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Vancouver Convention Center’s Living Roof
- 5 Feb 2012
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"Built on the original Pier B-C on Vancouver's Waterfront, the Vancouver Convention Centre first served as the Canada Pavilion for the World's Fair Expo in 1986. Since then, we've grown to become recognized as one of the leading convention centres in the world."

via vancouverconventioncentre.com

"Built over land and water on some 1,000 piles, the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project was completed in late 2008. In order to ensure that the expansion and existing facility are fully integrated, a glass-walled connector links the facilities, providing delegates with exceptional harbour views as well as a seamless transition. Featuring floor-to-ceiling glass throughout the expansion, the green roof is landscaped with more than 400,000 indigenous plants and grasses from the Gulf Islands, providing natural habitat to birds, insects and small mammals. This unique ecosystem is planted over 12" of growing media, and the vegetated roof is just one of many environmental innovations included in the expansion."

via greenroofs.com
At Home in the Forest
- 24 Jan 2012
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- Ecology January 24 2012 Organic architecture nature
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"There are increasing numbers of people making their own homes similar to ours. They are making some beautiful, accessable and highly functional houses. The more people who do, the more inspiration and support there will be for the next ones, as we owe ours to those who came before us."

via simondale.net
Ekinoid Project : Global Frontier Towns for All Environments, All People.
- 19 Jan 2012
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- Housing January 19 2012 Population Problem-solving Projects Towns architecture
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Self-assembly off-the-grid towns

"To hope to address the emerging, gigantic problems of the 21st century we need bold, gigantic-yet-simple solutions. A likely reality is a population increase to around nine billion people; and committing to new population centres - in ways that are supportable and highly efficient - will be crucial.

Imagine self-assembling a sustainable, off-the-grid town for 10,000 people - in six months. And then doing that in 10,000 places previously considered uninhabitable ..."

via ekinoid.com
Obscura Digital ~ Tripping the Light Fantastic
- 13 Jan 2012
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- January 13 2012 Lighting Projection architecture
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Playing the Symphonic House
- 3 Jan 2012
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- January 03 2012 Musical Instruments architecture
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Musical Instruments taken out of context in performance still remain beautiful objects of formal composition and objects of the highest skill in craftsmanship. Returned to performance, the objects in the hands of the performer transcend beauty and time and speak instead to the Nature of the Universe.

via symphonichouse.com
City of Manazan located in Taskale, Turkey
- 21 Dec 2011
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- 20December11 Cities Oddities Turkey architecture
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"Dating back to the Byzantine Empire, the City of Manazan features an entire rock face, carved to create a vertical village of tiny rooms. Naturally protected from invaders and the elements, this rock-cut village has survived through centuries of war and regime change in Central Anatolia.

Although seemingly impractical, Manazan stretches up five stories and across 3km of cliffs, and was a fully functioning city centuries ago. The intricate series of caves and tunnels housed churches, storage facilities, family homes and even cemeteries, all high above the ground on the cliff face.

Today, the city is no longer inhabited, but locals from Taskale still use the temperate caves to store wheat, cheese and other grains, and the region is actively developing the area for greater revenue from tourism."

via atlasobscura.com
Taos Pueblo
- 4 Dec 2011
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- 03December11 Ancient National Historic Landmark Native American New Mexico Taos Pueblo World Heritage Site architecture
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"Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark. The multi-storied adobe buildings have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years."

"Although the Taos Pueblo is open to the public and has been studied extensively, much of the history of the Pueblo remains a mystery. According to Taos Indian custom, oral history is not divulged outside of the community, which has kept many of the secrets of the Taos Pueblo safe within the minds of the Taos Indians who still live there.

Despite the lack of an accurate record, most anthropologists place a settlement in the Taos Valley at 1000 CE, and the Taos Pueblo between 1000-1450 CE. Since that time, the sun-dried structure has continuously housed Taos Indians, and 150 people live there today full-time. Since it was built, the Pueblo has always been a residential complex, filled with multiple residences, connected by wall but not by door or window."

via atlasobscura.com
The Hobbit House of Wales
- 27 Nov 2011
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- 26November11 Ecology Hobbits Wales architecture
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"Though neither miniature in stature nor with hairy feet, the Dale family has the pleasure of calling a Hobbit sized and designed house home in Wales. Aside from the exquisite design, the house has the privilege of being regarded as one of the most eco-friendly structures in the world.

Forgoing convention, designer, builder, and family father Simon Dale, decided to uproot his family and live a more sustainable life. In four months with the help of his father-in-law, friends, and £3000, he managed to construct the hobbit house in a hillside."

via all-that-is-interesting.com
Farmland World
- 24 Nov 2011
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- 23November11 Concepts Design Farming Recreation Tourism architecture
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"The nature of farming is forever changed.

Farming is a practice that by it’s own nature unites humans, technology and animals in productive combinations. Hybrids and various mutant bio-mechanical mixtures—Caterpillar combines, John Deere tractors, etc.—began transforming the rural landscape of America beginning in the early 20th century by subjugating the pastoral ideal to the ingenuity of human invention. From utilitarian machinery, to show piece display, both farm animals and machines express a range of complex personalities. Which poses the question: can these overlaps and mutable identities expand to contend with the various crises the farm industry is facing today?

Farmland World is a chain of agro-tourist resorts sprinkled across the American Midwestern countryside. Part theme park and part working farm, guests arrive to the resort via train and stay as part of 1-day, 3-day or 5-day experience packages. Capitalizing on both recent investments in high-speed rail infrastructure and the plentiful subsidies for farming, the network of resorts combines crowd-sourced farm labor with eco-tainment. Guests perform daily chores as self-imposed distractions from the toil of their daily lives. Among the countless activities offered, guests can choose to ride the Animal Farmatures, the dual natured farm implements that complete traditional farm tasks while performing grand rural-techno spectacles. When its time to leave for home, guests climb back into the train, weary and satisfied from their labors as they marvel at the passing landscape they helped transform."

via designwith.co
Minaret of Abu Dulaf Mosque : Samarra, Iraq
- 16 Nov 2011
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via James Gordon at Flicker

"Spiraling up from the ground, the remaining minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra is the the most prominent of the remaining structures of a mosque that was once the largest in the world.

Known as the malwiya or the snail shell minaret, this 180 foot tower was the main focal point of the mosque, that covered 42 acres at its peak. In the mid-9th century, the great work was commissioned by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil who allegedly rode a white donkey up the spiraling paths to the top.

Over time, the mosque was slowly destroyed and fell into disuse by the 11th century. However, it's memory was always preserved in the Malwiya minaret that towered over Samarra. The pillar was given something of a new life during the war in Iraq, as US troops used it for observation. Sadly, in 2005, the famous minaret was partially destroyed during a bombing raid by insurgents. After 1000 years of proudly standing in the medieval Abbasid capital, it finally began to crumble under the firepower of modern weaponry." Atlas Obscura
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