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We don’t generally write about DHM Design on the blog, but today is different. Today we are celebrating the life of Bud Simon, who lost his battle to cancer last week. Bud was a Principal with DHM and his career with the firm spanned over thirty years. His legacy of work was remarkable in its [...] Cork: Versatile and Renewable I don’t think we appreciate cork enough. It is an amazing material: light, impermeable to gasses and liquids, elastic, compressible, fireproof, and resistant to abrasion. It is already used to make a wide variety of products including insulation, furniture, floors, walls, and shoes, but with a little imagination, it could [...] These sketches are from personal sketch books of Stanley H. White (1891-1979). They were given to me by his daughter, Jan White. Stanley was a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois from 1922-1959 where he taught Hideo Sasaki, Stuart Dawson, Peter Walker, and Richard Haag among others. He moved his [...] The concept of freeride mountain biking and bmx dirt jumping has long existed in the fringes of the bike riding community… in secret backwoods spots, or on ‘rogue’ trails cut through forested mountain slopes… you really had to know someone who knew someone to even find out about a dirt jump location or [...] The blog entry that Anne recently posted on stone reminded me of a contemporary project that I admire for both its use of stone and for its design intent. Tear Drop Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates is a 1.8 acre public park located in New York City’s Battery Park. Many of you [...] |
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