16-November-2015 The Latest News in Landscape Architecture 2015 is sponsored by ZinCo – Life on Green Roofs – Ecological and Economical Green Roofs, worldwide. In this week’s news, we focus on just exactly how rivers can provide innovative design visions that can tackle the environmental challenges of our century, announce the members on the design panel for the High Speed 2 rail project in the UK and unveil an exciting new project by Stefano Boeri. In addition to this, we share a fascinating research that addresses the benefits of benches: did you know that hanging out on a bench is good for you? 5 Stories In The News This Week:
- Landscape Architects and public realm experts on HS2 design panel
- New dream for Tijuana River: producing electricity
- Design can reconnect us with Sacramento’s greatest asset
- Why hanging out on a bench is good for you
- Stefano Boeri plans second ‘vertical forest’ for Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Landscape Architects and public realm experts on HS2 design panel: Horticulture Week
The British Government has announced 45 members of independent design panel for the High Speed 2 rail project. This specialist group of the design panel will “mentor and inspire” so that the project will result into a “transformational railway system, which will exceed all of our expectations”. Amongst the experts are a good number of urban designers and landscape architects. If you want to find out exactly who they are, click here.
WATCH: HS2 Is it worth it?
- New dream for Tijuana River: producing electricity: The San Diego Union Tribune
10.5-mile stretch of Tijuana River was transformed into a board concrete channel four decades ago when flood control and land development was an important objective. On this present day, proposed by two San Diego professors, there is an ambitious vision for the river channel to be transformed into a solar energy farm and for wastewater and run-off treatment using algae systems. Is this a realistic vision? They would first need permission from Mexico’s federal government and funding before going head with this.
- Design can reconnect us with Sacramento’s greatest asset: The river: The Sacramento Bee
The article highlights how many cities in the U.S. are rethinking their waterfronts in order to address major environmental challenges such as drought, flooding, pollution and heat island effect. Landscape Architect Kimberly Garza stresses that from an aging levee network to the environmental instability, there is a need in Sacramento to reassess the river as “ecological generator and part community connector. ” This is a fascinating read, which explores how small-scale designs along the river can combat the larger-scale issues. Creative solutions include an urban beach or canal streets that allow for urban kayaking. Related article: 10 awesome riverbank projects
- Why hanging out on a bench is good for you: The University of Sheffield
A new research published by the University of Sheffield and The Young Foundation has found that public benches are essential for improving mental health, battling issues such as isolation and loneliness, and social wellbeing, allowing people to connect with people in their community. The research disregards the idea that hanging out on public benches are a potential anti-social behavior and hence deliberately placing uncomfortable seating to dissuade a meeting should be discouraged. This puts a different spin on the design of public benches and essentially raises a question of how more people can be encouraged to use benches.
Stefano Boeri’s “bosco verticale” in Milan has been one of the most beautiful, radical and daring high-rise projects in the world to date. Now, the Italian Architect has been selected to build a 117-meter tall residential tower in Lausanne, Switzerland that bears similarities to the Vertical Forest in Milan. Commencing construction in 2017, the building will be home to more than 100 trees in the 3,000 square meters of greenery. WATCH: Trees in the sky – a vertical forest in Milan: Stefano BOERI at TEDxTirana
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