AIGA installs a green roof at headquarters in New York City
AIGA has just installed a green roof, a vegetated roof cover, at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City. Weston Solutions, Inc. was contracted to create a 1,156 square foot GreenGrid roof system to top the four-story historic building. Eight varieties of sedum are planted in four-inch deep containers, lined by a walkway of recycled rubber pavers.
This initiative is part of AIGA’s ongoing environmental stewardship effort. Green roofs have been shown to reduce heating and cooling loads on a building; counter the urban heat island effect; filter pollutants and carbon dioxide out of the air; filter pollutants and heavy metals out of rainwater; as well as increase wildlife habitat in built-up areas.
Posted by sustainability in Ideas | July 2, 2007
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Awesome!
Can't wait to see it all grown.
Posted by: Victoria Avi on July 3, 2007
Can you share some updated photographs? I'd love to see the roof two years later!
Posted by: Amy Fidler on August 8, 2009