March 1, 2010

Brooklyn Grange believes roofs are ideal urban farm sites with potential to feed, employ, educate and unite communities
Take a group of local food enthusiasts, mix in some serious fundraising, add over 45 pounds of donated pork from Brooklyn-based Heritage Foods and…
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Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Food & Entertaining, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Urban Agriculture
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February 25, 2010

The Swedish architectural firm, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, has conjured up a concept for a shelter up in the trees: a light-weight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4×4×4m box clad in mirrored glass. How cool this would be…
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Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable
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February 23, 2010

Green walls enclose living area of Elot House
The owner of this urban garden house expressed his dream about living in a “forest” setting amidst the urbanized city of Singapore and his architect, Chang Yong Ter of Chang Architects, interpreted the dream. In…
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Category: Cellular Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, Hydroponics, Irrigation, No-Dig Gardening, Rain Gardens, Rock Gardens, Rooftop Gardens, Vertical Gardens
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February 21, 2010

Take a virtual spin through this urban environmental art installation, to be experienced, not just viewed and admired. With LEDs embedded in the cobbled surface below that bathe a steel plate suspended eight meters high by thin poles, the glow of…
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Category: Experiencing
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February 13, 2010

Here’s a challenge to the traditional notion of public space as a “town square” or “village green”: You’ve got an unsafe under bridge area within an existing viaduct not so suitable for planting or creating a verdant space. Architects James Dallman…
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Category: Experiencing
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