Stepping Up with Green, Citygreen Issue 7
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CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding green projects in international cities. This issue rounds up a number of project features that impressively demonstrate skyrise greenery, such as the PARKROYAL on Pickering hotel by WOHA Architects and Jardin condominium by DP Architects. Both high-rise developments go and the VanDusen botanical garden Visitor Centre.
Market research by Lux Research inc. in 2012 showed positive forecasts for the global green roof and green wall market, suggesting a sure role for such landscape treatments in the future of cities. Aditya Ranade shares the key findings of the study. in line with the growing market, more rigourous standards and testing of various green materials will prove essential. Marc Ottelé shares the findings of a life-cycle assessment conducted with collaborators to understand the cradle-to-grave environmental impacts of five different types of vertical greenery systems. In Japan, extensive green roofs are the emerging complement to the currently more popular intensive green roofs for a range of reasons, as Ayako Nagase elaborates.
The issue also reports on the commendable winners of the international green Roof and Wall Awards of excellence 2012.
Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team
The Research branch of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore, engages in multidisciplinary research on the greening and ecology of cities. Through its key research programs on plants, ecology and social studies, it aims to enhance greenery planning, design and management in cities.
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Stepping Up with Green, Citygreen Issue 7 - Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team
Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence 2012
Green Architecture for Urban Resiliency
Text by Paul Erlichman
Photography as credited
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) is North America’s green roof and wall industry association. As North America has increasingly embraced green roofs and walls and their numbers risen across the continent, GRHC has sought to recognise excellence in green roof and wall design, research, and policy work through its Awards of Excellence programme.
This year’s awards will be held at the CitiesAlive: 11th Annual Green Roof and Wall Conference in San Francisco, California. The theme of this year’s CitiesAlive is Securing Urban Resiliency with Living Architecture: Food – Water – Energy
. This coming year’s award winners will reflect the ability of green roofs and walls to make urban areas more resilient in the face of manmade action and natural disasters. Those who make the trip across the Pacific this October for the conference will be able to check out the most leading-edge green infrastructure in North America.¹
The Awards of Excellence acknowledges excellence in innovative and integrative green roof and wall design and raises awareness of the multiple benefits that green infrastructure can provide clients and the general public. They are selected by a seven-member, multi-disciplinary judging team that includes architects, landscape architects, engineers, and horticulturists. Submissions are evaluated according to a broad range of weighted criteria, including aesthetic, economic, functional, and ecological components. The seven design award winners, across seven categories, of 2012, are introduced.
Intensive Residential Green Roof
One Cole, Toronto, Canada (Photo: Diamond Schmitt Architects).
Project: One Cole
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Award Recipient: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Date of Completion: 2009
Size of Green Roof: 21,500 square feet
While other projects strive to provide a rooftop garden, it is no exaggeration to call this a rooftop park.
— Donald Schmitt, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects
Regent Park was built in the late 1940s in downtown Toronto and is Canada’s oldest and largest social housing project. One Cole is the first condominium residence to be completed in support of the 25-year reconstruction of the entire 77-acre site (32 city blocks) by the City of Toronto and the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, in partnership with the Daniels Corporation.
The building’s focal point is its third-floor south-facing Sky Park
: 21,500 square feet of soft-landscaped rooftop outdoor amenity space, open for year-round use by all building residents. The park’s size, lushness, and depth (a full five-foot depth of growing media will allow the full maturation and extended well-being of almost four dozen trees) make it unique among condominium residences in Canada. While some similar developments strive to provide a rooftop green space, it is no exaggeration to call this a full urban park.
Intensive Industrial/Commercial Green Roof
The Ledge Kitchen & Drinks, Dorchester, USA (Photo: Recover Green Roofs, LLC).
Project: The Ledge Kitchen & Drinks
Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
Award Recipient: Recover Green Roofs, LLC
Date of Completion: 2010
Size of Green Roof: 4,500 square feet
The Ledge food roof came together successfully because of all the stakeholders’ contributions. It took the vision of the ownership, the support of our vendors, the design/build collaboration between Recover and Highview Creations, the farming of Green City Growers, and, importantly, the patronage of the customers to bring food from roof to table.
— Mark Winterer, Director of Operations, Recover Green Roofs, LLC
Recover Green Roofs was contacted by The Ledge’s executive chef, Marco Suarez, who was interested in using his 4,500-square-foot roof to produce food. Recover worked with Highview Creations to design a roof that maximised the use of local materials, utilised the most up-to-date water efficiency technologies, and minimised the labour efforts of the restaurant staff. Recover partnered a local farming company, Green City Growers, which handles planting, weekly farming responsibilities, and coordination with restaurant staff. The staff work with Green City Growers to learn more about the food they serve, how it’s harvested, and what makes for the best produce possible. They help harvest food off the roof, planning menu items around each day’s harvest. Time on the roof is the favourite part of many employees’ day.
This coming year’s award winners will reflect the ability of green roofs and walls to make urban areas more resilient in the face of manmade action and natural disasters.
The Ledge is a great example of how a restaurant can use a rooftop garden to provide fresher produce to its patrons and shorten the supply chain. It is hoped that more restaurants around North America will take advantage of available rooftop space and start growing the most local foods that exist.
Extensive Institutional Green Roof
Center for Urban Waters, Seattle, USA (Photo: Swift Company, LLC).
Project: Center for Urban Waters
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Award Recipient: Swift Company, LLC
Date of Completion: 2010
Size of Green Roof: 12,000 square feet
The Center for Urban Waters green roof is part of an integrated ecological system in the middle of an industrial waterfront. The roof and the other sustainable strategies embody the values of the research pursued by the resident institutions and physically in a measurable way significantly increase the ecological function and health of the shoreline and uplands. This is not just a pretty object.
— Barbara Swift, Swift Company, LLC
The Center for Urban Waters is a new shared research facility for the City of Tacoma, University of Washington Tacoma, and the Puget Sound Partnership. The site is located on the north-eastern side of the Thea Foss Waterway, in what is the first non-industrial development in a currently heavily industrial area. As a LEED Platinum-certified facility, this project integrates sustainable building and site design.
The green roof is one of the components in the overall project strategy for energy savings and stormwater management. The four-inch growing medium supports a variety of groundcover, perennials, grasses, and sedums including Coastal Strawberry, Yarrow, Mexican Feather Grass, Golden Moss Stonecrop, and many more. Larger areas meant to accommodate future photovoltaic panels were planted with sedums to provide the greatest drought- and shade-tolerant coverage. Combined with other energy reduction elements—such as sunshades and natural ventilation for cooling, ground-source heat pump for heating, natural daylighting of interior spaces, and the aforementioned use of photovoltaic panels for solar power generation—the green roof contributes to the whole story of energy reduction and careful resource management of this project.
The green roof has been wildly successful from its initial installation to today. The plantings are an integral part of the sustainable message of the facility and a key point for educational tours of the building.
Extensive Residential Green Roof
Royal York Condominium, New York City, USA (Photo: Town and Gardens, Ltd.).
Project: Royal York Condominium
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Award Recipient: Town and Gardens, Ltd.
Date of Completion: 2009
Size of Green Roof: 14,000 square feet
What’s unique about the space is that we were able to make it seem larger in what is actually a very narrow space, while integrating not only green roof components, but also sculptural elements to enhance the concept.
—Michael Franco, Town and Gardens, Ltd.
Located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, the inner courtyard at Royal York Condominium covers approximately 15,000 square feet and occupies a two-level roof and ground-level garden space between three residential buildings. Redevelopment created the exciting opportunity to expand the visual impact and usability of the space for residents.
The four-to-five inches of growing media supports groundcover plants, such as Pachysandra, and perennials, such as Heuchera and Liriopi. The sailboat planters have their own distinctive plant selection, which as a whole make the green roof look quite stunning. Town and Gardens’ comprehensive design at the Royal York expands the visual palette of extensive green roofs. Beyond its aesthetic offerings, the project has also provided a functional space for residents, thereby exemplifying what is possible to accomplish through a green roof.
Intensive Institutional Green Roof
Chicago Botanic Garden’s Rice Plant Conservation Science Center, Chicago, USA (Photo: Chicago Botanic Garden).
Project: Chicago Botanic Garden’s Rice Plant Conservation Science Center
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Award Recipient: Chicago Botanic Garden
Date of Completion: 2009
Size of Green Roof: 16,000 square feet
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s green roof is unique because it contains both evaluation areas and display gardens and is open to the Garden’s nearly one million annual visitors.
— Kris Jarantoski, Executive Vice President and Director, Chicago Botanic Garden
The Chicago Botanic Gardens, with over 958,000 annual visitors, is one of the most visited public gardens in North America. The green roof on the Botanic Gardens’ Rice Plant Conservation Science Center serves as both a scientific resource and a display garden for these visitors. While keeping with the highest aesthetic standard expected at the Chicago Botanic Gardens, the Center also evaluates a broad range of plants on their performance. The aim is to help expand the plant palette of Chicago-area green roofs. Aiding these efforts, three weather monitors measure the speed, velocity, and direction of the wind, as well as the light intensity, humidity, air temperature, soil media moisture content, heat flux from the building, and rainfall.
With handicapped accessibility and public opening hours every day of the week, the green roof at the Rice Plant Conservation Science Center ensures not only that a green roof-championing city is provided with the most updated plant data, but also that all of the city’s residents can enjoy a beautiful sky-level garden.
Extensive Commercial/Industrial Green Roof
Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market, Halifax, Canada (Photo: Lydon Lynch Architects Ltd.).
Project: Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Award Recipient: Lydon Lynch Architects Ltd.
Date of Completion: 2010
Size of Green Roof: 16,000 square feet
Our design intent was to create a public deck with a spectacular planted roof to increase interest in green roofs and to create a new grand public space on the edge of Halifax Harbour. We are extremely pleased with the result of our efforts, as well as the widespread acclaim from the local community and beyond.
— Keith Tufts, Principal, Lydon Lynch Architects Ltd.
Locally grown organic produce from farmers’ markets is key to a healthy lifestyle and reduced environmental impact worldwide. The Seaport Market’s LEED-Platinum design expanded upon this premise, creating an ecological showcase on the Halifax waterfront that employs sustainable principles to minimise materials, energy, and water use. The result is one of the most environmentally sustainable buildings in North America and a world-class example of healthy, sustainable living. The full-length, 300-foot-long deck affords unparalleled views of Halifax Harbour, as well as direct public consumption of the sustainable practices that lie at the heart of the Market, including the green roof, micro turbines, and solar