HARGREAVES in New Orleans

Went to check out the future site of this massive project in New Orleans going forward under the tutelage of Hargreaves and Associates. I don't have much information on it, except the project is about 4.5 miles along the Mississippi. It is utilizing old wharfs all the way from the lower Garden District through the Quarter, the Marigny and the Bywater to the Naval Yard. The program includes integration of the trolley line, bike paths and pedestrian walkovers. The large levee wall prevented too much investigation in the section where we were, but the view and location is primo. Its an exciting project for the city. They need to make sure its for the city first and not bow down to the tourist dollar.

URBAN PARK WET DREAM...Bayou Oaks Golf Course

NEW ORLEANS
Just got back from the big easy and came across this amazing potential for New Orleans that will never happen. In the middle of the city this golf course has been sitting since Katrina. We really enjoyed our time out there walking around, observing the activity in this emerging ecosystem. The plan is to restore it back into a golf course.....booooooooooo!!! The city of New Orleans could have a park that is absolutely unique. Instead they will choose the obvious, boring and unsustainable.

WPA 2.0

This is by my partner Jacob Lange and I, our entry for the WPA 2.0 competition out of UCLA this past fall. We didn't win, but learned tons about this sort of conceptual urban thinking.
(from the WPA 2.0 website)
We seek projects that consider and explore the value of infrastructure not merely as an engineering endeavor, but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize the city. Unlike the previous era, the next generation of such projects will require surgical integration into the existing urban fabric, and will work by intentionally linking systems of points, lines and landscapes, hybridizing economies with ecologies and over- lapping architecture with planning. These systems include but are not limited to parks, schools, open space, vehicle storage, sewers, roads, transportation, storm water, waste, food systems, recreation, local economies, ‘green’ infrastructure, fire prevention, markets, landfills, energy-generating facilities, cemeteries, and smart utilities.

the winner:


Nice graphics, interesting idea. The industrial canal in New Orleans, aside from being a busy shipping lane, has been the center of ship maintenance and repainting and jebus know what else for perhaps 200 years. Them waters must be thick with lead, heavy metals and carcinogens!

New Winter Compilation

THE HEAT is available, joints to get down chillins'! Download in two parts and put it on your listening device/medium of choice. ENJOY!

from_rapidshare
PART 1
PART 2

Seems that rapidshare_has_been a little busy of late, alternately the files can be downloaded from_Mediafire below

from_mediafire
PART 1
PART 2

Final Art X Project

Public video display....

Sine : Envisioning Space
exploring the morphology of place through vision and sound



2 min. edit



one full cycle, better quality