Having just returned from a visit from Christchurch I’m excited to see the Christchurch City Council have recently launched their draft city plan to help guide the rebuild after the earthquakes. The garden city as it is known will hopefully become the elevated garden city with promising signs that green architecture will be an important [...]
The Wellington City Council recently reported on the 2040 strategy – a project to develop a vision for the central city. Along with bio-swales (plant based filtration of stormwater), pocket parks and tree planting the council recognised the need to promote green walls and green roofs. More information here: http://www.wellington2040.co.nz/ http://www.wellington.govt.nz/projects/new/wellington2040.html
With roof gardens/living roofs/green roofs in their relative infancy here in New Zealand it helps to look abroad for direction in their uptake. Two years ago Toronto passed a by-law to make it mandatory for all new building constructions to have a certain percentage of green roof. Starting with residential and now moving onto industrial [...]