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sounds_sound · 4457 days ago · link · · parent · post: Putting Trees on Skyscrapers: Interview with Lloyd Alter
Hmm. Doesn't seem so crazy to me. Gimmicky? Not sure. As gimmicky as any other rendering of a building is I guess. There isn't anything technically impossible with this kind of building. Concrete is way stronger than it used to be even 20 years ago and can even be made waterproof now. Conceptually though, this is pretty well worn territory. Basically as early as people could even imagine something as silly as the words "sky" and "scraper" being put together, there were already trees in them - well at least in their drawings.