sep 3, 2010

Read about Oyster-tecture in the New Yorker

Dept. of Clarification: Earl Versus the Oysters
by Samantha Henig / The New Yorker

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aug 23, 2010

WATERFRONT VISIONS is Published by NAI

w/ essays by Huib van der Werf, Kate Orff, Merijn Oudenampsen

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jul 26, 2010

Oyster-tecture featured in LA China

Landscape Architecture China
景观设计学 2010 No.3

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jul 26, 2010

Milstein Hall Construction Update

Check out progress on Cornell University's new Art Architecture and Planning building!

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Oyster-tecture featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle

mar 27, 2010

ARCHITECT DESIGNS UNDERWATER 'CITY OF OYSTERS FOR GOWANUS
By MIKE WEISS
Published: March 26, 2010

...while the digital screens and elaborate models of the other four teams filling the museum’s exhibition hall seemed very ambitious, there was something more down to earth and “do-able” about Orff’s design – reflecting a focus on the main character in her plan, the humble but underappreciated oyster.

“The oyster is an amazing creature,” Orff said.

...On a less-ambitious scale, Orff’s Oyster-Tecture project is something she thinks could actually be built and could start improving water quality and life in Brooklyn immediately.

“My goal is absolutely not conceptual, there’s nothing here that’s off the moon,” she said emphatically. “We could start tomorrow.”


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