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Fantastic New Unitec Case Studies!!

01/09/11

Auckland City Centre Draft Plan

28/08/11

Draft Christchurch Central City Plan - pg 42 make a comment

20/08/11

Enchanting Japanese “Secret Garden” is a Soothing Rooftop Oasis

03/04/11

Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa

30/03/11

Remarkables Primary School Green Roof - Queenstown New Zealand

29/03/11

Do living roofs perform to expectations in NZ presentation

29/10/10

North America’s largest green wall installation opens in Pennsylvania

15/10/10

Living Roofs and Walls: A lunchtime learning

05/10/10

WWF Completes third largest green roof in Washington DC

01/10/10

Green Roof City in Chicago

19/09/10

Japan’s Namba Parks Shopping Mall - 8 Level Living Roof with Waterfalls

15/09/10

Toronto’s City Hall Podium Sprouts a Green Rooftop Park

13/09/10

Enhanced public space for Adelaide Zoo

08/09/10

Undulating Green-Roofed Hotel Opens in Norway

02/09/10

BIG’s 8 Tallet Grabs the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award

28/08/10

USPS Energy Retrofits Saved $400 Million since 2007

22/08/10

High Line History, Narrated by Ethan Hawke

19/08/10

New Zealand Pavilion, Shanghai

01/08/10

EcoBitat modular housing system

27/07/10

1800’s Puerto Rican Home Revisioned as Green-Roofed Urban Space

21/07/10

Green-Roofed Soccer Training Facility Has a Field Right On Its Roof!

13/07/10

Green Roof clip - Melbourne

13/07/10

Copenhagen adopts mandatory green roof policy

14/06/10

Uber-Efficient Eco Auditorium Features a Sloping Green Roof

21/05/10

Living Roofs & Walls Presentation, 13 May 2010, Hamilton City

10/05/10

Final Design for SF’s Transbay Transit Center Includes Rooftop Park

30/04/10

Rooftop farming booms in New York

27/04/10

California’s First LEED Platinum School Teaches With The Environment

26/04/10

Design for new Maori childcare is both ecologically and socially sustainable

14/04/10

Auckland: Our failing city

23/03/10

One & Ortakoy: A Sustainable Mixed-Use Complex in Istanbul

17/03/10

Beautiful Green Roofed Affordable Housing In the UK

16/03/10

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Hatch Massive Plan to DeCarbonize Chicago

09/03/10

Vertical Meadow in Christchurch - Stuff.co.nz

01/03/10

Rooftop garden will purify university's water - Otago Daily Times

17/02/10

Portland high-rise to get 250-foot-tall trellises - Washington Post

25/01/10

Commercial Trends Magazine article - NZI building, Auckland, NZ

22/01/10

Up on the roof - NZ Listener article by Xanthe White

20/01/10

The high life - NZ Good Magazine article Dec/Jan issue

02/12/09

Green Roof Research Project: Funded ME for 2010 - funding available for an engineering master’s study, University of Auckland

02/12/09

Green wall - it'll grow on you - Stephen Marr salon, Takapuna, Auckland

18/11/09

Green Roofs Shown to Offset Warming

18/11/09

The Winner of the 2009 AIA Awards - green roof Vancouver Centre

12/11/09

BBC Hot Cities Documentary - about 36 minutes into documentry Chicagos green roofs

11/11/09

Green Roofs Are Changing the Way Architects Design Buildings

10/11/09

Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project

28/10/09

NYC Tower Stepped Green-Roof!

22/10/09

The growing beauty of green architecture - New Scientist

21/10/09

Green roofs save on carbon overheads - New Scientist

14/10/09

NYC’s Largest Green Roof - a post office park

05/10/09

Green Roofs Could Help Put Lid On Global Warming - Science Daily

30/09/09

Green roofs prove even more effective in fighting global warming than first thought

30/09/09

Philadelphia announced plan to transform the city over the next 20 years by embracing its storm water - utilising green roofs - The Philadelphia Inquirer

28/09/09

Green roofs get tax perks in Quezon City - Philippines

22/09/09

ESRI Canada's Garden in the Sky - another green roof in Toronto opens September 2009

17/09/09

Next-generation green roofs sprout up in New York

16/09/09

Habitat Walls, Sand Walls and Green Roofs how green roofs and walls can be easily enhanced to provide a habitat which is fantastic news for endangered bees

14/09/09

Reintroduction of extinct bumblebee from NZ to UK

14/09/09

California Academy of Sciences video learn about the museum's living roof, which features 1.2 million native California plant species, solar panels and a natural ventilation system

11/09/09

NZ Herald article 'Green Roofs' help cushion urban footprint

07/09/09

The Green Skyline Architecture NZ Magazine article

21/09/09

Rooftop Farm in New York Supplies Restaurants news clip

21/08/09

 

 

Jacon Burkhardt Building, Basel, Switzerland, photograph courtesy of livingroofs.org

Jacob Burkhardt Building, Basel, Switzerland, photograph courtesy of livingroofs.org