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ideasguy:
Lovely to her from you again Jessie. After a very unusual sunny and warm April, its cool and breezy here in Ireland and I'm beginning to wonder just what season it is :D
They appear to be a bit mixed up. We could do with some of your sunshine.

I heard about green walls some time ago. Its a great solution in a region where there isn't much space on the ground level for gardens.
I did a quick surf and found this so other members know what you mean:
http://www.crookedbrains.net/2009/04/garden.html
Interesting indeed!

3fren:
I guess green walls are nothing new, considering the ivy covered walls I have seen in England, France - Europe.
Except ours are covered with all types of tropical ferns - green all your round - pleasant and cooling to the eyes during
hot weather we have here.

With the fruits and vegetables scare - the e-boli coming from Europe, it might be possible that all these high-rise green
walls and roof tops be covered with edible greens , with organic soil and fertilizers.  Twenty years back when I was working
on the 40th floor and looking down at all the other rooftop in downtown financial district and was wondering how self
sustain we can be if we plant edible stuff on the roof of the building..now I see the citiscape is changing.

We have 50 storeys high builidng, there are jogging paths and playground on the 10th, 20th and 30th.  The carparks
are from level 1 to 5th.  The recent Marina Bay Sand boasts a Sky Park on top of the 57th Storey .  Shaped like a ship eveready to set sail - which I called it Singapore's Noah Ark.  This was built on reclaim land, a complex that has state-of-the art convention, exhibitions, world class casino.  Visitors can feast  on the panorama view of Singapore .  Pls check it out on marina bay sands skypark
http://www.marinabaysands.com/

ideasguy:
Singapore is such a different place to live Jessie. Everything is vertical! It must be a frantically busy place.

The link to Marina Bay Sands wasnt working. Ive editied your posting to change the link. Is that now the link you intended?
Its an incredible place. Our forum friend Eric Hardy is a retired architect. I wonder what he thinks of the architecture?

Eric Hardy:

--- Quote from: ideasguy on June 05, 2011, 12:10:35 PM --- Our forum friend Eric Hardy is a retired architect. I wonder what he thinks of the architecture?

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That Marina Bay Sands looks amazing, Jessie. Something completely outside my experience. Of course you do not get a true feeling for this sort of architecture without walking round it inside and out. I would love to explore it and then I could tell you what I really think. This type of building has to be a one off and I wonder whether it will be still there in 100 years time or whether something even more fantastic will be there in its place. When you are young you think everything is permanent. Now I have grown old I realise that most buildings are temporary and only truly monumental buildings survive.

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