{"id":3360,"date":"2009-12-09T04:19:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2009-12-09T04:19:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:19:35","slug":"looking-good-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/looking-good-being-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking good being green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secretrooftopgarden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secretrooftopgarden.jpg\" alt=\"secretrooftopgarden\" width=\"757\" height=\"597\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the most surprising green spaces are those that have been quietly there all along. This is so of the roof top garden on the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/secret-rooftop-garden.html\">British Empire Building <\/a>at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenroofs.com\/projects\/pview.php?id=666\">Rockerfeller Centre<\/a>. It is an example of visual space,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/82502321\"> a pleasure garden<\/a>\u00a0brilliantly contextualised with the surrounding architecture. The\u00a0heavily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bytepusher\/271304779\/\">geometric\u00a0topiary <\/a>subtly reflects\u00a0the enclosing skyline: quite a challenge when the skyline includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jankor\/305468056\/\">St Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/kensington_roof_garden\">Kensington Roof Garden <\/a>formerly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egodesign.ca\/en\/article.php?article_id=26\">Tom and Derry&#8217;s <\/a>in London is another example of a visual space, albeit this\u00a0time as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roofgardens.virgin.com\/en\/the_roof_gardens\/gallery\/the_gardens\">enclosed garden<\/a>.\u00a0Of more particular note, is the roof garden at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galinsky.com\/buildings\/savoye\/index.htm\">Villa Savoy <\/a>by Le Corbusier, which it can be said is largely responsible for the\u00a0idea of roof gardens in the modern era.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/tclf.org\/content\/marvels-modernism-kaiser-roof-garden\">Kaiser Roof Garden <\/a>by\u00a0Henry Kaiser is another example of a <a href=\"http:\/\/tclf.org\/landslide\/about\">modern visual\u00a0landscape <\/a>at risk. It is to be hoped that the heritage value of these modern gardens is recognised and that organisations like <a href=\"http:\/\/tclf.org\/landslide\">Landslide<\/a> which are dedicated to their preservation are supported.<\/p>\n<p>The next generation of \u00a0visual space designed as\u00a0sustainable green roof gardens are still being imagined. Hints of what they might look like are out there&#8230;.This roof by the Australian\u00a0architects\u00a0Hassal for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indesignlive.com\/articles\/panda-ring-to-sa\">Adelaide Zoo <\/a>\u00a0demonstrates a sensitivity to context (in this case a bushland setting) which characterises visual space. The private <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootgardening.co.uk\/siteArticle.php?articleid=330&amp;name=roof-garden-in-holland-park\">residential roof garden<\/a> by Charotte Rowe\u00a0in Holland Park, although conservative in conception,\u00a0demonstrates a heightened sense of visual awareness with consideration of light for night and daytime uses.<\/p>\n<p>It would be amazing to a roof garden\u00a0taking inspiration from sources such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/pixdaus.com\/single.php?id=198362\">waterlily garden <\/a>at the Mauritius Botanic Gardens by John Duffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most surprising green spaces are those that have been quietly there all along. This is so of the roof top garden on the British Empire Building at\u00a0the Rockerfeller Centre. It is an example of visual space, a pleasure garden\u00a0brilliantly contextualised with the surrounding architecture. The\u00a0heavily geometric\u00a0topiary subtly reflects\u00a0the enclosing skyline: quite a challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}