Darja B

POP.Park
that people can use to reclaim public space each and everyday of the year. POP.Parks will be public spaces produced from readily available, reclaimed or post-consumer recycled materials that will emerge from a regular, cardboard box.
POP.Parks should be no larger than 8’x15′ – the size of a regular car parking spot. The cost of building a…[Read more]

Thanks for the heads up! There is plenty of information out there, we just need to know where to look! Keep it coming everybody!

Naomi Sachs, with the Therapuetic Landscapes Network, just gave a heads-up on a new article on accessible playgrounds. There’s an abstract on InformeDesign and you can access the full article pdf on Children, Youth and Environments.

http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Rs_detail.aspx?rsId=3333

And new InformeDesign article review on Children’s Use of Accessible Playgrounds.

What was the name of the site where you can sell your entourage images that you have created?

Abbey Green design competition

http://www.landscapejournal.org/index.php/news_articles/view/design_competition_for_abbey_green_barking/

A competition to redesign Abbey Green in Barking, East London, has been launched by Design for London,At stage one, shortlisted entrants will be given £5,000 to develop their designs and produce a model. The…[Read more]

REBURBIA A SUBURBAN DESIGN COMPETITON

which asks you how you would redesign the suburbs for a more sustainable future. For example, how can we transform vacant big box stories, foreclosed McMansions, and empty cul-de-sacs into vibrant, living, breathing, walkable communities? What are the energy and transportation infrastructures that we will…[Read more]

advice on learning to use 3dmax? i am so impressed with the images and would love to play, but am unsure how or where to begin. any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Conference in Dubrovnik: Resocialization-benefits from nature, I put album of photos finally on my folio, so you can see them 🙂 . I find articles send by this group really interesting, bye. Marina

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oh man, images of the “week” im looking forward to it…

Tomorrow I will be posting images of the week. so everybody get ready to critique.

Thanks Lee, lets see how many we can get everybody.

Here’s some trees I got a couple years back. They’re even labeled which is nice but due to size constraints I can’t send each individual tree already cut out. Just layer use selective color tool in PS and they come up pretty nice

trees_lee.zip.

Can we get people to upload as many tree cutouts as possible?

I got a bunch of stuff for max. Onyx TreeStorm which is pretty good though memory intensive depending on the amount of polygons.

Has anybody seen Vray RT the new realtime renderer? Looks really good….

Does anybody know if there are any efforts being made to cover theraputic landscapes under health care insurance?

Shelter Competition:
On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for any location in the world using…[Read more]

Lenne Prize:
http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/aktuell/wettbewerbe/lenne/en/ausschreibung.shtml