Category: green walls
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Living Walls: Indoor Filtering
New Vegetated Architecture, moving to the indoors. This post was borne of images from the Cambridge Civic Administration Building in Toronto, featuring a large indoor living wall very reminiscent of the project at Guelph-Humber. This gives us the opportunity to get into depth regarding the function of indoor walls (and indoor vegetation by default) to…
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Veg.itecture: Queens Botanical Garden Visitors Center
It really amazes me the composition of buildings envisioned 5 years ago versus today, and the short time period that has elapsed between sporadic vegetated architecture examples and the explosion of current projects. Some days, it seems hard to keep up. Here’s a new, built example in NYC: :: image via NYT City Room A…
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Block Architectes: Veg.itect
We featured the rust/green complement in the Caixa Forum building, now to shift gears to another wonderful complementary palatte – concrete and greenery. Life Without Buildings featured work of French architecture firm Block Architectes – and while not all of it is using this dual material scheme exclusively it is all pretty integrated – with…
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Veg.itecture: Caixa Forum Madrid
The Caixa Forum project in Madrid has been shown in brief on L+U before. It is, simply put, an amazing composition, using two complementary materials (red rusted metal panels and green vegetated panels) juxtaposed together with stunning results. Project is by Herzog & de Meuron. Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc. Image links to Flickr pool…
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Veg.itecture: Building Edges
It just keeps on coming, and I have to say I can’t get enough. Here’s a Vegetated Architecture post that spans all sides of the architectural envelope. It’s interesting to see the varieties of facade and rooftop articulation, building on an earlier post regarding definitions of typologies of VegArch. Starting from the top, we have…
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Veg.itecture: More New Additions
I have sifted through and expanded the list of resources (see sidebar to the right), which exposed some new Vegetated Architecture projects. The Design Blog, one of these new additions for L+U, featured The Montenegro Residences, is an 8000 square meter development aimed at providing views of the surrounding vistas. Designed by Bjarke Ingells Group…
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World Architecture News
Our dilemma: having the time to spend daily on keeping up with the frenetic pace of design in todays world . Always a challenge, and in searching out more resources, I stumbled upon a great site yesterday, World Architecture News (WAN) featuring at least daily updates to a wide range of buildings world-wide. While building-centric,…
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Jean Nouvel: Veg.itect
From Curbed LA a series of articles on Jean Nouvel‘s current work in Los Angeles, and beyond. This project is slated as luxury condos in Century City, which judging from the existing skyline is not a hotbed of zoomy vegetated architecture. I appreciate Nouvel’s use of vegetation on this project as a mediator between indoors…
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Ken Yeang: Veg.itect
Defining the concept of Vegetated Architecture led me to identify some of the key players in the field. Rather than continue the segregation of disciplines, Veg.itecture spans disciplines, further blurring the lines of established practice regimes. This does not demark territories where only the few architect/LA dual practicioners are allowed to have this mantle, but…
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Veg.itecture: Defining Moments
Vegetated Architecture (aka Veg.itecture, VegArch, Building/Landscape Fusion) is a common theme on L+U. The working definition of this fusion of architecture and landscape has been swirling around in the back of my brain for some time, and I thought it appropriate to give some further definition of what this is. :: Terreform Treehouse – image…