Green Roofs are Changing Architecture and Planning

New Heden by Daniel Andersson

Daniel Andersson, working with Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky, have developed New Heden in Gothenburg Sweden. The buildings are "built as sliced hills with grass roofs that can be walked upon". The rooftops become terrain. Kids are playing. It is all green and the "Grass roofs and parks enrich the animal life and plant life and let nature become an integrated part of the city centre."
Or not? Our Gothenburg correspondent April says:

It's not a space that I use much, except to ride through on my bike at least a couple of times a week. But it's where the circus goes, it's where the kids play soccer, it's a big open breath in between the denser city blocks. Kind of hard to lose that.

More: Green Roofs Meet the Ground in New Heden

Credit: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects

 

By Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on June 10, 2009