LANDSCAPE

Delancey Underground, also known as "Low- Line" will be the firstNew York subway park. While the Highline has everyone looking up,James Ramsey and Dan Barasch suggest people start lookingdown. The project recently launched a fund recuadación which is gaining attention and support internationally. More information below.



James Ramsey, an engineer turned architect , has developed a skylight with fiber optic technology to carry light and life to this forgotten deteriorated space beneath the streets of New York. It also makes use of one of the most ancient of New York: abandoned spaces. To carry out this project requires public funding and donations, so recently the project has launched a campaign Lowline ( Kickstarter Campaign) grant for a total revenue of $ 100.000 before April 6 with which the project will build a prototype for approval by the government.

The project aims to become a meeting place for safe and beautifulfor local residents and an attraction for the Lower East Side. The spokesmen admit that the project is still in conceptual and theoretical phase and the costs are now estimated. If the campaignreaches its goal Kickstarter will take the project one step furtherallowing for greater progress in the investigation of the site, its current condition and development of the prototype. Less than a month to the end and you can check the status of the ad campaignsin the following link. www.plataformaarquitectura.cl

Landscaping, Landscape Architecture magazine. We begin this edition 44 of Landscaping with High Line Park: a unique landscape, native vegetation and stunning rooms, projected onto the obsolete elevated railway that runs through the city of New York. Also we show the excellent work of adapting an old cetárea to a bathing area, inserted in a beautiful enclave of the Asturian coast, as well as Maselake Park in the Spandau district of Berlin, an abandoned industrial area which has been restored to configure an area of ​​sport and leisure along the banks of a canal. Other works selected for this issue have been the renewal of Can Mulà in the town of Mollet del Valles in Barcelona, ​​where a distinction is suggestive perimeter fence that integrates this green space in the city, and on the cover of Gary youth center Cormer, Chicago, creating an urban garden educational and exciting. Occupies our Spaces section Ricard Vines Square, a maze and a green door that pays homage to Lleida virtuoso pianist, and in the section on Private Spaces encourage you to you to know the garden of Concrete House II and the softer side of concrete as building material. A sea of ​​CDs, arranged on a Long Prairie Knoll Field, set an excellent artwork ephemeral lights filled the valley of England, and Section of Art and Nature, you will find seven warriors who remain undaunted stone in the environment Attacks rural field.The Report included a summary of the work of Fernando Chacel Brazilian landscape, based on EcoGenesis process, and do a tour Gardens Visiting visual, literary and informative, the gardens that have been filling the void of vacant places after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In section reveals green areas, from different points of view, the role of urban trees, and in the monograph give way to a study on the use of wood in outdoor spaces and their many contributions to urban design and the landscape.