Quicker than we thought, Porta Park became a real New York City public park for a day at Park(ing) Day NYC 2008 this past Friday, September 19. We pulled into the city early, set up at 10th Avenue and West … Continue reading
The Porta Park debuted this past weekend at the 2008 Conflux Festival in Greenwich Village. We found a great parking spot for the first completed Porta Park unit right outside of the Center for Architecture where Conflux headquartered itself this … Continue reading
What a fantastic opportunity! I am pleased to announce that the city of Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has invited our project, 7,000 Evergreens to participate in the 2008-2009 Baltimore Sculpture Project show in downtown Baltimore.
Robert Fishman’s 1987 book, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbiaaddresses the monumental act of designing and planning for the planting of several thousand trees in the suburb of Riverside, Illinois: 7,000 evergreens, 32,000 deciduous trees, and 47,000 shrubs … Continue reading