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Oysters in NYC
A really great article in today's NY Times about the Harbor School, which has a new home on Governor's Island, and the work they are doing to introduce oyster beds into the NY City Harbor Ecostystem.
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Landscape at ReSource: 2010 Arch League Prize
This year's Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers went to a few firms with strong landscape influences:
-Keith VanDerSys, who is partner of PEG office of landscape and architecture, with Karen M'Closkey, a landscape architect. Both teach in the landscape department at Penn.
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Happy Afternoons Recap
Happy Afternoons was yesterday - we had a great, if hot and sticky, day. Thanks to our speakers - Amanda Cox, David Seiter, Michael Cluer, and Martha Desbiens - who shared so much with all of us about their practices - the day to day realities and the conceptual work that drives them. Check out our facebook group for many photos. We will post a scan of the zine soon, and perhaps a bit more of a synopsis.
Many thanks to David for lending his great nursery space, and many many thanks to everyone who came out. We hope to do another event soon, we'll keep you posted!
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Happy Afternoon: Amanda Cox Landscape Design
Amanda Cox Landscape Design is a design firm based in Brooklyn, New York. Each project is plant focused for sustainable solutions to urban conditions. The firm specializes in city townhouses, country residential properties, terraces, green roofs and rooftop gardens. Some recent projects include an intensive green roof or 'Dunescape' in Tribeca, an extensive green roof, also in Tribeca; and a bio pool in Long Island.
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Happy Afternoon: Materialab
Our third invited panelist to Happy Afternoon is Michael Cluer, founder of the design office Materialab.
Materialab engages the material world within all of its contemporary issues to create compelling urban planning, public open spaces and design solutions where none existed before. Crossing multiple disciplines and collaborating with corporations, government agencies, learning institutions, artist and community-based organizations to develop strategies, momentum and designs for an eloquently interpreted and sustainable human environment is the basis of our work.