Question: Would you recommend using sedum for a green roof project in Houston? Will the humidity effect the sedum? If sedum would be a poor choice, what would you recommend for Houston? Question: ...

It’s hard to miss the soaring three-acre meadow that graces the top of Barclays Center. But green roofs – or living roofs — are also branching into brownstone Brooklyn, where homeowners with sturdy ...

The “green” is a layer of vegetation planted on top of a building, incorporated into the roof structure. The resulting roof-plant concoction has been hailed as a significant step toward an ...

Standing on Barclays Center’s green roof. Photo by Chris Ryan for The Architect’s Newspaper It must have been a disappointment to many architecture enthusiasts when they discovered that the plan to ...

Installation of the 2.5 acre green roof vegetation on the City-owned Target Center begins today. Over the course of two days a 165 ton crane will hoist five truckloads of plant material, which ...

The long, flat roof of a classroom building at a Maryland college has a benefit that its architect never anticipated: It makes great garden space. So say officials at Harford Community College. Joppa ...

Catherine Howell is a research assistant and lab manager at the GRIT Lab. Jennifer Drake receives funding from NSERC. Liat Margolis receives funding from NSERC. University of Toronto provides funding ...

Green roofs may be low maintenance, but they still need regular TLC. Follow these expert-led steps to keep yours healthy and ...

NEW YORK — Over the past decade, acres of living roofs have appeared in New York City, as commercial building owners have transformed their rooftops into meadows of wildflowers, sprawling beds of ...