MAD Architects Unveil Urban Forest Skyscraper For China | Inhabitat

“Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in the heart of the city, designed to bring more nature and open space in a dense and compact way. MAD Architects is becoming more known for their sustainable designs, and hopefully the green design aspects of this new tower extend beyond the garden spaces on each floor.”

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Forwarding Dallas - Hill-Filled Design | Inhabitat

“Fowarding Dallas,” by Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, is a hillside-inspired design that consists of a series of peaks and valleys, runs completely on renewable energy, is covered in vegetation, and can even grow its own food. The coolest part? This mixed-use eco-community won’t just a concept – it will actually be constructed in Dallas in 2011”

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Vienna

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Beautiful!

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Midtown Tower proposal for Manhattan by Diller, Scofidio & Renfro

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4th floor roof garden at OHSU building, Portland, OR

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Another Green Roof for London | CleanderAirForCities

“London is getting another green roof on top of a sustainable building!(…)The building is designed to use a staggered step design, creating two separate green roofs on the structure. Additionally, the upper green roof will be private, while the lower green roof will be public.” via cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com

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Stacked-Building Apartment Design for Singapore

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Starting at the End: 12 New Cities Built From Scratch | WebUrbanist

Ziggurat Project, Dubai

Tokyo rooftop garden with its own creek!

photo from Toshimaya Co.

from treehugger

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Edifici Banca Catalana, Barcelona

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roof gardens in Pont de Flandre, París

photo by bram*

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The Casualties of a Building Boom That Got Ahead of Itself - New York Magazine

Plan for BAM Cultural District Apartment Tower, New York

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Plan for office complex in Milan

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Sky Trenches | GreenRoofs.com

Ecoroofs Everywhere came up with this inexpensive drainage detail.

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Vertical Park: Stackable Solar Skyscraper for Mexico City » Inhabitat

In the ever-expanding metropolis of Mexico City, green space is hard to come by. An estimated population of 22 million inhabitants bears an impressive weight on the Valley of Mexico and, in recent years, architects and urbanists have been examining solutions to combat the thickening smog. This stunning Vertical Park by Jorge Hernandez de la Garza intends to infuse the city with much-needed green space in the form of a modular skyscraper made up of a series of stacking units. The solar-powered structure contains sky-gardens in addition to spaces for living and working, and recycles all of its own water.

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