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When buying an apartment building that already has occupants, carefully review their applications. Find out who their employers are as this can be very useful information. Certain companies are sure to experience difficulties along the way and you dont want to wind up purchasing an apartment building only to find many of your tenants will probably be laid off soon and unable to pay rent. Also find out how many tenants pay rent late and whether or not a fee is charged and paid when rent is not turned in on time. This will give you an idea of what to expect in your immediate future and will help you decide whether or not you should even make the purchase.

Sustainability is a term used often nowadays. It is used in the field of tourism, house construction, planning and a lot more. What is sustainability in the first place? Sustainability means the capacity to endure. It is something you plan for thinking about the long -term effects. Keeping this in mind, sustainable Landscape Design pertains to the balance of both the man-made and the natural elements. The Design is planned to keep the natural elements well maintained without letting the man-made materials get in the way. Sustainable Landscape development is now more active when it comes to real estate development. Due to the natural disasters being experienced by every country today, people now are more aware of the importance of taking care of the environment and having sustainability in everything they do. Even a space as small as a garden can and should practice sustainability.

In order to start a sustainable Landscape Design, you will need to find out the total of the area. This is needed so that the elements that will be put in can be well balanced. Landscaping maybe just a way of decorating for some but experienced Landscape artists and companies know for a fact that there is a science into it. Professional Landscape artists know the right number of plants to be placed in a particular amount of area so as not to deprive other plants of water and sunlight. They also know how to place tall plants with the small ones so every plant has the same amount of sunlight shone on it.

The good thing about sustainable Landscape service providers is that they use chemicals that are not harmful to the environment. Harmful chemicals might not only harm the plants in the long run, it may also cause diseases to the pets as well as the residents of the house. What a lot of sustainable Landscape artists use are natural elements in order to beautify the garden and keep its ecology in check. Pesticides with harmful ingredients are already a thing of the past, and every garden owner should be aware of this also.

If you have the budget to really go all in when it comes to sustainability in your backyard, you can go for solar panels. There are houses in the US that already use this technology. The power from the solar panels can power up the electric sprinkle, the decorative lights in the garden and even the motor for the fountain. Note that this option is only for the serious conservationist with enough money in their pocket since solar panels do not come in cheap.

The advent of sustainable Landscape Design paves the way for the construction of bigger projects such as a sustainable home, subdivision and even an entire community. It helps protect the homeowner as well as the environment. Not a lot of people are supporting this idea for now. Eventually, the number will grow as more and more individuals see the benefits of sustainable Landscape Designs.

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World’s Fairs have long been a celebration of human industry and invention, our Promethean spirit on display. Most World’s Fairs have a central architectural icon, a monumental masterpiece that embodies the ego, glory, and aspiration of the human spirit. Think of the Crystal Palace in London (1851), the Eiffel Tower in Paris (1889), or the Space Needle in Seattle (1962). The Expo Milan 2015 recently released the master plan for its worlds fair, themed “feeding the planet, energy for life.” The concept is stunning in its humility: monumental fragility.

Designed by architects Herzog de Meuron in collaboration with Mark Rylander, Ricky Burdett, Stefano Boeri, and William McDonough, the Expo Milan offers a “planetary botanical garden” that proposes to feed Milan, “literally, spiritually, and intellectually.” The architects created a flexible framework for the exposition, a tent city surrounded by a series of canals that serve as an agrofood park. The concept is based on the Roman plans that use twin axes (the cardo and the decumanus) with a central forum. A series of reusable shade sails is imposed on top of this geometry, a romantic gesture from antiquity. The scale of the tents will be breath taking—almost a mile of breeze and light-catching fabric arranged orthogonally throughout the Expo.

Water surrounds the site and creates a biofiltering wetland that also produces food. The canals will integrate into Milan, extending the benefits of the system beyond the site. The series of canals are a clever system that allows all countries equal frontage along the boulevards and water.

I’m entranced by this notion of monumental fragility. In this exposition, the human creative spirit will not be channeled into celebrating our own glory, but on creating the conditions for nature to show its efficiency, fecundity, and beauty. The challenge for these designers is how to execute real moments of fragility within this monumental framework. This requires understanding the site at the scale of the garden, an outdoor scale which architects often fumble. The other challenge will be how to balance the energy and waste of a building project of this scale with its environmental goals. Architect William McDonough has brilliantly executed the “cradle to grave” approach on other projects, so the project has the right design thinking to make this happen.

I am enchanted by this master plan. Road trip, anyone? Milan 2015.


Credits: All renderings by Herzog de Meuron. Summary of design based on text from http://arkhitekton.net/ and http://www.archdaily.com/.