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Xi’an Expo 2011: Master Botanist
By Rem / in shanghai / September 11, 2011Area: 1031 sq meters
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Design Theme: Expressive force of chinese rare species
Introduction: The Botanist Garden is designed by Eelco Hooftman, a leading figure at Edinburgh College of Art, chief designer of the renowned landscape design studio, Gross Max, -
Xi’an Expo 2011: Master Passages
By Rem / in shanghai / September 4, 2011Area: 1,001 sq meters
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Design Theme: Recombination of eternity and instant
Introduction: The Passages Garden is designed by Vladimir Sitta, a professor at the University of Western Australia and President of Terragram in Australia. -
Xi’an Expo 2011: Master Mountain Path
By Rem / in shanghai / September 3, 2011Area: 1,000 sq meters
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Design Theme: Being with Nature
Introduction: The Garden with a Labyrinth of Mountainous Paths is designed by Benedetta Tagliabue, one of the founders of the new and prominent Spanish architecture firm EMBT. Xi’an Horticultural Expo 2011: A Review
By Rem / in shanghai / September 2, 2011In early June I had the distinct opportunity and pleasure to visit one of the oldest and most historic cities in China: Xi’an. During the Tang Dynasty this city, once known as Chang’an, was host to the largest city in the world (81 square kilometers) housing 1 million people. While being such an extraordinary city subject to historically massive feats of engineering, it has in more recent years made attempts to attract a more modern audience to its layers of history, namely in this case, in the form of the Xi’an Horticultural Expo 2011.
Read more →On Mutation
By Rem / in post-thesis / August 21, 2011A few weeks ago I was looking for some image references for an industrially-inspired cooling pergola when I stumbled upon some great photos of industrial decay on Flickr. Most of these photographs were of mysterious machinery and other oddities lost to time, but a few them had plants fighting their way into these spaces. I had a sudden epiphany as to why I had never thought of my thesis, or at least the process of “stratified overgrowth”, as a mutation?
Read more →A Missive on Practice
By Rem / in shanghai / August 11, 2011My last post in January was edgy and raw but it sparked a deeper thought on expectations when leaving design school and a kind of search for the idealistic but engaged architectural practice. Granted, in China, this kind of practice may be practically non-existent due to the drive for profitability but at the very least I would like to see more motivated ambition and deliberately invested thought in design.
Read more →In Search for Design: Reflections on 4 1/2 Months in Shanghai
By Rem / in shanghai / January 7, 2011This marks my 50th post on Landline, and, as such, I find it fitting to make a critical list on what things I find unacceptable in landscape architecture practice... in China. Note that this is heav...
Read more →Of Crooked Lines and Glowy Things
By Rem / in shanghai / December 1, 2010To celebrate the seasonal occasion of glow-y lights, I'm going to post a whole slew of images from the Beijing Olympic Park when I visited there during National Week in October 2010, as well as images...
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Mind the Hilly Road
By Rem / in shanghai / November 30, 2010[caption id="attachment_612" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Looking out to Jingshan Park from the battlements of the Forbidden City"][/caption]Immediately following my visit to the Forbidd...
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Imperial Detail
By Rem / in shanghai / October 23, 2010This post is just a collection of images of some architectural details that I found intriguing while in the Forbidden City. (more…)
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