![]() Today, it continues to be revered by architects and designers around the world for its fresh and unconventional approach. ![]() It was established by Peter Murray and Deyan Sudjic with the financial backing of leading architects and designers including Richard Rogers, Terence Conran and Rodney Fitch. Launched in 1983, Blueprint was the first magazine to cross the boundaries between design and architecture. At Blueprint we cast a critical eye over the whole story'. As editor Johnny Tucker says: 'Architecture, design and art is not created and does not exist in a vacuum, but is the sum of many factors from individual and group creativity to socio-economic influences. The magazine takes a strongly contextual approach to architecture, design and art. But its long-standing appeal is also due to the strong opinions and critical thinking, news and feature writing on design and architecture, directed at professionals and non-professionals, alike. “We’re in an aridifying climate and things will just continue to get drier.” Continue reading Farm To Water Table → By L.Blueprint Magazine has now been bringing its readers an essential mix of critical, incisive, and entertaining architecture, design and art coverage for 30 years.īlueprint is a premium bi-monthly, 260-page magazine, 80% of which is pure editorial lovingly produced in large format on the best quality paper, with photography and illustration of the highest standard. “This year was an exception to the rule,” says Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist and manager of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. But despite the soaking, the state continues to plan for a hotter, drier future, including ways to recharge parched aquifers. Massive, long-disappeared wetlands such as Tulare Lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley reemerged, and other parts of the valley were still underwater in late spring. ![]() Last winter, 31 atmospheric rivers drenched California after an extended drought, filling the state’s reservoirs to the brim for the first time in years and enabling the state’s two main surface water supply systems-which bring fresh water from the mountains to thirsty cities and farms via a complex network of reservoirs, canals, and pipes-to provide all of their promised water allocations. Photo by Ken James/California Department of Water Resources. By Lisa Owens Viani Orchards planted in the old Tulare Lake bed were flooded in atmospheric river storms. Mortice ChicagoĬalifornia repurposes farmland to save its water supply. Continue reading Claude Cormier: Step Down, Splash Down → By Z. (Confluence was preceded by another landscape architecture firm of record, Living Habitats, from the design development phase through construction documents.) Elsewhere in the Lakeshore East high-rise district, there’s a park by OJB and residential skyscrapers by Studio Gang and others, built atop parking and amenity podiums that hoist the developments over the lake. “The entire site was one giant hole,” says Matthew Strange, ASLA, a principal at Confluence, the landscape architect of record for the project. Photo by Jin He-Candido, ASLA.Ī few years ago, if you wanted to visit the site of Cascade Park in Chicago, designed by Claude Cormier + Associés (now CCxA), you’d find yourself near the shores of Lake Michigan at a 50-foot cliff overlooking a vacant pit bordered by a foreboding service road that led to the lakefront trail to the east. By Zach Mortice A zigzagging network of wide paved paths brings pedestrians and cyclists down to the lake. Claude Cormier + Associés and Confluence untangle a puzzle of wayfinding and stormwater management on a tricky site along Chicago’s lakeshore.
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