Inorganic Flora by botanist/designer Macoto Murayama
Highly detailed blueprints of various flowers that have been digitally rendered from meticulously studied specimens that have been dissected by hand.
Maybe it’s a daydream for our scientists, seeing plants so cleanly dissected, labeled, and color-coded. Of course, plant science is seldom a white room undertaking; just ask our scientists in the field!
Still, I wouldn’t mind these on my wall. —MN
Listening to R.E.M. and reading about the inspiration behind Liberty of London’s new collection of fabrics entitled “The Flower Show.” Yeah, I’m an unrepentant flower dork who can’t wait for gardening season to return, can’t lie.~AR
(Source: Spotify)
Just about every single one of these can be applied to garden design as well. I am especially prone to fearing empty space. ~AR
(Source: incidentalcomics)
The subtle genius of Piet Oudolf’s landscape design can be seen along the High Line, in Battery Park, and even touches the Seasonal Walk of The New York Botanical Garden. But abroad, he’s even more prolific with his mingling of form and, contrastingly, the lack of it. Now in an artistic partnership with renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the monkish duo is taking on a challenge that will require an intense commitment of complementary talents: a 40-loft industrial living space replete with gardens, greenhouses, and growing things. Click through for the story of this lauded designer; we have a crush on him with good reason. —MN
Orchid lovers, time to celebrate; orchid support goes high design! No more chopsticks and banana clips. Orchid pots finally go the powder-coated steel/minimal design route! ~AR
For flowers that are so naturally elegant, domestic orchids are seriously design-challenged. Not the blooms themselves, of course—it’s that unsightly but ubiquitous stick-and-teensy-hair-clip combo that keeps the stems standing tall.
Yeonju Yang, half of London-based studio Yang:Ripol, had been regularly tending to these particular blossoms for almost five years before reaching a kind of creative epiphany.
“It’s funny how sometimes things stare at you in the face for so long until the designer mind clicks in and you realize—here is actually a problem which needs resolving,” he tells Co.Design.
(via fastcompany)
Cannot for the life of me understand how they work, but I do understand that I want one of these even more than I want the tree cookie record player. ~AR
Tree Ring Lights by Judson Beaumont.
(Thanks as always, Colossal.)
A Brief Survey of Vertical Gardens, Skyscrapers, and Edible Restaurants
Notice the bevy of green architectural concepts floating around the internet? I don’t mean the office building proposals with low carbon footprints, or novel approaches to solar farms. I’m talking about literal green concepts—bringing the bounty of the farm to urban landscapes.
Flavorwire has put together a stack of innovative and inspiring “plant buildings,” all with one thing in common: they’re taking after Patrick Blanc in a big way. Thanks to the French botanist’s Orchid Show designs here at the NYBG, New Yorkers are getting a taste of his creative ambition. The Green Man’s vertical gardens, or mur végétal, have directly or indirectly inspired everything from skyscraper farms to edible restaurants, and the author phrases Blanc’s legacy succinctly.
” … Our favorite green-haired botanist has helped to usher in the post-industrial era’s successor—a new design epoch that we think should be classified as The Age of the Plant.”
Click through for a few of the more daring ideas being courted in countries around the world. —MN
Anna Garforth’s Phenomenal Green Graffiti is Made Out of Moss
When I think “graffiti,” I think clandestine night excursions to highway overpasses and rooftop water tanks, tagging architecture with borderline-unintelligible street handles. Of course, there’s the other side of the coin—5 Pointz in Queens, for example, which is about as close to literal as the phrase “art house” comes (still can’t believe they’re demolishing it in 2013).
And then there’s Anna Garforth’s work.
Her environmentally friendly moss wall art has drawn praise as it pops up across the globe. Now all she needs to do is figure out how to streamline the process by inventing living moss in a spray can. —MN
(Source: inhabitat.com)
Sure. Here are just a few of my favorites (in no particular order):
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New York Botanical Garden
Yes, mushrooms growing in our library in Sunnyside.
What did you expect to find?
Artist Philip Haas installation of the Four Seasons in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Courtyard at the NYBG (New York Botanical Garden)....
Imagined conversations from bygone times
What do we want?
A robust variety of naturally-occurring flora in bloom for campus beauty and...
Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY.
People just accept that I love the New York Botanical Garden and look at the pictures of the pretty things.
BTW NYBG I love the new Native Plants...
