High and Tight

Heatherwick's Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai Expo was architecturally unreal. Poised to school visitors eager to learn of the Royal Botanical Garden Millennium Seedbank, the structure was sown with 60,000 transparent optical plugs. Each plug then had a seed planted at it's root tip. From the interior, light filters through this punctuated seed library and from the exterior, there's a rolling landscape brush cut for passive recreation.

London Bridge

I'm loving this Northwest London footbridge. Members of the shoe leather express must be positively soft-shoeing over the beautility of Heatherwick's engineered feat.

Ideas Worth Sharing

www.ted.com has replaced the ambient drawl of Yellow Ledbetter types which typically stream through my kitchen. The premise of the website is "Ideas Worth Sharing". I dialed it up and selected Architecture/Landscape Architecture from the search menu as my "theme". With the gracious bandwidth of it's cerebral content, I felt as if I had returned to the crimson halls of college.
Delivered by leaders of the profession, I was connected with a syllabus of lectures to refreshingly audit. I started with Daniel Libeskind's lecture on "17 Words of Architectural Inspiration" and then enjoyed Thomas Heatherwick's chat "Building The Seed Cathedral"(my latest crush).
Fantastic.