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Bike Shop Attracts Buyers with 120 Bikes Mounted to the Facade

Bike Shop Attracts Buyers with 120 Bikes Mounted to the Facade

We’re not totally sure how Christian Peterson got all these bikes on his building’s façade, but he’s certainly given new meaning to the notion of a green wall. The co-owner of a bicycle shop in

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Movable Modular Planters and Green Walls by Maximize Design

Movable Modular Planters and Green Walls by Maximize Design

If you’re looking for a way to transform your garden or terrace without dealing with messy and expensive construction, you might want to check out these modular planters and green walls from

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Luxury Resort Disguised as a Giant Mountain of Lush Green

Luxury Resort Disguised as a Giant Mountain of Lush Green

We love the way buildings look (c’mon, we’re an architecture and design website), but sometimes the natural landscape is just too lovely to spoil by plopping a giant skyscraper onto it. Taking

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LIFEWALL: Modular Vertical Garden Panels Clean the Air

LIFEWALL: Modular Vertical Garden Panels Clean the Air

Creating vertical gardens just got a whole lot easier thanks to these modular garden tiles by Spanish firm Ceracasa. Their Lifewall product, which we just saw over at Jetson Green, is a modular tile that

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READER TIP: Andrea Salvini’s Lush Green Walled Sustainable Neighborhood

READER TIP: Andrea Salvini’s Lush Green Walled Sustainable Neighborhood

New York-based architect Andrea Salvini‘s latest project is a lush green, mixed-use residential development on nearly 12 acres in the province of Caserta, Italy. Called simply “The Sustainable

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New Urban Garden Room at LEED Platinum One Bryant Park in NYC

New Urban Garden Room at LEED Platinum One Bryant Park in NYC

HEY NYC READERS! If you’re in New York City right now, don’t miss your chance to see an amazing, larger than life living installation at the Urban Garden Room that’s taken root at One

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Replacing Ugly Construction Site Barriers with Beautiful Living Green Walls

Replacing Ugly Construction Site Barriers with Beautiful Living Green Walls

Normally at a big construction site, an ugly OSB wall plastered with posters provides a barrier between the site and the rest of the city. Typically thought of as eyesores, these walls are anything but

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SOLAR DECATHLON 2009: Rice University’s $140,000 ZEROW House Keeps Up With the High Rollers

SOLAR DECATHLON 2009: Rice University’s $140,000 ZEROW House Keeps Up With the High Rollers

The Solar Decathlon, the super solar architecture competition held in Washington D.C. bi-annually, officially kicked off today, and Rice University‘s awesomely affordable ZEROW House is already

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Floating Green: A Grassy Bench

Floating Green: A Grassy Bench

A lush lawn can be a wonderful thing to stretch out on. Unfortunately, the high-maintenance needs, which include frequent seeding and fertilizing, of grass can make it more of a pain than a joy, leaving

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North America’s Largest Living Wall Installation by PNC

North America’s Largest Living Wall Installation by PNC

No, we’re not advertising for PNC. But they are – on the side of their headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh. They recently finished installing what is said to be North America’s

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LIVING WALL

LIVING WALL

At the University of Guelph, near Toronto, green design is a literal term. The new Humber building, designed by Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, Inc., uses a wall of plants as a living air

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