Incredible permaculture, gardening techniques passed down for the past 28 generations and still thriving!!
Natural bee’s hives, all the herbs, every plant, tree, medicine grown on-site and of specific purpose. Some of the oldest well-tried and tested varieties being grown.
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6 ways mushrooms can save the world!
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Porta Volta Fondazione Feltrinelli / Herzog & de Mueron
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‘Dymaxion Sleep’ is a structure of nets suspended over a field of aromatic plants. Rather than walking through the garden, visitors lie on top of it, translating the typically solitary experience of a garden into a public event. Created by the Canadian designers Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell.
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a roof is a roof is a roof is the final Graduate School semester project by Janis Rucins as part of the UIC research studio Roadside Attractions led by professor Alex Lehnerer. The work won the Best in Show Award at the University of Illinois School of Architecture 2009/2010 Year End Show.
From the studio description:
Roadside Attractions appear as a bonus to our primary interest of getting down the road. They even make us forget the road for a little while. We do not look for them – we just find them. We are cheered, because their size, directness, and form surprise us. On the journey to unconscious urban gadgetry, our job is to construct and find consistency with these attractive features. We extract local regions of interest from the mess we live in. The discovered attributes will be translated into something else or to someplace else. Ultimately, it is an exploration of urban types and elements to which we apply certain treatments to get behind their secrets. – Alex Lehnerer, UIC
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Stairscraper / Nabito
New York CITY - Well judging by the green surroundings, are they expecting to build it in Central Park or something?!
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Soundscape - 1982 by Mati Klarwein
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Kashmir, Pakistan
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Citadel of Salah Ed-Din
Latakia, Syria
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FLirting with disaster
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(via caeruleangypsy, oldchum)
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Meyers Pediatric Hospital in Florence, Italy
Oh WOW. “The upper atrium features a play area that opens to the green roof to allow the children to remain connected to the outdoors. 47 ‘Pinocchio Hats’ dot the roof — these are actually solar tubes that feed natural light into the building.”
Check out my Green A Roof, Cool A City post for some good resources on green roofing and photos of Toronto City Hall’s fantastic new green roof addition.
[via age-of-ecology]
