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How To Make Inexpensive DIY Vertical Garden Room Divider From IKEA Plant Stands
Like many urban apartments, my daughter’s first apartment in New York City is small on space. It’s a budget “converted” one bedroom–which means there is a temporary sheet rock wall to carve another...
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Vertical Gardens With Supernatural Healing Powers
We’ve discussed before the benefits of plants and vertical gardens–how they can not only beautify indoor and outdoor spaces, but can help decrease energy usage by providing insulation, improve indoor...
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Urban Vertical Farm and Pick-it-Yourself Market
When industrial designer Ben Green and grower Tyler Nevers saw a need for suppling urban food-loving folks with locally grown produce at reasonable prices, they devised a plan and successfully raised...
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Organic Concrete For Living Green Facades
Spanish researchers have developed a living concrete that may define a new method for creating vertical gardens and living walls on building facades. Capturing rainwater, the multilayered cement...
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How to Grow an Energy-Saving Living Curtain
Green curtains outside the Arakawa City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.Photo, Bloomberg. Anticipating rising energy costs after Japan’s nuclear disaster, and inspired by the green curtains on the facades of...
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New York City Rooftop Garden Offers Views and Privacy
Pulltab Design, whose indoor green wall I featured a few years ago, designed this beautiful urban garden for a client in New York City’s East Village, incorporating a novel custom water feature and...
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Green Walled Facade Conceals Building’s Mechanicals
Plants pop through small holes of the die-cast aluminum panels that punctuate the living facade of Green Cast, a mixed-use building in Odawara, Japan. Designed by architects Kengo Kuma &...
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Growing Up: A Guide to Great Gardens in Small Spaces
Photo: travelnerd Living in the middle of a bustling city doesn’t have to mean you can’t create a gorgeous garden space, no matter how tiny your outdoor area may be. As long as you have a spot with a...
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Green Walls and Living Sculpture Blend Art and Fashion
Complex and intricate living art arrangements composed of thousands of plants climb the interior walls of of Isetan Shinjuku, one of Japan’s oldest department stores. For a recent unveiling of the...
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Sustainable High-Rise Greens Sydney Skyline
While action toward building ‘greener’ more sustainable structures is gaining momentum in Europe and America, an office tower from down-under is putting Australia on the green buildings map. A 30...
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3D Printed Planter Bricks
Now you can print and plant a brick. Planter Bricks are 3D printed concrete masonry units that double as vessels for growing plants and vegetation. Created by Emerging Objects, a design and research...
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Hydroponic Wine Bottle Wall Garden at Student Bar
Conceived as part wine rack and part hydroponics, a hydroponic bottle wall garden will spout from April 7-24 in the lower bar of a local Cornell University campus area venue, Stella’s Bar and...
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My Private “Vegitecture” Tour of Jardí Tarradellas, Barcelona’s Tallest...
These days we find gardens in unconventional places, from highway median dividers to old parking lots. The City of Barcelona has elevated growing plants in unlikely places to an art form, transforming...
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10 Cool DIY Home and Garden Projects You Can Make With a 3D Printer
Pushpin birdhouse design spotted on MakerBot’s Thingiverse. I’ve been seriously wowed lately by many of the inventive 3D printed objects I have found, like concrete planter bricks, a mini planter...
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A Vertical Succulent Garden With Integrated Outdoor Shower
Well known for Phytokinetic, the über cool green roof system he designed for city buses, Spanish landscape designer and friend Marc Grañèn also creates beautiful and functional botanical works of art....
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Concrete Indoor-Outdoor Modular Green Wall Tiles From France
Oh how j’adore the verdant marriage of design and horticulture in French designer Benjamin Pawlica’s Deltaflore plantable concrete green wall tiles. (You may have noticed that I’m a little obsessed...
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Best of 2013: Urban Gardens Top 10 Favorite Posts
Urban Gardens readers and followers have spoken. In 2013, vertical gardens continued to reign in popularity, as did outdoor and indoor edible gardens, some of which were climbing the walls. You loved...
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Design Journey: 10 Fab Pinterest Indoor and Outdoor Garden Finds
By Logica:architettura, found on the Pinterest board of Justin DiPiero Interior Designer, SCAD alumnus I took a virtual design tour of visual discovery to see what Pinterest indoor and outdoor garden...
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Medicinal Plants Climb Walls of Paris Pharmacy
MaPharmacie is a Paris pharmacy of a greener kind. On the exterior, the standard green flashing cross which represents French pharmacies, belies what’s inside. Tinctures and capsules appear to float...
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Milan Design Week 2014 Green Design Trends: Integrated Indoor Edible and...
Caesarstone featured Urban Islands incorporating plants directly into the solid surface. Image by Caesarstone. Green was trending everywhere during last month’s Milan Design Week 2014. Stylish,...
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