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Happy Afternoon: Future Green Studio
Future Green Studio is a design-build firm in Brooklyn, New York specializing in landscape urbanism and green roof design. At the forefront of a national design movement focusing on establishing place and identity through ecological design, Future Green Studio offers a strong design vision, and a commitment to the union of beautiful spaces and green solutions.
Our work focuses on reclaiming post-industrial landscapes, on planning future visions for cities, on greening New York City’s rooftops. We use a patchwork of productive and performative landscape typologies to help transform neighborhoods and communities and facilitate developers and clients to “go green”.
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Happy Afternoon: VertNY
VERT: vertical. green.
VertNY, inc. is a landscape design firm specializing in the integration of innovative, sustainable techniques with attractive, inviting designs for the urban landscape. Our knowledge of horticulture and green design has well prepared us to serve this emerging market. We handle each project carefully, emphasizing collaboration with the client to match their individual situation and style.
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Urban Dyeing
Victoria Marshall, founder of Till Design and an assistant professor in Urban Design at Parsons, is exploring a new approach to landscape architecture in a seminar course, Urban Dyeing, a part of the new Integrated Design Curriculum (IDC). The course “aims to educate [students] about plants, gardening, garden design, public space and participatory models of engagement.” The course is unique in that it takes landscape design, community action and cross-disciplinary thinking into the classroom and then back out onto the streets.
Urban Dyeing grew out of a seminar Professor Marshall taught last year in which IDP fashion and IDP urban students proposed growing plants that could be used for dyeing fabrics. The fabric would then be used to make clothing that would be sold at the Union Square market. This idea developed at the end of the semester and so this spring a new group of students is testing the idea. The class this spring is teamed up with the Unions Square Partnership, a business improvement district, and has several real sites to design and in which they will grow plants with a purpose.
Rising Currents Opens at MOMA March 24
Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, a major initiative organized by The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center to propose solutions for the effects of climate change on New York‘s waterfronts, culminates in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art from March 24 through October 11, 2010. The exhibition presents architectural proposals that emphasize adaptive 'soft' infrastructure solutions for New York and New Jersey‘s Upper Bay to make New York City and surrounding areas more resilient in responding to rising sea levels and more frequent storm surges. Elements of the proposals range from the creation of salt- and freshwater wetlands along the banks of the bay and a Venice-like aqueous landscape, to habitable piers and manmade islands, and a protective reef of living oysters.
Five multidisciplinary teams of New York-based architects, engineers, and landscape designers selected to participate in Rising Currents developed the proposals during the initiative‘s workshop phase at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, from November 2009 to January 2010.
Times Square Shenanigans
Reason #655 to support the closing of Broadway. Photo props to Sean Quinn and submission props to Keri Tyler.
