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Welcome to Patrick Blanc's website. Patrick Blanc is a botanist and the inventor of the Vertical Garden (Mur Végétal).
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Recent works
Bangkok EmQuartier, Singapour Changi Airport T2, Shenzhen C Future City, Kuwait International Tennis Complex, Nancy 'Les Intriguantes de l'Ombre" exhibition, Beijing Raycom Tower, Singapour Tamba Restaurant, Menton "Trop Belles pour Disparaître" exhibition, New York Greenwich West, McArthurGlen Paris Giverny; Singapour Duxton Hill Historic Shop House, DWS Rebuffat, Il Sereno Como Lake, Beiler Creutz & Partners, Singapour The Work Project Asia Square Tower 2, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yamaguchi Station, New York Penthouse, Paris Green Hotel, Paris rue d' Aboukir, Genève Amandolier, Maison de Patrick Blanc
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Works in progress
Kuala Lumpur Le Nouvel, Nagoya Kawamura Denki, Paris Résidence Etudiants, Bangalore Airport, Sion Ronquoz 21, Paris Rives de Seine, Shenzhen C Future City, Qingdao "West Sea Art Bay",
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Last News
- New videos by Pascal Héni of the Patrick Blanc field trips : Moluccas , New Caledonia 1 , 2 ; India Western Ghats 1 , 2 ; Borneo Danum valley, Borneo Deramakot and Sepilok, Mount Kinabalu ; New Guinea ; Ecuador 1 , 2 ; Tanzania 1, 2, 3 ; Colombia ; Ethiopia 1, 2 ; Belize , Guatemala 1, 2 ; Solomon Islands 1, 2 ; Sulawesi ; Java 1, 2 ; Malawi 1, 2 ; Cuba 1, 2 ; Sumatra ; Peru 1, 2 , 3, 4 ; Borneo Kuching ; New Zealand ; Brunei ; Western Australia.
- Begonia blancii, a new species discovered by Patrick Blanc in Palawan in the Philippines : photos, video, publication.
- One central Park in Sydney, has won many awards as the best Green High Rise Building.
- The Rain Forest Chandelier at EmQuartier in Bangkok is the longest free hanging structure, 103 m long, totally covered by plants.
- After 13 years of good plant growth, the Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Museum Direction decided to renovate the supporting metalic structure. Patrick Blanc was then able to create new layouts involving 350 plant species from various temperate areas from all over the World.
- The Yamaguchi Shinkansen Station project has been created with more than 100 different native plant species collected during the 2013 and 2014 field trips.
- With about 200 different climbing plant species installed on the eight façades, Le Nouvel in Kuala Lumpur presents the highest vine biodiversity on a High Rise Building.
- Many new photos of plant species in their natural habitat from the last Patrick’s field trips, at Inspiration and Portraits. -
Field Trips
2024
Moluccas (Ambon and Seram)
Sulawesi (Tangkoko)
Java (Bogor and Tjibodas)
2023
Thailand (Northern forests and limestone caves)
Cameroon (Kribi, Campo)
New Caledonia (Forests on sedimentary and ultramafic substrates)
Malaysia (Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak)
India (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala)
2022
Borneo, Sabah (Mt Kinabalu, Deramakot, Danum Valley)
Thailand (Khao Sok, Ranong, Kaeng Krachan)
2021 :
Ecuador (Pacific cloud forests, Amazonia Yasuni) Galapagos
Tanzania (Lake Tanganyika, Katavi, Eastern Arc Mountains, Pemba)
2020 :
Guatemala (Southern Highlands, Peten)
Belize (Mountain Pine Ridge, Chiquibul)
2019 :
Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Vangunu, Kolombangara)
Sulawesi (South)
Malaysia (Peninsular) and Singapore
Vietnam (South)
Thailand (Peninsular)
Ethiopia (Arba Minch, Bale, Simien)
2018 :
Myanmar (Kachin, Central, Mergui)
Cameroon (Kribi, Campo)
Java (East and Central)
India (Karnataka)
Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah)
Brazil (Santa Catarina)
Vietnam (Central)
2017 :
Cuba (East, Central, West)
Malaysia (Johore)
China (Guangdong)
Malawi (the Lake, South) and Zambia (Lake Tanganyika)
Iran (Teheran)
South Korea (Pusan)
Vietnam (North)
2016 :
Papua New Guinea (Central Highlands, Sepik, South Coast)
Thailand (North East)
China (Yunnan, Xishuangbanna) and Hong Kong
USA (Florida)
Fiji (Viti Levu, Taveuni, Vanua Levu)
Colombia (Andes, Llanos, Choco, Amazonia)
Sumatra (West) -
Book "The Vertical Garden"
Release of the new version of the book "Le Mur Végétal, de la nature à la ville" , Michel Lafon editor, of "The Vertical Garden, from nature to the cities", Norton Press and also of "Vertikale Garten, die Natur in der Stadt" in German, Ulmer editor.
