Vertical Landscapes: The only way is up for green cities By
Darren Quick July 28, 2009 Demand for office and housing space
in ever diminishing land space has led to taller and taller
buildings reaching for the skies in cities around the world.
This shortage of land in many cities has unfortunately also led
to a scarcity of natural vegetation in urban settings. We’ve
looked at several vertical-farming concepts - dedicated
buildings that provide space to grow crops in city centers - but
a new architectural system from Vertical Landscapes (VL) seeks
to invite nature back into our cities on a broader scale. The
architectural system transforms buildings into columns of
vegetation to add a much needed touch of green, help clean the
city air and possibly even produce small scale crops, all while
retaining the building’s usual use for office or housing space.
Vertical Landscape’s Vertical Ecosystem Structure (VES) is a
freestanding structure that takes the form of a critical
architectural component, a load-bearing, s