Vertical gardens
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about vertical gardens
Project • By Studio Vural • Private Houses
SUNSET PARK DEVELOPMENT
Sunset Park Development is the next generation of condominium living in New York City—an inspiring model for what’s possible when sustainability, design, and profitability converge.
Efecan Zeybek & Ceren Kalayci
Targeting a new generation of buyers, the design goes well beyond conventional sustainability by introducing an urban roof farm where dwellers can grow their produce in planting beds and a winter garden year-round. The farm will offer educational classes led by horticultural specialists on composting, rainwater collection, and gardening basics to help grow vegetables without pesticides and microplastics.
Efecan Zeybek & Ceren Kalayci
Despite incentives under Local Law 97, the vast majority... More
Product • By SageGreenLife® by SmartBiotiles® • Sage SmartWalls™ living walls with integrated sensors and artificial intelligence
Sage SmartWalls™ living walls with integrated sensors and artificial intelligence
Since 2010, SageGreenLife® has globally transformed built environments into sustainable biophilic works of art enhancing the wellbeing of our planet and its people.
Today SageGreenLife® by SmartBiotiles™ is further enabling the commercial real estate sector to solve their sustainability and ESG challenges.
Sage SmartWalls™
Sage SmartWalls™ are living green walls with patented technologies, combining nature with built environments. Our Sage SmartWalls™ integrate sensors and AI to measure and analyze over 100 ambient environmental factors, and provide actionable insights.
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Sage SmartWalls™ provide CRE owners and operators with ESG compliance solutions that are measurable, act... More
News • Detail • 30 Apr 2023
Detail: Living Wall of Gardenhouse, Los Angeles
In Beverly Hills a new residential complex is enveloped in a 600 square meter living art wall. Designed by MAD Architects, it’s the largest of its kind in the United States. The project’s facade supports over 40,000 plants consisting of 30 species.When the designers from MAD Architects first visited Los Angeles, they drove the city’s streets and were struck by the number of single-family homes largely hidden from view, only partially visible from behind tall planted hedges that lined the properties. “All you can see are the tops of the roofs in L.A.,” says MAD’s Associate Partner Flora Lee. “We thought it was intriguing in terms of the city’s characteristics. It triggers one’s curiosity,... More
News • News • 27 Sep 2022
Perkins&Will complete innovative São Paulo residential project inspired by Oscar Niemeyer and the Brazilian modernist movement
In São Paulo, global studio Perkins&Will have completed a impressive residential project that reflects Brazilian modernism and celebrates the exuberant green area that surrounds. The project is situated a close walk from Ibirapuera Park by Oscar Niemeyer.
Leonardo Finotti
Completed in 1954, the park remains one of the city’s most celebrated destinations and an icon of modern architecture. Throughout the project, the aesthetics of Oscar Ibirapuera guide a reinterpretation of elements recognized as hallmarks of Brazilian modernism, such as roof supported only by columns, organic shapes, and brise-soleil on facades.
Leonardo Finotti
The projects includes apartments of 182 m2, 227 m2, or 233 m2 wit three or... More
News • News • 8 Sep 2022
Guilhermina Building: A subtle insertion in Rio de Janeiro
In the Lelon neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, the Guilhermina Building by Jacobsen Arquitetura transforms a building formerly known as Saint Patricks School into a commercial project that embraces the architectural memory of the street.
Pedro Mascaro
The façade of the former school is a cultural landmark and its preservation forms the central element from which the project derives. In line with local land use and occupation legislation, a new volume is inserted behind the preserved façade.
Pedro Mascaro
Stepped back from the street and the line of the existing façade the new volume is subtle in its expression with a facade of vertical gardens on wooden baffles.
Pedro Mascaro
The overall heigh... More
Product • By Greenarea • Moss Identity
Moss Identity
Our green communication projects are able to bring a company’s visual identity closer to nature. Brands literally come alive with our frames, lighted signs and 3D letters or icons, amongst other formats.
Nature merges with tailor-made supports to make a brand ooze personality and freshness.
Greenarea offers a wide array of different options to customize logos, signs, pictograms or messages by combining its Deco&Moss products -in any of the options available – on customized supports of MDF with finishes such as cement, wood, metals… as well as by using different styles, colors and sizes. More
Product • By Greenarea • Lichen Green Creativity
Lichen Green Creativity
By touching and feeling the lichen in any of our green decor items we experience a connection with nature which in turn takes us to a world of sensations.Its versatility, texture and color range provide numberless possibilities to use it, alone or combined with other materials, for any kind of decorative project.
From Greenarea we offer the most suitable vegetable decoration for each client and / or space, developed in an integral way or in collaboration with the professionals required by each project. We accompany the entire creative process, execution and maintenance with maximum guarantees, professionalism and transparency. More
Project • By LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS • Residential Landscape
THE LINK City-Forest
Architecture firm Luca Curci Architects presents THE LINK, a vertical city for 200,000 people. The project aims to rise above the challenge of population density by successfully combining vertical expansion with economic innovation. A self-sustainable city-forest, that will absorb CO2, produce oxygen for cleaner air and increase urban biodiversity. With interconnected communities’ programs. No suburbs. Less poverty oriented.
With its 300 floors THE LINK will reach the maximum height of 1200 meters. The project combines sustainability with population density, and it aims to build up a zero-energy city-building. The city-forest is made of 4 main towers, connected one each other, equipped with green areas on each level, natural light an... More