By Damian Holmes, on July 29th, 2010
Photo by Daniel Avila Source: NYC Dept. Parks & Recreation
On July 27, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and architect David Rockwell opened Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, an innovative playspace conceived and designed pro-bono by Mr. Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 26th, 2010
PAYSAGES EN EXIL from Nicolas Dorval-Bory on Vimeo.
Installation for the national art event “Imaginez Maintenant”
01/07 to 04/07/2010
Hôpital de La Grave – Toulouse
Nicolas Dorval-Bory / Raphaël Bétillon
Music : Michael Andrews – Socks on ears
For More images and information about the installation go to
www.nicolasdorvalbory.com or www.raphaelbetillon.com
PAYSAGES EN EXIL seeks to create, along the hospital of La Grave [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 16th, 2010
Recently Public Works published a survey or Top AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) firms finding that for the first time since 2005 one-third of Public Works departments “are now turning to these same firms for landscape architecture park/design.”
We can interpreted this survey in many ways such as AEC firms have hired more landscape architects and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 6th, 2010
Recently the five finalists for the St.Louis CityRiverArch 2015 design competition met with the 24 members of the local advisory team to ask questions and seek clarification. The advisory team includes officials from the city street department, the Missouri and Illinois transportation agencies, the Coast Guard, the Metro East Park and Recreation District and the [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 29th, 2010
In May 2010, a new botanical garden Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Park 上海辰山植物园 (Shanghai’s 2nd botanical garden) opened after 3 years of construction. The project was apart of improvement works by the government for the 2010 EXPO.
The Botanic Park was designed by Christoph Valentien of Valentien + Valentien Landscape Architects and Urban Planners. The design uses Chinese [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 24th, 2010
TV Gardener Charlie Dimmock helping local children with planting
The first of 4,000 new semi-mature trees are taking root in the London’s Olympic Park with around 100 ash, cherry and hazel trees, grown in Hampshire, already planted. The first of 300,000 wetland plants, grown in Norfolk and Wales for the UK’s largest ever urban river and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 24th, 2010
A design competition to improve construction sites across New York City. The competition is seeking artists and design professionals to develop creative artwork for construction fences, sidewalk sheds, supported scaffolds and cocoons in New York City.
This competition, created by the Department of Buildings and Department of Cultural Affairs and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, is a unique [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 23rd, 2010
PLACES has published a recent interview with Matthew Urbanski of MVVA about the design & construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The interview goes into detail about the materials used and some of the design elements. An interesting interview that gives good insight to the design and construction process.
Read more at the SOURCE: PLACES -Building Brooklyn [...]