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Very cool, but that building at 3 stories is no sky-scrapper and having plants grow on it is actually reasonable.

• Swizec 14y ago
  True, I'm just saying it seems possible to construct facades with plants where all the water and nutrients are supplied from within the building's walls through pipes and stuff. I wonder what the technical limitations would be to building that on a skyscraper ... we can have running water on top floor, so why not running water in the facade?
  • voidlogic 14y ago
    The article indicates that the temperature fluctuations and wind speed are much more extreme as you go higher. Maybe it would still work by selected well-suited plants? But those well-suited plants are probably not going to be the kind of plants the articles author was complaining about using in their renderings.
    • Swizec 14y ago
      Well we have trees growing in the alps quite high up, so I'm sure it's possible. Unless ground level plus skyscraper height equals above the tree line. But do we have such high skyscrapers yet?