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Posted in design principles, tagged video, vimeo on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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I Love the Mud
Posted in nature, tagged mud on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Great things show up looking down at the ground, ]
A Tale of Two Levels (cont.)
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, sectional drawings, steps, stuff, terrace on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
So here is an earlier drawing where I was looking at the possibilities from head-on; that is, from a person looking from the lower level.
I liked this look . . . but wasn’t sure if it was working. Then after I was done scribbling this I noticed that the wall heights were really 3 levels!. [...]
A Tale of Two Levels
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, renderings, sectional drawings, tagged Add new tag, ink sketch on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ A ink line drawing, for me this one one of many concept sketches of the area. ]
Possible solution for some student seating between two apartment buildings for upper level and graduate students. The newer apartments off to the left are about 4.0ft higher than the existing apartments to the right.
The Task
I was asked to [...]
Setting Landscape Boulders
Posted in Ascension, stone, tagged 100 ton crane, boulders, landscape boulders on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s one from the “old file” showing a 100 ton crane after a days work of setting some large stone boulders. Uh, of course they’re stone-they’re boulders.
This was back in Columbia, SC in the late 1990’s built into an embankment, the idea was too look like a tumbling waterfall cascading down this hillside.
The shelfs have [...]
From the Sketchbook (5)
Posted in stuff on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Does this remind anyone of someone? ]
That certainly sound like a cryptic question but if you’ve done it you’ll know right away-I think.
I had just received some COPIC sketch markers and wanted to give them a try. I really like their vividness and how the colors seem to jump from the page.
If you do [...]
Vases in the Garden
Posted in design principles, gardendesign, hardscape design, landscape design, tagged Andrew Jackson Downing, pedestals, plinths, urns, vases on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I was hit with another one of those ah-ha thunderbolts. It was like “well hell yeah I knew that, but I had just never said that out loud”.
A statement so clear in vision, so simple in design, so darn obvious in execution:
“A vase should never, in the open air, be set down upon the [...]
Holmes on Homes(2)
Posted in Associations, design principles, tagged Holmes on Homes, Mike Holmes, TV shows on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mike Holmes hits the nail on the head; again, so to speak. Friday nights episode “Semi Dilemma”(04/11) on Discovery Home(DTV286) was a great one for me because there were some good “Holmesism’s”(I just made up this word).
We(viewers of the show) are all familiar with lines like:
“Bring it all down”
“Unbelievable”
“Okay, tear it all down”
my favorite,
“This is [...]
Long Ago Design(1)
Posted in stuff, tagged landscape study, Tudor style house on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Drawing shows a "new" patio on an English style Tudor house.]
This is an older plan view, from around 2002-early 2003. I just can’t remember the exact time. The idea was to match up some stone patio and columns to match up with one of those Tudor style houses.
An aside this landscape study and following [...]
Fireplace Possibility (6)
Posted in Associations, design principles, stone, tagged fireplace, fireplaces, rumford-fireplace on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Okay, after some back and forth, looking at this design, then taking a look at another design, or four-we have come to a consensus. And a very good consensus it is.
Here it is.
[ The winner, after much discussion, I hope this will be a Rumford designed fireplace.]
The Particulars:
The rustic angles at the edges the arched [...]
Bartholomäus Tulip
Posted in color rendering, nature, tagged botanical illustrations, watercolor on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I really appreciate finding great watercolors of good looking botanicals. The tulip below is a fine example of this style of painting. The artist is a fellow named Johann Bartholomaus Braun.
Found in an album of 190 watercolour illustrations, entitled ‘Flora Picta’ ca1660. Apparently this is part of a large study documenting the garden of the [...]
An Appreciation of Stone (39)
Posted in plant material, stone on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[ Somewhere in SE Ohio. ]
From the Sketchbook (4)
Posted in hardscape design, renderings, sketchbook, tagged pergola-design on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
[ Columns, posts, supports for pergolas. ]
Just some doodles out of the sketchbook. I seem to spend a lot of time considering pergola details these days.
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Addendum: 1st post with the new WordPress dashboard. it sure is different and will take some getting used to. I did like the image upload, but it had space for [...]
Design Process (2)
Posted in design principles, drawings, hardscape design, renderings, sectional drawings, steps, tagged rendering-people on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I’m thinking about steps and people, people and steps . . . . . .
[ Like I said, people and steps. ]
Question’s
Where does the landing(s) g0?
Where does the plaza go?
Where do the seat walls go? At which levels?
Tree’s? Shrubs? Trees and shrubs?
Brick? Block? Brick and Stone?
Nothing better than people and steps, steps and people [...]
Parkinson’s Disease and the Landscape Industry
Posted in Associations, tagged herbicides, insecticides, parkinsons on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Apparently this is not the 1st study to link the use of pesticides and insecticides to our industry(I’ve seen a blurb/snippet here and there). This new information comes from Bio-Med Central a open access site of peer reviewed journals.
I 1st came across this story on LandscapeOnline where theyhad a short story about the published findings. [...]
Are There the “Worst of the Worst Landscapes”?
Posted in design principles, hardscape design, landscape architecture, landscape design on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bill over at the Giant Duck Institute has suggested an idea
You’ve hit on the idea for a post to rival “Trees We Do Not Like”. Perhaps you could call it…
“Landscape Travesties” or “Landscape Infractions”. Picture submittal s of unfortunate landscape projects perpetrated by the uninitiated. I could start you off with a few.
I think [...]
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