Category: green walls
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Local Color: Portland
Ah, I do spend time looking around the world for precedents and interesting projects. There is no shortage of amazing innovation and imagery around the globe and the web. Sometimes I forget to look in my own backyard (so to speak). I’ve previously picked up on some great coverage of a few GreenWorks projects, as…
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Veg.itecture @ 16
I may have finally tapped out the well in creative titles for Vegetated Architecture. A few times warrant some more significant coverage of one project, but for the most part the groups are a someone random assortment of projects that are given a little thread of narrative to tie them loosely together. There have been…
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Inhabitat: Façadism
I love new (or old) terms that are evocative of the changing face of architecture. A post in Adaptive Reuse dropped the term facadism, which was new to me. Wikipedia explains: “Façadism (also façadism or façadomy) is the practice of renovating old buildings leaving the facade of a building intact while demolishing and rebuilding its…
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Veg.itecture: Photo Gallery 2
After spending a solid 12 hour day up and back to Seattle, I’m ready for a quick and easy post. Following up on my recent combing through of the backlog of Inhabitat links, which unearthed a bevy of great stuff related to Vegetated Architecture and more, with more to come. This reminded me that a…
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Sharp & Diamond: Veg.itect
In a twist of singling out architects in the Vegetated Architecture realm, a profile of a landscape architecture firm that is pioneering the use of vertical greening techniques. The Vancouver firm Sharp & Diamond have been developing a number of North American examples, which is in dire need of good examples. I’ve been familiar with…
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Inhabitat: Green the Tower
For those who have not had the opportunity to visit the site Inhabitat – do so immediately. I have to remember to check it periodically to see what’s new, as it had been until recently devoid of RSS feed (and one million thank you’s for that finally). Due to my lax visitation, I often am…
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Veg.itecture: World Tour
Vegetated Architecture seems to be a world-wide phenomenon… although there are slow-growing pools of recent US examples, the trend has evolved outside of the states as a significant part of the architectural vocabulary. A number of recent projects and terms (i.e. cybertecture) underscore this point and highlight the unprecedented customization and access to information we…
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Urban Ag: Mass Planting
A February post on Urban Agriculture prompted some great comments and unlocked a few resources previously unknown to me. One included the Urban Farm mapping project Dott07. As posted by David Barrie, the project is “…a map of an ‘edible’ town in the North of England.” :: image via David Barrie Via David Barrie: “The…
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Veg.itecture: S, M, L, XL
I will eventually run out of witty, thematic ways of presenting Vegetated Architecture (ok, I may already have), but in the interim, a selection of projects in a range of sizes (with apologies to Koolhaas + Mau). Of the precedents previously shown on L+U, architecture and landscape combinations range from the modest to the extreme,…
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New Vegetated Architecture
As we continue to provide an adequate definition, and sift through example, after example of Vegetated Architecture, there is a seemingly constant barrage of projects evolving and shaping the idea. A quick summary is in order, which I am saving for a later post (which is going to be an upcoming essay for publication). In…