Category: plants
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Trend-Spotting: Living Walls
It’s official – green walls are the next BIG thing. Ok, we already knew that – but one reason I say this now? While coverage in the glossy design magazines is one thing, showing up on CNN.com is a good sign of a trend both spotted and confirmed. What’s next? People magazine profiling Patrick Blanc?…
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Urban Ag: The Buzz
If it’s not landscaping on buildings or ecologically planning communities around the globe, it must be the buzz-concept of Urban Agriculture – and it’s had a lot of press lately. A lot of press. And deservedly so – as the new face(s) of agriculture seem to be collecting into teeming masses with some traction towards…
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Veg.itecture #17
There seems to be a significant backlog of Vegetated Architecture examples I will catch up on in the upcoming week. For this version, we will focus on a typology that we featured previously, some abstracted and representational vegetation forms in buildings and artwork. These span incorporation into building structure and form – as well as…
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From the Rooftop: Varietals
Along with walls, rooftops are the logical frontier of landscape intervention, and although many terms are thrown around to both tantalize and confuse the novice and expert alike. For instance, you will notice my own use of the terms ‘ecoroof’ and ‘green roof’ almost interchangably. In my mind they are the same, although ‘eco-‘ is…
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Tree/House
There’s a few posts out showing off a variety of actual treehouses, but what fun is that. I thought a sampling of projects of the theme would be much more informative. Just for kicks, here’s my favorite, a more refined method for the discerning tree-sitter, from Web Urbanist: :: image via Web Urbanist For spotting…
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Public Farm 1: Work Architecture Company
While aiming not to be redundant with other resources out there, I just really like this project quite a bit, and have to expand on the previous post. ‘Public Farm 1’ is the Young Architects Program at PS 1 Project by Work Architecture Company has been covered extensively by a number of sources: originally the…
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Veg.itecture: S, M, L, XL
I will eventually run out of witty, thematic ways of presenting Vegetated Architecture (ok, I may already have), but in the interim, a selection of projects in a range of sizes (with apologies to Koolhaas + Mau). Of the precedents previously shown on L+U, architecture and landscape combinations range from the modest to the extreme,…
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Living Walls: Indoor Filtering
New Vegetated Architecture, moving to the indoors. This post was borne of images from the Cambridge Civic Administration Building in Toronto, featuring a large indoor living wall very reminiscent of the project at Guelph-Humber. This gives us the opportunity to get into depth regarding the function of indoor walls (and indoor vegetation by default) to…
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One Single Tree
The story of the 150 year old Chestnut tree outside of Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam, and the heroic efforts to save it, makes one think of our careless disregard for trees and the benefits they bring to us. (Read more about this at Treehugger) It is inevitable that a tree will succumb to nature…
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Veg.itecture: Caixa Forum Madrid
The Caixa Forum project in Madrid has been shown in brief on L+U before. It is, simply put, an amazing composition, using two complementary materials (red rusted metal panels and green vegetated panels) juxtaposed together with stunning results. Project is by Herzog & de Meuron. Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc. Image links to Flickr pool…