Urban Greenery

ninaprettyballerina:

Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture
“The prototype Globe/Hedron ‘is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. The design is optimized for aquaponic farming techniques: the fish’s water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish,’”.
image: Antonio Scarponi/Conceptual Devices

Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture

“The prototype Globe/Hedron ‘is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. The design is optimized for aquaponic farming techniques: the fish’s water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish,’”.

image: Antonio Scarponi/Conceptual Devices

decoarchitecture:

44 Bridge Street Street, Sydney Australia
by Chris&Steve

Gotta love the roof garden!

newyorkcityfeelings:

l love NYC rooftops

i need to meet someone who has a NYC roof garden

(Source: newyorkcityfeelings)

Honorable mention, eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition.
Tehran Tower design shaped by Mahdi Kamboozia, Alireza Esfandiari, Nima Dehghani, and Mohammad Ashkbar Sefat

via applearts
Yes, please!

Honorable mention, eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition.

Tehran Tower design shaped by Mahdi Kamboozia, Alireza Esfandiari, Nima Dehghani, and Mohammad Ashkbar Sefat

via applearts

Yes, please!

Close-up photo of a green roof from highviewcreations

buddhabrot:

commonchant:

Botanical apartment therapy in Phuket, Thailand

why don’t i live there

This, everywhere!

seedstofeedrooftopfarm:

woseph:

portable farm -> milk crates (they moved the entire farm inside during Hurricane Irene!)

Riverpark Farms NYC

that is intense, the whole farm!?

Love it all

Brooklyn Grange - World’s Largest Rooftop Farm

highviewcreations submitted:

From a recent tour we took of NYC’s Dept of Parks green-roof test plots on the 5-boro building.

serafinoutsights:

the High Line’s ancestor in paris (the “promenade plantée”)

via LandscapeArchitects@fb

via urben-disaster

decoarchitecture:

Maybury Roadhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
By Amanda@ScotClans

One of the surviving 1930s roadhouses in Scotland. (A roadhouse, BTW, is an inn, restaurant, nightclub, pub, etc. located on a road outside a town or city.)