Tag: Green Roofs - Page 6
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Homeless Teens to Create 'Skyscraper Garden' Above New York City
Whenever it seems like there's a surplus of doom and gloom running through the headlines, you hear about a story like this: at-risk teenagers staying in Covenant House, a homeless shelter in New York City, have set about cultivating green roofs on
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Arguments Against White Roofs in Northern Cities are Specious
Felicity Barringer writes about white roofs in the New York Times. She picks up on one of my favourite themes, that it is old-school and low-tech:
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Green Roof Installed Over Toronto Subway Station
The Eglinton West subway station was designed by the late great Arthur Erickson and was supposed to be spectacular; the roof is almost completely column-free, because it was going to all be a spectacular cantilever over the
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Post Office Plants 2.5 Acre Park With Green Roof
When the sun beats down there will be no tar up on this roof: the U.S. Postal Service created a 2.5 acre oasis in Manhattan this week with a green roof on its Morgan
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Tiny Rain Garden Fights Runoff and Promotes Electric Vehicles
Image credit: Wendy Allen Designs Award-Winning Design Demonstrates Responsible Small Gardens TreeHugger has long argued against the ridiculous notion that every house needs a paved, impermeable driveway. From urban heat islands to storm water runoff,
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A Floating Green Roof: Cruise Ship Goes "Green"?
Image credit: Green Roof Service Cruise Ship Features Green Roof and other Efficiency Measures Cruise ships and shipping are a massive source of pollution. Moves are underway to explore biofuels for cruise ships, and to utilize cruise ship traffic as a
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Outdoor "Tree Museum" Celebrates a Community Centennial—and Trees
Living sculptures that defy gravity, that's how Yann Arthus-Bertrand describes trees in his inspiring environmental documentary Home, released on World Environment Day.
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Istanbul's 'Accidentally Ecofriendly' Architects
Architect Hasan Çalışlar says he doesn't incorporate 'green' features in his buildings because they're environmentally friendly -- he only uses them if they 'make you feel better in the space.'
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10 Overlooked Low-Tech Ways of Keeping Your Home Cool
Summer is here and the air is full of the the sound of whining air conditioners, all seriously sucking kilowatts. Yet much of that air conditioning load could be reduced or the air conditioning season shortened if we did simple things,
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Beach Huts Go Green and Modern
Seaside towns in the UK have had a rough go of it in the last few years; the weather can often be described as "character building", while Spain and other places with better weather and warmer sand became so
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Green Roofs are Changing Architecture and Planning, Not Always For the Better. (Slideshow)
This used to be the vision of the future of green roofs: Conventional architecture with a green lid. It is turning out very differently, as green roof technology changes the role of the architect, the way they design buildings, the way they present
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When Carbon Neutral Buildings Don't Add Up
via Mario Cucinella Mario Cucinella is one of the greener architects in Italy; I loved his Casa 100K euro that we featured earlier. His Satander building is interesting too, billed as the first "Zero CO2 office building in Milan." But the three storey
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With Green Roof, Nanyang University School of Art Tries to Disappear
I noted in an earlier post on Zaha Hadid's design museum in Seoul: Green roofs are wonderful things, and they are introducing a whole new design aesthetic where roof meets grade, and a
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Zaha Hadid Does a Green Roof in Seoul
I have sometimes thought that starchitects like Zaha Hadid give not quite as much attention to social or environmental concerns. But Hadid has started construction on a 850,000 square foot design museum, library and educational facility in Seoul that
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Green Roofs Growing in US
Green Roof on Canada's MEC building. Photo via Flickr: by Pardraic Green roofs have expanded by 35 percent over the last couple years, with more than 3.1 million square feet installed last year. Chicago leads the way in the U.S. with 534,507 square feet
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'Green Roof' Idea Tilts Skyward in Istanbul
In dense urban areas, there's often nowhere to build but up, an approach that the clever team at Istanbul-based architectural firm Superpool is applying not only to its new
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Toronto Makes Green Roofs the Law, Approves Controversial Bike Lanes
Roofs make up 21% of the area of Toronto, so it is logical that they should be put to good use. Now they will be green; by a stunning 36-2 vote, council approved new rules that require green roofs on residential buildings
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Do Horizontal Farms on Buildings Make More Sense than Vertical Farms? Paul de Ruiter Thinks So
We do go gaga over vertical farms, but they might be just intellectual exercises rather than serious solutions. As Adam Stein noted, talking about New York: "Local food has its merits, but
