Category: green walls
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Veg.itecture: VIVA le Rooftops
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment VIVA… Rooftop Style. Enjoy. British Library Boston Spa Storage Siteby HOK:: image via SpaceInvading Hijauan Saujana Resort :: image via Urban Greenery AD Futures #1: by ICE, Ideas for Contemporary Environments :: image via ArchDaily Kohinoor Skyscraper by Perkins Eastman :: images via Inhabitat Mermaid 2.0 by JDS architects :: images…
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VIA: Urban Greenery
The blog/tumblr Urban Greenery offers a constant and seemingly endless stream of vegetated architecture in action, call it daily green, thus the theme of this installation of VIA focuses around a bevy of posts from this source (with a few others thrown in for measure). One of the most stunning is from Core77, combining mass…
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The Moss Room
Check out the yummy new project shown off in the latest issue of Metropolis. Back to the California Academy of Sciences building, the Moss Room by Lundberg Design is the subterranean restaurant that fittingly sheathed in a mossy covered green wall. There seems to be a lag between the print and online versions over at Metropolis…
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Chilean Facades: Consorcio + Concepción
A stunning new example of VIA (i think?) via Urban Greenery presents the The Consorcio Building in Santiago – with an amazing green wall system on significant portions of the facade – which recalls Ken Yeang’s Bioclimatic structures in this tropical climate. :: images via Urban Greenery Located in Santiago, Chile – the green walls…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA la Revolution
As promised, the counterpoint to the recent posts related to Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) are the more conceptual illustrative examples in the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) posts – which offer a more sparsely informative overview of the visions of vegetated architecture and the many graphic forms that it takes. The dichotomy between vision and…
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Questioning EcoMetropolitanism
Perhaps I missed the memo regarding a new found integration of ‘wildness’ into our cities as the 2009 topic to watch. Maybe it started with Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates – jumping to Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and the idea of City Zoo, shifting to the more expansive concept from _urb about Post Humanist Rewilded Eco Ethical…
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Introducing TerraScreen
We’re developing a couple of projects that will utilize green wall systems – and am always on the lookout for possible systems and technologies. In this regard, I was happy to receive a recent email from Shane Pliska, the brains behind a new living wall system called TerraScreen. Spun out of the work of Planterra,…
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Veg.itecture: VIA I’m Lost in Paris
Arch Daily offered some juicy pics of the project by R&Sie(n) in Paris, France entitled ‘I’m Lost in Paris’ – which sported some vertical hydroponics, rainwater harvesting, and blown glass features in this private laboratory. Interesting system of mesh and plant containers – utilizing hydroponic principles. :: images via Arch Daily Some info about the…
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Like Looking in a Mirror
A new blog (as of December ’08) was one of those surreal moments where you start looking through the collected posts and realize that like seeing a reflection of where your personal interests lie. Urban Greenery is aptly and simply named, and offers snapshots of… you guessed it – urban greenery. A lot of the…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Olive 8, Joost, Mission, + Busan et.al.
VIA: Vegitecture in Action: As promised, the inevitable death of posts related to Veg.itecture has spun, in this auspicious 50th post, into a new series that will investigate the dual sides of the concept – the VIA and the VIVA, if you will (explained here in detail). For this inaugural installment of Veg.itecture in Action…