Patrick Blanc is a botanist and his company developed the green wall into a high-tech version. In the ‘mur végétal’ the water system is essential. This vertical garden consists of a metal frame with a PVC plate as a foundation […]
4.2 the building
4.2 Brown roof, Laban Dance Centre
Located in the Thames corridor in London, the Deptford Creek area now has several brown roofs. The first and most famous of these is the roof of the Laban Dance Centre by Herzog & de Meuron. Before the redevelopment of […]
4.2 M6B2 tower of biodiversity
The 50-metre tall residential building of the M6B2 Tour de la biodiversité project rises from the urban landscape of Paris. The tower was exempted from the Parisian 37-metre building height restriction, on the condition that it would be ‘green’. The […]
4.2 City garden Kempkensberg
The garden of the government office Kempkensberg in Groningen is not only there to enjoy for the approximately 3,000 employees of the Education Executive Agency and Regional Tax Office, but for all the people in the city. Covering an area […]
4.2 Polder roof / NIOO-KNAW
Vegetated roofs can play an important role as oases where plants and animals (especially birds and insects) feel at home. By now, many versions have been developed, each with its own specific merits. In Wageningen, there is an experiment with […]