Category: green walls
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Veg.itecture #23
It’s been a wild week – and finally settling down to getting some posts that have been in process finished up and out the door. (That is, before heading back to work 🙂 Although Martha Schwartz would disagree, I’m still betting on vertical and horizontal building greening as a way of redefining landscape architecture for…
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Veg.itecture #22
I’m giving a presentation next week at work about Vegetated Architecture, and spent a good amount of time sifting through some interesting additions, as well as some old favorites from the archives. It is interesting when compiling this information to see how the evolution of the concept has occurred over the very brief amount of…
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Veg.itecture #21
A few choice projects in the realm of Vegetated Architecture. Also, stay tuned for my review of the innaugural issue of GRHCs ‘Living Architecture Monitor’ of which they were kind enough to send me a copy. I perused it on the bus this evening, and it’s definitely one of the better resources out there (more…
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Materiality: Textured Verticality
It has been a bit since I’ve discussed the concept of texture and materials – and a quick peek through some saved up links made me realize there was a bevy of project images just waiting to emerge. I will attempt to focus this a bit by concentrating on vertical surface texture – spanning a…
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Design for Good
Ok, this is two posts from CNN in the span of a couple of weeks. And I don’t actual watch CNN, except for when trapped in an airport with the constant 10 minute new cycle. But this one is pretty impressive for major media outlet… Principal Voices is a ongoing series of discussion and dialogue…
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Veg.itecture #20
The schedule at work is heating up with some great projects getting rolling, so the weekend has become the de facto time to compile and sort all of the weeks great projects from the ether. Today is a compilation of the latest Veg.itecture additions. The first project is the Aberdeen Arts Centre by Brisac Gonzalez…
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Veg.itecture: #19
aka. The Pooktre Vegitectural Prize AwardedWell, all the lobbying for Jean Nouvel as one of the pre-emininent Veg.itects of our time has paid off with the recent announcement that he was recently awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008. While not as prestigious as aforementioned PVP, congrats are in order all the same. :: image…
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Trend-Spotting: Living Walls
It’s official – green walls are the next BIG thing. Ok, we already knew that – but one reason I say this now? While coverage in the glossy design magazines is one thing, showing up on CNN.com is a good sign of a trend both spotted and confirmed. What’s next? People magazine profiling Patrick Blanc?…
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Urban Ag: The Buzz
If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…
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Veg.itecture #18
A significant number of Vegetated Architecture examples with facade and rooftop greening strategies. I hope no one suffers from sensory overload with this weekends dual Veg.itecture posts, so without further ado, the projects:I spotted this project by Veg.itect Jean Nouvel via Dezain for the “Building C1” in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and it was a pretty interesting…