Low-Income Housing That Anyone Would Love To Live In | Co.Exist
“In San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, the recently completed Richardson Apartments provide formerly homeless residents (many with physical and mental disabilities) with beautiful living spaces and social services.”
Anastasia Sonkina submitted:
Mobile Living Partitions to Divide San Francisco’s Largest Patio Space:
San Francisco based company Habitat Horticulture installed 3 living wall partitions for The Metreon City View patio space owned by Westfield’s shopping malls looking over Yerba Buena Gardens. Comprised of succulents and sedums, the 3 freestanding mobile living wall partitions are used to break a 300 ft patio space that is used for cooperate events. They can be manipulated around to create a lush and intimate “living room” or aligned horizontally to close off the unused or private space.
The living wall partitions create functional gardens in a tight urban space, providing greenery for city dwellers and for the downtown area of San Francisco.
San Francisco Embarcadero Center
photo by Ame Otoko
Places like this are perfect for adding green to a city
Golden Gate park in San Francisco, from The World’s 10 Greatest Large Urban Parks » infrastructurist.com
I’m kinda sad that Forest Park in Portland didn’t make the list
PARK(ing) DAY 2009 - September 18
“Originally created by Rebar, San Francisco art and design collective, PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.”
Lombard Street in San Francisco is the “Windiest Street in the World”, due to it’s concentrated curves down one city block (it’s quite straight elsewhere). We love it because all those curves allow for great greenery in-between!
photos via Ben Ward and David Piva
