Peter Dillon, Director of Marketing for New York’s Rockefeller Center, will unveil spectacular and detailed plans for the reopening of the historic observation deck high atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The announcement will include visuals of the architectural redesign for Top … Continue reading →

Coming soon to midtown Manhattan – the battle of the observation decks, a faceoff between the famed tourist draw atop the Empire State Building and a fancy Art Deco deck at Rockefeller Center that’s been closed for 17 years. And … Continue reading →

BEIJING – Something in the sky has always fascinated Wang Xianmin. An aeronautics graduate, he spent more than 20 years engaged in airplane manufacturing and research. Now, at age 60, he looks to the sky once again for a way … Continue reading →

Beginning in the 1880s, rooftop restaurants and cabarets emerged as New York’s version of the summer entertainment gardens found in the inexpensive outskirts of European cities. In the absence of such accessible perimeter land, New York City’s ever-taller buildings, with … Continue reading →

Rooftop gardens are a good way of restoring some nature to the city and promotional initiatives in Taipei are bearing fruit In sweltering concrete jungles like Taipei, rooftop gardens are often touted as an effective means of bringing nature back … Continue reading →

St Petersburg in Russia, like all modern cities, has to cope with mountains of domestic waste. Its six million inhabitants have also experienced food shortages and many hardships over the past decade. But now a scheme to turn rooftops into … Continue reading →

Landscape architects design a detailed roof garden, providing a natural escape for patients and families at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. At the end of a quiet, carpeted hall on the eighth floor of the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital, an … Continue reading →

Demolishing buildings to make green space releases dust into the air and produces huge amounts of waste – often it’s more environmental to work with what you’ve already got. New York’s taking that route with its plans to turn a … Continue reading →

Inner London dwellers are no longer destined to a life of concrete and asphalt with no green spaces to chilt, Blanks to innovative companies such as Urban Roof Gardens. Its team of architects, engineers, designers, landscapes and builders aim to … Continue reading →

Commissioned by the 9th Earl De La Warr in 1935 and designed by architects Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, the De La Warr Pavilion was the UK‘s first public building built in the Modernist style. Pioneering in structure as it … Continue reading →