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living plant sculptures at the montreal botanical gardens From Designboom living plant sculptures at the montreal botanical gardens all images © guy boily mosaicultures internationales montréal 2…
Amazing – Not your average park landscape1
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Dendritic Zoning | New Jersey USA | ATLAS lab
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The city park ain’t what it used to be. While most parks in Montreal still have playgrounds, grass and sports fields, green spaces all over Montreal are being overhauled to offer residents a host of new types of recreational activities in…
First world parks – still seperated from the life of the City – Nature and Society in opposition – how do you se it?
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Wild yards and gardens are popping up everywhere, but they still draw the ire of some neighbours who prefer their domestic landscapes more domesticated
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.
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Much of the lawns at the Palm Springs International Airport will give way to desert landscaping, saving millions of gallons of water every year, and putting the airport on course with the city’s sustainability plan.
Less lawn should be mandatory – however public and client perceptions of neatness etc are slow to change.
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One of my all time inpisratonal urbanist landscape architects
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Taylor Cullity Lethlean has delivered a new playground at Australia’s National Arboretum, located in Canberra, Australia.
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?
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a 6,000 km-long inhabitable sandstone wall will be the result of a collaboration between magnus larsson and a bacteria that turns sand into rock.
Biological Architecture – Stome mimesis
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This new development is an innovative way to approach the increase in precipitation brought on by climate change.
Do the skaters care if its a raincollectionbasin or what? Ice cold rendering – no tags?
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