Further to this story, check out the completed green wall photos. We also just found out it’s the largest living wall in North America. Very cool. Special thanks to our landscape architect company Sharp and Diamond as well as our Engineering team.
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You may have already heard that the Canada Line will open up at the end of the summer, and we have three stations that are gearing up for opening day.
I was checking out the YVR-Airport station yesterday and saw that installation has begun on a cool new green wall that lines the station’s north side. I talked to our Engineering department and learned that YVR is the first Canadian airport to install a green wall.
The green wall is big: 18 metres high and 12 metres wide. When all is said and done, the green wall will house 28,249 individual plants on 2,173 panels along with a built in irrigation and feeding system. Next time you’re at YVR, check out the new green wall at YVR-Airport station. The best views are from the parkade bridge connecting the International Terminal at departures level 3, or from Chester Johnson park, International Terminal arrivals level 2.
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Amazing! Can’t wait to see this myself
I saw this on my way to work this morning, Alisa. It’s so cool to have an actual living wall! I can’t wait to see it completed.
Does anyone know who the architect for this project is? or at least who is going to be the actual owner of this project…is it the airport? As a landscape architect Im seeing some major issues with the plants….the concept is great and the benefits valid but if it fails it will be a mark on our city just in time for the Olympics…..the plants already have scale on them and will require multiple applications of chemicals to prevent the next bought, in addition the plant choices will outgrow the system….Im trying to prevent a very cool project from becoming an eyesore…..
Vancouver Airport Authority’s engineering department oversees all of the construction projects here at the airport, including this one. The technology we used for the green wall was chosen based on 15 years of installations in Japan, and three years here on the west coast. All the plants were tested and carefully selected for long term performance and they are monitored everyday. Following today’s inspection, none of the plants have scale. We regularly monitor for scale (and many other pests and diseases) as a preventative measure to ensure that the plants don’t contract anything.
I appreciate your concerns and comments about making sure the wall is ready for 2010. We’re really proud of our green wall have done a lot of homework to ensure we’re using the best plants and technology available.
There are more than 1400 taxi drivers working at YVR but no tree or plant standing or planted in the taxi holding area.
A mud mountain created near Sea Island centre station has BLOCKED beautiful view of natural beauty and mountains.
We do not think it is a wise planning!
Hi Ron – my understanding of the area near Sea Island station is that it’s still under construction. We all love the views of the North Shore so I’ll touch base with our enginnering department to see when we can anticipate the station’s construction to be completed. alisa
Please post larger photos.
Hi John,
You can check out the larger versions of the photos on our
Flickr photostream.-alisa
I hope to see more of these at the airport. The area where people drop off passengers and taxis lineup is very polluted. People often idle in their automobiles. The FRESH air is unavailable. Living walls here could help.
Also, eco conscious foot passengers waiting for a bus are treated as low class people and sent to the far end to wait for a bus with not much by the way of shelter. Other buses come and idle and pickup YVR employees. A bit of Natural Beauty for bus people is NEEDED.