Category: resources
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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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Veg.itecture #31
As I mentioned, there’s been a lot of activity – and now that the roots of Vegitecture have been illuminated… let’s see how these buildings are dressing themselves… lots of great examples. An interesting article beyond this photo, from the NY Times article ‘I’m the Designer. My Client’s the Autocrat.’ which looks into the trend…
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Go On Safari – Green Roof Style
This intriguing post came via Treehugger, about a new series of tours with the witty Green Roof Safari moniker. Ok, we’re probably not going to encounter lions or other megafauna while atop green roofs in Germany and Switzerland, but the ability to interact with this habitat – sounds great. Tours are going in September on…
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The Roots of Vegitecture
As I made reference to previously, Steve at The Sesqui.pedali.st presented me with a digital copy of the article ‘Vegitecture’ by Michael Sorkin, published in the 1979 issue of WET Magazine. After a quick read (it’s 3 pages illustrated) and a warning from Steve that it had NOTHING to do with Vegetated Architecture, here’s my…
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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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BIM and Landscape Architecture
As Building Information Modeling (BIM) gains in market share in architecture and related disciplines, there will be a need for landscape architects to adopt this technology in order to maintain the level of service for their clients. This shift is not just a new technology to adopt but a paradigm shift in thinking, designing, and…
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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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prss release
Much talk lately of the changing nature of architecture blogging (sort of) and a recent reference reminded me of prss release, and inventive aggregator of sources in a PDF format… sort of quasi blog + magazine in one… Some words below from the editors: :: image via prss release “We are proud to announce prss…
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Hydrological Black Out
These images appeared recently relating to a project in Los Angeles, related to the restoration of water reservoir levels of bromate. A past post outlined similar situations in Silver and Elysian Lakes and the use of phytoremediation to eliminate levels. A new approach is the use of sun-block, in the form of plastic balls, that…
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Reading List: Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability
I’m in the midst of reading a group of new books recently released that I picked up online. The first Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, edited by William S. Saunders, is the sixth in a series of Harvard Design Magazine Readers (published by Univ. of Minnesota). This entry in the series specifically focusing on…