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Discovering a Secret Wonderland of Architecture in Dallas
Many of the city’s skyscrapers, I learned, were seen as contributions to the postmodern architecture movement. “PoMo,” in the shorthand favored in the architecture world, began to emerge in the 1960s as a reaction to the white-walled minimalism of modernist architecture, epitomized by Mies van der Rohe’s oft-quoted dictum “Less is more.” Early PoMo architects like Charles Moore and Robert Venturi rejected this formula — “Less is a bore,” Venturi famously quipped — and sought to inject color, iconography and kitschy nods to historical ornamentation into their designs. In the Southwest, this tendency bloomed in the 1980s during the savings-and-loan boom. Unlike modernists, PoMo architects conceived their buildings as dynamic…
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Meet artist Kristi Lin: bringing a natural balance
Kristi Lin grew up in La Jolla. So, on the surface, one might assume that living among all the natural elements that make the neighborhood so idyllic — the cliffs, pines, beaches, etc. — would have been the catalyst for Lin’s love of landscape architecture. But when asked about it, she pauses, as if reaching desperately for an answer. It doesn’t come. “Actually, to really answer that question, I know exactly the space that got me into landscape architecture,” Lin says. She goes on to say that, yes, growing up in San Diego and La Jolla was instrumental in exposing her to an unparalleled natural beauty. For Lin, however, it…
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The Art of Japandi – Kitchen & Bath Design News
Kitchens Scandinavian and Japanese aesthetics meet in this minimalistic, yet elegant, style. authors Lis King | November 29, 2021 A tiny concrete cave of a New York City apartment is turned into a work of art by architect Andrew Mikhael, who used walnut not just for cabinetry but also for structural elements. The concrete ceiling couldn’t accommodate recessed lighting so he installed LED tape lights in channels and then surrounded them with walnut slats. Photo: Brad Dickson Sometimes two great styles are better than one. That’s what happens when the raw functionality of Scandinavian design fuses with Japanese nature-suffused simplicity, and it’s a look that fits American kitchens like a glove.…
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Gardeners say California’s subsidy to phase out gas-powered tools won’t cut it
Though Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning the sale of most new gas powered tools by 2024, gardeners and landscapers say a $30 million state subsidy isn’t nearly enough to help small operators make the switch to electric. The state agency responsible for administering the subsidy estimates it has only enough to give each self-employed gardener a 50{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} coupon for one tool, far from the truckload of leaf blowers, lawn mowers, small chainsaws, brushcutters and trimmers most haul around. In fact, local governments have learned they need to offer more. In Southern California, a regional air quality district that has been running a similar incentive program since 2017 saw…
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Delhi-Based Artist Creates Beautiful Art Work On Olive Ridley Turtles With Message To Curb Plastic Menace In Oceans
Bhubaneswar: On the closing ceremony of the METIS Initiative on Plastics and Indo-Pacific Ocean 2021 at Utsha Foundation here this evening, the grant-winning artist Manveer Singh shared his experience at the month-long residency and also displayed a short film on his journey in Odisha in transforming his ideas to create beautiful art from plastics and also generating awareness among people and especially among the youth and students. Today’s installation by Manveer at Utsha created a wall of Olive Ridley turtles hanged from net and the artist has the concept to tell to the visitors, how human activities like fishing are killing the turtles. The tiny ones consuming plastics are also…
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Children’s Nature Playscape construction begins in downtown Kalamazoo
Funds are secured, materials are being ordered and construction is scheduled to begin on the Children’s Nature Playscape on Bronson Park, a new playground that eventually will be one of the largest natural playscapes in an urban core. The 130-foot square greenspace at 302 Academy Street, slated to open next summer, is a nature-inspired space that will give kids rocks and trees to climb, water to splash in, and logs to traverse — right in downtown Kalamazoo. “We are planning for a soft opening June 1,” says Jody Brylinsky, Children’s Nature Playscape on Bronson Park Steering Committee chair. Children and families will be welcomed to the site with some areas…
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