[1stPickSites] (11/07/06) Groundswell: Constructing Contemporary Landscape

Groundswell: Constructing Contemporary Landscape

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/groundswell/

Today's site, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, offers
an exhibit to display the new horizons of landscape design in old
spaces. Readers will discover a world-embracing view of how
modern landscape architecture is reordering blighted outdoor
urban space. 

"Nearly every significant landscape designed in recent years
occupies a site that has been reinvented and reclaimed from
obsolescence or
degradation as cities in the postindustrial era remake their
outdoor spaces. Groundswell portrays the surge of creativity in
the contemporary
created landscape by presenting a diverse selection of plazas,
public parks and urban sectors -- found throughout the United
States, Europe, Asia and the Middle east -- that have recently
been completed or are in the process of being realized.These
constructed landscapes illustrate many kinds of site, a
multivalent term that includes the physical properties of the
ground, its history, and the program for the new landscape." -
from the website

The site presents more than twenty projects, ranging from the
amazing design of Shell Petroleum's parking garage in France to
the "dramatic
transformation" of Crissy Field in San Francisco. A number of the
sites feature additional background information and photos, while
some are still in the design stage, illustrated with conceptual
renderings.

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