Thursday, August 24, 2017

A rooftop urban oasis springs to life in a polluted NYC neighborhood

Families who visit the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in the summertime will now have a cool new roof terrace to hang out in without getting blasted by the sun. The rooftop terrace has been closed to the public for the past three years, but this weekend, the museum will unveil a space that includes landscaping and a winged canopy that takes center stage. The seeds for the Newtown Creek Wildflower Roof were first planted in 2015 when Marni Majorelle and her landscape design company Alive...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/an-urban-oasis-springs-to-life-in-nycs-newtown-creek-wildflower-roof
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