Living Walls
MVRDV’s Stunning Flowerbed Hotel is a Giant Greenhouse!
Inhabitat favorite MVRDV just unveiled plans for a new greenhouse hotel filled with living flowers. Designed in collaboration with Kloos2, the Aalsmeer, Netherlands hotel will sit adjacent to the
LTL Architects Create a Living Green Wall Shaped Like Central Park for a NYC Office
From the largest living wall in North America to high rises wrapped in vertical gardens, we have seen quite a few impressive green walls. But LTL Architects has built an 84-foot-long green wall in a New
Karen Bausman’s Living Wall Project will Fill NYC’s Meatpacking District with Greenery
Hip, trendy and home to some of the hotest high-fashion boutiques, NYC’s Meatpacking District may rake in the green, but greenery is something to be desired. A former industrial area, the famed
DIY: Build Your Own Modern Modular Wall Planter
Spotted over at Pot-ted, we completely fell in love with this awesome DIY idea that turns cinder blocks into a spectacular wall for succulents (we admit the puppy did us in too). To make the wall, Pot-ted
Researchers Developing Coral-Like Living Skin for Buildings
Researchers at the University of Greenwich in the UK are developing a carbon negative building material that would not only help fight climate change but protect the structures it is built upon. The
ECObitat: A Lush Modular Prefab With Living Green Walls
Felipe Campolina‘s ECObitat is a modular housing system designed specifically to provide emergency or disaster relief housing. Easily transported and made of off-the-shelf materials, the one-bedroom
Organic Building in Osaka is Clad with Plant-Filled Pockets
Space is limited in densely packed Japan meaning there is hardly any room remaining for garden space – but one great solution to this constraint is to place gardens right on the exteriors of
Latticed French Pavilion Shades a Green-Walled Interior
Drawing on classic French style, Jacques Ferrier Architectures designed the gorgeous French Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo, which welcomes visitors inside a green-walled “Sensual City”.
Living Exoskeleton Proposed for Province of Parma Headquarters
StudioDosi has proposed a double-skinned, vegetation-covered headquarters for the Province of Parma in Italy. Designed by a talented group of young Italian architects and engineers, the plan features a
The Brooks Ave House: A Californian Study in Green
Vancouver-based architecture firm Bricault Design’s vegetation-clad house in Venice, California is a sexy study in green. The mod abode incorporates sustainable design in a new residential addition that
Living Walls from ELT Easy Green
Here at Inhabitat we are big botanical architecture fans, but we also love seeing ideas that stand to add an extra bit of foliage to our lives. So, if you are a fan of Patrick Blanc’s Vertical
Greenworks Self-Watering Living Wall System
Green walls are not only spectacularly beautiful, but they also help enliven a space, humidify the air, and process toxins. We loved this simple and modular living wall by Greenworks, a design duo from
ALIVE STRUCTURES: Greening NYC Rooftops
While most people might see New York City as a densely developed, built-up city with little space for greenery, Brooklyn-based Alive Structures sees the opportunity to make open green space — and
Singapore’s Ecological EDITT Tower
Currently pending construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower will be a paragon of “Ecological Design In The Tropics”. Designed by TR Hamzah & Yeang and sponsored by the National
Living Walls Provide Local Produce
Green Living Technologies is an innovative landscaping company that is taking advantage of an oft forgotten space to grow plants – walls. Their Green Living™ Wall system uses specially designed
GREEN YOUR WALLS with Schiavello Vertical Gardens
For all of us urban dwellers who crave indoor greenery but find ourselves a bit short on space, here’s a great solution that requires almost no square footage: Joost Bakker’s Schiavello
ELT EASY GREEN LIVING WALLS
Our first encounter with a “living wall” was the giant installation in the atrium of the University of Guelph in Canada. Everyone’s always asking whether they can get a similar wall of
BIOWALL
We love the idea of living walls here at Inhabitat, and if we could turn every surface into a living surface, we would. That’s why we were so struck by Loop.ph’s stunning new BioWall, which
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