200-Foot-High Living Wall Proposed for Portland Federal Building

Architectural Record ^ | June 29, 2010 | Tim Newcomb

[subterfuge]

Portland, Oregon, has long been known for its green sensibility. So it seems fitting that a government building there may soon be sheathed in a 200-foot-high living wall

Code for Wasting Taxpayer Dollars. And I'd be willing to bet that a "living wall" will cost more than a conventional one.

[Ancient Drive]

How about a 200 ft. tall wall several thousand miles along the U.S./Mexico border?

[subterfuge]

Racist!

[Wicket]

I’m soooooo glad I’m an Oregonian. Can’t wait to help maintain this sucker.

[Da Coyote]

Coming from Portland, I just know that there’s a giant dose of “I didn’t know that would happen...” in there.

Libs are not only NOT the sharpest knives in the drawer - they’re plastic spoons in a drawer of knives.

[FormerACLUmember]

seriously cool.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WE DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY TO WASTE ON CRAP!

[Ronald_Magnus]

“Keep Portland Weird”

[Beowulf9]

“funded by federal stimulus dollars”. No money for the gulf, no money for the wall along the Mexican border, but money aplenty for this.

[haywoodwebb]

"I'd be willing to bet that a "living wall" will cost more than a conventional one. "

Pest control alone will see to that . . .


Especially "green" pest control!

[Stormdog]

“How about a 200 ft. tall wall several thousand miles along the U.S./Mexico border?”

Covered with poison oak overlooking freshly laid (yet eco-friendly) fields of living claymores.

[Thurston_Howell_III]

Only modern day liberal geniuses would even think to implement such an integration of nature and brick...oh, wait....

[GeronL]

what a waste.

Government should be banned from spending money

[a fool in paradise]

So it seems fitting that a government building there may soon be sheathed in a 200-foot-high living wall that would be visible from miles away.

We should be putting up a 200-foot high "living wall" on the southern border. Just to study it and see what happens.

[subterfuge]

"I'd be willing to bet that a "living wall" will cost more than a conventional one. " Pest control alone will see to that . . .

Especially "green" pest control!

Well yeah, if you go the conventional route. Instead they should get some hippies from Berkley to hand-pick every last mite off the "green-wall."

[DManA]

While the green wall has been highly publicized, the project team isn’t confident it will actually happen.

That sentence is especially fitting for a government project.

[wku man]

I want a 200' high wall along the Oregon-Idaho state line! Extend it up the Washington state line also, then turn right for the short trip along the Canadian border. Let Montana take over from there. Then mine any state or international highway crossings, and put out roving patrols to catch anyone crossing over land. Marine patrols to sink any vessels attempting to invade by river or lake. Encourage Nevada and Arizona to do the same along the California state line and Mexican border.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[KoRn]

I suppose the terrorists will bring a bunch of Round Up with them if they ever attack the place....

[ASOC]

LOL

Good wind will come along and dump 500 lds of “coconut husk” baskets on passerby.

CAn’t wait for that video - sorta like - “After Man is Gone, and only Hippes remain”