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Home sweet rooftop garden
Pull up a chair, pick a tomato, and sit awhile.
Rooftop garden… got plants?
The Coleman garage is complete with the installation of the rooftop garden this weekend.
Now it’s up to Mother Nature to fill in the blanks and help this garden grow.
Red Line Green Roofs Initiative
Our lecture was presented on Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 12:15-1:00pm at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Download the presentation (PDF format, 2.2 MB)
Contact us for more on the Red Line Green Roofs Initiative or green roofs along any other public transportation corridor!
2 residential green roof installations recently completed
View of a rooftop garden at Ainslie Ave. before laying down the growing media
They’re a little bit scruffy right now with no plants yet - just seeds, but we have high hopes that warmer weather in late spring 2010 will make rooftop gardens at Ainslie Ave. and Champlain Ave. grow tall and lush.
Red Line Green Roofs Initiative
Read about our work on bringing 50,000 square feet of underused Chicago real estate with unbeatable sky-views along commuter rail lines to life with rooftop gardens.
How far can you push materials reuse on a little garage?
Fig. 1. The existing garage being deconstructed.
Hampton Avery Architects has designed a new two-car garage with rooftop garden/deck to replace an old existing wood-framed garage on a concrete slab-on-grade. There is effectively no such thing as demolition on this project.
NEW: See the online photo gallery.
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