Nursery +E in Marburg / Opus Architekten BDA
The house with signboards (Originally by KusakabeWorks)
http://kusakabeworks.net/gallery/the-house-with-signs-of-marufuku/
What do you think of the mass planted Pampas Grass?
BT House | Sao Paulo | Brazil
Designed by Studio Guilherme Torreswww.shapedscape.com ~ Landscape Architecture Matters
Minimal Maps, Big Data: Michael Pecirno Makes Data Visualization Both Beautiful and Illuminating
Michael Pecirno is a multi-disciplinary designer based out of London, England. Originally trained as an architect and later working as an art director, his practice focuses on storytelling through visual and built experiences. Minimal Maps is an ongoing project by Pecirno that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. For example, corn fields take up 91 million acres of the American landscape, a staggering 4.83% of the contiguous United States. Though the value sounds astounding, visualizing what 4.83% of the American landscape looks like, or furthermore, where this land is, is extraordinarily difficult. These maps, which use tremendous amounts of raw data provided by the USDA, attempt to accurately and explicitly convey this information. Pecirno’s maps and research, the latest of which will be shown at the Chicago Architecture Biennial this fall, provide an alternative to the often information-poor data visualization maps that have become ubiquitous today.
(Source: michaelpecirno.com)
Village of Yorkville Park (Toronto)
Schwartz Smith Meyer Landscape Architects, Inc. and PWP Landscape Architecture
(site: asla.org/2012awards/034)
At First I Thought These Were 10 Normal, Everyday Objects; Then I Took a Closer Look