Whatever culture fashion is part of, whatever time and place it refers to, its essence finds its roots in the characteristics of the human body. Only the being’s dimensions and proportions matter. Its peculiarities, its flaws, its disadvantages are sublimed by creation and become the assets, the basis, the nourishing roots of fashion. They structure its path, define its substance, and guide its function. Static and still when unworn, fashion transforms itself; it evolves in space once inhabited. It also shelters life. It takes over, welcomes and protects it. Once wrapped around the being, fashion, lifeless until then, comes alive.
Panorama 01 (Images Courtesy Oglo (Emmanuel de France & Arnaud Dambrine))
Set in the rural forests of England, the cedar clad ‘guest house’ is nestled amongst the trees as if it belongs there. The garden studio includes a bathroom, living area and separate bedroom, thus forming a self-contained Bauhaus-esque living space. In addition it incorporates a 4m extended decking area to provide space for outside relaxation and entertainment.
Originally located outside city walls, later within the following quartiers of the growth of the town of Bergara, the Palace appears as Yrizar property in 1659. At this time it was still a large house with some orchards around, and the owners renovated it completely. It was in 1692 when we find the first description that refers to the existence of a Renaissance garden.
In the summer of 2011 Joakim Kaminsky and Maria Poll went into the deep forests of Medelpad in northern Sweden. With them they brought 15 meters of mirror coated fabric aiming to create an installation that would interpret the life cycle of this pine forest.
Article source: Christian Müller Architects with Krill architecture designed
Rotterdam based Christian Müller Architects with Krill architecture designed and realized in collaboration with Archilos Plan Development and Basement Property Development a new holiday park in the German Eiffel.
Article source: PLANT Architect, Perkins Will Canada, HSLA and ABUP
Project update – December 22, 2011 – The Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Podium Green Roof Garden has won two more Awards!!
Green Roofs For Healthy Cities 2011 Award of Excellence
DX Silver Award
The Podium Green Roof Garden is the first transformation in the competition-winning scheme “Agora Theatre” – the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization. This three-acre upper-level component of Viljo Revell’s 1965 iconic City Hall and multi-level public square was originally conceived as a ceremonial public space, reached via a giant sculptural ramp. The space was never successful at attracting the public – it was a grim, empty, three acres of concrete that has been closed to the public for well over a decade. The Podium Green Roof Garden re-conceives this upper level as a vast public park integrated with the existing elevated walkway system, and while respecting the complex’s heritage status, reopening it to the public as a truly engaging 21st Century space. The project reconsiders how an extensive green roof providing a plethora of technical environmental benefits can be an exciting and successful public space that merits repeated, habitual visits. It is the largest publicly accessible green roof in Canada and the flagship green roof project for the City of Toronto that since 2009 mandates green roofs on all new buildings. By creating a vital community space that fulfils this environmental imperative, it promotes a broader concept of stewardship linking people to their environment.
Night View (Images Courtesy Steven Evans and Chris Pommer)
Architect:PLANT Architect, Perkins Will Canada, HSLA and ABUP
Name of Project: NPS Podium Roof Garden
Location: Toronto, Canada
General Contractor: Flynn Canada / Gardens in the Sky
boustrophedon: Alternating right to left and left to right –
the pattern of oxen tilling the land, or of an ancient form of writing.
The 6.1m x 21.3m Boustrophedon Garden was one of eleven “Ephemeral Gardens” made for Québec City’s year-long 400th anniversary festival in 2008, and were on show from June 16 to September 30, 2008. Gardens were intended to reflect the major festival themes including the indigenous region and its peoples, and the French settlement of Québec. Our response was to draw ideas from Québec’s regional long-lot system – fundamental to creating the distinctive thin-striped pattern of agricultural development in the province – and Samuel de Champlain’s (the great explorer, and founder of Québec City) rigorous agricultural experimentation and recordings done to ensure the survival of the future colonizers of New France in the 17th century.
Article source: asensio_mah in collaboration with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Surface Deep is a new garden recently installed within the entry sequence for the visitors to the Reford Gardens’ Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec, Canada. Supported by the Department of Landscape Architecture, the project’s design was led by Harvard Graduate School of Design lecturers Leire Asensio Villoria and David Syn Chee Mah and developed and fabricated in collaboration with students from the Landscape Architecture and Architecture programs at the Harvard GSD.
Surface Deep
Architect: asensio_mah in collaboration with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Name of Project: Surface Deep
Location: Quebec, Canada
Team of asensio_mah: Leire Asensio Villoria, David Syn Chee Mah
Students: Somkiet Chokvijtkul (MLA2’12), Daekwon Park(M’Des’12) , Benjamin Winters(MLA1’11), Yuan Zhan(M’Arch2’13), Fred Chung(M’Arch2’11), Troy Vaughn(MLA2’12), Lisl Kotheimer(MLA2’12), Day Jimenez(M’Arch2’11), Mariela Alvarez(M’Arch2’11), Benjamin Tew(M’Des’11), Victor Perezamado(M’Arch1’13) – Harvard Graduate School of Design
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John Keenen and Terence Riley, founding partners of K/R Architects, announced today that the firm has completed the master plan for the 100-acre (40-hectare) Parque de Levante in Murcia, Spain. The plan, which reinvents the concept of a museum-park explores the relationship between art and culture as a generator of creativity and education, as well as economic dynamism and tourism. The park will serve the Mediterranean region as a major art destination. K/R recently presented the master plan at City Hall in Murcia.
On the Xi’an International Horticultural Exhibition the West 8 designed Garden of 10,000 Bridges has opened to the public. As both a distinct sense of enclosure and vantage points are provided, the Garden plays with the sensation of surprise. In the design advantage is taken of the strategic, central position of the plot, and views to other parts of the exhibition are integrated with those to the features of the park and surrounding landscape.
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