“Low Line” mushroom garden concept wins competition (via Garden Design)
It’s hermeneutics (The study of the methodological principles of interpretation, here, applied to zoning codes. -jm) — as if the spatial expansion of whole neighborhoods is really just a graph of certain words used in different contexts. As if vocabulary itself materializes, precipitating out as alternative spatial futures for the city. Indeed, the New York Times writes, “in (architect Robert) Scarano’s view, the city’s code was a Talmudic document, open to endless avenues of interpretation. Through a variety of arcane strategies, he could literally pull additional real estate out of the air.”
climateadaptation: Bjarke Ingels is by far the most innovative architect in the world. I’m being subtle when I say that his ideas for sustainable architecture are absolutely dazzling, not because they’re “ideas” but because his projects are being built.
I’m staying in Copenhagen right now, right near the The Mountain apartments and the Figure 8 condos, which he introduces in the beginning of the talk. Both buildings are magnificent spectacles (though, to be honest, I think they’re slightly out of place).
In this video Ingels walks through a few projects. The crown jewel comes in at around the 10 minute mark. I can’t even describe the project but assure you it will blow your mind.
With a goal of improving an urban population’s overall happiness by understanding how people perceive certain areas, MIT conducts a crowd-sourced survey using Google Street View technology.
(via urbnist)
Design your future city by answering questions about urban issues. Urbanology is a game from BMW Guggenheim Labs that will compare a player’s “Future City” with other cities around the world. http://bit.ly/pxemcR
(via urbnist)
Wildflower Field, looking North toward West 29th Street, where the High Line begins a long, gentle curve toward the Hudson River (via Wallpaper* Magazine)
Like with the first section, the planting on the new stretch is inspired by the wild, self-seeded landscape that sprung up naturally on the High Line when the trains stopped running in 1980. Chelsea Thicket (pictured) is a densely planted area of trees and shrubs between West 20th and West 22nd Streets (via Wallpaper* Magazine)
Opened in June 2009, the first stretch of the High Line park runs between Gansevoort Street and West 20th Street. The Chelsea Grasslands is a prairie-like lanscape between West 19th Street and West 20th Street (via Wallpaper* Magazine)
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