VIA: Urban Greenery

The blog/tumblr Urban Greenery offers a constant and seemingly endless stream of vegetated architecture in action, call it daily green, thus the theme of this installation of VIA focuses around a bevy of posts from this source (with a few others thrown in for measure).

One of the most stunning is from Core77, combining mass transit and greenery - via UG: ""Växtväggen (Swedish for “Plantwall”) is a self-supporting system composed of a reinforced, multi-layered, synthetic and absorbent felt-surface on which plants are applied into small pockets. Michael says: ‘Just like any garden, the vertical garden is a place of life and change. I try to achieve it by finding the essence of every plant - it could be a special color of its leafs, its texture, the way it growths etc - and give each species an environment where this may be at display.'"

:: image via Urban Greenery

There's a wealth of other vertical greenery on the site, including some visuals cribbed from an old post via PingMag... including these elevators from Patrick Blanc.


:: Green Elevator in Bangkok - image via Urban Greenery


:: Green Elevator - image via Urban Greenery

And this recent post, showing that rainwater harvesting systems don't need to be ugly and utilitarian. "“CISTA is a rain water harvesting system designed for urban environments. It provides storage for rain water within a vertical planted frame, allowing us to conserve water and increase green space.”


:: image via Urban Greenery

And some ephemera...


:: Secret Garden in NYC - image via Urban Greenery


:: Roof Garden, Chongqing, China - image via Urban Greenery


:: Roof Garden, Boston - image via Urban Greenery


:: Roof Garden, Toronto - image via Urban Greenery

And a project that has made the rounds in the past few days... SYNTHe, by Alexis Rochas. One of those wow projects that doesn't really ellicit much critical dialogue - it's a pretty stunning, beautiful and horribly inefficient way to grow veggies... pretty apt for LA :)


:: image via Urban Greenery


:: additional image via Inhabitat

More VIA and VIVA on the way as the coffers are full... stay tuned.