City Hall's Rooftop Garden - City of Chicago
Like all green roofs, the City Hall rooftop garden improves air quality, conserves energy, reduces stormwater runoff and helps lessen the urban heat island effect.
12 Projects that Explain Landscape Urbanism and How It's ... - ArchDaily
Apr 6, 2016 · The infrastructural project championed landscape urbanist principals in a facility that creates circulation through shaped surfaces that serve and accentuate the site's functions. 3. Millenium...
A Garden in the Sky: Chicago’s Green Rooftop Revolution
Nov 16, 2022 · Today, the City Hall rooftop features more than 150 species of plants and 20,000 individual plants, most native to the Chicago region. Its bees produce 200 pounds of honey every year. Integrating a piece of nature into a metropolis, however, is no easy feat.
A+ Architecture: 10 Transformative Examples of Public Space …
Interior and exterior plazas draw and guide patrons around the dominion of the museum. Apertures cut through the layered stone fill the interior space of the main hall with gentle light creating an open yet intimate environment.
Boston City Hall Plaza - Wikipedia
City Hall Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts, is a large, open, public space in the Government Center area of the city. The architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles designed the plaza in 1962 to accompany Boston's new City Hall building.
A Welcoming, Fully Accessible Boston City Hall Plaza Reopens
Nov 22, 2022 · Speaking to grand opening visitors from the new Speakers’ Corner platform in front of City Hall’s main entrance, Sasaki landscape architect Mauricio Gomez explained how the stormwater system also sustainably supports the Plaza’s new plantlife and mitigates flooding.
Boston City Hall Plaza Renovation - Sasaki
With over 250 new trees, 3,000 new shrubs, and 10,000 new perennials and grasses, the vegetation in the plaza provides shade to over 50% of the site, minimizes heat-island effects, sequesters more than 55,000 tons of carbon emissions, and creates a diverse plant-rich environment that supports urban ecological systems.
Boston City Hall Plaza Redesign Announced | 2019-06-06
Jun 6, 2019 · A new playscape invigorates fourteen vertical feet of existing granite steps between City Hall’s north entry and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) terrace with active play opportunities that evoke the architectural character of the building and plaza.
Green Roof, Chicago City Hall (2001)* - insideinside.org
Jan 13, 2014 · First planted in 2001, the City Hall rooftop garden was conceived as a demonstration project - part of the City's Urban Heat Island Initiative - to test the benefits of green roofs and how they affect temperature and air quality.
Boston City Hall and Plaza - Boston Preservation Alliance
Jan 15, 2020 · Boston City Hall, a building a shrinking number of Bostonians love to hate, is one of the most significant examples of Brutalist (Heroic) architecture in the world.