A new tower will have greenery lining the balconies and roofs to clean up the air and provide a new environment for pollinators and humans alike.
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Social housing in four locations in Amsterdam will be fitted with smart blue-green roofs to help protect the buildings from extreme weather conditions.
The redevelopment of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, better known as Cefas, will see some existing buildings, including a former hotel, demolished.
When landscape architects attract flocks to urban centers, city dwellers are keen to look up.
Architects, property developers and property owners often ask a variety of questions, including how the planning scheme affects the design of green roofs, what local government planners value in green roofs, which councils welcome green roofs, how the Civil and Administrative Tribunal views green roofs and what it values in them.
One of the architects behind the hotly-anticipated Shanghai Planetarium has revealed new details about the project’s futuristic design.
A new zoo slated for development in Sydney’s west will be home for a wide variety of exotic animals, but it will also play host to some Australian firsts in building design, led by best-practice sustainability objectives.
Built in the footprint of the old Osaka baseball stadium, Namba Parks is a shopping mall with an eight level rooftop garden that spans several city blocks and features tree groves, rock clusters, cliffs and canyons, lawns, streams, waterfalls, ponds and even space to grow veggies!
On 16 December 2014, the Municipal Council of Recife, Brazil, approved the Green Roof Law. This law requires buildings with more than four floors to have their roofs covered with native vegetation. The law also applies to any commercial building with more than 400 square meters.
Green roofs and green walls are the hottest urban property trend spreading throughout Australia's capital cities.