Getty Center, Los Angeles
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Los Angeles - Spring 2010
copyright 2010 Laura M Mauney
How can we not love a tumblr called flowers in urbia??
A Central Park for Los Angeles
Los Angeles has an ambitiuos proposal on the table: putting a massive park on top of a below-grade section of the 101 freeway in the heart of downtown.
Could it work in Los Angeles? Well, the Park 101 plan seems to have real momentum. The California Department of Transportation is on board and the design firm Aecom is putting together the designs. CalTrans his holding a public meeting on the idea on May 13.
SYNTHe: An Urban Rooftop Garden Prototype in Los Angeles
SYNTHe is a self-sufficient ecosystem that could offer a myriad of environmental benefits. Besides helping to filter pollutants, increasing thermal insulation of the roof, and reducing storm water runoff, the roof top garden sets forth a complete productive cycle. Food will be grown, consumed, and ultimately returned to the cycle in the form of compost on the premises.The prototype garden, part of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council program, is planted with fruit trees and vines, and herbs and vegetables that will be tended and used by residents and the chefs of the well-known ground floor restaurant, Blue Velvet.
via hippieflavor:
Jean Nouvel’s “Green Blade” to Slice L.A. Skyline
To have 45 storeys, and be completed in 2012
via Inhabitat
