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The same may be said about the green wall. I’d go with hokey. …. nothing against green walls, just the incredible amount of unrealistic earth saving attributes that go with their promoters.

“experts say will prevent central London from flooding”
As long as London is flood saved, the answer is clearly YES, living walls can save us. Listen to experts.

I appreciate hearing your feedback, but you are responding to an image rather than a full presentation- of course the design doesn’t make sense without having all the information!

If you are interested:
It’s a “food forest”/edible landscape, which makes access by wheelbarrows extremely important to the design– I think that’s why you read the…[Read more]

Agreed about the building. And old masonry core building supporting an extra 27 tons (24 metric tonnes) of weight on one wall, which looks to have been a shared wall at one point, doesn’t seem all that safe. One major question of these systems is long term mold ramifications. Having been dealing with a mold problem myself, the lack of air…[Read more]

I guess my objection to what I am seeing here is that, if I am correct that they must be caching the rain water, that they build this huge structure that requires huge maintenance, and say it has to do with sustainability. If one is going to start with the large cistern, then wouldn’t the project be more sustainable if the water were used for…[Read more]

I think your little videos on how to draw landscape are excellent. Good job. One thought, you are more talking about drawing landscape –  the challenge for a Landscape designer is to render a proposed landscape design as accurately as possible. It is sort of a different thing than what you are doing, although the drawing skills you demonstrate…[Read more]

sorry, I’m a big picture kind of gal..
: )

I recall a competition entry using a highly absorbent fabric buoy/levy system… seemed a bit hokey, but maybe not? 

When are they going to propose giant sponges everywhere?
 

Whether you draw with CAD, photoshop, or hand, it still makes sense to apply the same techniques taught to us in our hand graphics classes. I’m anything but a graphics guru, but I believe that starts with line weights (also known as line hierarchy). As the plan comes together, light, shade, and shadow add that “life” that J. Robert is talking…[Read more]

Sheesh, Trace, I was just thinking about urban water run off!

I saw this, I agree, Rob, it seems a doubtful way to store water or to buffer against storms.. It could be wildlife habitat, rats love this kind of stuff.
But I think the best thing is reduction in the  human population. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute thinks human population crash is inevitable, from zoonotic diseases or drought – he…[Read more]

easy, whatever the definition :
– make your selection (for mask or deletion)
– use feather to blur the edge of your selection (before applying mask/deleting) : either a tiny edge blur (2 to 5 pixels) just to smoothen that edge up, or a large blur (20 to 100 px)

try it up, experiment, have fun 🙂
don’t waste too much time on it ! 😉

Just would like to attract attention on tropical hardwoods for a minute : most are now rare, very expensive, and a large proportion come from illegal logging that destroy the few natural forests left on this planet.
Due to deforestation *and* transportation their carbon footprint is terrible.

So their specific qualities (durability, beauty,…[Read more]

Thanks, both of you! I’ve used aerial images with the opacity reduced before, but I’m having trouble getting an image that is high enough resolution to make a cutting edge along the tree line that isn’t pixelated. When the site edge is straight, along a property line or a building, the quality of the images I got from google earth hasn’t been as…[Read more]

Steve,

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Our experience in boardwalk designs and specification assistance is unsurpassed as is our environmental record.
We are currently supplying the Long Beach Boardwalk…[Read more]

That wall sure needs something to liven it up. Personally, and given a choice, I’d go for vines and cover the whole thing up.

How about something very slow growing, columnar, evergreen, that could be pruned once in a while ?
Not too familiar with northern trees any more, but maybe something like a cypress, Chamaecyparis, Thuya ? There are small…[Read more]

i like your blocks.

Like Nathan said. Desaturation or opacity to 50% or both (adjust up to your feelings) work well. If you cant find your exact site on GEarth, just take any nearby forest snapshot.

I like to make sure it does not conflict graphically with the contents of the plan (keep it light), because your plan is what you want to stand…[Read more]