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(A gardener clipping hedges at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England. Photo by Anne Nellis. Source.) BusinessWeek on T. Boone Pickens, the "modern-day John D. Rockefeller" who "owns more water than any other individual in the U.S. and is looking to control even more. He hopes to sell the water he already has, some 65 billion gallons a year, to Dallas, transporting it over 250 miles, 11 counties, and a...
(A wooden artificial island on the coast of Spain. Photo courtesy of Vicente Guallart.) While we are still on the subject of coastal interventions, let us finally enter into the archives Vicente Guallart's wonderful microcoasts. Installed on a rough stretch of the Spanish coast in a state of "permanent revision," to use the architect's translated words, these terrestrial islands enable comfortable...
(A perspective view of a proposed Floyd Bennet Field park in Jamaica Bay, New York. Image by Ashley Kelly and Rikako Wakabayshi.) Mapping the Ecotone, Ashley Kelly and Rikako Wakabayashi's winning entry in the design competition Envisioning Gateway, is one of those things that we have been meaning to post for months. Having earlier attempted to communicate our fascination with coastal interventions...
(The fossilized remains of the Statue of Liberty and WTC towers. And some residual landscape and primordial clouds. From an unknown issue of The New York Times Magazine. Slightly larger version. See also, yet again: Pictorial Stones.)...
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