Go Green: Green Roofs????

Green roofs have many advantages. First among them is they replace green space taken up by cities. Some buildings now have more square feet of green space than the site did before construction!

Housing Development Board, Singapore

Rooftop Garden at the Housing Development Board Building near the Commonwealth MRT, Singapore.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

This is the roof of the five-story School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. The roof insulates the building, cools the surrounding air and harvests rainwater for landscape irrigation.

Waldspirale, Germany

Called the Waldspirale (wooded spiral), it is a residential building complex in Darmstadt, Germany. The building contains 105 apartments, a parking garage, a café and a bar. The garden is planted with grass, shrubs, flowers and trees.

St. Luke's International Hospital, Japan

Acros Fukuoka Building, Japan

This Building has two very distinct sides. From one end and it looks like a regular office building with glass walls. On the other side, however, is a massive terraced roof that merges with a park. The garden terraces, which reach up to about 60 meters above the ground, contain some 35,000 plants representing 76 species.


Source: http://sustainabledesignupdate.com/