Category: green roofs
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Veg.itecture: Defining Moments
Vegetated Architecture (aka Veg.itecture, VegArch, Building/Landscape Fusion) is a common theme on L+U. The working definition of this fusion of architecture and landscape has been swirling around in the back of my brain for some time, and I thought it appropriate to give some further definition of what this is. :: Terreform Treehouse – image…
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Project Promotion, via others
A marketing philosophy I struggle with is the concept of self-promotion (ok, not really). Doing good work and telling the world about it is a natural reaction. It’s easier when others beat you to the punch. Jetson Green seems clued into the great work of the firm which I love (and in the spirit of…
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Veg.itecture: Photo Gallery
A few project photos, via the Archinect Image Gallery (a great resource of building-related images). Definitely more to come as there are a LOT of images to go through. Enjoy! :: House, 2005 – by Jan Kempenaers :: Palisades Concrete Pier House :: De Young Museum :: Nicolas G.Hayek Center — (featured previously on L+U)…
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Urban Ag: Sans Dirt
The need for food production in urban areas is challenged by one significant barrier: lack of land. In this version of Urban Agriculture, we explore three methods for solving this dilemma by using interiors and exteriors of building in inventive ways. Kicking off is a local example of rooftop agriculture. The Rocket, a slim addition…
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Veg.itecture: Small(er)-Scale
This Swiss RE Office Building by BRT Arkitekten in Germany (the same company that formerly owned Foster’s Gherkin Building in London) featured on this weeks eye candy… the building dates from 2001, but is stunning with an vegetated extension of the facade created via climbing vines and screen panels. I love the way there is…
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Veg.itecture: Super Sized
The next in a continual series of Vegetated Architecture, including some large scale examples from Pittsburgh, Singapore, Moscow, and Paris. From Inhabitat: “Architect Vincent Callebaut’s latest project balances public galleries, meeting rooms and gathering spaces over canals and abandoned railroad tracks in the 19th Parisian district. The prototype uses green technologies and techniques but is…
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Veg.itecture: New Additions
A visual tour of some of the latest in Vegetated Architecture. From the wonderful to the integrated to the sophmoric – the ideas are flowing and the concept is here to stay. A few recent projects: In todays readings, from Archidose, the amazing pioneer of vertical greening, Patrick Blanc is at it again, creating a…
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Vegetated Architecture
New terms, or juxtaposition of terms, continually occur in the design dialogue. Sometimes these provide language for describing something new – a technology, process or approach. Other times, this language provides a new use of terms that gives resonance for a fresh approach to something old. Terms like living buildings, civic ecology, living architecture, natural…