Tags: urban planning

A series of wowzers: the largest green roof in the US!  Which doubles as a driving range!  And sits atop a water treatment facility!  The $2.1 billion dollar Croton Water Filtration Plant in the Bronx was designed by  Grimshaw Architects, landscape architect Ken Smith and green roof gurus Rana Creek. 

The spring conference of the Forum for Urban Design is called The 21^st Century Park & the Contemporary City.  The first evening’s panel is free, and there will be some big name landscape architects on it: Ken Greenberg, George Hargreaves, Michael Van Valkenburgh and James Corner, principal of Field Operations, who are designing Freshkills Park as well as the High Line. 

The Growing and Greening New York exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York continues on until April 22nd (Earth Day).  If you’re interested in the conversation about how New York City needs to adapt for a more sustainable future, you’ll want to check out the show. 

Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League that explores the relationship between design and New York City’s physical environment: revealing the choices shaping the city, encouraging conversation, inspiring innovation.

If you’re interested in the factors shaping Freshkills Park, you might be interested in checking out some of the stories this new publication is covering.