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Category: green living walls

Posts on Green Living Walls (+ see introduction to green living walls)

London Landscape Replacement Policy

By Tom Turner Posted on January 5, 2020 Posted in green living walls, green roofs, green streets, landscape architecture

Brexiteers have called for London to become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ and one aspect of this is very attractive. Singapore has seen itself as a Garden City for many years and it agreed  a landscape replacement policy in 2009. LUSH 2.0 is …

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“How Concrete Jungles became Green Cities”

By Tom Turner Posted on September 8, 2017 Posted in green living walls, green roofs

‘‘Concrete jungle’ is the classic criticism of Modernist cities. The phrase was first used in a Billy Wilder movie to describe a sterile leafless view from an apartment in New York City (image, above top). Instead, cities should be richly …

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Green living wall research at the University of Greenwich

By Tom Turner Posted on July 15, 2016 Posted in green living walls

The University of Greenwich Green Roofs and Living Wall Research Centre has installed a NEMEC Living Wall on the first floor of the building in which landscape architects and architects are taught. The Stockwell Street building has extensive and intensive …

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San Francisco threat to green roofs?

By Tom Turner Posted on April 23, 2016 Posted in green living walls, green roofs

The San Francisco Examiner reports that ‘Beginning January [2017], new commercial and residential buildings of up to 10 stories in height will have to install rooftop solar systems for heat or electricity under legislation unanimously approved by the Board of …

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Beautiful courtyard garden in Vietnam

By Tom Turner Posted on December 5, 2015 Posted in green living walls

Browsing landscape architecture on G+ let me find this beautiful image of Naman Spa. Small courtyards are not easy to design, if their primary role is to be a light well, but this courtyard has other virtues: the creepers are local …

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London needs more green living walls

By Tom Turner Posted on August 7, 2015 Posted in green living walls

London needs more green walls for all its residents. Living green walls, if you don’t know, are panels of plants grown vertically using hydroponics, on structures that can be either free-standing or attached to walls. They are also known as …

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