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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: NEW! Provincial Law Courts Bldg - Under Tarps! |
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IT'S ALL TRUE!
... Here's the real reason lawyers are anxious to donate funds to UBC law faculty's bldg fund:
Canadian Geographic
Queen of green
Inspired as a girl to make the world a little more environmentally friendly, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander has taken her cue from nature to become Canada's premier landscape architect and green-roof champion.
By Sarah Scott
September/October, 2007
| Quote: | ... The three-block-long park is planted on top of an office building that stretches between Robson Street and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Designed to look like a concrete sky-scraper lying on its side, the building houses the Provincial Law Courts, a UBC satellite campus and government offices. The roof has hanging gardens, pine trees and rhododendrons, three waterwalls to block out sounds of the city, plus a rink that was once iced over for skaters but is now used by skateboarders and salsa dancers. Robson Square, as it is known, has been celebrated for the interplay between the soft contours of Oberlander's roof garden and the sharp geometric lines of architect *Arthur Erickson's construction. It is a place where lawyers and provincial bureaucrats do their daily business, but it has also become an oasis for anyone seeking an escape from the city's concrete core.
Yet today, as she drives past lines of pink dogwoods loaded with blossoms, Oberlander knows her award-winning roof garden is not altogether intact. The trees, bushes and vines were uprooted from the building in early 2006. The roof had been leaking. It leaked so badly that the entire garden had to be replaced. Oberlander and Erickson insisted that at least 40 of the 101 mature trees - mostly pines, maples and dogwoods - be rescued, while the rest were composted. When the repairs are completed in 2008, the architects will have installed a $21 million green-roof system that should not leak.
... Some people in this coastal rainforest suspect green roofs are bound to leak... (emphasis added) (-- pgs. 88-89) |
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