Category: green roofs
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Urban Ag: The Pulse
It’s been a while since I’ve done a significant post on urban agriculture. This is somewhat purposeful – for one everywhere you look the topic has caught fire. A quick summary shows recent articles in the LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, American City, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe & Mail, Granville, Dwell, Slate…
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Veg.itecture #32
Time for another installment, and no slowing down of the Veg.itectural trend. As this phenomenon evolves it will be continually interesting to see the differences between the imagery that is presented in concept – and the actual project build-outs for these vegetated architectural creations. Starting with a recent post from my new favorite site, Arch…
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Veg.Arch Daily
Definitely take some time to check out a new(?) blog [at least to me] ArchDaily – with rich content related to Architecture with some really great features – including many, many pictures. I’ve had only a chance to take a peek (and look at another ranking of ‘Architecture’ sites – which I’m again pissed not…
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Wave Cloud Tree Zoo
Not random word association, Wave Cloud Tree Zoo is one of three finalists in a competition for the NY Aquarium at Coney Island. The collaboration between WRT & Cloud 9 Architecture (along with a host of others) envisions a verdant and sinuous waterfront… :: image via Wave Cloud Tree Zoo Here’s a project description with…
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Namba Parks
It’s funny those particular projects that fly under the radar, even when you are looking straight at them. Treehugger has a case in point, from a post on Green Roofs in Osaka, particularly with the Namba Parks project. :: image via Treehugger Built in 2003, “Jerde Partnership Architects “conceived Namba Parks as a large park,…
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A Panopoly of Green Roofs
I heard recently of a conversation where one person said that green roofs are dead. I’m guessing the person that said this either had tongue planted firmly in cheek, or was sadly misinformed. Our awe and excitement has transformed itself into innovation and adoption on a wide scale. While living walls are definitely the vegitectural…
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Veg.itecture #31
As I mentioned, there’s been a lot of activity – and now that the roots of Vegitecture have been illuminated… let’s see how these buildings are dressing themselves… lots of great examples. An interesting article beyond this photo, from the NY Times article ‘I’m the Designer. My Client’s the Autocrat.’ which looks into the trend…
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SillyPads
Wow – this one has exploded in the past few weeks. I refer you to LilyPads by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. I was planning on including it in the last version of Veg.itecture #30 – but it seems as if this needs some of it’s own space to breathe. This project has been everywhere, and has…
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Go On Safari – Green Roof Style
This intriguing post came via Treehugger, about a new series of tours with the witty Green Roof Safari moniker. Ok, we’re probably not going to encounter lions or other megafauna while atop green roofs in Germany and Switzerland, but the ability to interact with this habitat – sounds great. Tours are going in September on…
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Revisiting the High Line
Continuing the coverage of NYC’s High Line project, which has been featured in detail here, and minimally here, as well as a study of one of the precedents in France here… Curbed has a multi–part feature showing the project evolving from idea, with some new renderings of Phase II. I’m trying to track down some…