Beautiful rooftop gardens worldwide
Many people especially in urban residents are unfortunate to have enough space to create a green garden. There has been an increasing demand for rooftop gardens which give city dwellers the opportunity to take in nature and improve air quality as plants and flowers provide oxygen. Green roofs have become a popular trend for their benefits. Green roofs serve many purposes for a building like creating a habitat for wildlife, lowering urban air temperature, and absorbing rainwater. With advanced technology and creativity, people have designed amazing green rooftop buildings and gardens.
Waldspirale, multi colored unusual looking building, has a green roof which is formed by a garden of beech, maple, and lime trees. The Waldspirale apartment building contains 105 apartments. All the floors can be accessed without stairways or elevators thanks to spiraling ramps on the roof and around the perimeter.
The building was designed by Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and was completed in 2000.
A curving green roof protects a five-story glass building. The facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form.
The amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
There are also a swimming-pool, palm trees, and small islands.
Park at the 40th Story Building on HDB
The California Academy of Sciences built a new LEED Platinum Green Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The undulating greenroof is 2.5 acres, with a variety of wildflowers and other native species.
Rana Creek built the garden nursery on the roof of the Academy.
The ACROS Fukuoka building in Fukuoka City, Japan is an amazing office building with two distinctive sides: one side with glass walls and the other with a huge terraced roof. The garden terraces are home to about 35,000 plants.
The ACROS Fukuoka building in Fukuoka City, Japan
A playful and sprawling rooftop garden at the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo, Japan
The roof garden at Upper St. Six Floors, Luke\’s International Hospital, Akashi, Tokyo
The image of posh rooftop gardens over the penthouses of New York
Chicago City Hall\’s entrance features four relief panels, each of which represent one of four principal concerns of city government: parks, water supply, playgrounds, and schools. The roof gardens which were finished in 2001 served as a test for the impact green roofs.
Chicago City Hall
There are more than 150 species of plants.
The Solaire, which is a residential block in New York, offers everything New York City dwellers seek in a luxury apartment building. It was built with a focus on the concept of eco-friendly and energy-efficient structure.
The Solaire was built with a focus on the concept of eco-friendly and energy-efficient structure.
The Ford Rouge Factory Motors, which was designed by Bill McDonough, is the largest green roof in the world. It is 454 thousand square feet wide.
The Australian Parliament Building in Canberra
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