Category: green walls
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Neo-Vertical Greening
As a companion to Veg.itecture #38 – a bevy of green wall projects in a number of phases… that are definitely worth a look. First, via Dwell – always good for a hot pic and aimless commentary (look for the, ‘wouldn’t it be great if we could be all sustainable and stuff and not water…
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Veg.itecture #38
Time again for a compilation of the best Vegetated Architecture floating about in the ether. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything, so there is a fair amount in the hopper – so onward. One from McDonough + Partners – the Isola Office building in Milan, Italy. The design, via Inhabitat, has…
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Veg.itecture #37
About time to purge the bursting folders of Vegetated Architecture projects that have been zooming through the blogosphere lately. As well a few resources, include this [cringe] DIY Guide to Green and Living Roofs as well as good overview post on the ‘Arbortectural’ via Design Under Sky. Overall, a wide range of types and scales…
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Water Worlds
A range of projects featuring water not just as a theme, but a major design element… very disparate in scale and application, but with that common hydrological thread. For starters, one of the typologies of green roofs, discussed previously on L+U, is the concept of ‘blue roofs’ – which use water to provide cooling atop…
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Ten Books on Veg.itecture
A recent office desk move (and slogging multiple boxes of books in my personal library) made me think, that although I do an occasional review of books periodically – it would behoove me to summarize some of the classic tomes that define some of the key themes on the blog. While I intend to continue…
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Olympic Topiary Gone Wild
It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan and proponent of vegetation occupying the vertical spaces in our lives. Perhaps it’s the ubiquitousness of the natural surroundings, but the jarring use of landscape that confronts us the way great architectural materials does – makes my day. On the other hand, perhaps this can be…
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Plaza de España
Spotted via Dezain, a link to a series of Flickr images from Herzog & de Meuron’s Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. :: image via Flickr – garbar53 As mentioned previously, there is definitely not a shortage of architects flexing their muscles in the public space realm – from the landscape…
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Veg.itecture #35
Sunday seems to be a prime time for summarizing the weeks Veg.itectural creations… as an aside, I had the opportunity to make a presentationon Veg.itecture to a diverse group of participants as part of the Summer Sustainability Series, which was a great success the past week… and it’s true – people respond to the concept…
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People who live in Grass Houses…
This one via Arch Daily is quite odd… I’m strangely fond of the form of the Amalia House by GRID Architects in it’s very modern form, as well as the verdant color of the building skin. I was also mesmerized by the glowing green facade – and wondering, maybe, if it was something vegetal.:: image…
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Sky Farm Replay
It’s interesting to see how trends seem to hone in on one person that becomes the locus of most of the attention around a subject. Patrick Blanc and vertical gardens, Fritz Haeg with the ‘revolutionary’ idea of tearing up the lawn and planting vegetables, Michale Pollan and well, everything related to food – and now…