Vertical living green walls comprised of live plants are a natural energy-saving method for improving indoor air quality and enhancing interior design, but they're hampered by inconsistent performance ...

Living wall next to meeting rooms. YOOX Net-A-Porter Offices, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Grimshaw, 2017. (Photo by: Anthony Weller/View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Plant walls, also known as green walls, vertical gardens, green facades or living walls are structures that allow for vertical plant growth on structures like walls or trellises. These can be found in ...

Did you know that mosses are the oldest plants on earth? With cities full of hard surfaces that trap heat, collect grime, and ...

In cities filled with concrete, glass and rising temperatures, Spanish botanist Ignacio Solano sees something different in ...

One of D.C.’s newest trophy office buildings now has the city’s biggest green wall. 17xM, a 334,000-square-foot, 11-story building at 1150 M Street, N.W., includes a two-story, 1,500-square-foot, self ...

Green roofs and green walls are no longer niche design features but proven, scalable nature-based solutions that can significantly enhance biodiversity, climate resilience, energy efficiency and human ...

Walk through any city in the United States, and you’ll find concrete walls and chain-link fences with privacy slats covered in spray-painted graffiti. Sometimes these quirks are a communal display of ...

Surprisingly, green walls are a relatively new concept; in fact, the idea was first popularized by French botanist Patrick Blanc in the 1980’s. Hence, this might explain why the design community still ...