Above: Green roof (Northwestern Medical Center)
Below: Plastic plants (Crate & Barrel)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sustainable Plant Range: Downtown Chicago
Above: Green roof (Northwestern Medical Center)
Below: Plastic plants (Crate & Barrel)
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Ah, here's to human ingenuity: plastic plants! at Crate and Barrel! Does this mean the lowly plastic (petroleum) plant is making a comeback?
Given the plants' placement, plastic may have been preferable to elevated Workers' Comp for maintenance.
Crate does some awesome things outside so I will cut them some slack on the inside plastic plants.
Now on to green roofs....where are the trees?? We need and can grow smaller scale trees on rooftops. Did you know Lake Point Tower has a rooftop garden/woodland?? All those trees you see as you look east from LSD are on top of their garage. Planted 40+ years ago--one of the oldest and largest rooftop gardens. NYC has many trees perched high atop buildings. Trees give a greater shading coefficient than sedum and birds seem to like trees better than sedum as well. Trees+roofs=yes
Yes, I walked past Lake Point Towers rooftop (designed by the great Alfred Caldwell whose Lily Pond I consider one of Chicago's "must-sees" for out-of-town guests) after my Worldview interview Tuesday but couldn't get a good image from ground level. As you say, non-Chicagoans might not know that C & B was the first Michigan Ave. Merchant to hire an awesome landscape architect and to keep it up. The rooftop was actually a big surprise to me, just that it existed at all in the midst of a huge hospital complex. I agree we can get more up there than sedum, but I just wondered who had managed to get this little bit of green going given the hustle & bustle of medicine. And finally: did anybody notice how the colors and curves in C & B images mimic the one below of Guatemala?
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