Category: plants
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DailyLand: Roberto Burle Marx
The New York Times featured a great retrospective of the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Check out the article and slideshow. Many in the realms of landscape architecture have been influenced by the bold geometry of his designs, as well as the urban integration of landscape into the consciousness of urban dwellers.…
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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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Greening the Rails
Portland is well-known for having one of the best light-rail systems in the country. Through an efficient combination of train and streetcar – served by a great bus system, makes getting around the region sans car relatively pain free. A recent post from Inhabitat definitely struck home a point regarding a retrofit that could make…
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Flower: Gaming Urban Flight
A link from the ASLA blog The Dirt offered word of a landscape-oriented game from Playstation 3 entitled ‘Flower’. The gist: “Sony will soon release a new game “Flower,” which explores the path of an urban flower that seeks to escape to the countryside. Sony’s designer says the game is an interactive poem, which uses…
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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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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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Five Things…
Another indication of the trend of 2009… a post by The Architects Journal offers five things to do for January 12th… the first of which is to Veg out: :: image via Archispass “Ken Yeang seems to be the current king Vegitect. It’s true that Michael Sorkin first used the word ‘vegitecture’ in a 1979…