Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Technical green roof time and then the eye candy

A few technical stories to get us going...

-The UK's first cradle-to-cradle demonstration project is scheduled to begin very soon. By-products from tenants will be turned into, among other things, aggregate material to be used as drainage in green roofs.

-And in Greece scientists are investigating which native plants might work best on a Mediterranean green roof.

And now for the visually stunning...

-Patrick Blanc has done it again! The tallest vertical garden will belong to the industry's godfather with a tremendous project slated to be completed in Australia later this year. If it looks anything like the following, it will raise the bar for us all.


Patrick Blanc creates world's tallest vertical garden for Jean Nouvel's Sydney tower

Patrick Blanc creates world's tallest vertical garden for Jean Nouvel's Sydney tower


-I had never heard of Dezeen before this week, but will check them out again after they posted pictures of this incredible kindergarten rooftop gardening project in Vietnam.


Farming Kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Farming Kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

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