Vertical Garden
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Clearpoint Residencies, in Kotte, Sri Lanka, is vying for the title of the world's tallest vertical garden. It will be the first sustainable high-rise apartment complex in the country, with solar panels for electricity generation, a waste water recycling system and planted facades.
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Spain is now the home of a huge vertical garden covering 1492m2. Adorning the the Palacio de Congresos Europa (Palace of Congresses Europe), the garden designed by Alicante-based sustainable architecture firm Urbanarbolismo incorporates over 33,000 individual plants.
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Construction on this unusual twisting tower, named Agora Garden, in Taipei City recently began, according to its designer Vincent Callebaut Architecte.
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A team led at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya has come up with “biological concrete” designed to act as a substrate for vertical gardens.
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Consisting of over 8,000 plants of 32 different species, Edmonton International Airports Living Wall continues the trend of living vertical installations.
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Designers have completed the largest and most biologically diverse living wall in Surrey, British Columbia for Semiahmoo Public Library and RCMP Facility with a design covering nearly 3,000 square feet and consisting of over 10,000 individual plants.