Land+Living: Urban Roof Gardens

Green, Landscape — April 26, 2005 Posted by Anthony

Green Spaces in the Sky

Continuing our theme of blogs from across the pond, Urban Roof Gardens is London's only multi-disciplinary team of architects and designers that focus exclusively on roof gardens and green roofs. Their website features a portfolio with gardens from around the world including Edinburgh, Amsterdam, New York, and San Francisco. I only wish I could design my ground-level garden to look as good as these.

This is the mission of Urbanroofgardens: To raise awareness of the benefits of urban roof gardens, terraces and green roofs. To collate and publish world-class research and best-practice relating to urban roof gardens. And to offer concept to completion advice and services to both the lay and the professional citizen wishing to build urban roof gardens.

Link: Urban Roof Gardens [Thanks, John!]

Ivy Street Terrace, San Francisco

Chelsea Roof, London

Assorted Rooftop Gardens

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Michael in China — April 27, 2005
Some are just nicely decorated rooftops

Although nice and using some plants, the top photos are just nicely decorated rooftops, and not gardens. Their lighter palatte also does help the urban heat island effect (but in London, that is not much of a problem). Real gardens would also help reduce impact on storm systems and moderate ambient temperature better.

Jared Saverino — October 26, 2008
Let's see more green in the garden

There is certainly a lack of actual green in these photos. I would love to see photos of actual herbacious gardens, lawn grass space, etc.