Landscape+Urbanism

Category: VIA

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Back in the Saddle

    Thanks for those whom I had a chance to meet at the recent speaking engagements… I’ve decided to write that book on Veg.itecture I’ve been toying with, so any publishers out there, drop a line. And good news, more posts coming soon… for now, visit the flickr page from the fabulous Friends of the High…

  • Vancouver CC Green Roof Videos

    As promised some more coverage of the new Vancouver Convention Centre and it’s massive green roof – this time in a pair of videos. First, a video featuring extensive interviews with the landscape architect, Bruce Hemstock from PWL Partnership, as well as Reece Rehm, planting supervisor for Holland Landscapers. Enjoy. Thanks James from Radar DDB…

  • VIVA + VIA Sneak Peek

    The inevitable issue with taking a break, even for a couple of weeks, from blogging, is that the flows of project ideas and concepts wait for no one and begin to pile up in a somewhat annoying fashion… so I have a massive backlog of projects to show off… and as it’s late – a…

  • Veg.itecture: VIA Roofs

    As the dialogue around green roofs shows that we’ve come a long way in vision and implementation. There seems a veritable cornucopia of projects and thinking on the subject. Read this interview with green roof plant expert Ed Snodgrass via Skygardens, and some more reinforcement of habitat potential for rooftops via Treehugger for some applied…

  • Veg.itecture: VIA Walls

    As I recently mentioned, there is a steady parade of visuals promoting the veg.itectural – which make sense. The distance from idea to implementation is a common theme, and requires an amazingly large amount of coordination, client will, and ingenuity. We are constantly underwhelmed by the result – but more often amazed by what is…

  • 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…