Category: green roofs
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Veg.itecture #20
The schedule at work is heating up with some great projects getting rolling, so the weekend has become the de facto time to compile and sort all of the weeks great projects from the ether. Today is a compilation of the latest Veg.itecture additions. The first project is the Aberdeen Arts Centre by Brisac Gonzalez…
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Vertical Farming: In Depth
I have a fascination with Urban Agriculture, more recently so due to the strategies that are being considered for implementation that either maximizes production per land acre, or maximizes the amount of acres used in the City for ephemeral or permanent farm operations. A recent post by WebUrbanist, ‘5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City…
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Veg.itecture: #19
aka. The Pooktre Vegitectural Prize AwardedWell, all the lobbying for Jean Nouvel as one of the pre-emininent Veg.itects of our time has paid off with the recent announcement that he was recently awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008. While not as prestigious as aforementioned PVP, congrats are in order all the same. :: image…
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Green Roof in a Box?
No it’s not the new SNL Digital Short with JT, but a rant about the commercialization of green rooftops. I usually don’t mince words about ‘packaged’ vegetated systems and my disdain for them as a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s not that I don’t think there’s value in the marketplace for an easier to implement solution. I…
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Veg.itecture #18
A significant number of Vegetated Architecture examples with facade and rooftop greening strategies. I hope no one suffers from sensory overload with this weekends dual Veg.itecture posts, so without further ado, the projects:I spotted this project by Veg.itect Jean Nouvel via Dezain for the “Building C1” in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and it was a pretty interesting…
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Local Color: Portland
Ah, I do spend time looking around the world for precedents and interesting projects. There is no shortage of amazing innovation and imagery around the globe and the web. Sometimes I forget to look in my own backyard (so to speak). I’ve previously picked up on some great coverage of a few GreenWorks projects, as…
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Veg.itecture @ 16
I may have finally tapped out the well in creative titles for Vegetated Architecture. A few times warrant some more significant coverage of one project, but for the most part the groups are a someone random assortment of projects that are given a little thread of narrative to tie them loosely together. There have been…
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From the Rooftop: Varietals
Along with walls, rooftops are the logical frontier of landscape intervention, and although many terms are thrown around to both tantalize and confuse the novice and expert alike. For instance, you will notice my own use of the terms ‘ecoroof’ and ‘green roof’ almost interchangably. In my mind they are the same, although ‘eco-‘ is…
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Veg.itecture: Photo Gallery 2
After spending a solid 12 hour day up and back to Seattle, I’m ready for a quick and easy post. Following up on my recent combing through of the backlog of Inhabitat links, which unearthed a bevy of great stuff related to Vegetated Architecture and more, with more to come. This reminded me that a…
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Sharp & Diamond: Veg.itect
In a twist of singling out architects in the Vegetated Architecture realm, a profile of a landscape architecture firm that is pioneering the use of vertical greening techniques. The Vancouver firm Sharp & Diamond have been developing a number of North American examples, which is in dire need of good examples. I’ve been familiar with…