Category: vegitecture
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It’s a Quantity Thing…
It’s interesting to see the yardstick in which trends are measured… in the case of green roofs, it’s pretty easy to add up square footage and declare a winner. A recent post on Land8Lounge showed the annual sizing up of metropolitan areas in North America… and impressive listing for sure with a total of over…
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Clean Water Services – Field Operations Center
A recent trip out to a meeting at the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center yielded some interesting images of some of the innovative stormwater ideas that were implemented into this project, which opened in 2003. The design was completed by Pivot Architecture from Eugene, along with Murase Associates from Portland as landscape architect. ::…
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Salad Days
Not the first version of this, but another cool living edible wall, via Core77 – for a product called Reviwall from an Italian group called ReviPlant. :: image via Core77 :: images via ReviPlant Another cool idea of this is from Green Living Technologies (GLT) which has sponsored, along with Campbells soup, a series of…
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VIA: 11-20
And more from Veg.itecture in Action… VIA 11: Living with Skin :: images via Greenmeme VIA 12: Green Roof Maintenance:: images via Urban Greenery VIA 13: Parliament House Canberra :: images via Gardenvisit VIA 14: Penn State Green Roof:: images via Treehugger VIA 15: Brooklyn Green Roof :: images via Urban Greenery VIA 16: Bostons…
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VIVA: 11-20
More from the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment… VIVA 11: Mas sobre el Pabellon :: imagesvia Platforma Arquitectura VIVA 12: Bouwkunde Building :: images via The Design Blog VIVA 13: Babcock Ranch :: image via Jetson GreenVIVA 14: Annie MG Schmidt House Competition :: images via Bustler VIVA 15: University of Sheffield :: image via Urban…
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VIVA: 1-10
The flip side of the VIA 10 spots is the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment – looking at the latest and greatest in representational vegetated architecture. Lots to see here. VIVA 1: G TECTS:: image via Bustler VIVA 2: Realize Hudson Rise :: images via A Daily Dose of Architecture VIVA 3: Green Wall in Cordoba…
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VIA: 1-10
Taking time off from blogging is wonderful – but the backlog of great projects to catch up on is a bit daunting. At the risk of Veg.itectural overload – I’m packing up 10 projects per post, in both the Veg.itecture In Action (VIA) category and the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessement (VIVA) categories (read here to…
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The Future is Now
The Wall Street Journal asked a trio of designers to imagine the ‘Green House of the Future’, with energy efficiency as a point-of-departure. This group came up with some inventive visions – although it’s telling that all of these ideas and problems could be envisioned right now with our available technology and materials. Nonetheless, the…
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Reading List: Green Roof Systems
My good friends at Wiley sent me a copy of the long-awaited ‘Green Roof Systems: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Landscapes over Structure‘ by Susan K Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth. At first glance, the book is not remarkably pretty, which is usually a sign of a reference that aims for substance…
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Ecoroof Vendor Fair
It was great to spend Saturday hanging out with an energetic group of vendors and members of the community nerding out on Veg.itecture… good times. Spreading the gospel of the green and GreenWorks. :: image via GreenWorks