In Boston for the AIA Convention?

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[Image: Overview rendering of 90 Wareham Street with the proposed green wall. Image courtesy of HYA for YAB Group]

If you’re in the Bean this week/weekend for the AIA Convention don’t miss Parti Wall, Hanging Green, an installation in the South End by a collection of young Boston Architects.

The project – a prototype green wall installation for the 2008 AIA convention that will be in Boston in May – aims to transform a blank brick wall into ‘a lush green environment’, both bringing attention to underutilized sites in Boston and providing a green solution to improve public space in the city.

“The wall will be both a changing urban artwork and a public demonstration of the possibilities for greening a city like Boston,” stated Anthony Piermarini, a principal of Studio Luz. “Our urban center has hundreds of exposed brick party walls that face onto lifeless parking lots. We think of this project as a chance to transform those parking lots into hanging gardens.” [quoted from our earlier post on the project]

Check out our post on the installation here – and don’t sleep!

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Posted: May 13th, 2008
at 10:54am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, featured ninjas, green arch, installation

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