Tag: Green Roofs - Page 7
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English Nuns Go Green at Their New Convent: Solar Power, a Green Roof, More...
image: Wikipedia The Guardian brings the news that when the Benedictine nuns of the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation went in search of a new nunnery, they placed green measures right at the top of the list:Among the £4.7 million building's green
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Green Swedish Design: Living Walls, Wind Turbines and More
From Sweden, an entire booth of green design, from living walls to wind power (and a lovely sofa).....
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Romses Architects: From Vertical Farms To Backlane Solar Prefab
We previously showed Vancouver's Romses Architects' fabulous vertical farm Harvest Green. They appear to have submitted another entry in Vancouver's 2020 Challenge competition- a proposal for the
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Florida Fountain Treats Wastewater
Florida's "fountain of youth" today may be a wastewater treatment system disguised as a cascading water feature in a building atrium. Considering Florida's
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Metal Roof Saves Money for Grandma
My grandmother has lived in the same house for as long as I have known her. We use to rollerskate on her backpatio in the hot, Texas summer heat and watch the purple martens in her birdhouse each spring. This year
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Green Roof in LA Provides Vegetables for Restaurant Below
Green roofs weigh a lot; this makes it hard to retrofit them to existing buildings. Plant Architects had some fun putting one on the Royal Ontario Museum, and now in LA, architect Alexis Rochas puts one on an old Holiday Inn that was converted to a
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Toronto Considering Making Green Roofs The Law
You usually can tell that you have hit a balance in politics if everybody hates your legislation. Not so with Toronto's new proposed bylaw that would make green roofs mandatory. It
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Rooftop Gardens Will Save the Bugs
Rooftop gardens are being proposed for the top of some of London's biggest buildings. By installing them on the rooftops of places like universities and town halls, it is hoped that endangered species of birds and bugs will be
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Built on Stilts: House in Never Never Land
There are a lot of good reasons to build on stilts without a basement; it disturbs the ground less, reduces flood risk, can be a lot cooler, or can preserve tree roots. The latter appears to be the main reason that Andrés Jaque Architectos did it for
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Nothing New About Green Roofs
Photography by Roger Wade; see slideshow here
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part Two)
Photo: Mark Mahaney The Rhinoceros Beetle is the world's strongest animal, able to lift more than thirty times its own weight. To Natalie Jeremijenko, this sounded like an invitation to wrestle. Via some clever technology (she is an engineer, after
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Green Roof Mashup: Golf Course, Filtration Plant, Park and Prison
The Bronx NIMBYs went nuts when it was proposed that a water filtration plant be built in a park. So the architects, Grimshaw, followed what is becoming a common strategy: put a green roof on it and show it from the air. Building? What building?
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'Forward Chicago' Launches: Aims to Make Chicago Greenest US City
Today the Climate Group announced their partnership with the city of Chicago and Chicago 2016, titled "Forward Chicago" which aims to not only help Chicago reach its greenhouse gas reduction goals but to make Chicago
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part One)
Photo: Mark Mahaney If I were in Manhattan, my visit to the Environmental Health Clinic might involve a session afloat Dr. Jeremijenko's raft/office on the East River. Under the circumstances, she treated me over Skype, checking my toxics and
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Are Green Roofs the New Mirrored Glass?
When covering Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter's glass clad treehouse I noted that "It is an old architectural trick used since the invention of mirrored glass: covering buildings with the reflective material and declaring that
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First Pix from Edouard François' Eden Bio
As we noted in our earlier review of green walls, there are two kinds: Green façade, where a trellis structure is attached to the ground and plants grow up from there, and living walls, the more complicated systems where the wall becomes the growing
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The Ultimate Green House: Lost In Paris House by R&Sie; Architects
There is a house in there, really, the "Lost in Paris" house by R&Sie; Architects, who have produced some of the most provocative work we have shown on TreeHugger.
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JDS Architects' Rimini Seascape :Green Roofs are Changing Architecture
It is interesting to see how the development of green roofs is actually changing architecture and design. TreeHugger previously showed Daniel Andersson's proposal in Green Roofs Meet the Ground in New Heden; now Julien de Smedt Architects do a proposal
