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via newyorker.com Link to the 8-page New Yorker article on the Lincoln Center Revson Fountain, designed by WET. It opened in 2009. Posted via web from Patty Lundeen Hume | Posterous

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If you were closely following the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games on Friday night/Saturday morning %u2014 you might have been taken back to the 2000 Sydney, Australia Summer Olympics, when the Aussie cauldron simply refused to climb a slope.A similar situation ensued tonight in Vancouver. To describe in words, the cauldron in completion …

via awearnessblog.com From the http://awarenessblog.com blog: In 1964, a few young blacks decided to take a dip in a whites-only pool at a whites-only hotel in St. Augustine, Florida. The hotel’s owner, James Brock, reacted by emptying jugs of hydrochloric acid into the water to expel the unwanted swimmers. This act of civil disobedience was [...]

via heidelberg.org “The Heidelberg Project, bearing the name of the street on which it exists, was started in 1986 by Tyree Guyton. He was assisted by his grandfather, Sam (Grandpa) Mackey (deceased), and his former wife, Karen Guyton. Tyree was raised on Heidelberg Street and, at the age …

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via melbournearchitects.blogspot.com Here is an interesting proposal to link hundreds of iPads together to make an extremely interactive wall. Click on link to see more. Posted via web from Patty Lundeen Hume | Posterous

via flavorwire.com Posted via web from Patty Lundeen Hume | Posterous Check out the gallery of incredible photos of iced over abandoned homes in Detroit. Click on the link above.

My friend Phuong Phan-McManamna sent me more photos, this time of the musical water feature at the Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton Harborside. Thanks again! It is fun to see these night shots. Originally the lights were all supposed to be white but the city maintenance crew added some colored filters for the holidays. I [...]

via environmentalgraffiti.com I just came across this post on http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com on Desert Oases. Some of the pictures are quite stunning… Posted via web from Patty’s posterous

I came across this great interactive MAP that let’s you zoom in on all the UNESCO World Heritage sites word wide. Try it out!

Last week I got back in touch with a classmate that I hadn’t seen since we were in high school together at Laurel School, in Cleveland. Phuong Phan-McManamna is now an architect and LEED AP in Seattle. She and her family now live in Bremerton, Washington and like to play at the Bremerton Harborside water [...]

See full post at apartmenttherapy.com. Luis Barragán is one of my favorite architects and the possibility that he may have designed this residential fountain in Los Angeles is really exciting. I came across this article in the LA Times Home and Garden section last year. I’d love to see it in person… More on Luis [...]

I visited Emscher Park, in Duisberg, Germany in May of 2000. Backpacking in Europe by myself,  I made a trip to Duisberg just to see the park.  I think it was only a year or two old at the time. Peter Latz, the landscape architect, was teaching at PENN at the time. I was going [...]

I took these photos of Villa d’Este in 2002, when I was in Italy for the Landscapes of Water conference in Barri. Villa d’Este, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a great hillside water estate, built between 1550-1572 in Tivoli, near Rome. The estate was commissioned by Cardinal d’Este. Pirro Ligorio and Alberto Galvari designed [...]

I love the Universidad de Venezuela. The campus is the masterpiece of architect Carlos Villanueva and in my opinion one of the most visually exciting campuses anywhere. Here are a few pictures from my visit in 2001. Not only is the landscape and architecture really exciting, he collaborated with a number of international artists at [...]

Here are a few pictures that I took at Parque del Este in Caracas in 2001. The park was designed by Roberto Burle Marx in 1956.

Michael Johansson – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS.

As many of you know, I worked for WET for seven years designing and master planning water features. We traveled all over the world and worked on many landmark projects with a team of talented people.  It is exciting and rewarding to work with water and to create experiences that touch so many people. Random [...]

It has been a long time coming. My new company, BREAKurban LLC is now officially legal! BREAKurban is a design studio focused on concept landscape, urban design and master planning for parks, public spaces, and entertainment venues. Last year, sitting in a cafe in Istanbul with Jonathan, I settled on a name for the company.  [...]

When I was little girl my Great Grandfather, Ed Lundeen Sr.,  was a retired architect in Bloomington, Illinois. He had Alzheimer’s by the time I was born but that didn’t stop him from pointing out buildings he had designed as we drove across town. He made me look at architecture and think about it at a [...]