Tag: Green Roofs
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Arup designs a living wall scaffold for London renovation
It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.
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Green fuzz on buildings is an admission of defeat, says Edwin Heathcote
Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.
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Dutch family of four living in experimental urban greenhouse home
Located in Rotterdam, this Concept House features a huge rooftop garden, and uses natural heating and cooling techniques to keep maintenance costs down.
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Peterborough canoe museum to have gorgeous green roof
Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection
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Icelandic turf houses are old-school green with a Viking twist (photos)
An architectural tradition dating to the 9th century, Iceland's turf houses are an enduring inspiration.
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Another vertical forest being built by Stefano Boeri in Lausanne, Switzerland
And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.
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ELEVATE puts a solar powered, green walled, rainwater collecting tiny house on a pedestal
Hawaiian engineers think that it can address many of the world's problems. Are they too ambitious?
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Solar Outpost is a nice place to work on a green roof in Brooklyn
Designer Matt Kovaleski integrates a solar power system into a picnic table setup for workers at Vice
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Watch a green roof get installed on New York's Barclay Center
It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built
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Green roofs make happier, more productive workers
A new study shows that a quick look at a green roof perks you right up.
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Off-grid classroom blends into the last of Long Island’s prairie
The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.
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Which type of roof is best in cold climates: solar, white or green?
A study looks at the life cycle impact of the different types of sustainable roofs and finds a clear winner for colder regions.
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Foster to build Toronto tower with what looks like the largest living wall in North America
"Less is more" is so over; These days the mantra is "too much is never enough."
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Green roofs, living walls and vertical farms are all morphing into living green buildings
We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.
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Green roofs are changing architecture: Here's a whole school built under an undulating green roof
Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel
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Historic Warsaw building gets wrapped up in a gorgeous green wall
It also pushes the limit of what we mean by historic preservation.
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Green roofs are changing architecture: The Science Hills of Komatsu
Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.
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Pioneering green roofed building by Ted Cullinan saved from demolition
It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.
