The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

From Ecogizmo By Jeff Salton You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the environment. It’s almost an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we [...]

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Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture New York City 2009 By Vincent Callebaut Architectures Excerpts from Vincent Callebaut Architectures: “Architecture has to serve a new agriculture and to design for the new social desire for ecologic mutation and food autonomy! The Dragonfly project suggests building a prototype of an urban farm offering a mixed [...]

When dreams come through! Today the first section of the old railway line, now converted into an elevated park, was inaugurated in NY. It is now possible to walk across the Big Apple at 10 meters high, between secret veggie gardens and metropolitan woods. I’m so deeply moved that I won’t add anything else but [...]

Amazing project but they forgot to include Urban Farming. Anyway, it is already an amazing step from what we have got today, isn’t it? The future looks bright! By Karen Cilento (ArchDaily) The Zuidkas, an experimental project commissioned by the Government Building Agency, challenges architects with an imaginary office building of over 11,000 square meters [...]

by Mike Chino (*) Addressing the urgent need to green our built environment, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects have conceived of a Super Sustainable City that re-envisions Gothenburg, Sweden as a future-forward ecotopia. Designed as a dense and interconnected urban area, the master plan incorporates everything from green rooftop gardens to water and energy harvesting roadways, towering [...]

Great video make by the Magazine Monocle about the tip 25 elements that make a city acording to them: “Monocle believes that the measure of a city is more about everyday wonders – pavements, well-designed schools, punctual transport – rather than one-off grand projects.” http://www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/City-Slickers/

By Dave Hoekstra Chicago Sun-Times September 3, 2008 In late July the folks at the Uncommon Ground restaurant, 1401 W. Devon, opened their 2,500-square foot organic rooftop farm. The lofty mission is to deliver organic produce for the downstairs restaurant and to use the garden to teach adult volunteers and children how to grow food [...]

By by Alexandra Kain (*) Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV (http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/) recently won the Gwanggyo City Centre Competition with their design of this incredible new city just south of Seoul, South Korea. Envisioned as a verdant acropolis of organic ‘hill’ structures, the proposed complex is a fully self-sufficient city for up to 77,000 inhabitants. Similar nodes, common [...]