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- Mountain Design
[Ecosign: vision for Trysil, Norway.]
Chasing down one of the designers of the Peak 2 Peak gondola linkage for Whistler, we stumbled upon Ecosign. They have certainly carved a niche in ski resort planning, or what they call “mountain design.” Obviously a misnomer, mountain design sounds inverse to what actually takes place in their design process. [...]
- Data Island
[The continuous interior of data centers is a palace to the monolithic slabs of data storage.]
In an increasingly ubi-comp environment, massive data centers processing or storing data continue to sprout up in contexts and sites of economic and geographic convenience. In a post-Silicone-valley glow, many sites are happy to promote their contexts as ideal for [...]
- Elevated Landscapes, or Railbanking
New images and a video of the High Line in New York has prompted a ricochet of references of examples of biologically domesticated infrastructures.
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There is the promenade plantée. Designed by Jacques Vergely (landscape architect) and Philippe Mathieux (architect), the promenade is a 2.8 mile elevated park in Paris’ 12th arrondissement that extends from Opera Bastille [...]
- Mosscaping
[David Benner in his lawn in Solebury, PA (via NY Times]
Mr. Benner, 78, a retired professor of ornamental horticulture, is also a longtime practitioner and advocate of what he calls “the moss approach” to lawn maintenance. “Every time I give a lecture, I go into this spiel: get rid of your grass, and grow moss,” [...]
