Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

Example of architectural rendering

Minneapolis visit

Many of you may of heard that I went on a trip to Minneapolis Minnesota on a business trip and stayed a couple of days to check out the city. The business part was to attend the BEST 1 conference on building envelope science and technology. I heard some great speakers and attended some interesting sessions. There were also a lot of sessions with little or no interest and very poor presentation skills. It was worth it and I got some very interesting elements out of it.

Below are some pictures of the city of Minneapolis and my trip:




Minneapolis sculpture garden

Me at the Minneapolis sculpture garden
Chuck Close
Famous artists at Minneapolis institute of art
Walker art museum (Modern Art)

Minneapolis institute of art

I thought that the Minneapolis institute of art was a much greater value than the Walker art museum and a better show all together. The museum was packed with historic and cultural artifacts as well as transformative works over the years. The Walker Museum of Art was just modern works and all very transitional. They have a feeling of being famous and notorious as apposed to beautiful or meaningful. That was my impression anyways. I would defenitely spend a day at MIA and the Walker was worth the visit because of the sculpture garden outside.

Thanks,

Nathan

Drawings in the design process

These drawings are from a recient project where I designed the recladding of a potential condominium project near Seattle. I did the envelope design and I am starting on the landscape design. This is a small scale commercial project with 4 buildings, but it will be a great addition to my portfolio when finished.

Landscape Art

Landscape design for a single family home in the Freemont neighborhood of Seattle.

The client was inspired by Japanese design elements but didn't want a full Japanese garden so I created what I like to call a Pan-Asian landscape.

I am potentially getting a new landscape design project in Mercer Island starting tomorrow. This project is a multifamily condo conversion and is going to be a quality but reasonable priced project. My design needs to incorporate pervious and impervious surface calculations give a spacious quality feeling without causing added run off. I will post pictures of the project tomorrow.

Later,

Nathan

Landscape design drawings

These working drawings were created for a single family residence around 2003-4. This design uses a trellis and planting to create a secret garden in the front yard.