Category: green walls
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Architectural Sub-Genre?
My daily email of clipping from Arch News Now made me do a double take when I scanned the word Vegitecture in the title of a post by Dan Stewart on Building blogs ‘Drawn State’ entitled ‘Vegitecture – whose idea was it, anyway?’ :: EDITT Tower, Ken Yeang – image via Drawn State From Drawn…
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Veg.itecture #45
It is time again. While these may be just pretty pictures, I feel strongly that these projects represent a new awakening of the potential meshing (not the disconnect) between the professions of architecture and landscape architecture. The project of the moment is actually one I feel a bit sheepish in saying I actually like –…
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Green Shrouds…
It’s been a bit of time since I’ve referenced some of both the definitions of Veg.itecture and some of the issues of implementation… perhaps a review is in order – or at least a refresher tied to some of the discussions regarding the projects that appear here on L+U. There’s the definition and the specific…
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Veg.itectural Mash Note #44
Well, alas I’d like to think my love is more one-dimensional than just swooning over the work of James Corner. Austria, for one, sounds lovely this time of year, i hear. Vegetated architecture on the other hand, is my one true love … and here’s a real mash note to those vertical, vegetated, and very…
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Veg.itecture #43
Once again, with feeling… I have green roofs on the brain right now, because upon cracking open my new (and god-awful expensive) copy of Steven Cantor’s Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design – to find a double spread of Multnomah County’s green roof on chapter one… a design I did while at my previous employer…
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Tree Manipulation
It’s always amazing how malleable plant materials can be, particularly as we manipulate them and bend them to our varieties of will. Not content to just allow plants to grow into their natural form, we do all sorts of madness to them – chopping, topping, pleaching, espalier, trimming, bosques, poodling, topiary, arborsculture – in addition…
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20+10+X = the World
A press release announcing the 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards, a unique process of culling through what is no small feat – the best projects in the world architecture community. Aside from being a comprehensive online portal: “… WA is an “online community” initiated by Suha Özkan and 200+ invited Honorary Members, and a growing…
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Veg.itecture #42
It has been a while since we’ve had an opportunity to showcase some Vegetated Architecture. You missed it, didn’t you? Well, I did lose all of my accumulated links on my old computer – but it didn’t take long to accumulate some more gems. And well, it’s not all eye candy, as there has been…
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Flip This Strip…
Perhaps the timing is perfect amidst our current economic downturn – the award winners have been announced for the very interesting Flip a Strip competition sponsored by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (smoca). These entries expand the conversation and definitely deliver in potential opportunities and visions for these zones of urban and sub-urban blight,…
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Earth-Sheltered
An important and somewhat overlooked aspect of Veg.itectural design is the connection and use of the ground plane in providing critical aspects of the shelter. Whether traditional cave-like dwellings that are carved into the sides of hills, or northern european era sod hut housing. These items are used for literally centuries, and there are still…