Category: projects
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Dancing Apartment
The overtly veg.itectural is always worthy of attention on L+U, so I just had to feature the new project spotted on Designboom called Dancing Apartment. The project: “…has been designed by korean firm unsangdong architects. located in dong-a ilbo serial, south korea the apartments are built using obliquelines in which each unit consists of a…
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Seattle’s Big Green
Portland has financial incentives, FAR bonuses, and saavy public agencies that promote green roofs. Seattle, has the Gates Foundation. Fueled by massive amounts of capital that has done amazing good around the world – and turns this trend towards their home base in the construction of one of Seattle’s largest green roofs atop the parking…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Flowerbox
Flowerbox is a building in NYC with a vertically stacked set of horizontal planters at the floorplates. Completed in September 2007. The garden consists of over 500 plants and 80 different species. The building is designed by Derek Sanders, with landscape from Mac Carbonell from Verdant Gardens Design. :: images via Flickr – maccarbonell Check…
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Veg.itecture: VIA Seeing Greens
More Veg.itecture in Action (VIA) from around the world. For those in NYC looking for the practical, the New York Botanical Garden will be hosting a symposium Creating Green Roofs: The Next Steps on March 6th. More from NYC on a L+U favorite, the High Line – with some choice words about the prosaic and…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Evolo Skyscrapers
Nothing elicits more interesting ideas and visuals than a futuristic and visionary design competition for the 21st Century Skyscraper. That has one word: eVolo. I featured a few of the entries from last years competition – so thought I would do the same for the more veg.itectural (and there are many, as pointed out in…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Vision City + Nessie
Two proposals for vertical greening from Asia push some of the buttons and boundaries of our continually uneasy relationship with representation over implementation (the subject of the ongoing VIVA series). :: not dumb boxes – image via designboom VISION CITYFirst, via Designboom, the Vision City proposal from sparch architects envisions a gargantuan a retail mall…
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Mountains
There are a bunch of projects using the literal and figurative idea of mountains as a stylistic point of departure. One of the recent visuals is that of the Zira Island development in Azerbaijan by BIG Architects. Some info via Arch Daily:“In the words of Bjarke Ingels, the proposal for Zira Island […] is an…
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Planting Air: Thigmotrope
One can’t help but be impressed by the creativity of landscape professionals in coming up with inventive new ways to express the concept of vertical greenery. The latest, spotted via Land+Living and later picked up on ASLA’s blog The Dirt – this link to a NY Times article shows the use of varieties of Tillandsia,…
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DailyLand: Copenhagen Waterfront
I was pleased to see the issue of Topos 65, which featured one of the recent DailyLand projects, the Promenade Samuel-De Champlain as well as a veg.itectural gem at the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center. There are a few choice projects to look for soon as well. For this installment, another waterfront project that I…
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MAD-ness: Huaxi City Centre
There are definitely too many blog references to this project to name… so going straight to the source: “MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to…