Category: green walls
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Veg.itecture: VIA Flowerbox
Flowerbox is a building in NYC with a vertically stacked set of horizontal planters at the floorplates. Completed in September 2007. The garden consists of over 500 plants and 80 different species. The building is designed by Derek Sanders, with landscape from Mac Carbonell from Verdant Gardens Design. :: images via Flickr – maccarbonell Check…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Seeing Greens
More Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from around the world. For those in NYC looking for the practical, the New York Botanical Garden will be hosting a symposium Creating Green Roofs: The Next Steps on March 6th. More from NYC on a L+U favorite, the High Line – with some choice words about the prosaic and…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Evolo Skyscrapers
Nothing elicits more interesting ideas and visuals than a futuristic and visionary design competition for the 21st Century Skyscraper. That has one word: eVolo. I featured a few of the entries from last years competition – so thought I would do the same for the more veg.itectural (and there are many, as pointed out in…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Vision City + Nessie
Two proposals for vertical greening from Asia push some of the buttons and boundaries of our continually uneasy relationship with representation over implementation (the subject of the ongoing VIVA series). :: not dumb boxes – image via designboom VISION CITYFirst, via Designboom, the Vision City proposal from sparch architects envisions a gargantuan a retail mall…
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Planting Air: Thigmotrope
One can’t help but be impressed by the creativity of landscape professionals in coming up with inventive new ways to express the concept of vertical greenery. The latest, spotted via Land+Living and later picked up on ASLA’s blog The Dirt – this link to a NY Times article shows the use of varieties of Tillandsia,…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 2
Part 2 of the Conceptual Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA), showing off some of the latest representations of building greenery on the web. I’m holding onto the Evolo Skyscraper winners, as well as a proposal for a modern vegetated ‘vision city’ for their own posts… In the interim, here’s the latest representations… Extreme Birding –…
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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Reality Check
A load of Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from the bustling coffers of the web. For starters, there’s been some talk about some of the incentives, economics, applicability, holiness, and just plain ridiculousness of green roofs. There is the new bill running through congress offering some green roof stimulation as well (thanks Ms. Cantwell). And there’s…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 1
There seems a never-ending parade of Veg.itectural visuals on the web… many more than I can possibly try to keep up with in any meaningful way… in less than a week, I’ve accumulated over 35 examples of projects fitting the representational characteristics of Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) as well as a similar amount for…
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DailyLand: Monterey Eco-Resort
In this modern time there is a metric that is often used to describe certain projects: biggest, brightest, first, etc. One that comes with an immediate dubious reaction is ‘greenest’ – which is a subjective and relatively meaningless term, which even with our current certification systems is a moving and meaningless target. One recent project…