The finished and installed concrete cistern. Image courtesy of Concreteworks.
Hired to design the atrium courtyard of a San Francisco spec office building that features a canted glass roof that channels rainwater, David Meyer of Meyer + Silberberg Land Architects got a few simple instructions from the building’s architects at Pfau Long Architecture—the most interesting of which was to “do something with the water” that the roof would corral into a cascading stream, dripping into the atrium. Continue reading Cistern Splashdown→
The Living Filtration System. Illustration by Living Filtration System.
It’s the habitat that most determines the health of any ecosystem, but it’s largely invisible to the naked eye. The soil under your feet, if it’s healthy, is filled with all manner of micro-organisms, bacteria, and fungi that break down organic matter into fresh dirt loaded with nutrients, and nourish the plants growing there. Continue reading Biomimicry from the Ground Up→
The 2008 flooding in eastern Iowa saw the Cedar River crest at 31 feet, inundating much of downtown Cedar Rapids. Image courtesy of Sasaki.
On the morning of Jun 12, 2008, the landscape architects Gina Ford, ASLA, and Jason Hellendrung, ASLA, of Sasaki woke up in their hotel rooms by the riverside in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to stifling heat and eerie silence. Continue reading Cedar Rapids, Readier for this Flood→
Eighty thousand people across four neighborhoods live along the trail.
For a relatively new landscape typology, elevated rail parks suffer from no shortage of claims about what they can do for cities. Continue reading The Express Lane→
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