I love this idea: one of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s renowned paintings, A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, is in the process of being adapted to a ‘living wall’ or vertical garden at London’s National Gallery. The painting is in the Gallery’s collection and the vertical garden is on an external wall and will mirror the composition of the painting via more than 25 different plant species.
Rooftop and vertical gardens are great for densely populated areas as they reduce carbons, cool physical spaces and are an ingenious way of bringing nature back into urban places. Click here for an image of the garden-in-process.
*Image of Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield, with Cypresses courtesy of The National Gallery.
Posted in: Art & Design
deCamville Design
April 2, 2012
Hi! I am delighted to have just discovered your blog! I love all things beautiful too. I’m glad you wrote about rooftop gardens. As a commercial interior designer, my team of architects and I have just been studying how to design them for commercial buildings!
The Beauty Philosopher
April 3, 2012
Yes rooftop gardens are pretty special- great way to bring nature into small or dense urban spaces, environmentally useful for cities (air quality, insulation etc), and aesthetically interesting.