Category: green roofs
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 3
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) continues with some amazing examples (and not to mince word, there are shitloads of them on the web). Perhaps a trend, perhaps overexposed, or perhaps we’ve finally reached the point where we’ve transcended the original and just become purveyors of the mundane. A quick snippet of the amount of blog…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Dancing Apartment
The overtly veg.itectural is always worthy of attention on L+U, so I just had to feature the new project spotted on Designboom called Dancing Apartment. The project: “…has been designed by korean firm unsangdong architects. located in dong-a ilbo serial, south korea the apartments are built using obliquelines in which each unit consists of a…
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Seattle’s Big Green
Portland has financial incentives, FAR bonuses, and saavy public agencies that promote green roofs. Seattle, has the Gates Foundation. Fueled by massive amounts of capital that has done amazing good around the world – and turns this trend towards their home base in the construction of one of Seattle’s largest green roofs atop the parking…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Seeing Greens
More Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from around the world. For those in NYC looking for the practical, the New York Botanical Garden will be hosting a symposium Creating Green Roofs: The Next Steps on March 6th. More from NYC on a L+U favorite, the High Line – with some choice words about the prosaic and…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Evolo Skyscrapers
Nothing elicits more interesting ideas and visuals than a futuristic and visionary design competition for the 21st Century Skyscraper. That has one word: eVolo. I featured a few of the entries from last years competition – so thought I would do the same for the more veg.itectural (and there are many, as pointed out in…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Vision City + Nessie
Two proposals for vertical greening from Asia push some of the buttons and boundaries of our continually uneasy relationship with representation over implementation (the subject of the ongoing VIVA series). :: not dumb boxes – image via designboom VISION CITYFirst, via Designboom, the Vision City proposal from sparch architects envisions a gargantuan a retail mall…
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Mountains
There are a bunch of projects using the literal and figurative idea of mountains as a stylistic point of departure. One of the recent visuals is that of the Zira Island development in Azerbaijan by BIG Architects. Some info via Arch Daily:“In the words of Bjarke Ingels, the proposal for Zira Island […] is an…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 2
Part 2 of the Conceptual Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA), showing off some of the latest representations of building greenery on the web. I’m holding onto the Evolo Skyscraper winners, as well as a proposal for a modern vegetated ‘vision city’ for their own posts… In the interim, here’s the latest representations… Extreme Birding –…
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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…
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Google Earth Ecoroof Tour
One of the fun elements of Google Earth is the steadily growing library of buildings that have been modelled in a simplified 3-D format (perhaps by many of the unfortunately unemployed with time on their hands). I stumbled upon the Multnomah County Green Roof (Amy Joslin Memorial Ecoroof) and thought it was pretty cool. ::…