Amazing – Not your average park landscape1

First world parks – still seperated from the life of the City – Nature and Society in opposition – how do you se it?

Public and client perceptions are slow to change – the wilder way is however slowly making ground. While less intensive in its upkeep and water usage, natural or wild gardens require an appreciation of natural cycles and they  have their  own maintenance regimen – it is still an artifice which will need input over time or it will become as some fear a "mess" – nature gardens mimic nature – it takes much longer and more effort to actually achieve a sustainable state of change that satisfies our need for interest and color on a year round basis – many wilderness areas are not that interesting or colorful for a large part of the year and our media induced need for "eye-candy" relentlessly drives much of the sale of  fashionable plants and garden design – still it is encouraging that more and more people are willing to try.

Less lawn should be mandatory – however public and client perceptions of neatness etc are slow to change.

One of my all time inpisratonal urbanist landscape architects

WOW! I would like to play here!  Hey – is this fun or whatever play is supposed to be – I wonder if childrren were involved in the design – child- sourced design?

Biological Architecture – Stome mimesis

Do the skaters care if its a raincollectionbasin or what? Ice cold rendering – no tags?