Green Roofs for Healthy Cities last week announced the winners of its 2013 Green Roof and Wall Awards of Excellence. Among the eight winning projects are a massive, 4.4-acre vegetated roof at the ...

Everyone is talking about green roofs these days, but honestly, what do we really know about them? We understand the environmental angle to a degree. At the same time, what exactly does it take to ...

May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations. This course will walk through the typical causes of green roof failures and offer remedies to improve the quality of ...

After years of helping customers make their buildings green, Jacksonville contractor Mary Tappouni is showing how to top that work. She's building a green roof. The roof of her construction company - ...

For aesthetic and environmental reasons, green roofs have started to sprout on public and private structures in Colorado. Living roofs, fuzzy with plantings of native grasses and plants, top portions ...

Nestled in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Public School 41 differs from its neighboring buildings in a way that’s both profound and only visible from above. Unlike the flat, gray roofs adorning ...

A University of Toronto researcher has delivered the first-ever analysis of green roofs’ ability to keep buildings warm in winter. A University of Toronto researcher has delivered the first-ever ...

An upcoming seminar could spark ideas for green rooftops here in Asheville. Jeff Stillman, executive vice president of Massachusetts-based ZinCo USA, is traveling here to speak on vegetated green-roof ...

Few people view a home’s roof as anything more than a necessary structural element. But Kate Ancaya, a landscape architect based in Asheville, North Carolina, is in the business of noticing spaces ...

How cool is this. A Park Slope couple decided last year that they wanted to build a green roof atop their brownstone and found, through the Brownstoner Forum, a local design firm called Prospect ...

A landscape artist envisions a future of public transport when all buses and vans sport greenery. Tourists in Girona, Spain, may have noticed something strangely pastoral about the city’s public buses ...