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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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SillyPads
Wow – this one has exploded in the past few weeks. I refer you to LilyPads by Vincent Callebaut Architectures. I was planning on including it in the last version of Veg.itecture #30 – but it seems as if this needs some of it’s own space to breathe. This project has been everywhere, and has…
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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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Revisiting the High Line
Continuing the coverage of NYC’s High Line project, which has been featured in detail here, and minimally here, as well as a study of one of the precedents in France here… Curbed has a multi–part feature showing the project evolving from idea, with some new renderings of Phase II. I’m trying to track down some…
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Veg.itecture #30
Finally catching up to the massive amounts of Vegetated Architecture… so this will be a super-sized version to get up to speed. Also, there are a few spin-offs that demand more than a quick image or two here. Enough talk… time to go. A killer image from Bustler: “In competition with some of the world’s…
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Pop-Up in Real Life
A little while back I showed some work via Tropolism of the Pop-Up Park in New York City by dlandstudio – and recieved an email today from Susannah Drake showing off some pics of the park in action. A refresher, and cool image of the park from the Brooklyn Bridge: :: image via Tropolism As…
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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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Portland – Top Ten Design City
The buzz of the week is all over BusinessWeek’s listing of the ‘Top Ten Cities for Design in America’ – and I just want to throw out my plug for Portland as the long-shot entry. Why is that? Well here’s the list, via the article (with my superimposed population for Metropolitan area figures in parentheses…
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Vertical Garden DIY
Ok, not as ‘how-to’ as I’d like, but a good example of removing the shroud of mystery from vertical greening. From Metropolitan Home, via Dwell, a project that “…shows how one couple planted a vertical patch (above) of echeverias, aeoniums, sedums, and kalanchoes.” :: image via Dwell More from Metropolitan Home: “First, they sketched out…
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Green Branding, Literally
If you are like me, you have a wee bit of antipathy to the urban blight we know as the billboard. While many of use would like to see some Edward Abbey-style billboard eradication, or at least some creative Billboard Liberation, an interim step just may be vegetation. While bordering on greenwashing, or one of…