Sitephocus November 09 update...

It's been busy of late and didn't realize I missed throwing images of the October update Los Angeles onto the blog. You can check those out on our Flickr page here. November's update is courtesy of Brian and his trip to Barcelona. Next month look for photos from New Town at St. Charles TND near St. Louis.


Miscellaneous street/alley with retail
Parc del Centre del Poblenou plaza
Parc del Centre del Poblenou bike rack (we think)
Parc del Centre del Poblenou trees trained into a series of arbors
Biomedical Research Park (Parc Recerca Biomedica) courtyard

Bicing bike sharing system
Fountain at the Hotel Arts
Waterfront promenade at Carrer de Marina
Mixed use building featuring heavily planted balconies (featured on Veg.itecture)
Torre de Gas Natural headquarters

Sitephocus August 09 update...

Our update of Copenhagen Part II went live last week. Check out the update here and some samples are included below....


Christianshavn Kanal

Amaliehaven


Amalienborg Palace
Frederiks Church

Danish Royal Library

Kongens Nytorv - Plaza with cafe and outdoor dining

Copenhagen Opera House


Frederiksberg Have


Islands Brygge
Miscellaneous Copenhagen - waterfront promenade

The Frosilo - adaptive reuse of former silo structures

Norrebro Cykelrute - greenway/ pedestrian suspension bridge

Slotsholmen

Miscellaneous Copenhagen - cyclists

LA_great public spaces...

Thanks to Curbed LA for catching Brian's tweet about looking for sites to photograph on his trip to LA this weekend. Know anything we should be on the lookout for, let us know!

Sitephocus July 09 Update...

Sitephocus' July update went live earlier in the week with photos from Brian's recent trip to Copenhagen and Barcelona. This month's phocus was the first installment of Copenhagen. More next month. Below is a sampling of the overall update....

Inner Norrebro





Canal Village (Sluseholmen)

Inderhavnen

Miscellaneous Copenhagen


Kastellet
Nordhavnen

Nyhavn

Orstedsparken

Orestad City

Rosenborg Have


Stroget and Latin Quarters

Sitephocus June 09 update

Sitephocus has uploaded our June update featuring Chicago and Denver. A sample of photos are below with some descriptions. Check here for the full update page and list of sites.

Riverfront Park, Denver



Northfield Stapleton lifestyle center
Townhomes at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lodo, Denver.

South Loop Power Center, Chicago

Another South Loop Power Center, Chicago. I think the Whole Foods is LEED Gold. Context within the overall development must not have mattered as even though the project is near downtown, it's completely auto-centric.

Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus.
Recently completed Nichols Bridgeway by Renzo Piano, linking Millennium Park with the Modern Wing addition at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Some seasonal update shots of the Lurie Garden from spring of this year and fall of last year.


Crown Fountain, Millennium Park

Cloud Gate, aka The Bean, Millennium Park
Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago by Renzo Piano.

Allium planting at the Art Institute's gardens
Lakeshore East Park birdseye view and fountain detail


Aqua high-rise condo development at Lakeshore East
Buckingham fountain panoramic in Grant Park

March '09 Update - San Francisco II

We've uploaded our most recent update highlighting more of San Francisco. Sites include Golden Gate Park with the California Academy of Sciences and DeYoung Museum, Embarcadero Plaza, Mission Creek Park, and the San Francisco Bay Trail, plus many more. Images from a few of the various sites are below.


California Academy of Sciences - Green roof


DeYoung Museum



Embarcadero - Streetcar and station


Golden Gate Bridge


Mission Creek Park - boardwalk and bioswale


San Francisco Bay Trail


Low-rise Density

Arounder - Panoramic City Tours

A contact on Facebook recently listed Arounder in one of their status updates and thought it might be useful. Developed more from a tourist viewpoint, Arounder:

gives travelers a vivid sense of what a city has to offer: historical cathedrals and works of art, museums featuring famous artists, local cafes and stores, breathtaking mountain-top views, quiet parks and gardens.

The panoramas feature mostly European sites and cities, with only Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah and Hawaii covered in the US. In addition to exterior spaces, they also provide a interior views of well-known structures.

Sitephocus photos as a Planning resource....

Courtesy Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County Planning Commission (see link below for full resolution file)

Sitephocus images have recently been used for building massing, setbacks, and parking location studies by the Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County Planning Commission (Nashville, TN). The images were used as a part of the community visioning process to provide built examples as a point of reference for discussion with the public.

Building Height

Building Setback

Parking Location

Profile on Land8lounge

I was recently profiled as a Featured Member on Land8lounge, a social networking site for Landscape Architects. Check out the blog post by Adam Arvidson of Treeline, a freelance writer and landscape architect from the Minneapolis area.

Starting up a new website is hard, especially when you’re trying to create a niche that wasn’t there before -- and are hoping to make a little money, too. Chris Whitis, along with partner Brian Phelps, has spent most of his free time over the past few years doing just that. Sitephocus.com is a searchable image database of the built environment. It has tens of thousands of high-resolution photos ready for download. It is, in a word, voluminous. Because sitephocus was specifically created for design professionals, the images are of things we actually want to see: streetscapes, rain gardens, bollards, paving patterns, etc. But the hordes haven’t exactly come running, and ASLA has seen the site as a potential advertiser, rather than a good resource created by its members for its members.

There's more info from the Q&A about www.sitephocus.com and what sparked the idea. If you're a landscape architect, designer, or interested in landscape architecture, be sure to check out Land8lounge.

Chris