, movie theater and neighborhood market are all enjoying second lives as private homes."
Got a lot of time to kill?Pruned compiles a laundry list of interviews with designers posted around the web... some previously mentioned here, others not.
Local Governments Get Serious About the Environment"In the absence of serious national action, state and local governments and the private sector are taking the initiative in confronting the interlocked problems of global warming and energy conservation."
U2 tower moves forwardThe long awaited - and now taller - U2 tower designed by Burdon Craig Dunne Henry has submitted plans to the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
da Rocha in Chicago2006 Pritzker Prize Laureate, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, will speak in Chicago on October 20th.
Combat Global Warming with CoolnessRichard Branson, the founder of Virgin Records, Atlantic Airlines, Coke, Mobile, and whatever else they are into, just introduced Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at Wired Magazine's NextFest in New York. AND he is donating $3 billion to combat global warming... not too shabby for a week's worth of work.
Bertrand Clerc A01The "Denari-esque" A01 bench designed by Betrand Clerc and Olivier Gregoire. Slick.
2006 RIBA Sustainability AwardFeilden Clegg Bradley is awarded the RIBA Sustainability Award for their design of a model low-energy office building on a brownfield site.
Tech comes home"Whole-house audio, remote-control cooking, carwash-style showers. Some of the coolest custom-home gizmos are trickling into the mainsteam as standard features."
America's Next Generation Of Public SpacesA look at five new plans for public space in American cities highlights some of the best work in urban design.
N.J. County Rescues Louis Kahn's Bath HouseA bit of old news I forgot to Clip about this pivotal 1957 Louis Kahn design.
Suburban DesertA photo series exploring the suburban development that is quickly overtaking the desert peripheries of Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles.
Great Plains Urbanism"The conservative, pragmatic Midwestern city of Omaha, Nebraska, institutes one of the country’s most progressive sets of urban-design standards."
Pitt on building an eco-friendly New OrleansBrad Pitt talks about architecture, the environment, social responsibility, philanthropy... and his family.
Field Operations in TorontoApparently Toronto Waterfront Revitalization officials are not making a big enough deal over the hiring of landscape architect James Corner for the redesign of Lake Ontario Park.
House of InnovationSlideshow of Sunset Magazine's 2006 Idea House. This year co-sponsored by Popular Mechanics, the house is full of sustainable materials and cutting-edge technology.
AIA Housing Awards"The AIA Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community established this awards program to emphasize the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource."