An underemployed landscape architect in LA has started www.livingchristmas.com. Recently profiled in the New York Times, the business delivers potted trees (in bio-diesel trucks) and picks them up again 2-3 weeks later to return them to a happy life in a local nursery. A little pricey, but a great idea. One of the nicest features: [...]
Way to go Archinect for setting up a design competition in reaction to the referendum recently passed in Switzerland banning the construction of new minarets. What a great way to re-examine religious freedom and shifting cultural landscapes. Archinect is right, Switzerland, we have a problem.
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation has launched a new database of designed and vernacular landscapes that could potentially grow into a useful reference for designers and design enthusiasts. The real promise of What’s Out There is that new projects can be submitted to the database, which could loosen some of TCLF’s who’s who parameters and create [...]