Green Wall

Green Wall

The Roof, The Roof, The Roof is Visually Appealing: Two New Green Roofs in Manhattan

Mon

Dec

I'm not trying to brag or anything, but my apartment building has a roof. Yeah, that's right: a roof, right on top of the building. I'll take your high-fives at the end of the post, thanks. Anyway, it's pretty much like any other roof -- keeps the weather out of the interior of the building, mostly tar paper, a few crappy pavers surrounded by planters and a strongly-worded sign from the co-op board reminding residents that leaving the paver-ed area is strictly verboten. Look, it's not a very cool building -- and don't get me started on the inefficient windows in the bedroom -- but I figure that our roof isn't appreciably less cool than most others in the city. Which means that they're less cool by a factor of a thousand than the two new demonstration roofs that recently went on display. The roofs are a collaboration between Town & Gardens landscapers and greenscreen green walls and to say that they are cooler than my roof (or probably yours) is a dramatic understatement.

Hitting the Wall: Upper East Side Yoga Studio's Green Wall Losing Battle With Scaffolding

Thu

Nov

by David Roth

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What's not to like about a living wall? Where regular walls are (perhaps inevitably) drab and wall-like, a living wall is leafy and generally green-colored and alive. I barely remember what it was like to walk past The Colorado -- a condo building on the Upper East Side a couple blocks from my apartment -- before Pure Yoga moved into the space formerly known as The Space Behind The Gap back in 2008. But I remember vividly the experience of walking past the leafy, verdant facade provided by the living wall Pure Yoga installed. It was like a big vertical salad at first, and then was wild and blowy and lush during the summer months, and things like that stick in the memory. Sadly, though, that memory is about all that's left of the living wall at this point. Thanks to the inevitable Manhattan intrusion of a scaffolding bridge, Pure Yoga's living wall is looking kind of... well, dead.

UES Green Wall, Delays at Atlantic Yards, Reviewing the Lucida, & More Spec 8th Avenue Office Space

Sat

Aug

by Stephen Del Percio

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