An environmental landscape artist has devised a simple solution to different urban issues such as increasing carbon emissions and loss of green spaces via a roof garden system on public transportation. Spanish landscape artist Marc Grañén has devised an eye-catching … Continue reading
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Sydney’s Growing Rooftop Garden Trend
The growing population in Australia’s major cities poses a problem for city planners as well as residents seeking to find adequate green space. A rising number of previously desolate urban rooftops are now being put to use as private residential … Continue reading
Sydney’s Growing Rooftop Garden Trend
The growing population in Australia’s major cities poses a problem for city planners as well as residents seeking to find adequate green space. A rising number of previously desolate urban rooftops are now being put to use as private residential … Continue reading
Garden of the week: Rooftop terrace at Birmingham’s stunning new library
It is not often that urban gardens are truly impressive, but Birmingham is spot on with The Secret Garden, an excellent roof terrace on the seventh floor of the city’s wonderful new library. There is also a herb garden on … Continue reading
Rooftops in Greece go green with gardens
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 2 (UPI) — Renters in Athens, Greece, are increasingly cultivating vegetable and fruit gardens on apartment building rooftops, environmentalists say. City dwellers are finding rooftop gardening a way to save money on basic food products, with the … Continue reading
Roof gardens soften hard edges of city living
Luxury condos are installing “green roofs” as an amenity, while enhancing energy efficiency, locavore movement chefs lovingly tend to their herb, vegetable crops to spike their sauces, grace their artisanal pizzas. As the mean streets of many cities undergo a … Continue reading
Tokyo’s New Buildings Going Green
Tokyo is one of the world’s largest cities, and it is also a vast, sprawling concrete jungle. Largely destroyed during World War II, it was rapidly rebuilt with plenty of emphasis on function and very little attention paid to form. … Continue reading
Planting Rooftop Farms Takes Off in New York, Other Urban Areas
NEW YORK Like many a farmer, Ben Flanner rises with the sun. Like most crops, his need water and weeding — bright tomatoes and fragrant basil, delicate nasturtiums, mottled melons and black eggplants, mustard greens, puntarelle, peas, beets, beans, kale … Continue reading
Roof gardens soften hard edges of city living
As the mean streets of many cities undergo a renaissance into vibrant downtown meccas, rooftop and terrace gardens, largely invisible to the public eye, are creating a verdant canopy. Once wryly referred to as “tar beaches,” hot, windswept apartment roofs … Continue reading
What is the secret behind this evergreen oasis, nestled among the rooftops of Paris and grown entirely in pots?
Martin Grant’s garden is perched like a stork’s nest on a 17th-century rooftop, close to the Seine in the heart of Paris. After much searching, this garden was the main reason Grant, a fashion designer, bought his fourth-floor home. Such sites … Continue reading