Brandywine, Green Zebras, and German Queens

With spring on the horizon and the grass in my backyard finally being revealed from the 5 feet of snow that has covered it for the last 3 months, it’s time to start my heirloom tomatoes!  What are heirloom tomatoes you ask?  They are the beautiful, multi-colored, and generally expensive tomatoes sold in [...]

URBN Hotel in Shanghai: Sustainability within Architecture

A00 architecture designed a unique boutique hotel in Shanghai called URBN Hotel that is on the leading edge with their sustainable design philosophy. URBN Hotel in Shanghai is the first of many sustainable hotels that A00 is looking at designing in China. The hotel is the first carbon-neutral hotel in China where the [...]

Remembering Why I Ski

I started Nordic skiing again six years ago for the same reasons that I quit as a fifth grader; It’s hard, it’s inexpensive, it’s not “cool” and my parents thought I could be good at it.

I attribute my renewed love for skiing to my discovery of Spring Gulch, a 19 km [...]

Sustainability in the Beijing Olympic Forest Park

Professor Hu Jie of Tsinghua University in Beijing was interviewed recently regarding his design philosophy for landscape architecture. Professor Hu Jie is also the Lead Designer teamed with Sasaki to design the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. He talks about sustainability within the landscape and the role of landscape architecture in the urban [...]

Engineering Feats

Engineers, love them or hate them, are important to what we do in the various design professions.

Our society puts a good deal of trust in engineers. They have, in my opinion, been put into the de facto risk management and safety role for a lot of projects. When I walk past [...]

 
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