Measuring 3,770 square feet, the Living Wall is London’s latest and largest vertical garden—cloaking the southern end of the Rubens Hotel at the Palace, it brings a welcomed slice of greenery and nature right into the heart of the metropolis.
Designed by ecologist Gary Grant, this green wall is described as “building-integrated vegetation” that will help to blur and harmonise the divide between the urban and natural landscapes.
Not only will the Living Wall provide wildlife habitat, it would also help to moderate the temperature of the hotel in summer and winter, making it a very eco-friendly architectural feature.
Home to 10,000 plants of a diverse range of species—which have been selected with seasonal color in mind—the wall has been padded with 16 tons of soil and will be irrigated with rainwater that will trickle down it.
View more images of this massive green wall below.
[via Fast Co. Design]