Symmetry in landscapes

I was just walking towards the city when i noticed this elegant hedge winding along the pathway and thought to share it.

It’s quite beautiful to notice the effort people work on their landscapes, that this effort is acknowledged and respected. Well, at least I’d think that everybody who walks past this point see’s the effort and understands somebody’s pride in creating out of the control over nature, which a hedge of this type is. It’s something that could of been left to grow wild and untamed, but in this case it is controlled and set in place, formalised and clear.

Placefocus: Urban Design Acreditation

I think that the accreditation process is important as it creates a level playing field. In terms of understanding, it creates the key needs required. I could imagine that their would be key core competencies that could be met, ones that are shared. In Landscape Urbanism, it is the power of the landscape over the buildings that are the focus of creating places from spaces. Can creating a structure stifle the bureaucratic nature of the future development of a field that is emerging, but also potentially threatening the control of Architects, Landscape Architects and Town Planners.

To view the Placefocus article: http://goo.gl/Gd84m

Half of the Architectural Story

I've been looking at a lot of sketches by Architects of late and I've come to a few conclusions.

1. Are buildings just modernest caves?

2. If the scale between buildings and their surrounds match, they look natural.

3. The spaces between, most commonly called negative space is called that because it doesn't have a positive building there.

Which really is only half of the story of peoples lives, as they don't just exist in a building but also in the community outside. As an urban designer, we try to meld and appreciate the other half of the story. A story that is hardly ever seen or noted and glorified as Architecture is.