This is yet another feature article about living walls and maestro Patrick Blanc.
I learn a little more each time I read a comprehensive piece about him like this one.
via www.sfgate.com
An exhibition at the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco highlights a decades-old idea pioneered by French naturalist Patrick Blanc: vertical gardens for space-starved cities.
The show demonstrates the versatility of such air-purifying indoor and outdoor wall gardens, and their increasing abundance in cityscapes.
While a version of Blanc's gardens, the undulating roof garden at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, sports many native plants to attract birds and bees, Blanc's new Musée du Quai Branly north facade in Paris fully demonstrates his patented technique for growing and nurturing a rich vertical tapestry of perennial plant, moss, fern and flower species from around the world.
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