https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built/ Gardenvisit.com Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built/#comment-1367 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:33:42 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2964#comment-1367 I was delighted to see that living green bridges are still being made in North India http://rootbridges.blogspot.com/ We should see them as ‘vernacular biotecture’.
More info on living bridges:
http://atlasobscura.com/place/root-bridges-cherrapungee
http://theoriens.com/living-root-bridges-in-india/
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/living-bridges-india-grown-500-years-pics.php

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built/#comment-1366 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:15:59 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2964#comment-1366 The bridge certainly did exist but is unlikely to have survived (the drawing dates from the 1840s). But there is no reason whatsoever why it should not be re-created as a garden design idea.

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built/#comment-1365 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:10:04 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2964#comment-1365 Does this green bridge still exist? Can people visit it? [ http://www.district.north-van.bc.ca/ecology/see_do/see_do.html ]

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