Category: plants
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Namba Parks
It’s funny those particular projects that fly under the radar, even when you are looking straight at them. Treehugger has a case in point, from a post on Green Roofs in Osaka, particularly with the Namba Parks project. :: image via Treehugger Built in 2003, “Jerde Partnership Architects “conceived Namba Parks as a large park,…
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A Panopoly of Green Roofs
I heard recently of a conversation where one person said that green roofs are dead. I’m guessing the person that said this either had tongue planted firmly in cheek, or was sadly misinformed. Our awe and excitement has transformed itself into innovation and adoption on a wide scale. While living walls are definitely the vegitectural…
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Vertical Garden DIY
Ok, not as ‘how-to’ as I’d like, but a good example of removing the shroud of mystery from vertical greening. From Metropolitan Home, via Dwell, a project that “…shows how one couple planted a vertical patch (above) of echeverias, aeoniums, sedums, and kalanchoes.” :: image via Dwell More from Metropolitan Home: “First, they sketched out…
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Green Branding, Literally
If you are like me, you have a wee bit of antipathy to the urban blight we know as the billboard. While many of use would like to see some Edward Abbey-style billboard eradication, or at least some creative Billboard Liberation, an interim step just may be vegetation. While bordering on greenwashing, or one of…
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PS1 Public Farm Grows
It’s been a well covered and wonderful example of some ephemeral architecture installation with an urban ag twist – the Public Farm at PS1 is now up and running – and it’s an interesting transformation from idea to reality. Seen on Treehugger, the project now has it’s own website at Public Farm 1, showing construction…
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Blanc on a Budget
Some living wall pre-fab via Apartment Therapy , which showcased a new Patrick Blanc project/product, in collaboration with Alexis Tricoire, designer of the Folies Végétales 2007 exhibition for the Espace Electra in Paris. A modular system, scale for the home, offers everything one needs for interior landscape, including tray/reservoir, green screen, lighting, and plants. ::…
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Urbanarbolismo
It’s a mouthful, and en espanol – so it’s taken a bit of time to parse the goals and specifics – but was pleasantly surprised by what was found. Apologies for the bad translations via Google – with a bit of editing on my part for clarity (oh how I wish my spanish were better)…
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Veg.itecture #29
There are a lot of new examples of Veg.itecture, spanning a variety of concepts that are really expanding the idea and breadth of Vegetated Architecture. I’ve also been reading a number of books from stellar Vegitect Ken Yeang, specifically Ecodesign, which is a must-read for anyone interested in holistic ecological design. Look for a review…
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Veg.itecture #28
It’s spring, and there’s been a bumper crop of vegetated architecture examples from around the globe. I’ve been neglecting the posting – and now they’ve piled up into a major collection of projects – and it’s inevitable to be a multi-part series of Veg.itecture posts to get all of the great projects in there. So,…
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Museum of Nature
I’ve seen these a few times in the past, but recently these images of Ilkka Halso‘s Museum of Nature struck me with a new sort of resonance – specifically in relationship to our architecture/landscape interactions. Inhabitat just featured these again recently: “Using images of landscapes and 3D digital manipulation, this photographic collection captures a future…