A True “Green” Building!

Image courtesy of and copyright (c) WIRED.com

Many thanks to my friend and subscriber to this blog, Balsam, for passing along a tidbit on the WIRED website about an honest-to-goodness, true “green” building. Designer Patrick Blanc has been gardening since childhood, but — for a twist — always vertically. Now all grown up, he’s taken vertical gardening out of his bedroom and onto the sides of large, urban structures. Amazing!

Jump to this WIRED article, read more about Blanc’s buildings, and take a look at the fabulous images of his latest project (a London building, pictured here) and other structures in France, Spain and elsewhere: http://www.wired.com/culture/art/magazine/17-09/pl_design.

As Balsam said in her note to me, she had a vision that NYC might one day look like this. I certainly hope that Patrick Blanc will cross the pond and go vertically green in the Big Apple sooner rather than later.