8:07 am in architecture for humanity, Design & Architecture, design competitions, green roofs, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Images Credit Aphid iODEA on the
Open Architecture Network
I am late to the party on this one, already seen on
Inhabitat and
Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center of Regenerative Research & Education, designed by
APHIDoIDEA, "an open_collaborative_th...
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11:05 am in Design & Architecture, green building, green roofs, new york, renovation by TreeHugger
Images Credit FXFowle
Every year we come to the
Javits Convention Center in New York for the big
ICFF show, and every year I wonder what it takes to make a convention center less of big honking energy consuming barn. The Javits is particularly awful, with it's failing glass "crystal palace" glass façade and entry and its roof that has leaked since the day it opened.
Now
FXFowle is fixing the place up; they are installing a new green roof and mechanical systems, but most importantly, they are completely redoing the exterior glazing...
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12:21 pm in carbon emissions, Design & Architecture, green roofs by TreeHugger
Image credit Ambius
When faced with a choice between simple technologies and complex ones, I like the simple and easy. Living walls seem to me to be needlessly complex; that is why I prefer the green façades by
Edouard François to Le Mur Végétal of
Patrick Blanc. So when a big living wall was installed in an
Embassy Suites in C...Read the full story on TreeHugger 
4:55 am in architure, botanical, Design & Architecture, green roofs, Travel & Nature, urban planning by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
Madrid's green wall is a veteran... First
noted here in 2008, it was designed by Patrick Blanc, who has created some of the
most famous vertical gardens in Europe.
It was installed on an exterior wall of a former power station which was renovated by equally famous architects
Herzog & de Meuron. The garden and the building have been braving the pollution, hot sun and elements for four years and we are ...
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Photo: B. Alter
This roof garden has been a ten year labour of love for the owner who is both the architect and designer. It all started with an eco house, built on a small piece of land in a dense residential area.
The architect wanted to be environmental and he had a passion for gardening. A decade later, house and gardens are flourishing....
