Thursday, December 29, 2011
Found at Bok Tower Florida
Thought this was a great way to create a natural screen---saw it at Bok Tower in Florida- a great place for anyone interested in architecture and landscaping
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Living Sculpture at Cornell
Living sculpture is art made with plants -- a creative blend of both art and science. This site will help you engage children and youth in:
Easy activities - Simple projects suitable to any educational setting. Many are indoor projects.
Community projects - Exciting, larger and more challenging community-scale projects.
Activities and projects use several living sculpture techniques, including:
Topiary – Prune plants or train them over frames.
Turf or sod works – Create sculptures using soil and grass or moss.
Tree sculpture – Weave living trees or freshly cut branches.
Mowing and crop art – Create patterns or pictures with plant or in lawns.
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/livingsculpture/
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living,
natural materials,
sculpture,
trees
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Irish Symbols and Sculpture
This grave stone not only stands out in Orlando's Greenwood Cemetery--it communicates visions of Ireland to me. Good sculpture does speak--doesn't it.
http://www.greenwood-cemetery.net/
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city,
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Cool bike rack
A handy new bike rack for city cycles. Cheerful, uninhibited and very sturdy. Santa & Cole urban elements feature distinctive designs that share the Landscape Forms vocabulary, but have a vernacular all their own. Minimal, elegant in their simplicity, and beautifully resolved, they bring an international spirit to our collection of outdoor furnishings for creating a sense of place.
http://www.landscapeforms.com/en-US/site-furniture/pages/tactil-bike-rack.aspx
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architecture,
bike racks,
city,
landscape,
sculpture
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Structure from pine cones in norway
mexican architect iván juárez of x-studio has collaborated with the nordic artists centre at dalsåsen and the norwegian ministry
of culture to create structure from pine cones in a forest in norway. the natural material was chosen for its symbolic connection to
the surrounding area, collected from the forest floor and carefully stacked to make an enclosure. the pavilion wraps the viewer
in the textures of the woods while directing the view upward through the canopy to the open sky. the piece reflects the process of creation,
in which the architect walked through the groves, selecting thousands of cones to make a hand-made natural skin.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/18120/x-studio-inner-forest-pine-cone-landscape-pavilion.html
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