Category: green walls
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Vancouver Olympic Village
Following up on a post regarding the recent article that featured the work of PWL Partnership, some more in-depth coverage of the work surrounding the Southeast False Creek Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Beyond ‘green’ as a strategy, this site is literally green with rooftops and open space around a dense…
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Veg.itecture #33
Clearing the files of backed up projects (to make way for the new, of course)… a brief, in text, and long, in photos, version of Veg.itecture… it’s definitely got variety, although you can see the disparity between built and representative projects… A colorful green roof atop ECOSpace, in Dunfermline, United Kingdom, by RMJM (now about…
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Living Walls: Systems Approach
We’ve all seen them in action (sort of), so now it is time to check them out on a new level and get at least a cursory look at the different off-the-shelf options out there for living walls. A few select companies are offering systems that are available to North American buyers and beyond. Here’s…
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High Density Growth
A fusion of vertical greening and urban agriculture, this interesting ‘product’ was spotted from Treehugger. A company by the name of Valcent Products developed this system for high-density gardening by, you guessed it, going upwards. Some images from the company’s El Paso facility: :: images via Valcent Products Via Valcent: “The HDVG system grows plants…
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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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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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Veg.itecture #30
Finally catching up to the massive amounts of Vegetated Architecture… so this will be a super-sized version to get up to speed. Also, there are a few spin-offs that demand more than a quick image or two here. Enough talk… time to go. A killer image from Bustler: “In competition with some of the world’s…