Wednesday, September 3, 2008

hanging gardens of the upper east side

I saw this building on East 86th Street recently and was struck by the brilliance of creating vertical gardens on otherwise plain walls. What an innovative way to incorporate green space into the urban landscape!
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1 comment:

Mike Hollis said...

Excellent! I'm a huge fan of vertical gardens and have lamented the dearth of them in NYC. Maybe we'll finally start giving Paris some competition in the category.

We have a few of our own Patrick Blanc designs popping up, but they've all been interior projects (check out the second floor of the building at Lexington & 58th sometime; it's an interior wall on the second floor, but still visible from the street). This is the first exterior vertical garden in NYC of which I've heard.