Category: green walls
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Vertical Garden DIY
Ok, not as ‘how-to’ as I’d like, but a good example of removing the shroud of mystery from vertical greening. From Metropolitan Home, via Dwell, a project that “…shows how one couple planted a vertical patch (above) of echeverias, aeoniums, sedums, and kalanchoes.” :: image via Dwell More from Metropolitan Home: “First, they sketched out…
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Green Branding, Literally
If you are like me, you have a wee bit of antipathy to the urban blight we know as the billboard. While many of use would like to see some Edward Abbey-style billboard eradication, or at least some creative Billboard Liberation, an interim step just may be vegetation. While bordering on greenwashing, or one of…
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Battersea Power Station
A good amount of buzz about Rafael Viñoly and his new Battersea Power Station development master plan. A comprehensive look from WAN shows a range of images and some descriptions of the features of the development. “The masterplan, unveiled today by Treasury Holdings UK on behalf of REO, will regenerate an area of London that…
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Blanc on a Budget
Some living wall pre-fab via Apartment Therapy , which showcased a new Patrick Blanc project/product, in collaboration with Alexis Tricoire, designer of the Folies Végétales 2007 exhibition for the Espace Electra in Paris. A modular system, scale for the home, offers everything one needs for interior landscape, including tray/reservoir, green screen, lighting, and plants. ::…
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Veg.itecture #29
There are a lot of new examples of Veg.itecture, spanning a variety of concepts that are really expanding the idea and breadth of Vegetated Architecture. I’ve also been reading a number of books from stellar Vegitect Ken Yeang, specifically Ecodesign, which is a must-read for anyone interested in holistic ecological design. Look for a review…
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Veg.itecture #28
It’s spring, and there’s been a bumper crop of vegetated architecture examples from around the globe. I’ve been neglecting the posting – and now they’ve piled up into a major collection of projects – and it’s inevitable to be a multi-part series of Veg.itecture posts to get all of the great projects in there. So,…
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Veg.itecture #26
Some new additions, as well as revisits to some projects featured previously. While I loved the Parti Wall, Hanging Wall concept – I also jested about the vague resemblance to a bath mat in closeups… A significant amount of more detail of the production and installation offers some interesting ideas. :: images via Archinect Definitely…
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Veg.itecture #25
A new crop of Vegetated Architecture from the world – from small to large, vertical to horizontal. For starters, a fav blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, with an archidose featuring one of my fav projects – “Tower Flower” by Edouard François. :: image via Archidose Next I go again to the newish blog _urb_…
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Green Roof (and Wall) Design Awards
Caroline Nolan from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) was kind enough to send me the recent winners of the 2008 Green Roof and Wall Design Awards. A few of the winning projects have been featured here on L+U as models of the ongoing Veg.itecture series. A few others are new information for me. Read…
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Veg.itecture #24
I decided to clean out the archives of great vegetated architecture – partly from necessity and partly spurred a special Architectural Element feature on Vertical Gardens from A Daily Dose of Architecture and by the recent coverage in the NY Times Design & Living 2008 special mag, featuring the likes of Ann Demeulemeester’s vegetated Seoul…