Tag: Green roof
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Bosco Verticale Milan – The next step
About 20 years ago Patric Blanc left climbers behind and started to create highly designed and engineered green walls. Although intense in maintenance and not very sustainable they are fantastic if built at the right spot. Stefano Boeri took the vertical greening up another step. Two residential towers (80 m and 112 m) in the
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MFO Park Zurich – The Park House
The dynamic relationship between structures and open spaces at the MFO Park is discussed by Christoph Fisher. Imagine a steel frame structure 100 m by 35 m and 17 m high in the city centre adjacent to office and residential blocks about the same size. Several levels and platforms are connected by grated stairs and
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Did you win? Landscape Awards announced
The ASLA (the American Society of Landscape Architects) announces the winners of its 2013 Awards. Of particular interest was the winner of the research award for the Green Roof Innovation Technology (GRIT) Laboratory. Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at the University of Toronto.
The Landscape 