Sidonie Carpenter, Vice-President of Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities, will soon be available for interviews and talks on green roof developments in North America that are relevant to Australia’s nascent green roof industry.
Sidonie is in North America for two months, on a study fellowship awarded by the Melbourne-based International Specialised Skills Institute, funded [...]
Archive for April, 2007
17 Apr
Green roof skills to be brought to Australia
17 Apr
Hippyshopper endorses green roofs
The green roof movement is gathering momentum in the UK, where Hippyshopper, the ethical consumption website, is featuring green roofs as the way to go in real estate. The site reports:
Terraces and rood [sic] gardens are a growing trend especially if you’re living in a city like London where space is limited. Apparently if all [...]
16 Apr
Sidonie Carpenter’s Fellowship blog
This is the School of Art and Design in Singapore.
It’s one of the many sites that Brisbane landscape architect and GRHAC board member Sidonie Carpenter is documenting with assistance from a Pratt Foundation Fellowship.
The Fellowship allows Sidonie to travel to Singapore, United States and Canada and study the design and installation of Green Roofs [...]
4 Apr
New group tackles Australia’s forgotten façade
One of the interesting consequences of Google Earth satellite viewing has been bird’s-eye critiques of architecture. Google Earth, reports the Los Angeles Times, has enabled people to look at cities with ”a new kind of architectural tourism… What’s changing most radically, in other words, is not how buildings look but how we look [...]
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