sketch

Lately my studio work has been filled with detailed renderings and construction drawings.

I find a great way to loosen up from hours in front of the computer is to produce a series of quick sketches. Unhindered by the rigidity of CAD, the idea is to let the eye and hand work together seamlessly. The image below was produced in 10 minutes.

The role of Social Media in Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design

Urban Interventions is the theme at the 2010 British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects Annual General Meeting this weekend in Vancouver. I will be contributing to the round table discussion on Trends in Social Media, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. This years conference is full of stimulating topics including Plant Species for Urban Environments presented by Wimm van der Zalm, Kris Fox on Economics and Modularity In Sustainable Landscape Construction and Hell Burlingame on Reclaiming the Outdoor Space for the Digital Generation. See below for the social media round table section from the conference program, and be sure to visit the website to download the full agenda. I will let you know how it goes as soon as I get back, enjoy!

For more information please visit
www.bcsla.org

Landscapes of Future

Pavel Pepperstein (b.1966) takes us on a journey through the conceptual landscapes of the future.

the red black star - multifunctional bridge in Perm, the year 2201

the artificial icebergs with faces of the polar explorers, the year 2241

el lissicky airport in Perm, the year 2102


the artificial clouds in the year 2488

the great red flag, the year 2500

the red cube, the year 2555

the monument of the yellow colour. Kamchatka, the year 4307

the huge spriral of DNK, erected west Sibyria in the year 3021

excalibur sword to all warriors of the earth. year 2199

attack of the old houses

Pavel Pepperstein

Between Art and Landscape: Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94)

Roberto Burle Marx was Brazil's most influential landscape artists and is internationally recognized as the "creator of the modern garden".
A painter, designer and self taught botanist, Burle Marx treated the landscape as a living work of art.

Burle Marx's tapestries, on view at Paco Imperial museum

Garden Design Seanz Pena Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948


Garden Design Plan, Duque de Caxias Square Rio de Janeiro 1948


Site Plan of Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953


Detail 5, Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953

Just a few of Burle Marx's realized works

Brazil's Civic Square






Terrace garden rio de Janeiro


Brazil

A passionate proponent of Brazillian native flora and fauna Burle Marx is also recognized for his discovery of some thirteen plants that bear his name, see my 5 selected below.

Heliconia hirsuta 'Burle Marx'

Calathea burle-marxii

Neoregelia burle-marxii


Philodendron 'Burle-Marx'


Begonia 'Burle Marx'

Parisian photograffeur JR

The work of Parisian photographer and street artist JR

"Women are Heroes"
Here JR visits the slums of Kenya where he covered 2000m2 of rooftops with the images of the women who live there.







JR at the Tate Modern London


Rio de Janiero




London




Ile Saint-Louis, Paris

for more JR visit jr-art.net

great interview with JR here via The Guardian

ecologically inspired art - animal wall

animal wall - a site-specific ecological artwork by Gitta Gschwendtner

"Animal Wall" is part of a 50 metre long wall, running along the south-western edge of ‘Strata’, a new residential development in Century Wharf, Cardiff Bay.


Through consultation with an ecologist, four different sized animal homes have been developed, which have been integrated into a custom-made woodcrete cladding to provide an architecturally stunning and environmentally sensitive wall for Century Wharf. The animal wall also transcends the barrier between the private and the public, with the wildlife roaming freely between the two areas. via safle



Artist Gitta Gschwendtner said: “Following the decline of the natural habitat in Cardiff Bay over recent years, I was very interested in exploring ways to introduce nesting places in my artwork for Century Wharf. I have loved the opportunity to match the number of flats created in the housing development with the number of bird and bat boxes in my design for the Animal Wall.” Century Wharf’s architect, Jonathan Vining of WYG Planning & Design, said: “It has been a real pleasure collaborating with Gitta on this project and her site-specific design not only helps to enhance Century Wharf’s already strong sense of place, but also provides a modern echo of William Burges’s animal wall at Bute Park just up the river.”

www.gittagschwendtner.com

www.safle.com

Tensile Roof Structure

The term Tensile structure refers to the category of surface tensioned structures which achieve their stability thought the use of double curvature, i.e. membrane and cable-net structures. The advent of new materials and construction technologies thought history has often led the designers of buildings to rethink and sometimes reshape, even the very meaning of architecture. With the ability to span large distances with minimum means less is more turns to more with less.

CBLS is currently working on a very exciting project that involves the creation and development of a tensile roof structure. More project details to be released soon.

For more information on Tensile roofs check out the masters Birdair