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Vauxhall Sky Garden Building Gets Three-Storey Gardens Inside
Posted by Kit Eaton at 10:45 PM on November 13, 2008
This 130m skyscraper has been approved for building in London, but unlike "dead" conventional buildings, the Sky Garden includes plans for two three-story gardens to be built inside it. The idea is to "create a space for social interaction" and "foster micro communities," which sounds like a neat way of combining green eco-friendliness and dense urban buildings. The gardens will cover about 2,500 square metres in total: a significant proportion of the building to give up from your normal retail/accommodation space. And it's just going to be way cool to take a stroll in the "park" in your own building. [DesignBoom]
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designguybrown
Posted 1:20 AM 14/11/08
uh-huh - and what is the chance that the public will be able to access this place on a regular basis - hmm? I am thinking that once the CEOs and other riff-raff get a liking to it, it'll be closed for special events for the foreseeable future...
designguybrown
jdbaile3
Posted 1:09 AM 14/11/08
@Serolf Divad:
Not until the apocalypse, no.
jdbaile3
Ibelieveinsandwitches
Posted 12:52 AM 14/11/08
neat
Ibelieveinsandwitches
Serolf Divad
Posted 12:51 AM 14/11/08
But will there be raging mobs of Zombies outside, just waiting to storm the gates and rampage through the building eating the flesh of the living?
Serolf Divad
TBM-Fan
Posted 1:51 AM 14/11/08
but since when does vauxhall also build gardens and so
it thought they were into cars and so...
TBM-Fan
TBM-Fan
Posted 1:50 AM 14/11/08
@designguybrown: If you force people then highly likely
TBM-Fan
Blue_Six
Posted 1:29 AM 14/11/08
Germany's largest (Europe's second largest) skyscraper, the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt was completed in 1997 and already featured "theme gardens" on the inside, they're behind the large glass panels seen here:
[www.skyscraperpicture.com]
So it's not exactly a novel concept.
Blue_Six
designguybrown
Posted 1:27 AM 14/11/08
I think it would have been more interesting if they had a full building height 'column' of small gardens that work there way up a single shaft on one edge of the building that could be accessed at any floor and could be part of a 'path of greenery' to the top... and while we're putting out wish list ideas, i want a ping pong table the size of a tennis court...
designguybrown
Kit Eaton
Posted 2:55 AM 14/11/08
@designguybrown: Well, there's 178 residential units in the building too, so I'm thinking at least they'll get to use it.
Kit Eaton
Gann
Posted 2:47 AM 14/11/08
I hope it gets built. This has VE written all over it.
Gann
LittleJon
Posted 4:09 AM 14/11/08
It looks as though it's going to be popular with the spirits of the dead! Or perhaps with people who exist partly in another dimension.
Oh, perhaps they'll only allow transparent people to go there so that they don't block the light from getting to the plants.
LittleJon
Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler
Posted 6:13 AM 14/11/08
Hopefully they'll run the ventilation for the occupied portions of the building through the garden part. More CO2 for the plants and more O2 for the people.
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Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler
Posted 6:08 AM 14/11/08
@Blue_Six: I don't believe anyone said it had never been done before.
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Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler
Posted 6:07 AM 14/11/08
@designguybrown: That's what a tennis court is. A ping-pong table is a tennis court the size of a ping-pong table.
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Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler
Posted 6:04 AM 14/11/08
@Serolf Divad: One can but hope...
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