{"id":266,"date":"2008-09-21T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-09-21T19:06:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T19:06:57","slug":"london-with-a-green-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/london-with-a-green-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"London with a green roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/london-roof-garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267\" title=\"london-roof-garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/london-roof-garden-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"London as it should be - greened\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Allen &amp; Overy for opening their offices under the Open House scheme &#8211; and congratulations to them for having an office with genuinely green credentials. Roof space is used for solar panels,  roof gardens or wildlife habitats (brown roofs). As the office brochure remarks &#8216;One of the best features of Bishops Square is the ability to hold barbecues in the summer or evening drinks on the terrace&#8217;. For me, it was a pleasure to see the City taking a small step towards the London equivalent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/landscape_architecture\/landscape_debate\/new_york_roof_gardens\">New York As it Should Be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The City should designate its Square Mile as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/21\/roofscapes-as-citywide-landscape-architecture\/\">Green Roof Zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Allen &amp; Overy for opening their offices under the Open House scheme &#8211; and congratulations to them for having an office with genuinely green credentials. Roof space is used for solar panels, roof gardens or wildlife habitats (brown roofs). As the office brochure remarks &#8216;One of the best features of Bishops Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}