Some Buildings With Roof Gardens

City dwellers wishing to grow fresh vegetables and flowers sometimes opt to plant gardens on the rooftops of homes apartment complexes and commercial office buildings.

Some buildings with roof gardens. The crossrail place roof gardens is a haven of greenery providing some respite to the suited and booted residents of canary wharf. While some roof gardens produce healthy foods and flowers with minimal problems others experience difficulties. Tours are free but it s worth calling ahead to book as the gardens are often rented out for private events 6. This article will look at some of the benefits of rooftop gardens.

In the second installation of the carlisle roofing series buildings editor in chief janelle penny chats with chris kann roof garden product manager for carlisle about best practices for green roof projects. Some buildings were simply not designed to withstand the additional weight a rooftop garden would add. You will probably want to provide some sort of shade if not for the plants then for you. In australia although we re still catching up with north america and europe incorporating green roofs to buildings is an initiative that has been around for a while as can be seen in this list of australia s best verticle and rooftop gardens.

Kensington roof gardens 99 kensington high st london. The complete guide to building a rooftop garden. You don t need the architect or contractor for the whole garden building process but you will need them to tell you if the building is safe to build a rooftop garden on. Some of the early examples include the freshwater place residential tower in melbourne 2002 with its level 10 rooftop half acre garden ch2 building housing the melbourne city council 2006 australia s first 6 star green star design commercial office building as certified by the green building council of australia and condor tower 2005 with a 75 square metre 810 square foot lawn on.

Vegetated roofs aren t just beautiful they re valuable tools for managing stormwater reducing the urban heat island effect and providing more usable space for building occupants. Other roof gardens can be plagued. You don t have to have a yard to get things growing. Besides the sun beating down on the roof there is ambient heat being reflected from the roof surface surrounding buildings streetcars and metal exhaust and utility structures.