Category: green roofs
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Avian Rooftops
I’m getting the feeling that Veg.itecture has turned a corner in both representation and concept. Aside from the mere amount of ‘green’ proposals being churned out in the guise of environmental and productive landscapes, the concepts continually provide more expansive ideas in theoretical underpinnings. This could be good, as it transitions beyond mere decorative or…
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High Line Goes Public
In one of the most exciting bits of news lately, Section 1 of the L+U favorite High Line will open to the public next week. This on the heels some travel press from across the pond, and the announcement of a large gift from some local celebs.. couldn’t be better timing, as today’s post reveals…
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Re:Vision Dallas = Vertical Green
The annoucement of three winners for the Re:Vision Dallas Competition on Bustler was telling in some of the interesting forms, and the consistency of veg.itecture as a vital building element – particularly the use of roof and walls faces for environmental, aesthetic, and productive means. Check out the full array of info and pics on…
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Hadid, Green?
I’m somewhat ambivalent about the architecture of Zaha Hadid – as it is predominately removed from context and placed, like sculpture, in the landscape. The new 850,000 sf design museum, library and educational facility in Seoul, South Korea offers a glimpse of green surfacing over the typical organic blobs, in an attempt at innovation connection…
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Horizontal v. Vertical Farming
As a continuation of a common recent theme, Treehugger offers some additional questions, as well as a really cool example of a horizontal farm – The Zuidkas, by Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter from the Netherlands. The post makes the case for horizontal vs. vertical farming as perhaps a more realistic opportunity for integrated urban agriculture.…
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Experiment in Urban Chickens
I’ve posted before about the preponderance of urban chickens (especially in Portland) – and I just had to share the plans we have for our deluxe urban eco-coop in the back yard… (now if I could just register for LEED with this… 🙂 I’ll post some progress pics as is goes together… for now some…
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It’s a Quantity Thing…
It’s interesting to see the yardstick in which trends are measured… in the case of green roofs, it’s pretty easy to add up square footage and declare a winner. A recent post on Land8Lounge showed the annual sizing up of metropolitan areas in North America… and impressive listing for sure with a total of over…
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Bad Timing? Pig City
MVRDV’s proposal from a few years back (2001) for ‘Pig City’, a set of towers with pigs raised in the ultimate high density strikes a more recent chord with our current fascination with all things urban gardening and vertical farming – and perhaps a dischord in the recent Swine Flu pandemic. While the tongue-in-cheek nature…
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3 New Blogs
A few interesting new blogs that have either been pointed out to me or I’ve stumbled upon in the last weeks… do you have a blog that would be worth a cross-link? Let me know.Fitting nicely into the Veg.itectural, I got an email from blogger Will Gorman about his blog ‘Cleaner Air through Green Roofs’…
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VIA: 11-20
And more from Veg.itecture in Action… VIA 11: Living with Skin :: images via Greenmeme VIA 12: Green Roof Maintenance:: images via Urban Greenery VIA 13: Parliament House Canberra :: images via Gardenvisit VIA 14: Penn State Green Roof:: images via Treehugger VIA 15: Brooklyn Green Roof :: images via Urban Greenery VIA 16: Bostons…