Comments on: Hanging Gardens http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/ History, Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly, from a Colonial Fop. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sir Frederick Chook http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-28491 Sir Frederick Chook Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:08:24 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/#comment-28491 All the best design - be it Classical or Nouveau or Modernist - comes of tailoring the construction to the landscape and adopting organic forms. Miss Merah showed me a particularly excellent example of the latter just the other day - a rural art gallery which looks like nothing so much as a simple stone cliff jutting from the side of a hill, catching light and shadows in its crags. So, what better possible design feature than actual organics? There would be problems, naturally - for a start, you'd want to seal the walls behind the gardens well enough that animals couldn't come and go where they might cause structural damage, sanitation hazards, etc. I live, at the moment, in the third council district out from the city centre - the innermost two councils have long had Greens members, and as of last month's election, our council does too. Perhaps the time is ripe for some nudging in a gardenly direction... perhaps wearing live plants in our hats... All the best design – be it Classical or Nouveau or Modernist – comes of tailoring the construction to the landscape and adopting organic forms. Miss Merah showed me a particularly excellent example of the latter just the other day – a rural art gallery which looks like nothing so much as a simple stone cliff jutting from the side of a hill, catching light and shadows in its crags.

So, what better possible design feature than actual organics? There would be problems, naturally – for a start, you’d want to seal the walls behind the gardens well enough that animals couldn’t come and go where they might cause structural damage, sanitation hazards, etc.

I live, at the moment, in the third council district out from the city centre – the innermost two councils have long had Greens members, and as of last month’s election, our council does too. Perhaps the time is ripe for some nudging in a gardenly direction… perhaps wearing live plants in our hats…

]]> By: Melanthios http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-28011 Melanthios Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:56:24 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/2008/07/21/hanging-gardens/#comment-28011 O! I love this ecological idea--it does not demand I compromise my devotion and love of Victorian and Rococo styles! I have heard of The Vertical Garden before, and I love your idea for applying it. I can picture it now, a city that looks like a rainforest from the air, with the sounds of water and birds and frogs...o, such beauty. I'm sure stress levels would absolutely *drop* from the lovely ambient sounds. We can only hope that it takes off in the more-powerful-than-ecology world of fashion and industry. O! I love this ecological idea–it does not demand I compromise my devotion and love of Victorian and Rococo styles!

I have heard of The Vertical Garden before, and I love your idea for applying it. I can picture it now, a city that looks like a rainforest from the air, with the sounds of water and birds and frogs…o, such beauty. I’m sure stress levels would absolutely *drop* from the lovely ambient sounds.

We can only hope that it takes off in the more-powerful-than-ecology world of fashion and industry.

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