8 Rooftop Gardens From Around The World (PHOTOS)

Roof gardens and green roofs are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, but the rest of the world definitely seems to be planting a fair share of awesome gardens. Gardens on roofs are not just eye candy - they can save energy by significantly lowering the cost of heating and cooling in a building.

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Vote and Share Choose Your Top 5 Where's the green? Green heaven Now Make Your Own Top 5 And Share with Your Friends RANK: AVERAGE:  OUT OF 10 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.

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[elitt]

These are great. I'm a big fan of green roofs, although I live in the desert so it probably wouldn't be very beneficial for me to have one.

[John Mainstream]

We’ve eaten over 100 huge, vine-ripened tomatoes already this summer from two plants my wife grew. That’s gardening.

[skyslimit]

I think it might be too new but I'm surprised the California Academy of Sciences, designed by Renzo Piano, living roof in Golden Gate Park did not make it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ml_kap/2320922657/sizes/o/

[zsja]

What about Chicago's City Hall roof garden? It's long been an example that retrofiting old buildings (100+ yrs) can be done, long before many of those in the artticle were built. http://www.worldbusinesschicago.com/newsletters/art/CityHall.jpg

[apoyo]

Something to emulate.

Save the earth.

[JScott]

Oops maybe the New Otani is called the Kyoto Grand now.

[JScott]

California Academy Of Science in Golden Gate Park San Francisco

New Otani Hotel rooftop Japanese Garden, Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles.

[midwife42]

Love the Californian Academy of Sciences roof. Good calls, both.

[Eleanor Dowling]

Ok, so this rooftop garden isn't quite as grand as the ones above, but it's pretty cool. Check out the video made by OrganicNation.tv that shows a restaurant in Chicago that grows all of the food it serves on its roof!

http://changents.com/change-agents/OrganicNation.tv/vids-and-pics/30423/35855

[zsja]

it may not be grand, but it's dual-purpose - sounds even better to me!