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Photos of five featured buildings, “Bosco Verticale,” Parkroyal on Pickering, Namba Parks, Ivry-sur-Seine, and the Chicland Hotel.
Literally Green Buildings

Literally Green Buildings

Happy 51st Earth Day! Followers of Artdog Adventures may remember earlier posts about environmentally-friendly architecture. I tend to post them around Earth Day. People sometimes talk about “green buildings.” But there’s “green” as in eco-friendly, and then there’s “green” as in literally green buildings. And some are both. What do I mean by “literally green buildings”? When I say “literally green buildings,” I mean green with plants. Lately, more and more architects think about plants from the very start of…

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Wishing you a magical Summer Solstice

Wishing you a magical Summer Solstice

The Artdog Image of Interest Do you love time lapse photography? I certainly do. I went looking for a good image to wish you a magical Summer Solstice, for this post. When I stumbled across a time lapse image of the sun rising at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice, I was delighted. I hope you are, too! This sequence was taken at Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, UK, in 2018. Just watching the video made me feel a little bit the way I did after the…

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Apartments built like . . . a tree?

Apartments built like . . . a tree?

The Artdog Image of Interest The last time friends went apartment-hunting, they didn’t look for apartments built like a tree. But the Montpellier “L’Arbre Blanc” (“The White Tree,” also called the “White Space Tree“) project gives an example why “biomimicry” is a growing design trend. Architect Sou Fujimoto designed this building for a site along the Lez River in Montpellier on the French Riviera. This apartment building “built like a tree” expresses Fujimoto’s design approach based on a “relationship between…

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This is an aerial photo of the 25 Verde project, an apartment complex that was designed to incorporate a small forest of 50 trees. It looks very different, with its dark brown structural lines and abundant green foliage, from other urban buildings that surround it. 25 Verde design by Luciano Pia. Photo by Beppe Giardino via DesignBoom.
A different take on a “urban forest”

A different take on a “urban forest”

The Artdog Image of Interest Here’s an update on this “different take,” from 2024! When you focus on unusual projects, sometimes they don’t work out long-term, but this one did! Take a look at the project with mature trees and tested by more than a decade of living and growing. I’m focusing on “green” architecture this month. Not only green as environmentally sustainable, but green as in there are lots of plants incorporated into the design. In this case, it’s an urban apartment…

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8 incredible environmentally friendly buildings

8 incredible environmentally friendly buildings

The Artdog Image of Interest In honor of Earth Day, this month I’m exploring YouTube videos that show some amazing environmentally efficient architecture.  Today’s video explores eight different buildings on the cutting edge of sustainability. Several even generate more energy than they can use. VIDEO: Many thanks to All Things Human’s YouTube Channel, for this video.

1957’s Monsanto House of the Future at Disneyland

1957’s Monsanto House of the Future at Disneyland

The Artdog Image of Interest Today’s opening video offers a short (approximately 1-minute) glimpse of what was once a famous part of Disney’s “Tomorrowland” at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, CA. The video clip offers a sampling from a much longer video, for viewers in a hurry. Below I’ve embedded what seems like a much more complete version, which is not quite 13 minutes long, for those who have time to view it. Created by Monsanto, largely as a way of showcasing innovations made possible…

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