Great Green Roofs
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Great Green Roofs - Singapore
I was in Singapore last year speaking at a Fulbright Academy event. Singapore has a very strong green building initiative which has many big Architecture firms competing to design ever greener structures. I think this informal competition is creating a design culture and civic institutions that are not afraid of experimentation.
The vitality of Singapore, a truly multi-ethnic society, plus the green competititon is creating some of the world’s great buildings.
Green roofs have many advantages. First among them is they replace green space taken up by cities. Some buildings now have more square feet of green space than the site did before construction!
From the Huffington Post:
This is the roof of the five-story School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University campus, in Singapore: it was designed by CPG Consultants Pte. Ltd. The roof insulates the building, cools the surrounding air and harvests rainwater for landscape irrigation.
Lots of nice pictures - after the jump
September 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I did think there weren’t enough exclusives and artists but as a first time event the buzz was really good and given the attendance figures, it’ll be much easier to get more companies and artists involved next year.