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Neri Oxman’s Materials Revolution

Posted in Sustainable Materials, Technology on 10/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »

At the 2011 GreenBuild, Neri Oxman, director of Mediated Matter at MIT Media Lab and one of the few who made Fast Company’s top 100 creative people list, wants to “introduce a new dimension or sensibility” into materials production. Proposing to turn the design and engineering worlds on their heads, she said we should no longer “design [...]

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Toronto’s Genius Project: Evergreen Brickworks

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 10/06/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Evergreen Brickworks, a stellar project from Canada’s Evergreen non-profit, re-imagines a derelict 12-acre brownfield site, which was once a historic brickworks, in the heart of Toronto as a “center for learning on urban ecology.” At a session at the 2011 GreenBuild, Evergreen, an organization that asks people to ”imagine your city with nature,” and the team’s architects and [...]

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How to Do It: Measure for Green Infrastructure Success

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Water Management on 10/05/2011 | 1 Comment »

At the 2011 GreenBuild in Toronto, Jim Schuessler, ASLA, BNIM, and David Dods, URS Corporation, a dynamic landscape architect and engineer duo, outlined lessons learned from two years of research into stormwater management best practices in sites across Kansas City. Sampling results from rain gardens, bioswales, “treatment trains,” and other green infrastructure systems, they explained [...]

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Solar Decathlon 2011 Innovations: Constructed Wetlands, Edible Landscapes, Rain Gardens, and More

Posted in Gardens, Green Buildings, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Water Management on 09/22/2011 | 2 Comments »

The Solar Decathlon, a design competition and public education program run by the U.S. Department of Energy, returns to the National Mall this year, where it will be open September 23 – October 2. Like the competition two years ago (see earlier post), teams of architecture and landscape architecture students from universities around the world compete to design, build, and then operate the [...]

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Bing Thom: Social Architect

Posted in Green Buildings, Public Spaces, Smart Growth, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 07/28/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Bing Thom is the subject of a new full-color book by Princeton Architectural Press. Prominently featured in the collection is his new Arena Stage, which has helped catalyze redevelopment in southwest Washington, D.C. (see earlier post). The book, however, also goes way beyond his recent critically-acclaimed D.C. work and explores his earlier large-scale cultural projects in his native [...]

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Infrastructure for All

Posted in Active Design, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Smart Growth, Sustainable Materials, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 06/13/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Watch an animation from ASLA’s “Designing Our Future: Sustainable Landscapes” online exhibition that explains how to transform transportation systems into multi-use infrastructure that serves everyone. Learn how communities can save money and improve the environment by redesigning their existing infrastructure. Many cities have been designed around their transportation systems, to the detriment of their own [...]

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High Line Phase 2 Now Open

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 06/08/2011 | 8 Comments »

Eager anticipation has preceeded the opening of phase 2 of the High Line, which runs from West 20th street to 30th streets, bisecting 10th and 11th avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. In a major success for the Friends of the Highline, the park’s founders, the new second segment designed by landscape architect James Corner, ASLA, and [...]

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Interview with Nina-Marie Lister on Ecological Urbanism

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Technology, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management, Wildlife on 06/07/2011 | 6 Comments »

Nina-Marie Lister, MCIP, RPP, Affiliate ASLA, is Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Ryerson University, and Visiting Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). She is a contributor to Ecological Urbanism and co-editor of The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability. Lister recently served as the [...]

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Green Buildings Key to Reducing Energy Use and Climate Impacts

Posted in Climate Change, Green Buildings, Policy and Regulation, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials on 05/12/2011 | Leave a Comment »

In a session at the U.S. Green Building Council’s government summit, Niclas Svenningsen, Sustainable Buildings & Climate Initiative, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), said the global building market is expected to grow from $7.2 trillion to $12 trillion in just the next few decades. New or renovated building growth is centered in China, India, the U.S., Indonesia, Russia, and [...]

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How to Recreate a Waterbird Habitat

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Sustainable Materials, Water Management, Wildlife on 04/06/2011 | Leave a Comment »

At a conference organized by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), Michael Erwin, a Research Professor and Wildlife Biologist at the University of Virginia, described how he’s leading the massive $450 million Poplar Island restoration project that is creating critical waterbird nesting grounds on islands in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Lost to erosion and rising water levels, the [...]

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