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Great idea, but I hope they have provisioned for a lot of expensive care and maintenance to keep the living walls alive, otherwise they'll end up with a dead li
by m-i-l 7y ago
Great idea, but I hope they have provisioned for a lot of expensive care and maintenance to keep the living walls alive, otherwise they'll end up with a dead living wall like the one in Paradise Park in London[0].
[0] https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/paradise-park-living-wall-scrapped/8602801.article https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/paradise-park-livin... or https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-living-wall-of-islington-is-dead-6763418.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-living-wall-of-islington...
- dmix 7y agoThis isn’t a small government run building where finding the right talent and money to fix a failed pump system is a big deal. But it is at a much larger scale, even far more than the Singapore example others posted. So they better not cheap out on the watering and maintenance tech/budget.
- m-i-l 7y agoYes, I'd imagine a hotel in central London would also have more incentive to keep it going. Maybe in the past 10 years the technology and/or understanding has improved too. There's a much smaller scale one on a private residence that I pass most days that the owner (or new owner) has given up on though. There's something very sad about it, like it symbolises lofty dreams for a greener future that have withered and died.
- fredley 7y agoThere's a living wall by Old Street roundabout (on a WeWork no less!) that's survived the first year ok. https://goo.gl/maps/X5h4qrwHQZcmFAxa7 https://goo.gl/maps/X5h4qrwHQZcmFAxa7 It's grown in a bit since the Streetview was taken, and is still in very good health.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoWith the right plants and a watering system, the upkeep shouldn't be insane.