So, I was watching HGTV the other day and... you guessed it... another commercial has caught my attention. It's another Lexus one... their "H" or Lexus Hybrid commercial. The commercial shows images of various things that begin with the letter "H", like home, human and habitat, etc... all "green" and all leading up to them showing you a Lexus Hybrid and extolling its virtues as a "green" machine. All well and good, but what caught my attention was as flash of an image. It is a city-scape of tall buildings and the camera is looking down on an oval building with a garden on the roof. The glimpse looked to me like the Vancouver Public Library and it's neo-Roman colisseum architecture.
Hmmm... did they photoshop a garden onto the top of the Vancouver Pubic Library??? I never heard of a garden up there. So first I looked up Vancouver in Google and then used google maps to zoom in on the library. I switched to aerial photograph mode and there it was... a speck of green in the midst of this sea of grey!!! I then went into google search and sure enough, there is a garden on the room, with trees and grasses and kinnikinnick... Apparently the garden is not open to the public (yet?)... but it is amazing to know it is there!
The library was built from 1992-1995 and I was living in Vancouver for most of that time. This is the FIRST time I have ever heard of a garden on the roof! I think it is the wave of the future... Losing greenspace as we build buildings... but gaining it as we promote rooftop gardens! Who knows what the future may hold...
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