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The Trudo Vertical Forest in the Dutch city of Eindhoven copies the iconic Bosco Verticale in Milan, where apartments go for millions of dollars. But unlike the Bosco, Eindhoven’s tower is filled with public housing.
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With a post-pandemic future on the minds of many Canadians — particularly as several provinces, including Yukon, Ontario and Quebec, announce plans to reopen — sustainable design professor Lloyd Alter says how we approach design and architecture could look different in the future.
Op-Ed: Was Media Right About Elon Musk's Las Vegas Boring Loop? Apr 19, 2021 1m ago ++ It seems much of the media is unimpressed with The Boring Company's Las Vegas tunneling project. This article comes to us courtesy of EVANNEX, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at InsideEVs, nor have we been paid by EVANNEX to publish these articles. We find the company's perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are happy to share its content free o...
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Japan introduces urban vegetable gardens in train stations. Courtesy of popupcity.net Such projects are examples of how to cultivate different plant species — for human consumption or not — in other ways than growing directly on the ground. Although vertical greenery can assume different configurations depending on the structure, the species, and the context in which it is inserted, all these solutions have in common the optimization of open green spaces — even though occupying as little horizontal space as possible. In this sense, the impacts of plants on cities, which are already wide...