Category: green roofs
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Hundertwasser
The Austrian Artist Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser is not a household name in either architecture, art, or landscape – but his contributions to all of these disciplines – and dare I say a unique brand of Vegitecture – is worth a look. L+U had a previous post that showed one of his most known works…
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Carabanchel, Oliver, Hanamidori
These are some of those Veg.itectural projects that deserve a bit of their own space. I was struck by the similarities between the projects as well as to some of the stellar precedents and really wanted to showcase some of the beauty of these vegetated rooftops on their own. 1. CarabanchelNamed after a neighborhood in…
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Veg.itecture #38
Time again for a compilation of the best Vegetated Architecture floating about in the ether. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything, so there is a fair amount in the hopper – so onward. One from McDonough + Partners – the Isola Office building in Milan, Italy. The design, via Inhabitat, has…
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What I did on my Summer Vacation – Pt.2
Again, I have a lull due to the joy of taking a bit of time off and visiting family… For round two of my summer break, I have recently returned from a trip to North Dakota to visit my dad. Starting in Minot, and traveling a good portion of the state over four days along…
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Veg.itecture #37
About time to purge the bursting folders of Vegetated Architecture projects that have been zooming through the blogosphere lately. As well a few resources, include this [cringe] DIY Guide to Green and Living Roofs as well as good overview post on the ‘Arbortectural’ via Design Under Sky. Overall, a wide range of types and scales…
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Sky Vegetables
Have you noticed sometimes how you have to spend a good amount of time squeezing the smallest bits of information out of some sites…? I’m not sure how this is. One example of this is the site for Sky Vegetables, and the companion blog site which seems nigh impossible to extract even the slightest bit…
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Digging in with SO-IL
This one caught my attention today by combining the love of urban agriculture and rooftop gardening in one visually stimulating package. Spotted via Dezeen: “Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City.” :: images…
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NYC Rooftops
A photo stream from Bill Badrick (a local architect/illustrator whose cartoony drawings of visionary bridges in Portland has been featured on L+U a few times) entitled Rich People Rooftops NYC… some nice stuff here. Enjoy… and thanks for the link Bill. :: images via Flickr – jwilly
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Water Worlds
A range of projects featuring water not just as a theme, but a major design element… very disparate in scale and application, but with that common hydrological thread. For starters, one of the typologies of green roofs, discussed previously on L+U, is the concept of ‘blue roofs’ – which use water to provide cooling atop…
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Ten Books on Veg.itecture
A recent office desk move (and slogging multiple boxes of books in my personal library) made me think, that although I do an occasional review of books periodically – it would behoove me to summarize some of the classic tomes that define some of the key themes on the blog. While I intend to continue…