Green Roof Tiles. Published: Jan 12, 2007 Updated: May 19 2011 • References: greengeek Why not green up your roof with a new tile system that makes it easy?
Toyota Roof Gardens has created a new green roof tile, measuring 20 inches square, which lets you easily add grass to your roof. The best part is that the tiles are self watering, so there's little maintenance. Bonus: at 2 inches thick, your roof won't collapse. Implications - The advantages of this product are many, not the least because green roofs help provide natural cooling and insulation for buildings of all shapes and sizes. Fountains. Boulder Creek Apartments Phoenix, AZ. Wednesday, May 18 2011 08:09 Want to start up a little garden, but think you do not have room in your apartment.
Well think again. Here are some ideas on how to start an apartment garden. Herbs are the easiest to grow inside. Playscapes. Planning, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design. Eirut » Siteless Architecture. François Blanciak’s recently published book ‘Siteless’ (MIT Press 2008) features 1001 architectural designs unconstrained by scale or context.
Each of his hand drawn sketches represents a possible design for a building anywhere –or maybe nowhere– in the world. Each drawing is complemented with a title, which is just as imaginative and humorous. This book belongs to a long tradition of experimentation in architecture, which privileged inspiration over rationalism. Its subtitle ‘1001 Building Forms’ is an homage to Iakov Chernikhov’s 101 architectural fantasies. Landscape Plans. Here are a few examples of some of the plans that we have been working on.
These renderings are by my great friend Ted Hardwick; as you can see he is an amazing illustrator and draftsmen. My presentations wouldn’t have nearly the weight the I hope they do without his help. We do some computer generated rendering but I really feel like you get a much more organic feel with these.