Congratulations, Adriean!
If you have a chance, be sure to check out the December issue of ID Magazine. L+L contributor Adriean Koleric's Edith Mailbox has an nice, albeit slightly inaccurate, write up in the rag. Congrats, Adriean!
via ID — Furniture

Map fetish
Geoff may be my long lost evil twin... or maybe it's the other way around... in any case, he shares my fascination with maps (topographic and otherwise) and provides some amazing images and links.
via BLDGBLOG — Misc

Zen Garden Sink
Cast concrete sinks with a spot to grow your grass... or whatever... by Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau, Gau Designs & Concepts.
via Inhabitat — Landscape

Soy what?! SoyGuard®
A soybean oil based water repellant and wood sealer.
via Treehugger — Green

Imaging A Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate
"A beautiful, must-see photographic exposé of the catastrophic results of human engineering on earth," at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery in Rochester, Michigan (near Detroit).
via Archinect — Art

Gardener on the Roof
Ask Umbra: a living roof for your garage? Some basics.
via Grist — Green

Tanks for the Memory
Lynn Becker Mayor delves into the Chicago architectural competition to repurpose its historic water tanks.
via Repeat — Misc

Holl's Water Plant
Architecture, infrastructure and landscape meet: a Connecticut water treatment plant designed by Steven Holl's with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.
via NY Times — Misc

Gardens Designed for Space and Time. Especially Time.
Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf profiled. "Oudolf is among a cohort of leading designers who bring something novel to garden-making in the 21st century: a deep knowledge of plants."
via Washington Post — Misc

iPod compatible bed
An iPod dock and Bose speakers. Built into your bed. Oh my.
via Gizmodo — Misc

Woven Interiors
A home interior replicated by artis Do-Ho Suh, except he did it using translucent nylon.
via BLDGBLOG — Misc

MIOculture Bendant Lamp
A unique idea for lighting. A flat-pack shade made from laser-cut flexibile steel that is easily bent allowing you to give it your own personal style.
via Inhabitat — Misc

Glowing Places
A concept from an investigation into innovative ways for people to interact with light in public spaces. The plastic seating, embedded with LED (light-emitting diode) strips and sensors, measure the presence of people over time.
via Design*Sponge — Misc

Design - online archives
A digitized record of Design journal (a British government sponsored publication) for the years 1965 to 1974. A fascinating way to avoid actually working... hey, it's educational, right?
via Things — Misc

An artist with plants
Hazel White remembers Berkeley, California landscape designer Suzanne Porter who "was a really good artist, and also a great garden builder" and provides a list of the favorite plants in her palette.
via SF Gate — Misc

Compostmodern Design Conference
A one-day conference pivoting around the role of graphic and industrial design in creating sustainable societies. San Francisco: Saturday, January 21, 2006.
via Treehugger — Misc

A green 'tree house'
The Sydney Morning Herald pays a visit to the home of husband and wife green architecture team Rod Simpson and Andrea Wilson. Simpson Wilson Architects is based in Greenwich, Australia.
via SMH — Misc

Wildflower Meadow Glacier
An autonomous robotic sculpture that plants flowers and monitors local climate change and CO2 levels. The robot is a prototype for a large sculpture idealized for Central Park's Wildflower Meadow.
via w-m-m-n-a — Misc

MARK: Another architecture magazine
The publishers of Frame have launched a new (pricey) architecture magazine.
via Reluct — Misc

Suburban earthworks
Some amazing photography of the creation of housing developments from a series called "Suburbia" (2002) by Sergio Belinchón, and Geoff's usual thoughtful accompanying commentary.
via BLDGBLOG — Misc

Dr. Evil's Lair Evolves
"Thanks to associations with technological authoritarianism, modernism earns a bad rap. But look around: The future turned out worse than the modernists predicted."
via Wired — Misc

Halprin's FDR Memorial
The Washington Times features a nice overview of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, FASLA.
via The Dirt — Misc

For sale: Kozely/Farmer Residence in Venice, CA
We saw the Kozely/Farmer Residence (designed by Sant Architects with landscape by Jay Griffith) on the CA Boom II home tour last July. Listed at $1,995,000 for 1,700 sq. ft... say whaaaaaaaa?!
via Curbed — Misc

Prosthetics for wounded furniture
French designers 5.5 provide a whole new way for designers to think green.
via Moco Loco — Misc

Mississippi Wal-Marts may apply 'new urbanism' in rebuilding
On one level bizarre, yet on another inevitable, Wal-Mart is toying with various urban/new-urban/pseudo-urban formats.
via USA Today — Misc

Tastemakers: Architecture
Forbes tries to identify ten architects who are most influencing the American landscape... gotta admit that I found this article to be pretty damn boring, but here it is none the less.
via Forbes — Misc

Simons Sauna
A nice small project by Finnish architects Heikkinen-Komonen.
via Archidose — Misc

Remember the de Young?
Now that the media storm has calmed down, Arcspace features Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum in San Francisco.
via Arcspace — Misc

More green... roofs that is
Green roofs has been a recurring topic on Land+Living. If, like us, you just can't get enough, World Changing has a post dedicated to green roofs with images and links.
via WorldChanging — Misc

150 Examples of Sustainability
Re-f-use is a design exhibition on sustainable product design currently touring Europe.
via Core77 — Misc